Recorder

Morgan County Recorder

Telephone number: 573-378-4029

Email: morgancountyrecorder@morgancountymo.gov

Mailing address: 100 East Newton, Versailles, MO 65084

Duties of the Recorder of Deeds:

• Recording land instruments, including deeds of all kinds, deed of trust, affidavits, releases, power of attorneys, plats & surveys and other land documents. Most recording can be done by mail, if needed. For businesses who contract for that type of service, E-recording is available. For more information, contact I-County at (816) 295-1540 or your current provider.
• Issuing of marriage licenses. Hours for marriage applications are 8:00 am - 4:00 pm. Both parties have to appear with photo ID for application process. Payment of $51.00 must be by cash or debit/credit card (no checks). Use of debit/credit card incurs an additional $2.00 fee collected and kept by the credit card processor.
• Issuing certified copies of marriage licenses for use in proving marriage to Department of Motor Vehicles, Social Security or other agencies. We can only issue certified copies of licenses obtained in Morgan County. If you were married here, but applied for your license in another county, you will need to contact that county for the copy. Certified copies are $9.00 each.
• Searches of our land records index are available at https://morganmo.icounty.com/. There you can set up an account that enables you to search for items recorded from January 1990 to present. Our online records also go from 1956 to 1990 for deed transfers but must be looked up in our index search books to obtain a book and page number for the document you are wanting to view, these records are not indexed.
• Recording military discharge records (DD214). This is a free service and any copies of the recorded record are also free after filling out a request form. File and maintain military discharges(Request Form)
• Protect your property, sign up to be notified when something is recorded in your pre-defined search criteria by signing up at "deedwatch.com".
  • Go to deedwatch.com
  • Select Morgan County, Missouri from the drop down menu
  • Enter and verify email
  • Enter your notification criteria