Land Records

Accessing Land Records

All documents pertaining to Land Evidence, which are required by state statute to be recorded, are filed in this department.

All documents from Land Evidence Book 140 to current are available and may be printed for $1.50 per page. These books are no longer available for page copies of documents on the copy machine. Books 1 though 140 are still available and copies can be made on the public copy machine for $1.00 per page.
All documents must be on record by 3:30 p.m.
- Please note: No maps will be recorded after 3:00 p.m.
Computer Index can be printed from the computer for .15 per page
Hard Copy: Grantor and Grantee 'Indexed through' date in the current books
History in computer begins November 1888 through day indicated on screen or in paper index
The public computers are shut down at 4:25 p.m. daily

Effective April 1, 2007, all deeds must have the sale price on the document or language which indicates that it is not a sale.

To locate old land records, those interested must check both the Grantee & Grantor books.

UCC recordings are housed in the computer from January 1983
Rhode Island Inheritance Tax Liens from May 15,1986 to January 1991 can be found in Grantee books
Before that they are in the gray book which goes to 1990
Release of Rhode Island Inheritance tax from 1991 to present is in the Grantor books
Up to 1988 all D/mtg, A /mtg, Tax Liens, Liens are found in the Grantee books
For discharges, assignments, tax liens, etc., there is no cross-indexing beginning in January 1988
For those prior to 1988 you may check the Grantee books for property owners

View a variety of other record types, including maps, military discharges, and unusual information.