Colorado County Public Records Information

The Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration maintains the state archives for the Colorado State. The State Archives is responsible for the management of the Colorado public records arising from the local governments in the state. The archive includes records from the regional depositories such as the school districts, municipalities, townships as well as the various counties and cities within the state of Colorado.

As per the Colorado State laws this archive acts as the depository for the Colorado public records as well as for the public records arising from the local governments. The records available at the archives include information on the legal, administrative, historical as well as other records which are of great value for research purpose.

Types of Records Available

The records available with the Department of Personnel and Administration in Colorado State include public records that have been transferred to the custody of the State Archives from the various official sources of the various counties as well as the public bodies from the state.

The types of Colorado County public records available with the archives include:
 

• The records of births, deaths and marriages
• Tax sale, mortgage and land deeds records
• Collectors’ and the Assessors’ tax books
• Voter registers and the poll books
• Proceedings of the county board including minutes of the meetings
• Naturalization records
• Inquest files and the coroner’s records
• Criminal and Civil court records and files
• Bankruptcy court records, cases and petitions
• Records and cases from the chancery court containing the docket books, court proceedings, divorce cases and records as well as the records of the insanity proceedings
• Probate records containing records of the wills, wills, guardianship records, executors’ and the administrators’ records, and  the records of the appraisement and inventory
• Miscellaneous records such as the records from the county homes as well as the jail registers
• Municipal, township and the school records that contain information such as the minutes of the Highway Commissioners’ meetings, township meetings, minutes of the trustees of schools, pupil registers, records of the school land sale , election records of the cities, proceedings of the meetings along with the minutes of the city councils as well as the ordinance records

In addition it also has records such as offender records including sex offenders and felony fugitives and fugitives, business records, land records and the county real estate records.

Most records of deaths as well as the birth records are usually only recorded at the state level in Colorado with some exceptions. These include the records of death and births from the year 1948 to the present day which are available at the county level. Patented mining claims from the county level, marriage records, divorce records, land transfer records and other legal documents of the counties pertaining to the operation are usually recorded with the counties.

For more information on the Colorado County public records including the types of records available to the public you can visit: http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/
You may also find this resource useful: http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/open/00openrec.htm.

Requesting the Colorado County Public Records

The records of the Colorado county public records can be accessed from the individual websites of the Colorado counties, over the Internet. You can search the Colorado county public records from these resources by mentioning the title or by the county name. You can also use a combination of these fields to assist your search.

You can send your Colorado county public records requests to the custodian of the records via telephone or mail but making copies of the records will require paying a nominal fee. Please note that not all counties in the Colorado State can receive requests or respond via the email.

When you make a request the Colorado county records also make sure that you contact the correct public body responsible for keeping the records for the county that is of interest to you. For instance if you are interested in the public county records for Adams County please visits: http://www.co.adams.co.us/.

County-Specific Public Records Information:

Jefferson County Public Records

Lake County Public Records