Indiana public records & parcel GIS sources

Easement records in Indiana

We currently index 1 Indiana county by hand, Marion County, recording the recorder-of-deeds search page, the assessor or GIS parcel viewer, and any published map service for each one.

Indiana also publishes 1 statewide source, 6 of which expose machine-readable endpoints you can query directly rather than clicking through a viewer.

About 0% of the indexed Indiana counties publish spatial layers, meaning you can see parcel and corridor geometry rather than only a document index. Median platform reliability across those counties is 78 out of 100. The remainder go down for maintenance, throttle bulk requests, or change URLs without notice.

How to pull an easement document in Indiana

1. Start at the County Recorder for the county where the parcel sits: Marion County, IN is linked below and search by the current owner's name or by the book and page cited on Schedule B of your title commitment. Indiana's rural drainage law gives county surveyors authority over regulated drains; a regulated drain easement may appear in the surveyor's records rather than the recorder's index.
2. Pull the plat or subdivision map for the lot. Platted easements are drawn with widths and dimensions, which the deed language often omits entirely.
3. Open the county parcel or GIS viewer to see how recorded corridors sit relative to the boundary. Treat these as approximate: GIS parcel lines are digitized from tax maps and routinely differ from a surveyed line by several feet.
4. Check the statewide and federal sources below for corridors the county will not have. Pipelines, transmission lines, rail, and floodplain or drainage districts are typically mapped at the state or federal level.
5. Order a boundary or ALTA survey before construction. Public records tell you an easement exists; only a survey tells you where it lands on your lot.

Indiana easement record questions

Where are easements recorded in Indiana?

With the County Recorder in the county where the land sits. Indiana records with the elected County Recorder in each of the 92 counties. Parcel mapping sits separately with the County Assessor and the county GIS department. Recording is governed by Ind. Code § 32-21-4-1 (recording; notice).

Are Indiana easement records free to search?

Searching the index is generally free. Most Indiana counties contract with one of a handful of hosted search platforms, so the search screens look similar county to county even though each index is separate. Image availability generally starts in the 1980s or 1990s. Copies are a separate charge: Indiana uses a flat statutory fee per recorded document regardless of page count, with separate per-page copy and certification charges. That authority is Ind. Code § 36-2-7-10 (recorder fees). Every source listed on this page can be reached without a paid data subscription.

Can an easement exist in Indiana without being recorded?

Yes. Indiana recognizes prescriptive easements after 20 years of open, continuous, and unpermitted use (Ind. Code § 32-23-1-1; Fraley v. Minger, 829 N.E.2d 476 (Ind. 2005)), and access by necessity can be implied when a parcel would otherwise be landlocked. Neither appears in a records search, which is why walking the property matters as much as reading the index.

What trips people up when searching Indiana easement records?

Indiana requires a preparer statement and an affirmation that Social Security numbers have been redacted on recorded documents. Older records predate that rule, which is why some scanned images are partially blacked out on later re-recordings.

How current are these Indiana sources?

Each county hub carries the date it was last checked by hand, and the oldest verification in Indiana is shown at the top of this page. County offices move URLs and change platforms often, so a hub that has not been verified recently should be treated as a lead rather than a guarantee.