One original roll of microfilm is sent to our archival storage vault in Boyers, PA, where it is stored in an underground vault under ideal climate-controlled conditions. This off-site storage ensures access to these important records should a hurricane or other disaster destroy the other original roll of microfilm stored locally. Your microfilmed documents meet the state requirement that Official Records be retrievable for at least 200 years. Once a document is recorded in the Official Records of Orange County, it can be retrieved by anyone. Records may also be interactively searched via the Internet by pointing your web browser to our Official Records Online Index .
Parking is available adjacent to the building and in the parking garage across the street.
If you wish to view all recorded documents by date and time of recordation, it is available by viewing the Register of Instruments. If you wish to do your research in person in our office downtown, one of the clerks in the ORRC will show you how to use the terminals that access the interactive, alphabetical Official Records Index computer, which can access names from all of the Official Records from 1955 to present. For documents that were recorded before 1955, a name index is available on microfilm. Simply by knowing the name of a person or a corporation, you can find ALL the references in the Official Records which pertain to that individual or company. If you want a copy of the document, one of the clerks will be happy to make it for you.