The Recorder's Office annually handles nearly sixty thousand documents in a twelve-phase process which places each document in the public record, on microfiche, indexed in our computerized index by grantor and grantee. Recordings from early 1998 can also be retrieved though a local area network imaging system at our offices. Parking is usually not a problem. The volume of work from the title companies is heaviest in the afternoon hours and in the last week of the month, so it's fair to say that a mid-week morning is the ideal time to bring in a document for recording. Tucson, to our southeast, is the county seat of Pima County .
Many documents have to be re-recorded because legal descriptions reference the wrong county.
It is worthwhile to double-check rather than send to the wrong County Recorder. If an SASE is provided with a differing address, the envelope address will be assumed correct, so please assure they match. On an average, documents are mailed back about two weeks after we receive them. Recording takes place on the day we receive the document. Schedule of Recording Fees including those for UCC financing forms and UCC searches 4.