NEW OFFICE HOURS:
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE:
We do not conduct telephone searches.
We do not ACCEPT any Out of State Personal Checks.
ATTENTION VETERANS
Filing your DD-214 is FREE!
As a veteran, you are entitled to file and receive free certified copies of your DD-214 at no charge to you.
If you are contacted by a private company who offers to file your military discharge paperwork for you, know that if you have your DD-214, we will record your document for safekeeping at no charge to you, or your family.
You may utilize this portal to search for Official Public Records, Assumed Name/DBA Filings, Marriage Records and License Applications, Marks and Brands, Vital Statistic Records, and more.
Due to Senate House Bill 1612 the Local Government Code Title 4 Finances Subtitle B County Finances Chapter 118. Fees Charged By County Office will be changing Effective January 1, 2024.
1.The Open Public Records fees will decrease by $1.00 for the following.
- Recording Fees
- Plats
- DBA’S/ Assumed Name Certificate or Abandonments
- UCC/ Financing Statement Records
- Marks & Brands
- Wills for safekeeping
- Federal Tax Lien
- State Tax Lien
- Marriage License
- Informal Licenses
2. A few court fees have changed noted in the attached schedule. The most notable fee change is going to be for copies.
Please be aware that the Aransas County Clerk’s Office can, once again, issue (short form) Remote Birth Certificates for anyone born in the State of Texas.
And, of course, if someone was born in Aransas County, we continue to issue a requestor’s choice of long or short form birth certificates.
Also, so you know, a person can only receive 10 copies of their birth certificate from a County Clerk’s office (or other local liaison) in their lifetime, and these numbers are tracked. After 10 copies have been issued, liaisons are required to direct requestors to the Vital Statistics area of Texas’ Department of State Health Services for them.
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Welcome to the web page for the Aransas County Clerk. We hope this site will be of assistance to you while giving new insight into the work we do.
Our Mission
This office of County Clerk has been in existence in Texas since 1836, superseding the "escribano" (secretary) of Spanish-Mexican rule. Article 5, Section 20 of the Texas Constitution, provides:
"There shall be elected for each county, by qualified voters, a County Clerk, who shall hold his office for four years, and shall be clerk of the County and Commissioners Courts and recorder of the county, whose duties, prerequisites and fees of office shall be prescribed by the Legislature, and a vacancy in whose office shall be filled by the Commissioners Court, until the next general election; provided, that in counties having a population of less than 8,000 persons there may be an election of a single Clerk, who shall perform the duties of the District and County Clerks."
The County Clerk is elected in the same year that voters select the Governor of the State and the County Judge and in Aransas County, the County Court at Law Judge.
Qualification Requirements for Public Office:
Must be a citizen of the United States, have lived in the State of Texas for a period of 12 months before the date of any primary, general, or special election, have not been determined mentally incompetent by a final judgment of court, have not been pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disabilities, and have lived for six months before such election in Aransas County.
Continuing Education:
Within one year of the day on which a person first takes office as County Clerk and each year thereafter, he or she must successfully complete 20 hours of instruction in the performance of the duties of the office including 1 hour in the Registry of the Court and 1 hour in fraudulent filings.
County Clerk's Profile:
The County Clerk's office is staffed by 7 persons and is responsible for the following:
- Recording and Filing Instruments
- - Instruments that prove ownership or interest in real or personal property such as deeds, deeds of trust, heirship affidavits, financing statements, assumed names, brands, etc.
- - Notices of Meetings, foreclosures, and beer and wine licenses are filed by the County Clerk's Office and posted on Courthouse bulletin board.
- - Instruments concerning the identity of persons, such as birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, military discharge papers.
- - All official map and plat records are maintained in the Clerk's Office, along with county precinct and city ward boundary maps. As a courtesy to the public, an index to restrictions is also maintained.
County Clerk - Jury Duty Information
