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• Subscriber Application (.doc)
• Subscriber Application (.pdf)

Search City of Richmond Land Records

NOTICE

Secure Remote Access to City of Richmond Land Records is now available on-line. You must be a registered subscriber.

Each subscriber fee is $50.00 per month, requiring a 6-month subscription, paid in advance. The fee is per individual user. The Clerk of the Court must approve all applications.

Records available include Deeds, Judgments, Financing Statements and Wills/Fiduciaries.  Deed records date back to 1782 for Richmond properties north of the James River, and back to 1874 for Richmond and City of Manchester properties south of the river.

Links to the application form and to the subscriber agreement can be found on the left side of this page.

                                                                 Edward Jewett, Clerk

New and Renewal Subscribers 

NOTICE: EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

The Richmond Circuit Court Clerk’s Office offers secure remote access through the Supreme Court Secure Remote database, so all our land records which have been digitized, back to 1782, will be on one site.

Here is a screen shot of the access to the records from the current site:

https://risweb.vacourts.gov/jsra/sra/#/home

The line numbered 760 is for current land records, dating back to 1993 for deeds, and to 1995 for wills.

The line numbered 761 is an index for Division I (north of the river) deeds back to 1965, and for Division II (south of the river), back to 1936. This is a fully functional database linking index and images.

For deeds older than those two sets, and for wills prior to 1995, please select Historical Records Search (in blue), which will allow you to look at various indexes and records series going back to 1782 for Division I, and to 1874 for Division II.

NOTICE:  Images in the Cott Systems product (pre-1993 images) will now display using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Any version should work. Please let us know if you encounter a problem.

Please note that for those records prior to Sept. 1, 1993, (wills 1996), records from the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond are split. “Merged Division” refers to documents recorded from April 1, 1984 to Aug. 31, 1993 (wills 1996), after the consolidation of the Richmond courts. “Division I” refers to the land records from earlier courts north of the river. “Division II” refers to land records from the courts south of the river, including the old City of Manchester court. The search product for these records features two different methods:

"Indexing Search” for records back to 1993 (Merged Division, 1996 for wills), back to 1966 (Div I), and back to 1937 (Div II)

“Online Index Books” for the records prior to 1965 (Div I) and 1937 (Div II), and for all will records prior to 1996