​​1938-1996

Series provides visual documentation of changes made to county lands through development and by natural and man-made disasters. The photographs are taken at intervals along a series of flight paths to attain coverage of all or part of a county. They generally include flight path or township, range, and section numbers; show natural and man-made features; and are produced in black and white or color prints to varying scales. An index by quadrant may also be included.

The Deschutes County Property Information application includes aerial images. ​ The University of Oregon Aerial Photograph Collection includes aerial photographs from most Oregon counties. 

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office:

Aerial Photographs, 1979 (ca.30 photographs);

Aerial Photographs [color], 1985 (ca.50 photographs); 1987 (ca.50 photographs); 1996 (ca.300 photographs).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Assessor's Office:

[Aerial Photograph Composite-Redmond-framed and mounted on wall], ca.1965 (1 photograph).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Office Room 124:

[Aerial Photographs-Large Scale-with index], 1951 (ca.100 photographs); 1954 (ca.200 photographs).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Vault Room 125:

Photos & Stuff [Aerial Photographs], 1960 (40 photographs);

Photos & Stuff [WAC Corp. Aerial Photographs], ca.1984 (ca.100 photographs).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Surveyor's Office Room 126:

Bend, Oregon [Aerial Photograph Wall Mosaic], 1960 (1 photograph).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Survey Shack:

[Aerial Photographs], 1938 (107 photographs).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Vault Room 314:

[Aerial Photographs-Large Scale-rolled], 1951 (23 photographs);

Aerial Photos of Entire Deschutes River [Box 333], 1947 (.40 cu.ft.);

Deschutes County Survey Slides [Aerial Photographic Slides], 1978-1979 (2 volumes of slides).

Series documents the payment of county and state bounty money to individuals who presented the scalps and other prescribed body parts of targeted predatory animals. The program was intended to control the threat to livestock. Examples of targeted animals include coyote, cougar, mountain lion, panther, wildcat, bobcat, lynx, and wolf. Records include registers, affidavits, certificates, and statements. Information includes claimant and affiant names; kind of animal; number of scalps; date killed or presented; and number, amount, and date of warrant. The records are also referred to as scalp bounty records. 

References to warrants ordered for payments to specific individuals for predatory animal control were included in the Commissioners Journals (County Commissioners Administrative Journals) beginning in circa 1930. ​

​1920-[ongoing]

Series documents the assessment of real and personal property, the determination of tax liability, and the collection of county taxes. Assessment, tax, and delinquent tax records are labeled as rolls, lists, or summaries. Records show property owner; description and value of urban and agricultural land, personal property, and livestock; assessments, equalizations, and taxes due; and notations on payment and delinquency in payment of taxes. Beginning with 1900, counties have only been required to retain permanently those assessment and tax rolls for years ending in "0" and "5."

The Deschutes County Property Information​​ application includes detailed tax assessment, appraisal, tax district boundary GIS map layers, and related information.

Records at the Oregon State Archives:

Assessment and Tax Rolls, 1920-1930 (13 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

Assessment & Tax Roll For Lands Classified For Reforestation, 1935 (2 volumes);

Assessment & Tax Roll [title varies], 1945-1960 (8 volumes);

Assessment and Tax Roll [includes continuing assessment roll cards], ca.1959-ca.1979 (52 reels of microfilm);

Assessment and Tax Roll [title varies], 1979-present (10 feet of microfiche);

[Deschutes County Assessment Roll-and Tax], ca.1938-1941 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Finance Office Vault Room 232:

Recapitulation Tax Collection Register, 1923 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Tax Office Work Room 235:

[Tax Roll], 1981-2000 (16 inches of microfiche).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Tax Office Vault Room 236:

Microfilm of Tax Roll, 1927-1977 (163 reels of microfilm).

Records at the Bend Public Library:

Deschutes County Summary of Assessment and Tax Roll [Call no. 336.2], 1992-1993 (1 volume); 1993-1994 (1 volume); 2002-2003 (1 volume); 2003-2004 (1 volume); 2006-2007 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes County Web Site:

Tax and Assessment Reports [includes summaries], 2002-present.

Series documents the registration of business names with the county clerk or recorder. Information includes assumed business name; description of business; filing date; and business owner, notary public, witness, clerk or recorder, and deputy's name. Series may also include an index arranged alphabetically by business name. Businesses which were registered were typically automotive sales, motorcycle repair, merchandise shops, butchers, and feed stores. Since 1964, assumed business names have been filed with the Secretary of State. Assumed business names have been inventoried through 1964. For more recent records, contact the Secretary of State, Business Registry Section​. 

Assumed Name Record [title varies-with index], vol. 1-5, 1948-1964 (5 volumes);

Miscellaneous Record [includes assumed business names until 1948], vol. 1-6, 1917-1949 (6 volumes).

Miscellaneous [Records-includes assumed business names until 1948], vol. 1-7, 1917-ca.1952 (5 reels of microfilm). ​

Series documents liens placed on real property by the county to satisfy debts. Attachments are ordered by the circuit court and authorize the sheriff to seize or transfer property to satisfy debts such as loans, mortgages, or tax liens. The sheriff will hold the property in trust until the debt is paid or the property is sold. Information includes defendant name, statement of attachment, property description, statement of return when attachment is satisfied, return of execution, dates attachment is issued and returned, court order, and sheriff's signature. Attachment records have been inventoried through 1920. 

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building Basement, Court Archives: 

Certificates of Attachment [with index], vol. 1, 1916-1940 (1 volume).

Series documents the population, property, and agricultural production of the county. Records may include census rolls and abstracts, farm schedules, abstract of assessment and census, enumeration of inhabitants and industrial products, and enumeration of inhabitants and military enrollment. Information includes number of males and females per age category; head of household; name, age, and gender of household members; occupation and relationship of household members to head of household; and description and value of real and personal property. Information may also include nationality, physical description, birthplace, health, and religion of household members and agricultural production statistics.

The Deschutes County Property Information application includes GIS map layers documenting census information. Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210: [Miscellaneous Storage Room Maps-includes election precincts, census, vicinities, urban areas, districts-rolled and folded], ca.1982-present (ca.5 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Room 311: 

Deschutes County 1920 Census [Abstract-Bookshelf 3B], 1920 (1 binder). 

Records at the Bend Public Library:

Census 2000 [Deschutes County Census Maps-in map case drawer], 2000 (68 maps);

Oregon Deschutes County Census [Abstracts-Deschutes Historical Society-Call no. 929.379587 Summers], 1920 (1 binder).

1911-1986

Series documents cases heard before the circuit courts and the U.S. district courts. U.S. district courts were administered by the federal government during the territorial period and subsequently replaced by the circuit courts upon statehood in 1859. Case files include exhibits, transcripts, indexes, and legal documents such as indictments, subpoenas, fee bills, articles of agreement, bonds, summons, executions, petitions, and injunctions. The case files document civil and criminal actions such as debt, theft, divorce, land claims, arson, murder, rape, assault and battery, and boundary conflicts. Circuit court records continue after 1983 under authority of the state and are maintained by the trial court administrator. Circuit court records have been inventoried through 1983. For information on more recent court records, contact the trial court administrator. Portions of these records may be restricted.

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building Basement, Court Archives:

[Circuit Court Case Files-boxed], no. 4600-8760, 1935-1953 (48 cu.ft.);

[Circuit Court Case Files-open shelves], no. 8761-35797, 1953-1983 (400 cu.ft.);

Circuit Court Civil [Case Files-boxed], no. 130-4599, ca.1911-1935 (72 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building Basement, Court Archives Room 18:

[Circuit Court Index-Direct and Indirect-in microfiche box], 1918-1986 (.50 inch of microfiche);

[Circuit Court Records-Case Files], no. 130-438, ca.1911-ca.1920 (4 reels of microfilm).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Room 311:

[Miscellaneous Circuit Court Documents-includes reports-Box 258], ca.1940-ca.1958 (.20 cu.ft.).

Series records brief entries about the proceedings of court cases. Information includes date; plaintiff and defendant names; cause of action such as larceny, assault, divorce, or receivership; attorney names; and final disposition of the case. Circuit court records continue after 1983 under authority of the state and are maintained by the state court administrator. Circuit court records have been inventoried through 1983. For information on more recent court records, contact the trial court administrator. Portions of these records may be restricted. 

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building Basement, Court Archives:

Circuit Court Register [no. 1-6298], vol. 1-5, 1916-1944 (5 volumes); 

Circuit Court Register [no. 6299 to 11234-title varies-with index], vol. 6-9, 1944-1961 (4 volumes); 

Trial Docket, vol. 6-9, 1972-1984 (4 volumes); 

Trial Record [Circuit Court], vol. 4, 1948-ca.1960 (1 volume). 

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building Basement, Court Archives Room 18:

[Circuit Court Register of Actions-in microfiche box] no. 11235-35935, 1961-1983 (2 inches of microfiche);

[Register of Actions-Circuit Court] no. 11235-37337, 1961-1984 (10 reels of microfilm). 

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building, Main Floor Lobby Exhibit Case: 

Trial Record [Circuit Court], vol. 1-3, 1919-1948 (3 volumes). 

Records at the Deschutes County Courthouse, Trial Court Administrator's Office Exhibit Case: 

Trial Record Circuit Court, vol. 5, ca.1960-1972 (1 volume).

Series records chronological narratives of the proceedings of the court including actions taken such as decrees, judgments, arrangements, sentences, dismissals, and grand jury reports. Information includes plaintiff, defendant, and attorney names; term of court; character and date of case; case number; and date of issue. The term "judgment" refers to judicial decisions regarding the verdict, decision, or judgment rendered by the court and is distinct from those judgments relating to the recovery of court costs and awards (see Judgment and Execution Dockets). Circuit court records continue after 1983 under authority of the state and are maintained by the trial court administrator. Circuit court records have been inventoried through 1983. For information on more recent court records, contact the trial court administrator. Portions of these records may be restricted. 

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building Basement, Court Archives: 

Circuit Court Journal [Index-to vol. 48 to 156 of the circuit court journal on microfilm-volume 49 is titled "Deed Record 166" on spine], vol. 48-49, 1966-1983 (2 volumes); 

Circuit Court Journal, vol. 1-14, 1917-1945 (14 volumes); 

Circuit Court Journal [with index], vol. 15-47, 1945-1966 (33 volumes). 

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210: 

Circuit Court [Journal], vol. 48-152, 1966-1983 (36 reels of microfilm);

Commissioners Journals [Circuit Court Journal-filmed on same reel], vol. 55-126, 1970-1981 (54 reels of microfilm). ​

Series documents the recording of a variety of legal documents filed in the clerk's or recorder's office. These documents were not required to be filed with the clerk and often included filings such as birth and marriage certificates of individuals who were born or married outside of the county but wanted the document to be filed in their county of residence. Other documents include wills, obligation bonds, quit claims, deeds, conveyances, mortgage satisfactions, agreements, charters, partnership dissolutions, contracts, powers of attorney, liens, leases, marriage licenses, military discharges, ministerial certificates, medical personnel licenses, birth and death certificates, and affidavits of publication. Information includes dates filed, name of individual filing, type of action, and volume and page number where recorded. Series may also include alphabetical indexes of individuals filing a recording. Clerk and Recorder Miscellaneous Recordings have been inventoried through 1965. 

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

Miscellaneous Index Direct and Indirect, vol. 1, 1907-1973 (1 volume);

Miscellaneous Record, vol. 1-15, 1917-1969 (15 volumes);

Miscellaneous Record [transcribed from Crook County], vol. A, 1888-1916 (1 volume). 

Miscellaneous [Records], vol. 1-15, 1917-1969 (8 reels of microfilm). 

Records at the Deschutes County Website: 

Miscellaneous Index​ [Clerk's], 1905-1984. ​

Series documents the filing of transactions, authorized by statute, with the clerk or recorder of the county for the purpose of making the transaction a matter of public record. Information includes dates filed, type and description of transactions, filing numbers, names of parties involved, amounts charged or assessed, and clerk or recorder's signatures. Series may also include alphabetical indexes that contain volume and page numbers where recorded and names of individual filing transactions. Transactions include records that were previously maintained separately, such as mortgages; deeds; military service records; federal, mechanic's, and road improvement liens; mining claims; satisfactions; judgment assignments; notarial commissions; medical and ministerial licenses; oaths; and affidavits of publication. This series is commonly referred to as the Book of Records. 

Since 1983 deeds, mortgages, mining claims, military discharges, water rights statements, and related records have been included in the clerk's Official Records.  The Deschutes County Clerk Recording System Web Query​ includes searchable access to recorded document information and images beginning in 1985.

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Public Research Area:

Official Records [Clerk's Recorded Documents], vol. 1-529, 1983-1998 (529 reels of microfilm); vol. 1999, 1999 (26 reels of microfilm). 

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210: 

Official Records [Clerk's Recorded Documents], vol. 1-529, 1983-1998 (529 reels of microfilm); vol. 1999-2007 (827 reels of microfilm).

1916-[ongoing]

Series documents all administrative actions of the board of county commissioners and the county court. In most counties, the board of county commissioners has assumed the administrative duties and responsibilities of the county court. Administrative actions include levying taxes; budgeting; approving appropriations; appointing county officials; approving officials bonds and annual reports; receiving petitions and remonstrances concerning county roads; defining and establishing county roads; calling bond elections for the construction of county buildings; compiling jury lists and conducting hearings; approving salaries and expenses of county officials; confirming elections; and issuing licenses for such things as liquor, ferries, warehouses, and groceries. The series may be referred to as the County Court Administrative Journal, Commissioner's Minutes, County Court Docket, or Board of Commissioners Meeting Records.

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

Board of Commissioners Minutes, 2010-2011 (1 cu.ft.);

BOCC Meeting Minutes [Board of County Commissioners], 1998-2002 (1 cu.ft.);

BOCC Minutes [Board of County Commissioners], 2005-2007 (1 cu.ft.);

Commissioner Journals, 2007 (1 cu.ft.);

Commissioner Journals BOCC Minutes [Board of County Commissioners], 2011 (1 cu.ft.);

Commissioners Docket, vol. 1, 1916-1928 (1 volume);

Commissioners Journal [serves as index to microfilm journal volumes 13-55], vol. 13, 1969-1984 (1 volume);

Commissioners Journal [with index], vol. 1-13, 1916-1969 (13 volumes);

Commissioners' Journals Minutes, 2013-2014 (1 cu.ft.);

Commission Meeting Minutes, 1990-1993 (1 cu.ft.);

Court Day Minutes & County Commissioner Proceedings, 1940-1997 (1 cu.ft.);

Meeting Minutes from Commissioners Journals, 1989-1998 (1 cu.ft.);

Minutes Commissioner Journal , 2007-2008 (1 cu.ft.);

Minutes/Commissioner Journals, 2011-2013 (2 cu.ft.);

Minutes from Board of Commissioners, 2009-2010 (1 cu.ft.);

Minutes from BOCC Commissioner Journals [Board of County Commissioners], 2008 (1 cu.ft.); 2008-2009 (1 cu.ft.);

Minutes from Commissioner Journals, 2009 (1 cu.ft.);

Minutes from Commissioners' Journals, 2002-2004 (1 cu.ft.);

Minutes from the Commissioners' Journals, 1984-1990 (1 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210:

Commissioners Journals [includes orders, ordinances, resolutions, and attachments], vol. 24-170, 1977-1998 (83 reels of microfilm); vol. 1999-2002, 1999-2002 (18 reels of microfilm).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Copy Room:

Minutes [Board of Commissioners], 2014-present (.50 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office:

Commissioners' Journals, vol. 13-170, 1969-1998 (154 reels of microfilm); vol. 1999-2005, 1999-2005 (34 reels of microfilm).

Records at the Deschutes County Website:

County Commission Meeting Video [Deschutes County], 2011-present.

​​1892-[ongoing]

Series documents orders, ordinances, and resolutions passed by the board of county commissioners and the county court regulating and establishing guidelines for specific activities within the county. Information includes activity covered by order, ordinance, or resolution; administrative action number; who introduced; findings of fact; conclusions; recommendations; date heard; and hearings officer name and signature. Activities include noise abatement, nuisances, zoning, animal control, solid waste management, land division regulations, elections, comprehensive plan, and road and bridge use limits.

Beginning in 1917 orders, ordinances, and resolutions were included in the Commissioners Journal (County Commissioners Administrative Journals). The DevDocs application​ provides information and images of various "date files" planning documents related to ordinances. The Land Use & Planning Historical Map Collection​ includes older versions of comprehensive plans and zoning ordinances.

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

Commissioner Journal Ordinances, 2006-2011 (1 cu.ft.);

Commissioner Journal Resolutions, 2005-2011 (2 cu.ft.);

Measure 37 Orders Commissioner Journals, 2005-2007 (1 cu.ft.);

Orders Commissioner Journals, 2007-2014 (1 cu.ft.);

Orders from Commissioners Journals, vol. 47-95, 1983-1988 (1 cu.ft.); 1989-1998 (1 cu.ft.); 2002-2004 (1 cu.ft.);

Orders, vol. 3-46, 1938-1983 (3 cu.ft.); 1998-2002 (1 cu.ft.); 2005-2007 (1 cu.ft.);

Ordinances from Commissioners Journals, 1990-1998 (1 cu.ft.);

Ordinances [Miscellaneous-includes zoning and subdivision information], 1985-2005 (6 cu.ft.);

Ordinances, vol. 8-46, 1962-1983 (2 cu.ft.); 1984-1990 (1 cu.ft.); 1998-2005 (2 cu.ft.);

Record of Roads [includes road establishment orders and resolutions-road no. 1 to 40-with index], vol. 1, 1920-1922 (1 volume);

Resolutions from Commissioners Journals, 1983-1998 (1 cu.ft.); 2002-2004 (1 cu.ft.);

Resolutions, vol. 3-46, 1937-1983 (2 cu.ft.); 1998-2002 (1 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Ballot Processing Room:

Orders, 2014-present (.05 cu.ft.);

Ordinances, 2011-present (.80 cu.ft.);

Resolutions, 2011-present (.80 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210:

Book of Roads [Record-includes road establishment orders and resolutions-road no. 1 to 40-with index], vol. 1, 1920-1922 (1 reel of microfilm);

Commissioners Journals [includes orders, ordinances, resolutions, and attachments], vol. 24-170, 1977-1998 (83 reels of microfilm); vol. 1999-2002, 1999-2002 (18 reels of microfilm).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, File Room 130:

Subdivision/Partition Ordinance of 1979, 1979 (.05 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office Library Area:

Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan [includes zoning and subdivision and partition ordinance information], 2004 (1 binder);

Ordinances [Planning Related-includes comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision and partition information], 1981-present (26 binders).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Front Vault Room 114:

County Road Files [includes petitions, orders, resolutions, viewer's reports, dedications, maps, rights-of-way, correspondence, and related records], ca.1900-present (30 cu.ft.);

Orders Resolutions Ordinances [includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and land division ordinances], ca.1975-present (2.50 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Vault Room 125:

Book of Ordinances [includes zoning and subdivision-with index], 1960-1966 (1 volume);

Burned Records of Road Department [includes petitions, orders, notices, and reports-with index], ca.1920-1941 (1.50 cu.ft.);

[Crook County Road Jackets-Case Files-includes petitions, reports, notices, orders, and related records], 1892-1916 (2 cu.ft.);

Deschutes County Roads Formerly Crook County Roads [consists of photocopies of road jackets-includes petitions, reports, notices, orders, and related records], vol. 1-4, 1892-1916 (4 volumes);

Linen Tracings [includes road survey maps, field notes, orders, and related records-photocopies], 1917-ca.2000 (6 binders).

Records at the Bend Public Library:

Deschutes County Code [includes comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision ordinance codes-Call no. 342.958], vol. I-II, 2000-2002 (2 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes County Website:

Deschutes County Code [includes comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision ordinances], 1920-present.

1958-[ongoing]

Series documents the establishment and/or restoration of survey corners or monuments by the county surveyor or registered land surveyors. Records include maps, field survey restoration notes, historical notes, and indexes. Information includes description of corners; existing markers; descriptions of new markers and any changes made to the locations; property owners; township, range, and section numbers; donation land claim information; date the new markers were set; and surveyor's signatures.

The Deschutes ​County Survey Research Application​​ includes Oregon Corner Restoration Records (OCRR).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Front Vault Room 114: 

OCRR Records and Forms [Oregon Corner Restoration Record], no. 1-1900, 1958-present (2.50 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Office Room 124: 

Corner Restorations [Oregon Corner Restoration Record-arranged numerically by corner number], no. 001-1895, 1958-present (24 inches of aperture cards).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Vault Room 125: 

Metsker's Atlas of Deschutes County Oregon [Found and Restored Corners-Old Rd. Dept. Corner Cards Record], n.d. (1 volume);

Section Corner Description Cards, no. 100-647, n.d. (.15 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Surveyor's Office Room 126: 

Corner Negatives [Corner Monumentation Photographic Negatives], vol. 1, n.d.-ca.2003 (1 binder);

Corner Photos [Corner Monumentation Photographs], vol. 1-6, n.d.-ca.2003 (6 binders);

E.G. Mansfield Corner Ties [Land Corner Drawings and Notes], ca.1974-ca.1977 (1 binder);

Metsker's Atlas of Deschutes County [serves as index to Corner Restoration Record], ca.1958-present (1 volume).

Microfilm Aperture Cards [Oregon Corner Restoration Record], no. 1-1895, 1958-present (6 inches of aperture cards).

Surveyor's ​Office Miscellaneous Records​ ​[includes surveys, corner cards, monument cards, field books, and related records], n.d.

Series documents the annual allotment of funds for county government operations as agreed to by the board of commissioners. Information includes total amount of funds budgeted for each office. Later budgets may include organizational charts and a narrative of each county office function. 

Beginning in 1920 budgets were included in the Commissioners Journal (County Commissioners Administrative Journals). 

Audit Reports [includes county budget information], 1921-1923, 1925-1928, 1935-2008 (5 cu.ft.); 

Budget Allowances & Expenditures [Adopted Budget], 1956-1965 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Copy Room: 

County Budget, 2007-present (1.50 cu.ft.). 

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Front Vault Room 114: 

Deschutes County Adopted Budget, 1982-1984 (2 volumes); 1989-1990 (1 volume). 

Deschutes County Adopted Budget [Call no. 352.112], 2013-2014 (1 volume). 

Adopted Budgets [Deschutes County], 2003-present.

​1920-[ongoing]

Series documents the development and revision of a plan for the use of lands in the county. Series includes plans for transportation, energy, housing, population and economics, public facilities and services, urbanization, natural resources, greenways, recreation, agricultural and forest lands, land capability, resource quality, floodplains, landmarks, historic property, rural community center designation, and natural areas. Each plan includes background information about the subject; supporting documentation such as maps, charts, and diagrams; and a narrative description of each aspect of the plan and how it is to be implemented. Series may also include an overall "comprehensive plan" which contains historical and current looks at county land practices and defines goals and policies adhered to during the creation and implementation of the plan.

The Deschutes County Property Information application​ includes urban growth boundary and related GIS map layers. The DevDocs application provides information and images of various "date files" planning documents related to comprehensive plan text amendments. The Land Use Planning Historical Maps​ include older versions of comprehensive plans, zoning ordinances, and related maps and information.

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

[Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Maps], 1965-1997 (ca.125 maps);

Comprehensive Plan Documents [Legal Department], 1979-1992 (1 cu.ft.);

Comprehensive Plan Records [includes amendments-Accession no. 2008.0112], 1986-2006 (1 cu.ft.);

Comprehensive Plan Records [includes subdivision ordinance amendments and transportation plan ordinance-Accession no. 2006.0126], 1987-1998 (1 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Community Development Department Area:

Date Files [Central Property-Based Case Files-includes comprehensive plan text amendments, zone changes, subdivision and partition case files, variances, building permits, and related records], 2012-2013 (46 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office:

[Miscellaneous Maps-includes zoning, districts, comprehensive plan, flood plain, flood insurance, transportation, and topographical], ca.1957-present (ca.350 maps).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office Library Area:

Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan [includes zoning and subdivision and partition ordinance information], 2004 (1 binder);

Ordinances [Planning Related-includes comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision and partition information], 1981-present (26 binders);

Periodic Review [Comprehensive Plan Review Records], 1979-2003 (10 binders).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office Wall Map Area:

[Miscellaneous Planning Wall Maps-includes comprehensive plan, zoning, transportation, livestock district, school district, wetlands inventory, and related subjects], ca.1979-present (ca.20 maps).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, File Room 130:

Date Files [Central Property-Based Case Files-includes comprehensive plan text amendments, zone changes, subdivision and partition case files, variances, building permits, and related records], 2013-present (15 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Front Vault Room 114:

Orders Resolutions Ordinances [includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and land division ordinances], ca.1975-present (2.50 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Room 311:

[Comprehensive Plan to 1990-Deschutes County-Box 161], 1990 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend Public Library:

Deschutes County Code [includes comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision ordinance codes-Call no. 342.958], vol. I-II, 2000-2002 (2 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes County Website:

Comprehensive Plan Prior to 11-09-11​, n.d.-2011;

Deschutes County Code [comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision ordinances], 1920-present;

Land Use Ordinances [comprehensive plan, zoning, and subdivision and partition ordinances], 1980-1992.

Series documents the actions of the county court in civil and some criminal cases. Records include complaints, judgments, decrees, summonses, warrants, affidavits, writs, and an index. County court cases include spousal support, employment compensation, satisfaction of judgments, and divorce. Information includes judge, plaintiff, defendant, and attorney names; case type; and filing dates of actions and decrees. 

Juvenile [County Court Case Files-includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, juvenile, and other cases], no. 1-2237, 1916-1965 (17 cu.ft.).

Series records the proceedings of the county court for civil and some criminal cases. Information includes judge, plaintiff, defendant, and attorney names; trial date; memorandum of subsequent proceedings; and fees charged. Cases include citizenship petitions, legal changes to name, commitments, and writs of habeas corpus. Portions of these records may be restricted. 

County Court Journal [includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other cases-with index], vol. 1-7, 1916-1969 (7 volumes);

County Court Register [includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other cases-no. 1 to 590-water damaged-with index], vol. 1, 1916-1931 (1 volume); 

County Court Register [includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other cases-no. 591 to 1380-with index], vol. 1, 1931-1951 (1 volume); 

County Court Register [includes insane commitment, juvenile, and name change cases-no. 1381 to 2164], vol. 2, 1951-1964 (1 volume); 

County Court Register [includes primarily juvenile cases-no. 2165 to 2973-with index], vol. 3, 1964-1973 (1 volume).

1922-[ongoing]

Series documents the preparation and organization of the county fair by the county fair board (including any predecessor group) and other county officials. Records include fair board minutes, reports, and annual premium lists and publications. Minutes and reports include information pertaining to county fair employment, budgets, sponsorship, capital improvements to fairgrounds, and event scheduling throughout the year. Annual premium lists and/or publications may include county fair history, names of fair officers, general fair rules and regulations, event schedules, exhibit lists, and photographs.

Premium lists were included in the Commissioners Journal (County Commissioners Administrative Journals) beginning in 1917.

Records at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds and Expo Center, Fair Administration Building, Director's Office:

Deschutes County Fair Board Meeting Minutes, 2001-present (1 binder).

Records at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds and Expo Center, Fair Administration Building, Storage Room:

DCFA [Deschutes County Fair Association Premium List-title varies-boxed], 1952 (1 volume); 1954 (1 volume); 1959-1961 (3 volumes); 1963-1973 (11 volumes); 1975-1981 (7 volumes); 1983 (1 volume);

Fair Board Minutes [Deschutes County Fair Association], 1951-1967 (1 binder); 1976-1979 (1 binder); 1980-1983 (1 binder).

Records at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds and Expo Center, Fair Administration Building, Marketing Office:

DCFA Stockholders [Deschutes County Fair Association Minutes], 1991-2000 (1 binder);

Deschutes County Fair Association Minutes of Meetings, 1922-1941 (1 volume);

Deschutes County Fair Premium Book [title varies], 2000-present (.25 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds and Expo Center, Fair Administration Building, Community Development Department Office, Fair Storage Area:

Deschutes County Fair & Rodeo [Premium Books and Fair Guides-title varies-with gaps], 1966-present (2 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds and Expo Center, Fair Administration Building, Boardroom Counter Cabinet:

Minutes [Deschutes County Fair Association], 1968-1975 (1 binder); 1983-1985 (1 binder); 1985-1988 (1 volume); 1989-1991 (1 binder); 1992-1994 (1 binder);

Stockholders Minutes [Deschutes County Fair Association], 1961-1990 (1 binder).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Auditorium Stage Room 302:

[Deschutes County Fair-Supplement Guide-Box 205], 1981 (.05 cu.ft.); 1983-1984 (.05 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Room 317, Bookshelf 92:

Des Co Fair [Deschutes County Fair Souvenir Program], 1963-1971 (9 volumes); 1973-1979 (7 volumes); 1982 (1 volume); 1985-1988 (4 volumes);

Des Co Fair [Deschutes County Fair Premium Book], 1953 (1 volume); 1955-1981 (27 volumes); 1983 (1 volume); 1986-1987 (1 volume);

[Premium Lists-Deschutes County Fair-in Hollinger box], 1969-1970 (2 volumes); 1973 (1 volume); 1975 (1 volume); 1977 (1 volume); 1980-1981 (2 volumes).

Series reports the activities of county officials to the county court or board of county commissioners. Series may include reports by the treasurer, surveyor, clerk, roadmaster, assessor, sheriff, school superintendent, and county nurse or doctor. Reports summarize the activities of county officials and their staff as they perform their official duties.

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives: 

Treasurers Reports, 1971-1980 (.20 cu.ft.).

Series documents the recording of deaths in the county. Records include registers and certificates. Information includes registration number; place and date of death; name, sex, color, birth date and place, age, and marital status of the deceased; names and birthplaces of parents; primary and contributory cause of death; physician, registrar, and informant signatures; filing date; and date and place of burial. Death records were not required by the state of Oregon until 1903 when the state began to officially register deaths. County death records have been inventoried through 1920. Access to death records is restricted for 50 years following the date of death by Oregon Administrative Rule 333-011-0096. Contact the Oregon State Archives for access to state death certificates that are more than 50 years old. Contact the Oregon Center for Health Statistics​ for access to more recent death certificates. 

Records at the Oregon State Archives: 

Record of Births and Deaths [does not include birth information], 1916-1930 (1 volume); 

Record of Deaths, 1920-1921 (1 volume). ​

1871-1984

Series documents the ownership of land. Series includes deeds, land sales contracts, quit claim deeds, homestead exemption claims, corporate certificates, agreements, correction deeds, special assessments of unzoned farmland, easements, and indirect and direct deed indexes. Information includes grantor and grantee name; recording and filing dates; property descriptions; title warranties; consideration amounts; witness and recorder names; and volume and page numbers of where recorded.

Since 1983 deeds have been recorded in the clerk's Official Records (Clerk and Recorder Official Filings).

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

Deed Record [includes deed records from Crook County before 1916], vol. 1-165, 1871-1969 (165 volumes);

Deeds Direct [Index], 1871-1928 (1 volume);

Deeds Indirect [Index], 1871-1928 (1 volume);

Index to Deeds Direct, vol. 1-13, 1927-1984 (13 volumes);

Index to Deeds Indirect, vol. 1-13, 1927-1984 (13 volumes).

Deed Records, vol. 1-366, 1871-1982 (192 reels of microfilm).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210:

Deschutes County Clerk [Microfilmed Records-includes subdivision and partition plats, deed indexes, and mortgage indexes-35mm microfilm], ca.1871-ca.1983 (55 reels of microfilm).

Records at the Deschutes County Website:

Deed Index Books [Direct and Indirect], 1871-1984;

Metes & Bounds Grantor/Grantee Indexes​ [Tract Index to Deeds-Clerk's Historical Indexes], ca.1889-ca.1959.

Series documents birth records generated by a court in response to a petition. Records may include petitions, decrees or orders, affidavits of correction, registers, and certificates. If the information provided with the petition met the requirements of the court, a decree was issued that served as a legal birth document. Most petitions were filed decades after the actual birth. They were filed in the county of residence at the time of petition, not necessarily in the county of birth. Dates listed in brackets document the range of actual birth dates. Date ranges for court actions such as petitions and decrees are also included. Also see Birth Records series for related records. Access to birth records is restricted for 100 years following the date of birth by Oregon Administrative Rule 333-011-0096. 

Records at the Oregon State Archives: 

Delayed Births [Registration Records-documents births from 1863 to 1948], 1943-ca.1961 (1.35 cu.ft.); 

Search for 1863-1910 Deschutes County Delayed Births in Oregon Historical Records Index​. 

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building Basement, Court Archives Room 18:

Circuit Court Birth Register [Delayed Birth Registrations], 1943-1983 (1 reel of microfilm);

Circuit Court Journal [includes delayed birth registrations from ca.1870 to ca.1920], vol. 13-14, 1943-1945 (2 volumes); 

Circuit Court Journal [includes delayed birth registrations from ca.1880 to ca.1940-with index], vol. 15-47, 1945-1966 (33 volumes).

Series documents the tabulation and reporting of election results for the county. Records include voting abstracts and the record of election. Information includes election date; precinct name and number; office; precinct and total votes; victory margin; winning candidate; county clerk, board of canvasser, and justice of the peace signatures; ballot number; summation of votes; and election board's decision. Election voting abstracts have been inventoried through 1960. For information on more recent records, contact the Secretary of State, Elections Division, the county clerk, or the local elections official. 

Election voting returns were included in the Commissioners Journals (County Commissioners Administrative Journals) beginning in 1918.

Election Record, vol. 3, 1956-1982 (1 volume).

Election Board [Record], vol. 2, 1938-1956 (1 volume); 

Election Records, 1917-1981 (1 reel of microfilm);

Election Register, vol. 1, 1917-1937 (1 volume).

Series documents the application for and registration of farm names with the county clerk or recorder. Records may include registers, original applications, or certificates. Information includes owner's name and address; farm name, location, and description; and date and number of application and final application. Series may also include an index arranged either alphabetically by name of owner or by farm name. Farm name records have been inventoried through 1964.

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives: 

Register of Farm Names, vol. 1, 1917-1960 (1 volume).

1864-1985

Series records ownership of county lands obtained from the federal government. Series includes records of land grants administered under federal programs such as donation land claims and homesteads. Donation land claims are the most common type of federal land grant in Oregon that is documented in this inventory project. Donation land claims resulted from an act of the 1850 Congress under which citizens of the United States, or those who filed a declaration of intention prior to December 1, 1850 and had resided upon or cultivated the land for four consecutive years, were granted a specified amount of acreage in the Oregon Territory. Donation land claims were unique in that acreage granted to married couples was divided evenly. Half of the acreage was placed in the husband's name while the other half was placed in the wife's name. Records include plats, indexes, and survey notes. Information includes township, range, and section numbers, names of donation land claim holders and claim numbers, claim dates, acreage, and descriptions of surveys.

Under the Homestead Act of 1862, settlers were given 160 acres of land in the public domain if they built a home on the land, resided there for five years, and cultivated the land. A complete homestead entry file includes such documents as the homestead application, homestead proof, and final certificate authorizing the claimant to obtain a land patent.

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

Patent Record [Federal Land Grant-includes Crook County information], vol. 1-2, 1905-1917 (2 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Public Research Area:

Patent Records [Federal Land Grant-includes Crook County information], vol. 1-2, 1905-1917 (1 reel of microfilm).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210:

Patents [Record-Federal Land Grant-includes Crook County], vol. 1-2, 1905-1917 (1 reel of microfilm).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Library Room 104:

Patent Deed Records of Deschutes Co., Oregon [Land Claim Abstracts], 1904-1916 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Room 311:

Land Ownership [Maps-includes homesteads, Hudson Land Company, Metsker, subdivision, and irrigation], ca.1900-1985 (ca.1.50 cu.ft.).

Records at the Bend Public Library:

Patent Deed Records of Deschutes Co., Oregon [Land Claim Abstracts-Call no. 929.3795], 1904-1916 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes County Website:

Patent Index by Name [Land Claims-Clerk's Historical Indexes], 1905-1917;

Patent Index by Township and Range​ [Land Claims-Clerk's Historical Indexes], 1905-1917.

Records at a Related Website:

Search Land Patents [includes patent and legal land descriptions and some document images], ca.1864-ca.1957 (BLM GLO website).

Series documents the activities of the sheriff and other county officials relating to the foreclosure of property in order to satisfy creditors in cases involving delinquent taxes, mortgage payments, or court judgments. Records include correspondence, sheriff's deeds and foreclosure sale records, circuit court case transcripts of foreclosure hearings, writs of execution, certificates of sale of real property, judgment orders, receipts, tax redemption records, delinquent tax sales, and tax sale certificates. Foreclosure records have been inventoried through 1920. 

References to foreclosures and tax sales were included in the Commissioners Journals (County Commissioners Administrative Journals) beginning in 1916.​

1916-[ongoing]

Series documents the examination, commitment, and release of mentally ill persons to and from the state's mental institutions. Series contains statements of complaint and commitment recorded by the county clerk or recorder and includes petitions to have an individual committed; physicians certification that an individual is insane; delivery warrants authorizing a county official (usually the sheriff) to take the individual to the state hospital; patient discharges; paroles or transfers; indexes; and correspondence. Information includes patient and family names, date committed, reason, physical description, and a brief family history. This series may also be known as the Insane Record, Mental Illness Record, and Mentally Ill and Feeble Minded Record. By 1968, in most counties, the commitment of the mentally ill or deficient had become the responsibility of the circuit court. Access to these records may be restricted for 75 years by Oregon Revised Statute 192.496. 

Mental commitment case files have been indexed on the Oregon Judicial Information Network (OJIN) since 1986. 

County Court Journal [includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other cases-with index], vol. 1-7, 1916-1969 (7 volumes);

County Court Register [includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other cases-no. 1 to 590-water damaged-with index], vol. 1, 1916-1931 (1 volume); 

County Court Register [includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other cases-no. 591 to 1380-with index], vol. 1, 1931-1951 (1 volume);

County Court Register [includes insane commitment, juvenile, and name change cases-no. 1381 to 2164], vol. 2, 1951-1964 (1 volume); 

District Court Register [includes mental commitment and name change cases-with index], vol. 1, 1964-1984 (1 volume).

Juvenile [County Court Case Files-includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, juvenile, and other cases], no. 1 to 2237, 1916-1965 (17 cu.ft.);| Mental Health [Mental Commitment Case Files-includes some name changes], no. 64.1-84.485, 1964-1984 (5 cu.ft.);

Mental Health [Mental Commitment Case Files], no. 85MN0001-99MN0007, 1985-1999 (6 cu.ft.); no. 00MN0001-11.MH0013, 2000-2011 (7 cu.ft.); 

Mentals [Commitment Register-with index], 1985-1986 (1 volume). 

MH [Mental Health Commitment Case Files], no. 12MH0001-14MH0012, 2012-present (2 cu.ft.).

Series records official decisions by the court and subsequent instructions to the sheriff to recover costs and awards related to debt, divorce, and other civil cases. The record serves as the official notice of the existence of a lien. Information includes title and case number; names of plaintiff, creditor, defendant, debtor, and attorney; amount of judgment; description of property levied on; writ of execution; disposition of case; decisions on appeals; dates docketed and satisfied; and volume and page numbers where recorded. Records may include judgment dockets, execution dockets, and fee books. Judgment and execution records have been inventoried through 1920. 

Execution Docket Circuit Court, vol. 1, 1916-1932 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building, Main Floor Lobby Exhibit Case: 

Judgment Docket Circuit Court, vol. 1, 1883-1929 (1 volume).

Series documents criminal and civil cases brought before justice of the peace courts. Dockets include defendant, plaintiff, attorney, witness, and juror names; action dates and nature of cases; judgments; and statements of costs. Actions include complaints, summonses, appearances, testimonies, bonds, judgments, pleas, fines, jail terms, marriages, and writs of attachment. Civil and criminal cases include larceny, burglary, recovering money or personal property, trespassing, hunting out of season, and illegal voting. Justice court records have been inventoried through 1940. For information on more recent records, contact the local justice court. 

[Miscellaneous Justice Court Docket and Case File Pages-Box 258], ca.1931-ca.1941 (.15 cu.ft.).

Series documents criminal and civil cases brought before justice of the peace courts. Dockets include defendant, plaintiff, attorney, witness, and juror names; action dates and nature of cases; judgments; and statements of costs. Actions include complaints, summonses, appearances, testimonies, bonds, judgments, pleas, fines, jail terms, marriages, and writs of attachment. Civil and criminal cases include larceny, burglary, recovering money or personal property, trespassing, hunting out of season, and illegal voting. Justice court records have been inventoried through 1940. For information on more recent records, contact the local justice court. 

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building Basement, Court Archives: 

Justice Docket [Bend Precinct], 1917-1919 (1 volume);

Justice Docket Small Claims [Bend District-with index], 1926-1936 (1 volume). 

Justice Docket [Bend Precinct-with index], vol. 1-2, 1921-1922 (2 volumes);

[Justice Docket-Criminal], 1924 (1 volume).

[Miscellaneous Justice Court Docket and Case File Pages-Box 258], ca.1931-ca.1941 (.15 cu.ft.).

​​1871-[ongoing]

Series documents the subdividing and partitioning of land within the county. Records include survey notes, correspondence, photographs, satisfaction of agreements, maps of subdivided and partitioned land, and contracts and permits. Information includes subdivision names; lot, street, and alley dimensions; and township, range, and section numbers of land to be subdivided or partitioned.

The Deschutes Count​y Survey Research Application ​includes subdivision and partition plats. The DevDocs application provides information and images of various "date files" planning documents related to subdivisions and partitions. The Deschutes County Clerk Recording System Web Query​ includes access to subdivision and partition plat information and images.

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Plat Cabinets:

[Major Partition Plats-in cabinet 3], 1977-1989 (ca.215 plats);

[Minor Partition Plats-in cabinet 3], 1983-1989 (ca.225 plats);

[Partition Plats], 1989-present (1478 plats);

[Subdivision Plats], ca.1903-present (2785 plats).

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Community Development Department Area:

Date Files [Central Property-Based Case Files-includes comprehensive plan text amendments, zone changes, subdivision and partition case files, variances, building permits, and related records], 2012-2013 (46 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

Comprehensive Plan Records [includes subdivision ordinance amendments and transportation plan ordinance-Accession no. 2006.0126], 1987-1998 (1 cu.ft.);

Deschutes River Wood City Plats, vol. 6, 1962-1966 (1 volume);

Index to City Plats [Subdivision], vol. 1, 1910-1972 (1 volume);

Index to Plat [Subdivision-cabinets], vol. 2, 1903-1999 (1 volume);

Ordinances [Miscellaneous-includes zoning and subdivision information], 1985-2005 (6 cu.ft.);

Tract Index City Lots [Subdivision], vol. 1-3, 1903-1958 (3 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, File Room 130:

Date Files [Central Property-Based Case Files-includes comprehensive plan text amendments, zone changes, subdivision and partition case files, variances, building permits, and related records], 2013-present (15 cu.ft.);

Subdivision/Partition Ordinance of 1979, 1979 (.05 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office Library Area:

Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan [includes zoning and subdivision and partition ordinance information], 2004 (1 binder);

Ordinances [Planning Related-includes comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision and partition information], 1981-present (26 binders).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Assessor's Office Cartography Area:

Deschutes County Assessor [Subdivision Plat Reproductions-Bend Abstract Co.], 1908-1950 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Office Room 124:

CS # [County Surveys-includes regular filed surveys, surveys within subdivisions, subdivisions, and partitions-arranged numerically by county survey number], no. 1-18639, 1902-present (19 feet of aperture cards).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Vault Room 125:

Book of Ordinances [includes zoning and subdivision-with index], 1960-1966 (1 volume);

[Miscellaneous Rolled and Flat Maps and Plans-includes roads, highways, cities, vicinities, subdivisions, schools, courthouse, buildings, fairgrounds, railroads, districts, gravel pits, topographical maps, etc.], ca.1916-present (ca.1500 maps and drawings);

[Subdivision Plans-Road Engineering Plans Within Subdivisions], ca.1974-present (ca.600 drawings).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Surveyor's Office Room 126:

Plats [Subdivision-includes Surveys Within Subdivision], ca.1904-present (ca.7500 plats);

[Regular Surveys-includes partition plats], 1902-present (ca.11000 plats).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Front Vault Room 114:

Orders Resolutions Ordinances [includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and land division ordinances], ca.1975-present (2.50 cu.ft.);

Subdivisions [Small Scale Subdivision Document Files-includes associated descriptions and documents-alphabetical], ca.1950-present (6 cu.ft.);

Townships [Small Scale Original Filed Surveys-includes copies of partition plats and associated descriptions and documents-by township and range], ca.1950-present (5 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210:

Deschutes County Clerk [Microfilmed Records-includes subdivision and partition plats, deed indexes, and mortgage indexes-35mm microfilm], ca.1871-ca.1983 (55 reels of microfilm).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Room 311:

City of Bend Maps [includes streets, subdivisions, irrigated lands, zoning, historical district, etc.], 1904-present (ca.50 maps);

Land Ownership [Maps-includes homesteads, Hudson Land Company, Metsker, subdivision, and irrigation], ca.1900-1985 (ca.1.50 cu.ft.);

Reproductions of Original Subdivision Plats of Deschutes County [Bend Abstract Co.-Bookshelf 3B-photocopies], 1908-1950 (1 binder).

Records at the Bend Public Library:

Deschutes County Code [includes comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision ordinance codes-Call no. 342.958], vol. I-II, 2000-2002 (2 volumes);

Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan [Deschutes County Ordinance 81.043-Subdivision and Partition], 1981 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes County Website:

Deschutes County Code​ [includes comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision ordinances], 1920-present;

Historical Land Use Regulations [includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and subdivision and partition ordinances], 1971-1990;

Land Use Ordinances ​[includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and subdivision and partition ordinances], 1980-1992;

Subdivision Grantor/Grantee Index, n.d.-1959;

Subdivision Plat Maps​, n.d.-1959.

Series records the ownership of land within the county. Records may include title registers, land indexes, land registration registers, torrens registry of titles, indexes to registered land, certificates of title, town lot indexes, ownership registers, and plat books. Information includes parties involved, land descriptions, dates, number and nature of titles, subdivisions, title holders, terms, discharge dates, and registrar's signatures. The torrens system of land registration was abolished in 1972 by Oregon law. Additional land ownership records may be found in Deeds and Indexes.

[Present Ownership Record], 1915-1936 (1 volume); 

Present Ownership Record, vol. 1, 1917-ca.1936 (1 volume);

Tract Index City Lots [Subdivision], vol. 1-3, 1903-1958 (3 volumes); 

Tract Index Lands [Metes and Bounds], vol. 1-4, 1900-1958 (4 volumes). 

Land Ownership [Maps-includes homesteads, Hudson Land Company, Metsker, subdivision, and irrigation], ca.1900-1985 (1.50 cu.ft.).

​1871-[ongoing]

Series provides a visual representation of the county and of physical structures constructed on county lands. Series includes maps, plans, and drawings that vary in size, scale, and date. Included are maps, plans, and drawings of counties and cities, election precincts, courthouses and other county buildings, cemeteries, rivers, Indian reservations, school districts, construction projects, and soil classifications. General road maps may be found in the series titled Road and Bridge Records. Technical road survey maps may be found in the series titled Road Maps and Survey Notes.

The Deschutes County Property Information application includes GIS map layers showing bus routes and stops, city limits, flood plain, service district, public lands, schools, soils, vegetation, voting precincts, wetlands, and other subjects. The Deschutes County Survey Research Ap​plication​ includes assessor maps and railroad maps.

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

Building Plans Public [includes cities, schools, county courthouse, and other public structures-rolled], ca.1917-present (ca.100 drawings).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office:

[Miscellaneous Maps-includes zoning, districts, comprehensive plan, flood plain, flood insurance, transportation, and topographical], ca.1957-present (ca.350 maps).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office Wall Map Area:

[Miscellaneous Planning Wall Maps-includes comprehensive plan, zoning, transportation, livestock district, school district, wetlands inventory, and related subjects], ca.1979-present (ca.20 maps).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office:

Bend Area Voting Precincts [Wall Map], 2014 (1 map);

Deschutes County School Districts and Voting Precincts [Wall Map], 2005 (1 map);

Redmond Area Voting Precincts [Wall Map], 2014 (1 map);

Senate Districts House Representative Districts and Voting Precincts [Wall Map], 2014 (1 map).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210:

Deschutes County Clerk [Microfilmed Records-includes subdivision and partition plats, deed indexes, and mortgage indexes-35mm microfilm], ca.1871-ca.1983 (55 reels of microfilm);

[Miscellaneous Storage Room Maps-includes election precincts, census, vicinities, urban areas, districts-rolled and folded], ca.1982-present (ca.5 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Assessor's Office:

[Assessor's Maps], ca.1994 (12 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Assessor's Office Cartography Area:

[Current Assessor's Maps], n.d.-present (ca.4 cu.ft.);

Deschutes County Maps [Assessor], ca.1965 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Assessor's Office, Chief Cartographer's Private Office:

[Assessor Maps-with soil classification notations], ca.1975-ca.1985 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Assessor's Office Counter Area:

[Assessor's Maps], n.d.-present (20 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Tax Office Work Room 235:

[Assessor Maps], 1979-1980 (.50 inch of microfiche).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Vault Room 125:

Kingfile 1 [Engineering Plans-includes road, water, sewer, and site plans], ca.1986-present (ca.500 maps and drawings);

[Miscellaneous Rolled and Flat Maps and Plans-includes roads, highways, cities, vicinities, subdivisions, schools, courthouse, buildings, fairgrounds, railroads, districts, gravel pits, topographical maps, etc.], ca.1916-present (ca.1500 maps and drawings);

Tax Maps [Assessor], n.d. (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Surveyor's Office Room 126:

Flood Insurance Rate Map [Federal Emergency Management Agency], 1988-1998 (.20 cu.ft.);

Township File Old [Maps], ca.1903 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Library Room 104:

1944 Metsker Map [Atlas of Deschutes County-photocopy], 1944 (1 binder).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Room 311:

Architectural Plans [includes Reid School, hotels, old Bend Post Office, Brooks Scanlon Lumber Co. Mill, Central Oregon Community College, etc.], ca.1910-2000 (40 drawings);

Camp Abbot [Maps], 1942-1945 (25 maps);

City of Bend Maps [includes streets, subdivisions, irrigated lands, zoning, historical district, etc.], 1904-present (ca.50 maps);

City of Redmond Maps [includes streets, fire insurance, truck route, and pedestrian], 1909-present (ca.100 maps);

County Maps [includes zoning, highway, Metsker, fire district], 1917-2002 (ca.25 maps);

Land Ownership [Maps-includes homesteads, Hudson Land Company, Metsker, subdivision, and irrigation], ca.1900-1985 (ca.1.50 cu.ft.);

Sanborn Maps-Bend [copies], 1913-1928 (ca.90 maps);

Large Rolled Maps [includes historical sites, cities, railroad, timber land, zoning, forest, road, school district], 1912-1991 (ca.40 maps);

Miscellaneous City Maps [Miscellaneous-includes Terrebonne, Tumalo, La Pine, Sisters, Sunriver, Black Butte Ranch, etc.], 1904-1980 (ca.25 maps);

Misc. Maps [Miscellaneous-includes drainage basin, topographical, cemetery, etc.], 1904-1998 (ca.50 maps);

Shevlin Hixon/Brooks Scanlon [Logging Company Camp Maps], ca.1917-ca.1952 (ca.50 maps);

Small Rolled Maps [Strip Maps-includes railroads], 1918-1940 (8 maps);

U.S. Forest Service Maps [United States-Deschutes County area], 1957-1976 (10 maps);

USGS Quad Maps [United States Geological Survey Quadrangle Maps-Deschutes County area], 1923-1968 (ca.100 maps);

Water Resources [Maps], ca.1910-ca.1965 (ca.65 maps).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Vault Room 314:

Microfiche Pine Echoes Sanborn Maps [Box 190], 1919-1968 (1 inch of microfiche);

Vault File 2 Maps [Miscellaneous Vicinity and Water Supply Maps-in map cabinet drawer], ca.1910-ca.1917 (14 maps).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Vault Room 317:

Deschutes Co. Papers [Tax Lot Maps-Assessor-bookshelf 88], n.d. (3 volumes).

​Records at the Bend Public Library:

Metsker's Atlas of Deschutes County Oregon [Call no. 912.795], 1972 (1 volume);

Oregon Topographic Maps [United States Geological Survey-includes primarily Deschutes County-in map cabinet drawer], 1954-1997 (ca.100 maps);

Soil Resource Inventory Deschutes National Forest [Atlas of Maps-Call no. 631.4 Larsen], 1976 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes County Website:

Deschutes County Online Maps [includes historic landmarks mapping and photographs], n.d.-present;

Deschutes County Tax Maps, n.d.-present;

Livestock District Maps, 1998-2001;

Statistics and Maps, 2014;

Urban Area Maps, 2011-2012.

Records at a Related Website:

Tax Assessment GIS Maps​ [select county], n.d.-present.

Series documents the recording of marriages by the county and includes applications, marriage certificates and licenses, and indexes to marriage records. Information includes the names and residences of bride and groom; justice of the peace, minister, or name of individual officiating; fees charged; date filed; volume and page numbers where recorded; certificate number; date and place of marriage; and signatures of witnesses and county officials. Beginning in 1906 marriages have been officially registered with the state of Oregon. Currently these records are filed with the State Registrar,Vital Statistics Section​ of the Health Division. Marriage records have been inventoried through 1960. 

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives: 

Expired & Deficient Marriage Licenses, 1944-present (.75 cu.ft.);

Index to Marriages Direct and Indirect, vol. 1, 1916-1975 (1 volume);

Marriage Applications, Licenses and Certificates [trifolded-alphabetical], 1937-2001 (37 cu.ft.); 

Marriage Record, vol. 1-9, 1916-1962 (9 volumes). 

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210:

Marriage Records [Certificates and Licenses], vol. 1-9, 1916-1962 (5 reels of microfilm). 

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Library Room 104: 

Deschutes Co. Mar. [County Marriage Abstract Cards], 1916-ca.1922 (.25 cu.ft.);

Oregon Deschutes County Marriages [Abstracts to vol. 1 to 3-Deschutes Historical Society], 1916-1925 (1 volume). 

Records at the Bend Public Library: 

Oregon Deschutes County Marriages [Abstracts to vol. 1 to 3-Deschutes Historical Society-Call no. 929.3795], 1916-1925 (1 volume).

Series documents the registration of individuals in compliance with the requirements of relevant Oregon boards of examiners to practice a medical profession in the state. Professions registered include physicians, surgeons, osteopaths, naturopaths, dentists, nurses, druggists, chiropractors, chiropodists, optometrists, and veterinarians. Records include registers, certificates, and licenses. Information includes name of registrant; name of school; graduation date; names of members of the examining board; licensing and recording dates; and licensing or registration numbers.

Optometry Record [with index], vol. 1, 1917-1971 (1 volume);

Physicians and Surgeons Record [with index], vol. 1, 1917-1972 (1 volume); 

Record Chiropractics [with index], vol. 1, 1922-1974 (1 volume);

Record of Dental Certificates [with index], vol. 1, 1917-1962 (1 volume);

Record of Registered Nurses [with index], vol. 1, 1924-1973 (1 volume).

Series lists those eligible for military service and records the discharge dates of those who served in the military. Series includes eligibility, enlistment, discharge registers, or muster rolls, and may include alphabetical indexes. Information includes name of individual serving or eligible for service; enlistment and discharge dates and codes; residences at birth and enlistment; occupations and ages at time of enlistment; branches of service; precinct numbers; service records including commendations; physical condition, education and types of jobs performed while in service; and rank at discharge. Access to military discharge records may be restricted for 75 years by 2009 Oregon Legislative Assembly SB 618. 

See the clerk's Miscellaneous Record (Clerk and Recorder Miscellaneous Recordings) for military discharge records before 1945. Since 1983 military discharges have been recorded in the clerk's Official Records (Clerk and Recorder Official Filings). References to soldiers' relief were included in the Commissioners Journal (County Commissioners Administrative Journals) beginning in 1916. 

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

Honorable Discharge Record [Index to vol. 1 to 14-also includes discharge certificates from 1968 to 1969], vol. 15, 1945-1984 (1 volume); 

U.S. Discharge Record [title varies], vol. 1-14, 1945-1968 (14 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210: 

Record of Discharges, vol. 15-16, 1969-1982 (2 reels of microfilm). 

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Auditorium Stage Room 302: 

Civil Defense [Oregon Civil Reserves Records-includes aircraft observers, first aid, medical, police, block wardens, instructors, regions, motor corps, salvage, and other subjects-Accession no. 1997.006], ca.1942-ca.1945 (1 cu.ft.).

Series documents actions filed with the county related to mineral interest claims. Types of actions include mineral rights and royalty assignments, mineral interest claims, lease releases, interest stipulations, corrections, bills of sale and conveyance assignments, and location notices. Information includes names of involved parties; action types and dates; and volume and page numbers. The series may also include copies of claim location notices giving descriptions and details of individual claims. 

Beginning in 1983 mining claims were recorded in the clerk's Official Records (Clerk and Recorder Official Filings). The Deschutes County Property Information application includes a GIS map layer related to surface mining impact areas. The Deschutes County Clerk Recording System Web Query​ includes mining claim information and images.

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives: 

G.L.O. Plats [General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management-includes mineral surveys], ca.1867-1986 (1 volume). 

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Public Research Area: 

Record of Mines [with index], vol. 1-2, 1919-1978 (2 volumes); vol. 1-3, 1919-1982 (1 reel of microfilm). 

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Storage Room 210: 

Record of Mines, vol. 1-3, 1919-1982 (1 reel of microfilm). 

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Surveyor's Office Room 124: 

GLO [General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management Plats and Notes-includes mineral surveys], 1869-1986 (2 inches of aperture cards). 

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Surveyor's Office Room 126: 

GLO Plats By Township & Range [General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management Plats and Notes-includes mineral surveys], 1869-1986 (1 volume). 

Records at a Related Website: 

Online Land Records [includes federal land survey records related to Oregon such as survey plats and field notes, mineral surveys, and historical indices], ca.1850-present (Bureau of Land Management).

Series documents the written interest in land providing security for the performance of a duty or payment of a debt. Records include mortgages; trustee's deeds of reconveyance; indexes, both by mortgagor and mortgagee name; and satisfactions. Information includes mortgagor and mortgagee names, property descriptions, mortgage terms, witness names, certifications, recording and satisfaction dates, volume and page numbers where recorded, and recorder's signature. Series also includes executor/executrix information when mortgages were transferred through wills and mortgages of land to individuals under the provisions of the Donation Land Act of 1850. 

Since 1983 mortgages have been recorded in the clerk's Official Records (Clerk and Recorder Official Filings). 

Amortization Record [Federal Farm Loan Amortization Mortgage], vol. 1-2, 1917-1940 (2 volumes);

Index to Mortgages Direct, vol. 2-10, 1928-1984 (9 volumes);

Index to Mortgages Indirect, vol. 2-10, 1928-1984 (9 volumes);

Mortgage Record, vol. 1-166, 1880-1969 (166 volumes); 

Mortgages Direct [Index], 1880-1928 (1 volume); 

Mortgages Indirect [Index], 1880-1928 (1 volume). 

Deschutes County Clerk [Mortgage Indexes-Direct and Indirect], ca.1880-ca.1984 (30 reels of microfilm); 

Mortgage Records, vol. 1-339, 1880-1982 (168 reels of microfilm). 

Deschutes County Clerk [Microfilmed Records-includes subdivision and partition plats, deed indexes, and mortgage indexes-35mm microfilm], ca.1871-ca.1983 (55 reels of microfilm); 

Mortgage Index [Direct and Indirect], 1880-1984 (30 reels of microfilm); 

Mortgage Records, vol. 1-339, 1880-1982 (168 reels of microfilm).

Series documents the granting of United States citizenship to petitioners. Records include applications, witness affidavits, court findings granting or denying citizenship, certificates, and indexes. Declarations of intention may also be included. Information includes name, age, and residence of applicant; applicant's dependents; date of filing of declarations of intention and petitions; and volume and page numbers where papers are recorded. 

Records at the Oregon State Archives: 

Certificate of Naturalization [Stubs], no. 829951-830000, 1917-1921 (1 volume); no. 1571451-1571500, 1921-1925 (1 volume); 

Naturalization Index, 1917-1969 (.25 cu.ft.); 

Search for 1917-1969 Deschutes County Naturalizations in Oregon Historical Records Index.

Series documents the process taken by applicants for United States citizenship in declaring their intention to become United States citizens. Information may include applicant's name, age, physical description, place and date of birth, method of immigration, date and port of entry, names and ages of wife and children, and renunciation of allegiance to foreign governments. Declarations of intention may also be attached to naturalization petitions or naturalization certificates. 

Records at the Oregon State Archives: 

Declarations of Intentions [title varies-with index], no. 1-514, 1917-1967 (6 volumes); 

Naturalization Index [Card], 1917-1969 (.25 cu.ft.); 

Search for 1917-1969 Deschutes County Naturalizations in Oregon Historical Records Index​.

Series documents the application for United States citizenship by aliens. Information includes name, residence, and occupation of applicants; place and date of birth; emigration place, date, and vessel; declaration of intention dates; name, birthplace, and birth date of dependents; and renunciation of allegiance to foreign governments. Accompanying the petitions are witness and petitioner affidavits, oaths of allegiance, court orders admitting or denying citizenship, declarations of intention, depositions, and certificates of arrival.

Records at the Oregon State Archives: 

Court Orders Naturalization, 1930-1970 (1 volume); 

Naturalization Index, 1917-1969 (.25 cu.ft.); 

Petition and Record [Naturalization-with index], 1917-1929 (2 volumes);

Petitions [Naturalization], no. 179-811, 1929-1969 (8 volumes);

Repatriation and Military Naturalizations, 1938-1955 (1 volume);

TR Petitions [Transfers-Naturalization], 1966-1967 (1 volume); 

Search for 1917-1969 Deschutes County Naturalizations in Oregon Historical Records Index.

Series documents financial assistance approved by the county court for widows, mothers, dependent children, orphans, the elderly, and indigents. Information includes applicant name and address, children's names and birth dates, amount of pension or monthly support payment, and county court order. Because the provision of relief became primarily a state and federal function in the 1930s, records are inventoried through 1939. 

References to indigent relief, soldiers' relief, and widows' pensions were included in the Commissioners Journal (County Commissioners Administrative Journals) beginning in 1916.

County Court Journal [includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other cases-with index], vol. 1-7, 1916-1969 (7 volumes); 

County Court Register [includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other cases-no. 1 to 590-water damaged-with index], vol. 1, 1916-1931 (1 volume); 

County Court Register [includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other cases-no. 591 to 1380-with index], vol. 1, 1931-1951 (1 volume). 

Juvenile [County Court Case Files-includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, juvenile, and other cases], no. 1-2237, 1916-1965 (17 cu.ft.).

Series documents the discussions and activities of the county planning commission as recorded in the minutes and agendas. Topics discussed include the creation, amendment, and appeal of zoning ordinances and county land use laws; county comprehensive plans; and election or appointment of planning commission members. 

Planning Commission Meeting Minutes, 1983-2008 (52 binders);

Planning Commission Mtgs. [Meeting Minutes], 2008-2013 (20 binders);

Plg Mtg. Mins. [Planning Commission Meeting Minutes], 1983-1988 (1 binder).

Planning Commission Mtgs. [Meeting Minutes], 2014-present (1 binder). 

Planning Commission Meeting Minutes​, 2010-present.

Series documents actions taken on probate cases brought before the county, district, or circuit court for settlement. Records include wills, receipts, claims, vouchers, petitions to sell, notices of annual accounting, final estate accounting reports, appraiser's affidavits, bills of sale, inventories, fee bills, appraisals, administrator and appointment certificates, and appraiser oaths. Over the years probate jurisdiction has been transferred from the county court to the circuit court in most counties. However, the county courts in Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Malheur, Sherman, and Wheeler Counties continue to hear probate cases. Portions of these records may be restricted. 

Deschutes County joined the Oregon Judicial Information Network (OJIN) in 1986.

[Probate Case Files-Conservatorships and Guardianships], no. 85PC0025-12PC0063, 1985-2012 (108 cu.ft.);

[Probate Case Files-Conservatorships, Guardianships, and Small Estates], no. 1-5334, 1916-1985 (104 cu.ft.);

[Probate Case Files-Estates], no. 85PB0042-12PB0127, 1985-2012 (130 cu.ft.); 

[Probate Case Files-Name Changes], no. 84NC0486-13NC0147, 1984-2006 (21 cu.ft.); 

[Probate Case Files-Small Estates], no. 85PS0027-13PS0161, 1985-2013 (35 cu.ft.). 

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building Basement, Court Archives Room 19: 

Mental Health [Mental Commitment Case Files-includes some name changes], no. 64.1-84.485, 1964-1984 (5 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Courthouse, Second Floor State Court Record Department Office: 

NC [Probate Name Change Case Files], 12NC0018-14NC0090, 2012-present (1 cu.ft.);

PB [Probate Estate Case Files], 13PB0001-14PB0076, 2013-present (5 cu.ft.);

PC [Probate Conservatorship and Guardianship Case Files], 13PC0002-14PC0059, 2013-present (4 cu.ft.);  

PS [Probate Small Estate Case Files], 13PS0162-14PS0082, 2013-present (1.50 cu.ft.).

Probate Records [Index-typescript], vol. 1-2, 1917-1962 (1 binder). 

Index to Probate Records [Abstracts to vol. I and II-Call no. 929.3795], 1917-1962 (1 volume).

Series documents information recorded about estates probated in the county or circuit courts. Information includes deceased party's name; recording and death dates; residence; name and address of executors, administrators, or trustees; estimated values of real and personal property; inventory and appraisal dates; the estate's value according to the appraisals and to the county court; and the names and relationship of heirs. Over the years probate jurisdiction has been transferred from the county court to the circuit court in most counties. However, the county courts in Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Malheur, Sherman, and Wheeler Counties continue to hear probate cases. 

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building Basement, Court Archives: 

Probate Account Record [title varies-with index], vol. 1-5, 1917-1949 (5 volumes);

Record of Estates, 1917-1970 (1 volume).

Series records the actions taken by the county's probate court. Information includes case numbers, estate or deceased's name, administrator's or executor's name, dates and types of papers filed, and memoranda and court orders listed by dates of appointment of administrator or executor. Series may also be referred to as probate journals, dockets, or records of actions. Over the years probate jurisdiction has been transferred from the county court to the circuit court in most counties. However, the county courts in Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Malheur, Sherman, and Wheeler Counties continue to hear probate cases. In 1986 circuit courts with probate jurisdiction began recording basic case information on the Oregon Judicial Information Network (OJIN). This network functionally replaced probate dockets and journals previously maintained by the courts. The transition to full use of OJIN by all circuit courts in Oregon took approximately two years. Contact the trial court administrator for access to OJIN. Portions of these records may be restricted.

Deschutes County joined the Oregon Judicial Information Network (OJIN) in 1986. 

Probate Journal [title varies-with index], vol. 1-22, 1917-1969 (22 volumes).

[Probate Register-also serves as case file index-with index], vol. 1-6, 1917-1986 (.50 inch of microfiche); 

Probate Registers, vol. 1-8, 1917-ca.1986 (2 reels of microfilm).

Circuit Court [Probate Journal], vol. 30-32, ca.1980-ca.1983 (26 reels of microfilm);

Commissioners Journals [Probate Journal-filmed on same reels], vol. 23-29, ca.1969-ca.1980 (54 reels of microfilm).

1877-[ongoing]

Series documents the development, construction, maintenance, and improvement of county roads and bridges. Records include bonds, general road and highway maps, petitions to have roads constructed or altered, notices, complaints, vacation records, and correspondence. Information includes road numbers and names and descriptions of the activity occurring on the road. Information concerning county roads may be available on the Integrated Road Information System (IRIS) at the county road office. Technical road survey maps may be found in the series titled Road Maps and Survey Notes.

The Deschutes County Property Information application includes GIS map layers documenting road ownership, road tax district, and other road information. The Legacy Roads application​ includes historical names, right-of-way widths, establishment dates, visual representations, and records about Deschutes County roads. County commissioners journal information related to road establishments from circa 1879 to the present is included on a database available in the Deschutes County Road Department, Engineering Office. Road jacket (case file) and road vacation information are indexed on a database in the engineering office.

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Front Vault Room 114:

County Road Files [includes petitions, orders, resolutions, viewer's reports, dedications, maps, rights-of-way, correspondence, and related records], ca.1900-present (30 cu.ft.);

Road Vacations [Alphabetical List], 1999 (1 binder);

Road Vacations [Case Files], ca.1951-present (14 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Office Room 124:

Deeds & Easement Public & Private [Road-includes related correspondence], ca.1963-present (7 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Vault Room 125:

Bridges [Plans and Maps], ca.1970-ca.1994 (ca.250 maps and drawings);

Burned Records of Road Department [includes petitions, orders, notices, and reports-with index], ca.1920-1941 (1.50 cu.ft.);

[Crook County Road Jackets-Case Files-includes road surveys, petitions, reports, notices, orders, and related records], 1892-1916 (2 cu.ft.);

Deschutes County Roads Formerly Crook County Roads [consists of photocopies of road jackets-includes petitions, reports, notices, orders, and related records], vol. 1-4, 1892-1916 (4 binders);

Linen Tracings [includes road survey maps, field notes, orders, and related records-photocopies], 1917-ca.2000 (6 binders);

[Map of City of Bend-Street Atlas-with notations], 1928 (1 volume);

[Miscellaneous Road Survey Field Books-includes some bridge information], ca.1950-ca.1977 (22 volumes);

[Miscellaneous Rolled and Flat Maps and Plans-includes roads, highways, cities, vicinities, subdivisions, schools, courthouse, buildings, fairgrounds, railroads, districts, gravel pits, topographical maps, etc.], ca.1916-present (ca.1500 maps and drawings);

Old Road Numbers These Correspond to Gould's Road Index #s [Road Number List-includes other road related information], ca.1878-1951 (1 binder);

[Road Card Index-indexes road field books, road record, and road maps], ca.1877-ca.1995 (.30 cu.ft.);

ROR [Record of Roads-includes petitions, orders, and resolutions-photocopies-with index], vol. 1, 1919-1922 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

Comprehensive Plan Records [includes subdivision ordinance amendments and transportation plan ordinance-Accession no. 2006.0126], 1987-1998 (1 cu.ft.);

Ordinances [Miscellaneous-includes zoning and subdivision information], 1985-2005 (6 cu.ft.);

Record of Roads [includes road establishment orders and resolutions-road no. 1 to 40-with index], vol. 1, 1920-1922 (1 volume).

Book of Roads [Record-includes road establishment orders and resolutions-road no. 1 to 40-with index], vol. 1, 1920-1922 (1 reel of microfilm).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office:

[Miscellaneous Maps-includes zoning, districts, comprehensive plan, flood plain, flood insurance, transportation, and topographical], ca.1957-present (ca.350 maps).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office, Wall Map Area:

[Miscellaneous Planning Wall Maps-includes comprehensive plan, zoning, transportation, livestock district, school district, wetlands inventory, and related subjects], ca.1979-present (ca.20 maps).

City of Bend Maps [includes streets, subdivisions, irrigated lands, zoning, historical district, etc.], 1904-present (ca.50 maps);

City of Redmond Maps [includes streets, fire insurance, truck route, and pedestrian], 1909-present (ca.100 maps);

County Maps [Deschutes County Official Road Maps], 1999 (1 volume);

County Maps [includes zoning, highway, Metsker, fire district], 1917-2002 (ca.25 maps);

Large Rolled Maps [includes historical sites, cities, railroad, timber land, zoning, forest, road, school district], 1912-1991 (25 maps).

County Roads Map, 2010;

Deschutes County Bridge Maps, 2010;

Deschutes County Online Maps [includes bikeway maps], n.d.-present;

Deschutes County Road Atlas​, 2010;

Road Reports [includes segments, mileposts, average daily traffic counts, and other reports], n.d.-present;

Special Road Districts, 2003-2006;

Transportation System Plan Update 2010-2030​ [includes maps], 2012.

1877-[ongoing]

Series documents the surveying and mapping of county roads. Records include road surveyor notes, alignment, profile, and other survey maps, and road registers. Information includes legal descriptions of the roads; road names and numbers; plans and profiles; township, range, and section numbers; dates of activity; and scales. General road maps may be found in the series titled Road and Bridge Records.

The Legacy Roads application​ includes historical names, right-of-way widths, establishment dates, visual representations, and related records about Deschutes County roads. Road survey field book and road survey map information are indexed on a database in the Deschutes County Road Department, Engineering Office.

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Vault Room 125:

City of Bend [Survey and Engineering Field Books-includes roads, sewers, and other improvements], ca.1910-ca.1973 (5 cu.ft.);

County Market Roads [Maps], ca.1919-ca.1979 (ca.400 maps);

[Crook County Road Jackets-Case Files-includes road surveys, petitions, reports, notices, orders, and related records], 1892-1916 (2 cu.ft.);

Dalles California Highway Deschutes County Survey Notes, 1919 (1 volume);

Field Book Index By Alphabetical [Road Survey], n.d. (1 binder);

Index of Field Books [Road Survey], ca.1977-2003 (1 binder);

Index R.B. Gould [Land and Road Survey Field Books and Surveyor's Road Record Index], 1910-1939 (1 binder);

Index to Field Books [Road Survey], ca.1878-ca.1941 (1 binder);

Index to Old Field Books [Road Surveys], 1900-1976 (1 volume);

Kingfile 1 [Contract Design Engineering Plans-includes road, water, sewer, and site plans], ca.1986-present (ca.500 maps and drawings);

Kingfile 2 [County Design Road Survey Maps-includes related records], ca.1920-present (ca.500 maps and drawings);

[Miscellaneous Road Survey Field Books-includes some bridge information], ca.1950-ca.1977 (22 volumes);

[Road Card Index-indexes road field books, road record, and road maps], ca.1877-ca.1995 (.30 cu.ft.);

[Road Survey Field Books], 1917-present (ca.200 volumes);

[Road Survey Overlay Mylars-on U.S. Geological Survey quadrangle map base-large white pressboard cover], ca.1962-n.d. (1 volume);

[Subdivision Plans-Road Engineering Plans Within Subdivisions], ca.1974-present (ca.600 drawings);

[Survey Calculation Books-to road and land surveys], ca.1910-ca.1939 (11 volumes);

Surveyor's Road Record [Maps and Notes-Crook County Transcript-with index], vol. 1, 1877-1916 (1 volume).

​1895-[ongoing]

Series reports the general and financial statistics of each school district located in the county. Information includes school district number and clerk's name; number of individuals within the district between ages 4 and 20; number of teachers employed; number of school houses (owned by the district); number of legal voters; number of libraries and books within each; number of private schools; cash on hand at last report; district tax received from county; state schools funds received; general value of school grounds and furnishings; property values; enrollment; number of students enrolled from outlying districts; school census; and board minutes. Series may also contain school attendance and grade reports and data on students and parents. Records may be titled School District Clerk Annual Report, District Clerk's Book of Records, District Clerk Record Book, or Oregon School Register and Record Book, which is the most comprehensive record of school district activities. School district records have been inventoried through 1965. Access to student records may be restricted by state or federal law.

Records at the Redmond School District Administration Building, District Archives:

Clerk Record Books [District Clerk's Record Book-District No. 2-Redmond], 1941-1942 (1 volume);

Clerk Record Books [District Clerk's Record Book-District No. 5-Terrebonne], 1941-1942 (1 volume); 1942-1943 (1 volume); 1943-1944 (1 volume); 1944-1945 (1 volume); 1945-1946 (1 volume); 1946-1947 (2 volumes); 1947 (1 volume); 1948-1949 (1 volume);

Clerk Record Books [District Clerk's Record Book-District No. 18-Cloverdale], 1942-1946 (.10 cu.ft.);

Clerk Record Books [District Clerk's Record Book-District No. 24-Alfalfa], 1923-1926 (1 volume); 1926-1929 (1 volume); 1938-1940 (1 volume); 1941-1947 (.20 cu.ft.); 1948-1949 (1 volume);

Clerk Record Books [District Clerk's Record Book-District No. 71-Crook County], 1908-1913 (1 volume);

Clerk Record Books [Old Minutes & Annual Reports-Redmond High School District No.U-1 J-includes annual report of a standard high school, district clerk's record book, and school board minutes], 1935-1946 (1 volume);

Redmond School District Board Meeting Minutes [includes mostly Redmond Union High School District No. U-1 J-also includes some School District 2 minutes], 1960-1966 (1 binder);

Redmond School District Board Meeting Minutes [Redmond Union High School District No. U-1 J], 1944-1955 (1 binder); 1955-1960 (1 binder);

Redmond School District Board Meeting Minutes [Tumalo School District No. 3], 1955-1966 (1 binder).

Records at the Manzanita Building, High Desert Education Service District Second Floor Archives (Census Records):

Alfalfa Census [District No. 24], 1913-1921, 1924, 1929-1935 (.05 cu.ft.);

Census [Clerk's Annual Census Report-various districts], 1936-1945 (1 volume); 1946-1953 (1 volume); 1954-1964 (1 volume);

Census [District No. 7-Tetherow Butte], 1922-1943 (.10 cu.ft.);

Census [District No. 15-Brothers-with gaps], 1911-1938 (.05 cu.ft.);

Census [District No. 29-Rolyat-formerly Crook County District No. 77-stored with Brothers], 1910-1919 (.05 cu.ft.);

Census Reports [Clerk's Annual Census Reports-various school districts], 1931-1951 (.10 cu.ft.);

School District #1 Misc. Census, 1932, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970 (1 volume).

Records at the Manzanita Building, High Desert Education Service District Second Floor Archives (District Clerk's Records):

District Clerk's Annual Report [District No. 2], 1939 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Annual Report [District No. 24-Alfalfa], 1933-1935 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Record Book [District No. 3-Tumalo], 1939-1940 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Record Book [District No. 7-Tetherow Butte], 1929-1935 (1 volume); 1935-1942 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Record Book [District No. 12-Lower Bridge], 1929-1933 (1 volume); 1952-1958 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Record Book [District No. 15-Brothers], 1926-1929 (1 volume); 1929-1933 (1 volume); 1934-1936, 1940, 1944-1945 (.10 cu.ft.); 1937-1939 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Record Book [District No. 17-Hampton-formerly Crook County District No. 78], 1911-1920 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Record Book [District No. 23-Plainview-formerly Crook County District No. 61], 1910-1913 (1 volume); 1913-1920 (1 volume); 1930-1934 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Record Book [District No. 24-Alfalfa], 1913-1919 (1 volume); 1919-1922 (1 volume); 1922-1929 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Record Book [District No. 29-Rolyat-formerly Crook County District No. 77], 1910-1913 (1 volume); 1911-1912 (1 volume); 1911-1913 (1 volume); 1913-1916 (1 volume); 1916-1921 (1 volume); 1921-1923 (1 volume); 1922-1928 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Record Book [District No. 30], 1929-1933 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Record Book [District No. 34-Millican], 1931-1938 (1 volume);

District Clerk's Record Book [District No. 36], 1935-1939 (1 volume); 1938-1940 (1 volume).

Records at the Manzanita Building, High Desert Education Service District Second Floor Archives (Miscellaneous Records):

Laurel Loan Record of Text Books Issued [Pinehurst School], 1931-1932 (1 volume);

[Miscellaneous School Records-District No. 29-formerly Crook County District No. 77-includes teachers' contracts, budgets, and audits], ca.1913-ca.1930 (.25 cu.ft.).

Records at the Manzanita Building, High Desert Education Service District Second Floor Archives (Registers):

Harper Dist. 25 [Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 25], 1950-1961 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 3-Tumalo-formerly Crook County District No. 53], 1911-1913 (1 volume); 1913-1916 (1 volume); 1914-1918 (1 volume); 1919-1921 (2 volumes); 1923-1927 (1 volume); 1926-1932 (1 volume); 1934-1938 (1 volume); 1934-1939 (1 volume); 1937-1939 (1 volume); 1939-1953 (.50 cu.ft.); 1948-1950 (1 volume); 1953-1955 (1 volume); 1955-1956 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 4-La Pine High School], 1927-1933 (1 volume); 1933-1938 (1 volume); 1934-1939 (1 volume); 1938-1939 (1 volume); 1943-1944 (1 volume); 1944-1945 (1 volume); 1946-1947 (1 volume); 1947-1948 (1 volume); 1949-1951 (2 volumes); 1954-1961 (1 volume); 1956-1961 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 4-La Pine Intermediate], 1928-1932 (1 volume); 1932-1938 (1 volume); 1934-1937 (1 volume); 1938-1939 (1 volume); 1939-1942 (1 volume); 1940-1942 (1 volume); 1943-1944 (1 volume); 1944-1945 (1 volume); 1945-1946 (1 volume); 1946-1947 (1 volume); 1947-1948 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 4-La Pine Primary], 1927-1933 (1 volume); 1928-1931 (1 volume); 1929-1933 (1 volume); 1931-1934 (1 volume); 1935-1939 (1 volume); 1943-1944 (1 volume); 1944-1945 (1 volume); 1945-1946 (1 volume); 1946-1947 (1 volume); 1947-1948 (1 volume); 1948-1949 (2 volumes); 1949-1950 (1 volume); 1949-1951 (1 volume); 1950-1951 (1 volume); 1951-1952 (1 volume); 1953-1961 (1 volume); 1954-1961 (1 volume); 1956-1961 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 5-Terrebonne], 1939-1941 (1 volume); 1940-1941 (3 volumes); 1943-1944 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 7-Tetherow Butte], 1939-1942 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 8-Cline Falls], 1939-1941 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 9-Brooks Scanlon Camp], 1941-1942 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 9-Pinehurst], 1941-1942 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 12-Lower Bridge], 1931-1939 (1 volume); 1939-1943 (1 volume); 1943-1954 (1 volume); 1956-1957 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 15-Brothers], 1922-1930 (1 volume); 1940-1943 (2 volumes);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 17-Hampton-formerly Crook County District No. 78], 1914-1918 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 22-Richardson], 1942-1946 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 23-Plainview], 1939-1941 (2 volumes);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 24-Alfalfa], 1942-1944 (2 volumes);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 28-Hoech], 1936-1941 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 29-Rolyat], 1917-1921 (1 volume); 1922-1929 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 110, Technology Support Office Storage Room:

Annual Reports [Teachers-District No. 1-reel 123], 1924-1925 (1 reel of microfilm);

School Board Minutes [District No. 1], 1917-1968 (3 reels of microfilm);

School Census Reports [reels 122-123], 1914-1970 (2 reels of microfilm);

Student Record Cards Elementary & High School [reels 111-115], 1922-1935 (5 reels of microfilm);

Student Record Cards Elementary Drops & 6th Grade [reels 104-108], 1951-1971 (5 reels of microfilm);

Student Record Cards Jr. & Sr. High [Junior and Senior-reels 85-95], 1947-1975 (11 reels of microfilm);

Student Record Cards [reels 96-103], 1926-1960 (8 reels of microfilm);

Student Record Cards [Reference of Student Record Books-reel 115], 1915-1931 (1 reel of microfilm);

Student Record Cards Sr. High Dead File [reels 108-111], 1930-1949 (4 reels of microfilm);​

Teachers Annual Reports [reel 174], 1927-1930 (1 reel of microfilm).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 214, Vault (District No. 1-No School Noted: Registers A-C):

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Abbie Gray-teacher], 1923-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Ada Hellberg-teacher], 1925-1927 (1 volume); 1930-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Agnes Johnson-teacher], 1931-1934 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Agnes Lane-teacher], 1922-1923 (1 volume); 1924-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Alice Allen-teacher], 1924-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Alice Booth-teacher], 1929-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Alice Haney-teacher], 1930-1932 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Alice Maser-teacher], 1931-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Alma Halvorson-teacher], 1930-1933 (1 volume); 1938-1939 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Almira Quinn-teacher], 1926-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Anderson and Ball-teachers], 1933-1935 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Anderson, Englund, and Peck-teachers], 1924-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Arthur Taylor-teacher], 1922-1923 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Avis Fisher-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume); 1924-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Barney and Schott-teachers], 1929-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Bertha Wilkins-teacher], 1915-1918 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-B. Larson-teacher], 1930-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Brooks Scanlon Camp 1], 1927-1928 (1 volume); 1928-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Brooks Scanlon Camp 1-Glen Turner-teacher], 1923-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Cane and Maclay-teachers], 1917-1918 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Catherine Erickson-teacher], 1924-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-C. Coleman-teacher], 1922-1923 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Clara Schleunes-teacher], 1926-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Clarence Olivier-teacher], 1926-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Clarissa Walton-teacher], 1924-1926 (1 volume); 1925-1926 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 214, Vault (District No. 1-No School Noted: Registers D-G):

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Dessie Baker-teacher], 1929-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Doris Foster-teacher], 1917-1918 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Dorothea Clark-teacher], 1925-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Dorrance and Kellig-teachers], 1926-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Edith Swick-teacher], 1925-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Edith Westley-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume); 1924-1926 (1 volume); 1926-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Effie Williamson-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Eleanor Kellig-teacher], 1928-1931 (1 volume); 1930-1932 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Ellestad and Howe-teacher], 1924-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Elsie Schanche-teacher], 1929-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Emilie Haldeman-teacher], 1925-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Emily Webber-teacher], 1931-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Esther Rebstock-teacher], 1927-1929 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Ethelyn Hathaway-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Eunice Catlow-teacher], 1922-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Evangeline Zulawinski-teacher], 1928-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Faye Crawford-teacher], 1929-1930 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Flora Thorson-teacher], 1922-1923 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Florence Kerr-teacher], 1931-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Florence Ravenscroft-teacher], 1925-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Frances Thompson-teacher], 1925-1926 (1 volume); 1929-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Gertrude Hauks-teacher], 1915-1918 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Goldie Goodrich-teacher], 1924-1925 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Grace Huseth-teacher], 1925-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Grace Schott-teacher], 1935-1937 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Greve and Webster-teachers], 1927-1929 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 214, Vault (District No. 1-No School Noted: Registers H-L):

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Haldeman and Schott-teacher], 1927-1929 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Harold Baird-teacher], 1929-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Harriett Greve-teacher], 1925-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Harvey Thompson-teacher], 1917-1918 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Helen Bartrum-teacher], 1938-1939 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Helen Ellenson-teacher], 1931-1934 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Helen Spees-teacher], 1926-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Henrietta Stermer-teacher], 1924-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Hillson and Scott-teachers], 1930-1932 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Howe and Larson-teachers], 1927-1929 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Ida Chase-teacher], 1927-1931 (1 volume); 1930 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Iva Stalcup-teacher], 1923-1925 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Ivy Davidson-teacher], 1916-1917 (1 volume); 1922-1925 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Jean Webster-teacher], 1929-1931 (1 volume); 1931-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Jenson and Chute-teachers], 1930-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-J.L. Chute-teacher], 1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Josephine Heartt-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Josephine Smith-teacher], 1932-1935 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kallona Hardin-teacher], 1926-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Katherine Boswell-teacher], 1930-1932 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kelly and Jewell-teachers], 1930-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Lillian Newton-teacher], 1915-1918 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-L.J. Cody-teacher], 1922-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Lora Schnore-teacher], 1928-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Lucy Searcy-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume); 1924-1926 (1 volume); 1926-1929 (1 volume); 1930-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Lulu Goplerud-teacher], 1926-1928 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 214, Vault (District No. 1-No School Noted: Registers M-Y):

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Mae Ritchey-teacher], 1915-1916 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Margaret Downs-teacher], 1915-1917 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Margaret McDevitt-teacher], 1930-1932 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Margaret Mortenson-teacher], 1930-1932 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Margaret O'Leary-teacher], 1927-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Margaret Sullivan-teacher], 1925-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Margaret Thomas-teacher], 1925-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Margaurite Hanson-teacher], 1924-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Mary Donegan-teacher], 1923-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Mary Sawyer-teacher], 1924-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Myrtel Pelker-teacher], 1931-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Myrtle Roubenik-teacher], 1929-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Nellie McKay-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Ona Hudson-teacher], 1926-1928 (1 volume); 1929-1931 (2 volumes); 1934-1935 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Ora Tucker-teacher], 1922-1923 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Ray Bremner-teacher], 1926-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Roubenik and Kelly-teachers], 1931-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-R. Templeton-teacher], 1928-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Rubhie Koonst-teacher], 1924-1930 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Scott, Crawford, and Strauss-teachers], 1931-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Seely and Hilson-teachers], 1931-1934 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Shevlin Hixson Camp-Jennie Ranney-teacher], 1925-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Templeton and Boswell-teachers], 1931-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Thelma Ellestad-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Tucker and Dorrance-teachers], 1924-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Vera Wagner-teacher], 1930-1932 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Verna Luther-teacher], 1926-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Violet Bowden-teacher], 1926-1929 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Ward and Barney-teacher], 1926-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Webber and Smith-teachers], 1932-1934 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Workman and Chase-teachers], 1929-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Young and Jobes-teachers], 1930-1932 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 214, Vault (District No. 1-Central School: Registers):

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Central School], 1926-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Central School-Eda Williams-teacher], 1926-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Central School-Frederick Beck-teacher], 1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Central School-Loula Saunders-teacher], 1926 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 214, Vault (District No. 1-Kenwood School: Registers):

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School], 1931-1933 (1 volume); 1939-1940 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Goodrich and McCorkle-teachers], 1923-1925 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Goodrich and Thompson-teachers], 1926-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Hazel Calbreath-teacher], 1925-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Helen Peck-teacher], 1927-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Inez Kelly-teacher], 1927-1929 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Kallona Hudson-teacher], 1928-1930 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Kenneth Wall-teacher], 1923-1924 (1 volume); 1924-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Irene Karr-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Louise Sears-teacher], 1926-1929 (1 volume); 1929-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Marie Brosterhous-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume); 1924-1926 (1 volume); 1926-1929 (1 volume); 1929-1930 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Ruth McCorkle-teacher], 1926-1927 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Thelma Warner-teacher], 1928-1930 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Vera Hughes-teacher], 1924-1925 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Vida Brougher-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume); 1924-1927 (1 volume); 1929-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Kenwood School-Wilkenson and Perryman-teachers], 1927-1929 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 214, Vault (District No. 1-Reid School: Registers):

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School], 1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Baker and Workman-teachers], 1926-1928 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Bertha Huebner-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume); 1924-1925 (1 volume); 1926-1929 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Elizabeth Lynn-teacher], 1928-1930 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Ermel Scott-teacher], 1928-1930 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Evelyn Baker-teacher], 1928-1930 (1 volume); 1931-1934 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Ida Chase-teacher], 1931-1933 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Kelly and Chase-teachers], 1927-1930 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Nellie Tifft-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Olive Young-teacher], 1926-1928 (1 volume); 1929-1930 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Ownbey and Walton-teachers], 1923-1924 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Pearl Hill-teacher], 1922-1924 (1 volume); 1924-1925 (1 volume); 1925-1928 (1 volume); 1928-1931 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Reid School-Sullivan and Hilsen-teachers], 1927-1930 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 214, Vault (District No. 1: Registers-Blue Covers):

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Allen School], 1944-1945 (2 volumes);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Allen School-Alice Schott-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Allen School-Irma Klinghammer-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Allen School-Eda Williams-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Allen School-Emerline Upp-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Allen School-Lois Grant-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Allen School-Luewala Sanders-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Allen School-Ruby McCann-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Evelyn Brookings-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Jean Webster-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School], 1943-1944 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Alice Allen-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Almeda Holst-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Blanche Lay-teacher], 1943-1944 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Corliss Lomax-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Elizabeth Kibby-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Elsie Chute-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Elva Grell-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Emily Andrew-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Emily Spencer-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Enid De Lany-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Faye Crawford-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Grace Preston-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Helen Peak-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Jean Watson-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Judith Rinell-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Kallona Fox-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Lillie Shipler-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Marian Bloomquist-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Myrthenia Martin-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Kenwood School-Stella Loehr-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Reid School], 1941-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Reid School-Elsie Chute-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume);

[Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-Reid School-Genevieve Hillgen-teacher], 1944-1945 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 214, Vault (District No. 2: Registers):

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Bend Union High School-Grade 8], 1939-1940 (4 volumes);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Bend Union High School-Grade 9], 1926 (1 volume); 1927 (1 volume); 1929-1930 (3 volumes); 1930 (1 volume); 1930-1931 (1 volume); 1930-1932 (1 volume); 1931 (1 volume); 1931-1932 (1 volume); 1934-1936 (1 volume); 1934-1938 (1 volume); 1938-1939 (2 volumes);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Bend Union High School-Grade 10], 1926-1927 (1 volume); 1927 (5 volumes); 1928-1929 (1 volume); 1929 (1 volume); 1930 (2 volumes); 1931 (1 volume); 1934-1935 (1 volume); 1939-1940 (5 volumes);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Bend Union High School-Grade 11], 1926 (1 volume); 1927 (4 volumes); 1931 (1 volume); 1939-1940 (3 volumes);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Bend Union High School-Grade 12], 1925-1926 (1 volume); 1926 (1 volume); 1927-1928 (1 volume); 1929-1930 (2 volumes); 1931-1932 (1 volume); 1939-1940 (3 volumes);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Bend Union High School-Grades 9 and 11], 1932-1935 (2 volumes); 1933-1935 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Bend Union High School-Grades 9 and 12], 1927 (1 volume); 1937-1939 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Bend Union High School-Grades 9 to 10], 1933-1935 (1 volume); 1933-1936 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Bend Union High School-Grades 10 to 11], 1932-1934 (1 volume); 1932-1935 (3 volumes); 1935-1938 (2 volumes); 1935-1939 (1 volume); 1937-1939 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Bend Union High School-Grades 10 to 12], 1932-1935 (3 volumes);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Bend Union High School-Grades 11 to 12], 1932-1934 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-High School Boys-D.A. Emerson-teacher], 1924-1925 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-High School D.A. Emerson-teacher], 1925-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-High School Girls-Arthur Taylor-teacher], 1923-1925 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-High School Grade 9-D.A. Emerson-teacher], 1925-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-High School Grade 10-D.A. Emerson-teacher], 1925-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-High School Grade 11-D.A. Emerson-teacher], 1925-1926 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 2-Senior High School], 1923-1924 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 214, Vault (Miscellaneous Records):

Budget [School District No. 1 and Union High School District 2], 1934-1947 (1 volume);

Canned Light Tuna [Annual Report of City School Superintendent-School District No. 2-Bend], 1922-1924 (.05 cu.ft.); 1930-1931 (.05 cu.ft.); 1933-1935 (.05 cu.ft.);

Canned Light Tuna [Annual Report-School District No. 1], 1947-1949 (.15 cu.ft.);

Canned Light Tuna [District Clerk's Record Book-District No. 28], 1932-1937 (.05 cu.ft.);

Canned Light Tuna [Supt. Report to Board & Board Minutes-District No. 1 Superintendent and School Board], 1951-1960 (.50 cu.ft.);

Census [School District No. 1], 1955-1964 (.30 cu.ft.);

Elementary School Registers [Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-various schools], 1964-1965 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [Bend UH 24 and 1-Dorothy Byrd-teacher], 1942-1943 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [Crook County District No. 12-Nellie Pattison-teacher], 1915-1916 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 1-Bend Junior High School], 1955-1956 (1 volume);

Registers School [Oregon School Register and Record Book-District No. 1-various schools], 1965-1966 (1 volume);

The Bend Public School Complete School Records First Semester, 1918-1919 (1 volume); 1920-1921 (1 volume); 1921-1922 (1 volume);

The Bend Public School Complete School Records Second Semester, 1918-1919 (1 volume); 1919-1920 (1 volume); 1920-1921 (1 volume); 1921-1922 (1 volume).

Records at the Bend-La Pine School District Administration Building, Room 326, Safe:

Deeds [Bend-La Pine School District Property and Building Records-includes boundary and consolidation information], ca.1924-present (6 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Auditorium Stage Room 302:

Oregon School Register and Record Book [District No. 25-Shevlin Hixon Camp-Box 279], 1926-1934 (1 volume); 1927-1928 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Room 311:

Journal School District No. 1 [Bookshelf 1E], 1920-1947 (1 volume);

Ledger School District No. 1 [Bookshelf 1E], 1920-1925 (1 volume);

Oregon School Register and Record Book [School District No. 10-Bookshelf 1E], 1919-1922 (1 volume);

School Census Records [includes various school districts and related records-Box 213], ca.1903-ca.1937 (.35 cu.ft.);

School Register and Grade Book [District No. 7-includes cooking recipes pasted over many pages-Bookshelf 3C], 1895-1896 (1 volume).

Series documents the official and financial affairs of the superintendent of schools concerning teachers, students, and schools located in the county. Records include annual statements on the condition of common (public) schools in the county, school district boundary records, school district accounts, and book purchases. Information includes financial information, school curricula, boundary descriptions, and enrollment and attendance data. Superintendent of schools records have been inventoried through 1965. 

8th Grade Promotions [Oregon State Eighth Grade Examination], 1937-1950 (1 volume); 

Budgets [School District], 1935-1952 (2 volumes);

Clerk's Reports [District Clerk's Annual Report-various district], 1931-1942 (1 volume); 

H.S. Principals Reports [High School], 1932-1962 (1 volume); 

Non-High School [District Clerk's Record Book], 1936-1953 (1 volume); 

Record of Teachers' Experience [Record of Teachers' Contracts and Certificates], 1937-1955 (1 volume);  

School Superintendent's Record of Annual Reports, 1936-1970 (1 volume);

Teacher Certification [Record of Teachers' Experience], 1913-1947 (1 volume);

Teachers Credentials [Record of Teachers Contracts and Certificates], 1948-1963 (1 volume).

1867-[ongoing]

Series documents surveys of county land by the county or licensed professional surveyors. Records include log books, field notes, and plats. An index may also be included. Information includes survey dates; who the survey was for; donation land claims; township, range, section, and survey numbers; a history of previous surveys made for the area; descriptions of land, vegetation, and soil; landmarks; metes and bounds of tracts surveyed; and surveyor's names. Plats also include corner restoration marks, scales, dates created and filed, and donation land claim owners.

The Deschutes County Survey R​esearch Application​​ includes a survey indexes, field notes and plats as well as General Land Office (GLO) plats and field notes.

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Front Vault Room 114:

Townships [Small Scale Original Filed Surveys-includes copies of partition plats and associated descriptions and documents-by township and range], ca.1950-present (5 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Office Room 124:

CS # [County Surveys-includes regular filed surveys, surveys within subdivisions, subdivisions, and partitions-arranged numerically by county survey number], no. 1-18639, 1902-present (19 feet of aperture cards);

GLO [General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management Plats and Notes-includes mineral surveys ], 1869-1986 (2 inches of aperture cards);

GLO Microfiche [General Land Office Survey Plats and Notes], n.d. (5 inches of microfiche).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Vault Room 125:

City of Bend [Survey and Engineering Field Books-includes roads, sewers, and other improvements], ca.1910-ca.1973 (5 cu.ft.);

Index R.B. Gould [to Land and Road Survey Field Books and Surveyor's Road Record], 1910-1939 (1 binder);

[Survey Calculation Books-to road and land surveys], ca.1910-ca.1939 (11 volumes);

[Surveyor's Private Survey Field Books-Robert E. Gould], ca.1910-1940 (99 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Surveyor's Office Room 126:

Deschutes County Surveyor Map Index [on assessor map base-color coded], ca.1902-present (12 binders);

Deschutes River Woods [County Survey Visual Index], 1962-present (1 volume);

GLO Plats By Township & Range [General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management Plats and Notes-includes mineral surveys], 1869-1986 (1 volume);

Plats [Subdivision-includes Surveys Within Subdivision], ca.1904-present (ca.7500 plats);

[Regular Surveys-includes partition plats], 1902-present (ca.10500 plats).

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

GLO Plats [General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management-copies], 1867-1986 (1 volume);

Microfilm Aperture Cards [County Surveys], no. CS00001-CS18639, 1902-present (24 feet of aperture cards);

Microfilm Aperture Cards Misc. [Miscellaneous-General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management Maps], 1869-1986 (2 inches of aperture cards).

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Assessor's Office, Chief Cartographer's Private Office:

GLO Plats [General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management], 1867-1991 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Exhibit Room 101:

[Surveyor's Field Book-McCloud RLC], 1926 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Room 317, Bookshelf 92:

[Survey Field Book-Sisters/Tumalo & Sugar Pine Country], 1920-1922 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes County Website:

Surveyor's Office Miscellaneous Records​​ [surveys, corner cards, monument cards, field books, and related records], n.d.

Records at a Related Website:

Online Land Records [federal land survey records related to Oregon such as survey plats and field notes, mineral surveys, and historical indices], ca.1850-present (Bureau of Land Management).

Tax lot cards, which contain official descriptions of real property, are used to track land ownership and lot size and also may serve as a deed reference. Records include tax lot number; the location of the land in reference to township, range, and section; and a description and record of changes to the property, acreage, and land owner. 

Since 1995 tax lot information has been maintained on computer in the assessor's office. The Deschutes County Property Information application​ includes searchable tax lot information. 

Tax Lot Cards [Official Record of Descriptions of Real Property-Tax Lot Cards], 1961-1995 (27 cu.ft.).

​1911-1991

Series documents the authorization by the state and local governments for the use of public waters. Series includes water rights, licenses, and certificates of water rights issued by the state and filed with the county. Records may include alphabetical indexes to the certificates, transcripts, statements, evidence, and other records specifically related to water rights cases heard by circuit and appellate courts. Information includes names of individuals proving water rights; locations of water rights including the township, range, and section number; descriptions of land under such rights; and limitations of appropriations of rights and use of rights (i.e., length of time, usage). Original water rights certificates are filed with the Oregon Water Resources Department.

The Deschutes County Clerk Recording System Web Query ​includes water rights information and images.

Records at the Deschutes Services Center, Clerk's Office Copy Room:

Contests for Squaw Creek [with index], 1911 (1 volume);

Contests for Tumalo Creek [with index], 1911 (3 volumes);

Depositions of Water Users for Squaw Creek, 1912-1914 (1 volume);

Deschutes River Evidence Briefs Stipulations Etc., vol. 26, 1924-1925 (1 volume);

Deschutes River Evidence Exhibits, vol. 27-29, 1924-1925 (3 volumes);

[Deschutes River Jurisdictional Papers], vol. 25, 1926 (1 volume);

Deschutes River Water Rights Miscellaneous Documents, 1926-1933 (.35 cu.ft.);

Determination of Rights Deschutes River Court's Opinion, 1927 (1 volume);

Modified Findings and Decree for Deschutes River, 1923 (1 volume);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Below Mouth of Crooked River, vol. 3, 1923-1924 (1 volume);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Claim 7 Exhibits, vol. 9, 1923 (.05 cu.ft.);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Claim 8 Proof of Claim, vol. 10, 1923 (.05 cu.ft.);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Claim 15 Exhibits, vol. 13-15, 1923-1924 (.25 cu.ft.);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Claim 19 Exhibits, vol. 16, 1923 (.10 cu.ft.);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Claim 19 Proof of Claim, vol. 11, 1923 (.05 cu.ft.);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Claim 25, vol. 17, 1923-1924 (1 volume);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Claims, vol. 12, 1924 (1 volume);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Contests, vol. 23, 1924 (1 volume);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Exhibits [includes photographs], vol. 32, 1926 (1 volume);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Exhibits, vol. 31, ca.1925 (.05 cu.ft.);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Notices of Contest, vol. 20-22, 1924 (3 volumes);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Statements and Proofs of Claims East Fork and Crescent Lake, ca.1926 (1 volume);

Original Evidence Deschutes River Statements and Proofs of Claims, vol. 1-2, 1926 (2 volumes); vol. 5, 1923 (1 volume);

Original Evidence Deschutes River, vol. 18, 1924 (1 volume);

Original Evidence Statements of Proof Willow Creek and Metolius River, vol. 4, 1923 (1 volume);

Petitions for Transfer of Water Rights Deschutes River, 1942-1945 (.05 cu.ft.);

Petitions West Side Reclamation District, 1922 (.05 cu.ft.);

Proofs of Appropriation [Deschutes River], vol. 1, 1928 (1 volume);

Proofs of Mailing Notice of Hearing on Petition for Central Oregon Irrigation District, 1917 (1 volume);

Report on Duty of Water for Deschutes River [with index], 1932 (1 volume);

Report on the Central Oregon Irrigation District, 1924 (1 volume);

Squaw Creek Notices of Contest Etc., 1911 (1 volume);

Squaw Creek Original Statements and Proofs of Claims, 1911 (2 volumes);

Statement and Claim of Proof Deschutes River Claim 6, 1923 (1 volume);

[Supplemental Findings of Fact and Order of Determination for the Deschutes River], 1953 (1 volume);

Tumalo Creek Original Statements and Proofs of Claims, 1911 (1 volume);

Tumalo Creek [Receipts, Notices, and Proofs], vol. 1, 1952 (1 volume);

Tumalo Creek Testimony Evidence Exhibits Contests, 1911 (1 volume);

Water Resources [Supplemental Decree and Order of Determination for the Deschutes River], 1958 (1 volume);

Water Rights Paulina Lake and Paulina Creek, ca.1917 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

Index to Water Rights, vol. 1, 1912-1934 (1 volume);

Tumalo Project Assignment of Columbia Southern Contracts [Irrigation], vol. 6, 1914-1917 (1 volume);

Tumalo Project Assignment of Contracts [Irrigation], vol. 4, 1917-1956 (1 volume);

Tumalo Project Contracts [Irrigation Project Record], vol. 1-2, 1914-1918 (2 volumes);

Tumalo Project Record Book [Irrigation Project Register-refers to actions related to contract no. 1 to 267 in vol. 1 to 5], 1914-ca.1918 (1 volume);

Tumalo Project Release of Liens [Irrigation Project-Transfer of Water Rights and Release of Lien], vol. 5, 1915-1923 (1 volume);

Water Certificates [Record], vol. 1-2, 1912-1979 (2 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building First Floor Evidence Room, Cabinet:

Circuit Ct. Water [Circuit Court Water Rights Case Files-Deschutes River-includes transcripts, proofs, reports, and related records], no. 2588, ca.1933-ca.1956 (1 cu.ft.);

Circuit Ct. Water [Circuit Court Water Rights Case Files-Three Creek and Snow Creek-includes maps], no. 996, 1919-1921 (.25 cu.ft.);

Circuit Ct. Water [Circuit Court Water Rights Case Files-Tumalo Creek], no. 519, 1911-1952 (.20 cu.ft.);

[Final Order on Petition for Re-Hearing Deschutes River], 1959 (1 volume);

Permanent Anderson et al vs. Tumalo Irrigation District [Circuit Court Water Rights Case File], no. 27172, 1981 (1.25 cu.ft.);

[Supplemental Decree and Determination Tumalo Creek], 1959 (1 volume);

Water Rights [Circuit Court Adjudication Survey Maps-Deschutes River and Tumalo Creek-includes related exhibit maps-rolled in tubes], ca.1950-ca.1968 (ca.50 maps);

Water Rights [Circuit Court Case Files-includes depositions, exhibits, and related records], no. 5201, 9422, 10782, 13881, 17761, 36181, 37360, 37507, 1948-1987 (1.25 cu.ft.);

Water Rights [Circuit Court Judgment and Decree-Squaw Creek Irrigation District], no. 12476, 1964 (.05 cu.ft.);

Water Rights Farm Equip. Co. [Equipment Company-Circuit Court Records-includes testimony, exhibits, and related records], ca.1953-ca.1964 (.25 cu.ft.);

Water Rights [Miscellaneous Circuit Court Case Exhibits], 1991 (.15 cu.ft.).

​​1904-[ongoing]

Series documents the development and implementation of codes and policies relating to the zoning of county lands and to illustrate and locate zoned areas in the county. Records include uniform zone codes and ordinances depicting zoned lands in the county. Information in codes and ordinances includes definition, code/ordinance numbers, purposes, uses, conditions for use, and changes made to codes/ordinances. Maps include area and/or zone descriptions, dates created, scales, and commissioners' signatures. Areas are typically zoned for residential, industrial, commercial, flood plain, agricultural, timber, public and government, and mineral extraction uses.

The Deschutes County Property Information application includes numerous GIS map layers showing zoning-related information. The DevDocs application provides information and images of various "date files" planning documents related to zone changes. The Land Use Planning Historical Maps include older versions of comprehensive plans, zoning ordinances and related maps.

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, First Floor Reception Area:

Zoning Maps [Semi-current], n.d.-present (11 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office:

[County Zoning Maps], ca.1975-ca.1983 (ca.100 maps);

[Miscellaneous Maps-includes zoning, districts, comprehensive plan, flood plain, flood insurance, transportation, and topographical], ca.1957-present (ca.350 maps).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, File Room 130:

Date Files [Central Property-Based Case Files-includes comprehensive plan text amendments, zone changes, subdivision and partition case files, variances, building permits, and related records], 2013-present (15 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office Wall Map Area:

[Miscellaneous Planning Wall Maps-includes comprehensive plan, zoning, transportation, livestock district, school district, wetlands inventory, and related subjects], ca.1979-present (ca.20 maps).

Records at the Deschutes County Community Development Building, Second Floor Planning Division Office Library Area:

Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan [includes zoning and subdivision and partition ordinance information], 2004 (1 binder);

Ordinances [Planning Related-includes comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision and partition information], 1981-present (26 binders).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Front Vault Room 114:

Orders Resolutions Ordinances [includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and land division ordinances], ca.1975-present (2.50 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Road Department Building, Engineering Vault Room 125:

Book of Ordinances [includes zoning and subdivision-with index], 1960-1966 (1 volume).

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Permanent Archives:

[Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Maps], 1965-1997 (ca.125 maps);

Ordinances [Miscellaneous-includes zoning and subdivision information], 1985-2005 (6 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes County Records Center, Community Development Department Area:

Date Files [Central Property-Based Case Files-includes comprehensive plan text amendments, zone changes, subdivision and partition case files, variances, building permits, and related records], 2012-2013 (46 cu.ft.).

Records at the Deschutes Historical Museum, Room 311:

City of Bend Maps [includes streets, subdivisions, irrigated lands, zoning, historical district, etc.], 1904-present (ca.50 maps);

County Maps [includes zoning, highway, Metsker, fire district], 1917-2002 (ca.25 maps);

Large Rolled Maps [includes historical sites, cities, railroad, timber land, zoning, forest, road, school district], 1912-1991 (ca.40 maps).

Records at the Bend Public Library:

Deschutes County Code [includes comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision ordinance codes-Call no. 342.958], vol. I-II, 2000-2002 (2 volumes).

Records at the Deschutes County Website:

Deschutes County Code​ [includes comprehensive plan and zoning and subdivision ordinances], 1920-present;

Land Use Ordinances​ [includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and subdivision and partition ordinances], 1980-1992.