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Russell County County Clerk Office

The Russell County Clerk is Patti Glover. Her office is the local source for county-record functions that sit outside Kentucky's court case system. The clerk site lists online records, records forms, recording fees, delinquent taxes, elections, motor vehicle services, marriage licenses, notary information, candidate filings, and holiday notices. For users coming from court pages, the key distinction is simple: the County Clerk records deeds, mortgages, liens, plats, marriage licenses, and county filings, while the Office of Circuit Court Clerk keeps court case files.

The County Clerk's office is on Monument Square in Jamestown, near the state court building. It has weekday hours and limited Saturday hours, which can help with marriage-license or motor-vehicle errands. The office also publishes a 2026 holiday schedule, so users should confirm closings before an in-person visit near a holiday.

Russell County Clerk Record Types

County clerk records are useful for property, title, estate, marriage, tax, and local government questions. A probate matter may start in District Court, but an estate can still require county clerk recordings for deeds, releases, liens, or powers of attorney. A marriage license is also a county clerk record, while divorce is a court record handled through the Circuit Court Clerk.

• Land records: deeds, mortgages, assignments, releases, plats, and title-related recordings.
• Liens and releases: lien filings, lien releases, and related recorded instruments.
• Marriage licenses: local license issuance and recording through the clerk's marriage page.
• Taxes and elections: delinquent taxes, candidate filings, and county election services.
• Motor vehicle records: local county clerk transactions that are separate from state driver-history records.

The Russell County Clerk homepage shows the office navigation and contact block. The screenshot below comes from that official source.

The office navigation is important because online records, recording fees, marriage licenses, forms, and holiday notices are maintained separately from court case portals.

Search Russell County Clerk Records Online

Russell County Clerk online records point users to eCCLIX, the internet version of CCLIX, County Clerk Indexing. eCCLIX is used by many Kentucky county clerk offices for land and recorded-document access. It can help attorneys, title searchers, surveyors, realtors, appraisal users, estate settlement users, and people checking last-minute title information. Russell County appears in the eCCLIX available-county selector.

eCCLIX is not a court case search. It does not replace KCOJ docket lookup, CourtNet, ePay, or the Circuit Court Clerk. It is a county clerk record platform, and login or subscription rules apply.

The Russell County Clerk online records page directs users toward eCCLIX county-record access.

This screenshot documents the local handoff from the county clerk site to the online county-record platform.

Russell County Clerk Forms

The records forms page is the practical source for recorded-document preparation. It covers deed, mortgage, power of attorney, lien, release, and other county-record form guidance. Users should start with the official form page before preparing a filing because formatting, indexing, and rejection rules can change.

The Russell County Clerk records forms page is the official local source for county-record filing forms.

Those form categories matter most for deeds, mortgages, liens, powers of attorney, releases, and other recorded instruments.

1. Identify the record type, such as deed, mortgage, release, lien, power of attorney, or plat.
2. Open the official records forms page and review the form or formatting guidance for that instrument.
3. Call the County Clerk if the filing involves estate work, title transfer, unusual names, or a document that may need extra indexing.
4. Confirm recording fees before filing, especially if the document has multiple pages, references, or related instruments.
5. File with the Russell County Clerk, not the Circuit Court Clerk, when the document is a county recording rather than a court case pleading.

Russell County Recording Fees

The Russell County Clerk recording-fees page is the local source for deeds, mortgages, assignments, releases, liens, plats, and related instruments. The final research did not extract each fee amount, so fee copy should stay tied to that official page instead of quoting county-record fees from memory or another county.

The Russell County Clerk recording-fees page controls local recording-fee checks.

Because recording fees can depend on document type, page count, references, and filing details, users should verify fees on that page or by phone before submitting a document.

Russell County Marriage Licenses

Marriage licenses are county clerk records in Russell County. Applicants should use the County Clerk's marriage-license page, then contact the office for current ID, fee, and timing requirements before visiting. The research confirmed the official page and access channel, but it did not extract a full application-field inventory, so no unverified field list should be treated as local fact.

Divorce records are different. A divorce decree or divorce case file is a court record requested through the Circuit Court Clerk. The County Clerk may record a marriage license, but it does not issue certified divorce decrees from court files.

County Clerk Contact Fields

The County Clerk site includes a contact form. The research notes that it is a general contact path and not a court-record request form. It can still help with county clerk records, forms, recording questions, and office questions when phone or email is not the best route.

Russell County Clerk Hours

The County Clerk's published schedule is not the same as the Circuit Court Clerk's schedule. Patti Glover's office lists weekday hours from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM and limited Saturday hours on the 1st and 3rd Saturday from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM. The Circuit Court Clerk is listed as weekday-only by KCOJ, so a Saturday county clerk visit does not mean court records are available at the courthouse counter.

The clerk site also publishes a 2026 holiday schedule. It includes New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's closures or half-days. That list matters for marriage licenses, recording deadlines, delinquent-tax work, and motor vehicle transactions because many users need an in-person counter visit.

eCCLIX Subscription Notes

eCCLIX publishes subscription pricing for county-record access. The research lists a $200 one-time setup for the first county, a $20 one-time setup for each additional county, $75 per month per county, and $10 per additional user. First-month charges may be prorated with a minimum charge. Users should verify the county and record availability before subscribing, because eCCLIX itself advises checking records before paying.

Those subscription costs are not Russell County court fees. They apply to the online county clerk record platform, which can be useful for title searchers, estate settlement users, surveyors, realtors, appraisers, and attorneys. Court case copies, certified divorce decrees, traffic dispositions, and probate files still require the Circuit Court Clerk route when the document is a court record.