Locate Rockcastle County Clerk Records

Rockcastle County County Clerk

The Rockcastle County Clerk site names Danetta Ford Allen as County Clerk and lists the office at 205 E. Main Street, Box 6, Mt. Vernon, KY 40456. The phone number is 606-256-2831, and the fax number is 606-256-4302. The office page gives hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with a lunch closure from 12:00 to 12:30, plus third-Saturday hours from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. It also states the office is on the second floor of the courthouse in Mt. Vernon.

The clerk biography says Danetta Ford Allen is a lifelong Rockcastle resident, graduated from Rockcastle County High School in 1993, graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 1999 with a business-administration degree, and was elected during the 2010 elections. Those biography details do not change the record-access process, but they identify the office named in the county research. The county Fiscal Court elected-officials page also lists the County Clerk at the East Main Street courthouse address cluster, separate from the Circuit Court Clerk in Room 102.

What Rockcastle County Clerk Handles

The County Clerk is not the clerk for Circuit, Family, or District Court case files. Its public site says the office preserves records so they can be viewed and obtained for many years and answers questions about deeds, notarization, vehicle registration, buying and selling vehicles, marriage licenses, voter registration, family history, boat registration, and handicap placards. That mix of services makes the County Clerk the right office for county-record tasks, but not for divorce case files, criminal cases, traffic cases, or probate court files.

• Marriage licenses and marriage-related county record questions.
• Land records, deeds, mortgages, assignments, releases, and related recorded instruments.
• Vehicle, boat, and handicap placard services identified by the clerk site.
• Voter registration, election-related office questions, and notary services.
• Family-history and older recorded-record questions handled through the county office.

Search Rockcastle Land Records

The County Clerk land-records page says recording land records is one of the office's most important responsibilities. It identifies deeds, mortgages, assignments, and mortgage releases as common documents. It also says recorded instruments date back to 1820 and that all land records are available for public viewing at the office at 205 East Main Street in Mt. Vernon. No official online land-record database was found in the researched county clerk sources, so public viewing appears to be an in-office route.

Land-record searches often need the name of the grantor or grantee, the approximate recording year, the property description if known, and the type of document being sought. A deed copy, mortgage release, judgment lien, power of attorney, or affidavit of descent may have a different recording fee or page surcharge. The clerk office should be asked to confirm the current total when the number of pages is known.

Rockcastle Deed Recording Fields

The County Clerk land-records page gives detailed deed requirements. These are recording requirements, not a search form, but they show the fields and signatures the office expects for a document to be accepted. A deed must be filed in the County Clerk office of the county where the property is located or where the greater part is located. The page also states original signatures are required unless a statute says otherwise.

Request County Clerk Copies

The County Clerk site invites people to call, email, or come to the office with questions, but the research did not find a formal online certified-copy request form for County Clerk records. A practical copy request should identify the record type, names on the record, approximate recording date, number of copies needed, and whether certification is required. Marriage, deed, mortgage, will-recording, or lien requests can have different fee results because page counts and document classes vary.

1. Identify whether the record is a marriage license, land record, deed, mortgage, lien, will-related instrument, or other county record.
2. Gather names, approximate date, book or page if known, property description if known, and desired copy type.
3. Call the County Clerk at 606-256-2831 or visit the second-floor office during posted hours.
4. Ask the clerk to confirm the current fee and whether any page surcharge applies.
5. For court case records, stop and contact the Circuit Court Clerk instead.

Rockcastle County Clerk Fees

The County Clerk land-records page supplies a broad local fee table. The amounts below are the researched local amounts from that page. Page surcharges matter, so a document with more pages than the base threshold will cost more. The transfer-tax rule is also listed in the research: KRS 142.050 imposes transfer tax at $0.50 for each $500 of value or fraction of value, collected from the grantor.

Rockcastle County Clerk Marriage

Marriage license work is one of the County Clerk record functions. The clerk marriage-license page says both parties must be present, both must have government-issued ID, both must be at least 18 unless the 17-year-old court-order process applies, and the license is valid for 30 days from the date obtained. The fee is $65. A 17-year-old may petition the Family or District Court in the county where the minor resides for an order granting permission to marry under KRS 402.205.

Marriage records differ from divorce records. Marriage licenses and marriage copies route through the County Clerk. Divorce case files and divorce decrees route through the Circuit Court Clerk because divorce is a Circuit or Family Court case type. For more detail on that split, use the Rockcastle County marriage and divorce records page.

County Clerk or Court Clerk

Rockcastle's split-clerk structure is easy to confuse because both offices are connected to the East Main Street courthouse area. The County Clerk handles county records. The Circuit Court Clerk handles trial-court case records. A recorded judgment lien may be with the County Clerk, while the underlying lawsuit may be with the Circuit Court Clerk. A will recording may be with the County Clerk, while a probate court file may be with the Circuit Court Clerk. A marriage license belongs with the County Clerk, while a divorce decree belongs with the Circuit Court Clerk.