Probate / Recording
Houston County Probate Office
Use the county-authorized Ingenuity route linked from Probate for land and marriage-record searches. Contact Recording or Probate Court for certified copies, older files and unavailable records.
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Use the county-authorized Ingenuity route linked from Probate for land and marriage-record searches. Contact Recording or Probate Court for certified copies, older files and unavailable records.
Contact and filing details
- Records custodian or office
- Houston County Probate Judge Patrick H. Davenport / Chief Probate Clerk Heather Helms
- Phone
- Probate Court/Recording: (334) 677-4701; recording fee questions: (334) 677-4723
- Submission methods
- Online search, telephone, mail or office service.
- Mailing address
- P.O. Drawer 6406, Dothan, AL 36302
- Physical address
- 462 N. Oates Street, Dothan, AL 36303
- Fee information
- Online searching and viewing are free; downloads are $1 per page. The current recording guidance lists copies at $1 per page and certification at $3 plus copy charges.
Public notes
No account is required for ordinary pay-per-document land-record searching. The county says the same lookup can search marriage records; court-record printing may require an account.