The recorder receives and records deed transactions, mortgages, leases, and liens affecting title to real property. The recorder has the authority to plat all newly formed townships, villages, annexations, and proposed subdivisions in Cuyahoga County. The chief concern of the recorder is the protection of property rights. The maps provide detailed information such as changes in ownership, dates of transfer, property dimensions, property boundary lines, and other items of interests.
Auditor’s property maps are organized largely according to political subdivisions and are periodically revised. These cartographic records detail all real estate within Cuyahoga County. Such tax accounting is accomplished, in part, through the creation and continual updating of cartographic records. Official aspects of the responsibilities of the auditor’s office include the assessment of values of all real estate in Cuyahoga County for purposes of taxation and the preparation of complete tax lists of all land within the county. The auditor is the fiscal officer of Cuyahoga County. they are maintained as part of the permanent collections.įinancial administration of Cuyahoga County is the largest responsibility undertaken in three county offices, the office of the board of county commissioners, the office of the treasurer, and the office of the auditor. In no instance, however, has an original cartographic record been destroyed. The reproductions are then labeled and stored I acid-free containers. A sheet of acid-free paper is placed over an original map on a light table. Some cartographic records have been or are now being redrawn. All Cuyahoga County cartographic records kept at the Cuyahoga County Archives are retained permanently because of their legal uses and historical value to researchers. This kind of information may be of be of value to county personnel, lawyers, business personnel, and to genealogists tracing familial histories. The maps are used to determine previous property ownership, changes in dimensions, and changes in boundary lines.
These volumes include atlases, plat books, aerial, geologic, cemetery, ward and precinct maps, and other miscellaneous cartographic records. Cuyahoga County cartographic records in the holdings date from 1835 to 1979 and number about seven hundred and fifteen volumes, not including duplicates. The Cuyahoga County Archives, Cleveland, OhioĬartographic records originally created by four separate Cuyahoga County officers are now maintained at the Cuyahoga County Archives. The Journal of the Cuyahoga County Archives, Volume 2: 1983 CARTOGRAPHIC RECORDS IN THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY ARCHIVES
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