County Clerk Records - Lis Pendens, Liens & Deeds

Get the documents recorded with US county clerks, day by day: lis pendens, notices of trustee's sale, mechanic's, tax and hospital liens, deeds, deeds of trust and mortgages, releases, affidavits of heirship, transfer-on-death affidavits, sheriff's and trustee's deeds. One clean row per document with the county, recorded date, document type, grantors, grantees, legal description and a link to the record on the county's site.

The data comes from the county clerk's official public records search. No API key, no login, no county account needed.

What you can do with it

• Pre-foreclosure leads - every lis pendens, notice of trustee's sale and appointment of substitute trustee recorded yesterday, with the owner names and the legal description.
• Probate and inherited-property leads - affidavits of heirship, transfer-on-death affidavits, small-estate affidavits and probate filings.
• Distressed sales - sheriff's deeds, trustee's and substitute trustee's deeds, tax deeds and deeds in lieu.
• Lien monitoring - mechanic's and materialman's liens, federal and state tax liens, hospital liens, judgments and HOA liens, and their releases.
• Title research - every deed, deed of trust, assignment and release recorded against a name in a date window.

Schedule it daily with Only documents not delivered before switched on and you get a feed of new filings without duplicates.

Counties covered

• Texas (43): Anderson (anderson.tx), Bee (bee.tx), Bell (bell.tx), Bexar (bexar.tx), Brazos (brazos.tx), Brewster (brewster.tx), Burleson (burleson.tx), Cameron (cameron.tx), Chambers (chambers.tx), Cochran (cochran.tx), Coleman (coleman.tx), Collin (collin.tx), Dallas (dallas.tx), Denton (denton.tx), Freestone (freestone.tx), Gillespie (gillespie.tx), Goliad (goliad.tx), Grayson (grayson.tx), Grimes (grimes.tx), Hidalgo (hidalgo.tx), Hockley (hockley.tx), Jefferson (jefferson.tx), Jim Wells (jimwells.tx), Kendall (kendall.tx), Leon (leon.tx), Live Oak (liveoak.tx), Llano (llano.tx), Matagorda (matagorda.tx), Midland (midland.tx), Milam (milam.tx), Montgomery (montgomery.tx), Nacogdoches (nacogdoches.tx), Nueces (nueces.tx), Reeves (reeves.tx), Refugio (refugio.tx), Rusk (rusk.tx), San Patricio (sanpatricio.tx), Smith (smith.tx), Starr (starr.tx), Tarrant (tarrant.tx), Walker (walker.tx), Wilson (wilson.tx), Zapata (zapata.tx)
• Ohio (11): Butler (butler.oh), Carroll (carroll.oh), Clark (clark.oh), Cuyahoga (cuyahoga.oh), Franklin (franklin.oh), Greene (greene.oh), Hardin (hardin.oh), Harrison (harrison.oh), Jefferson (jefferson.oh), Ottawa (ottawa.oh), Sandusky (sandusky.oh)
• Michigan (9): Calhoun (calhoun.mi), Hillsdale (hillsdale.mi), Isabella (isabella.mi), Lenawee (lenawee.mi), Mecosta (mecosta.mi), Oceana (oceana.mi), Presque Isle (presqueisle.mi), Roscommon (roscommon.mi), Tuscola (tuscola.mi)
• Pennsylvania (4): Berks (berks.pa), Delaware (delaware.pa), Indiana (indiana.pa), Lawrence (lawrence.pa)
• Colorado (3): Arapahoe (arapahoe.co), Boulder (boulder.co), Routt (routt.co)
• New Mexico (3): Dona Ana (donaana.nm), Eddy (eddy.nm), Union (union.nm)
• Connecticut (2): Greenwich (greenwich.ct), Sterling (sterling.ct)
• South Carolina (2): Beaufort (beaufort.sc), Oconee (oconee.sc)
• Arkansas: Garland (garland.ar) - Maine: Kennebec (kennebec.me) - Rhode Island: East Providence (eastprovidence.ri) - Utah: San Juan (sanjuan.ut) - Vermont: Chester (chester.vt) - US Virgin Islands (usvi)

The value in brackets is what you put in counties when you call the actor through the API.

Input

Field	What it does
counties	Required. One or more counties from the list above.
dateFrom, dateTo	Recorded date window, YYYY-MM-DD. Default: yesterday to yesterday. At most 31 days per run.
documentCategories	Optional. preForeclosure, liens, releases, deedsTransfers, distressedTransfers, probateHeirship, mortgages. Empty = every document.
partyName	Optional. Only documents with this grantor or grantee name, e.g. SMITH JOHN (counties index people as LAST FIRST).
maxResults	Most documents per run, across all counties. Default 1,000; 0 = no limit.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	Feed mode: skip documents this feed delivered before (remembered for 60 days).
stateStoreName	Name of the store that remembers delivered documents. Use one name per feed.

Daily pre-foreclosure and probate feed for Dallas and Tarrant:

{
  "counties": ["dallas.tx", "tarrant.tx"],
  "documentCategories": ["preForeclosure", "distressedTransfers", "probateHeirship"],
  "maxResults": 0,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
  "stateStoreName": "dfw-distress-feed"
}

All liens recorded in Cuyahoga and Franklin in the first week of October:

{
  "counties": ["cuyahoga.oh", "franklin.oh"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-10-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-07",
  "documentCategories": ["liens"]
}

Everything recorded against one name in Bexar this month:

{ "counties": ["bexar.tx"], "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "dateTo": "2026-10-16", "partyName": "DOE JOHN" }

Output

One row per recorded document. Example (names are invented):

{
  "county": "Dallas County, TX",
  "state": "TX",
  "instrumentNumber": "202600220512",
  "documentType": "LIS PENDENS (NOTICE OF)",
  "documentTypeCode": "LP",
  "category": "preForeclosure",
  "recordedDate": "2026-10-14",
  "instrumentDate": "2026-10-14",
  "grantors": ["DOE JOHN Q", "DOE JANE A"],
  "grantees": ["EXAMPLE MORTGAGE CO"],
  "legalDescription": "Subdivision- Town: DALLAS Name: CEDAR CREST VILLAGE NO 5 Lot: 26 Block: H",
  "subdivision": "CEDAR CREST VILLAGE NO 5",
  "lot": "26",
  "block": "H",
  "propertyAddress": null,
  "parcelNumber": null,
  "consideration": null,
  "bookVolumePage": null,
  "pageCount": 3,
  "sourceUrl": "https://dallas.tx.publicsearch.us/doc/331600000",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-10-17T07:00:00.000Z"
}

• category is our grouping of the county's own document type (counties word the same document differently, e.g. "SHERIFF'S DEED" in Texas and "SD - SHERIFFS DEED" in Ohio). Documents outside the seven groups are other.
• propertyAddress, parcelNumber and consideration are filled only where the county indexes them (for example Cuyahoga and Bexar often do, Dallas usually does not).
• sourceUrl opens the document's page on the county's own site.

Pricing

You pay per document delivered. Filters run before delivery, so with documentCategories you only pay for the documents you keep.

FAQ

Do I get the document images or PDFs? No. This actor delivers the county's public index only: names, dates, document type, instrument number and legal description. Copies of documents are sold by the county clerk; use sourceUrl to view or order them on the county's site.

How fresh is the data? A document appears once the county has indexed it, and every county works at its own pace: each one shows its own "indexed through" (certification) date on its site, and the newest recorded days can still be incomplete. A daily feed with a window of the last 7 days and Only documents not delivered before catches late-indexed documents exactly once.

A county "did not answer" - what now? Sometimes a county site is down for maintenance. The run delivers the other counties, marks itself Partial and names the county in the status message. Run it again later for that county.

Why is a recorded day empty? Weekends and county holidays have no recordings, and the most recent days may not be indexed yet.

Are the names personal data? These are public records, published by the county. If you use them for marketing (mail, calls, texts), you are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to you, such as the FCRA, TCPA, CAN-SPAM, do-not-call rules and state privacy laws. Do not use this data for credit, employment, insurance or tenant screening decisions.

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