Access Trimble County Clerk Records

Trimble County Clerk Role

The Trimble County Clerk is Sarah A. Cull. The local county profile says she worked in the County Clerk's Office beginning January 28, 2013, served as Trimble County Recorder, served as Chief Deputy, and was appointed County Clerk on August 1, 2025. The office is at P.O. Box 262, 30 Highway 42 East, Bedford, Kentucky 40006. Public hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Trimble County Clerk official site lists motor vehicle registration, recordings, marriage licenses, elections, and delinquent tax bill sales as core services. The site also makes a direct distinction that matters for record searches: drivers license and court records are referred to the Circuit Clerk's Office and Kentucky Court of Justice, not handled as County Clerk case files.

Trimble County Clerk Records

County Clerk records are not the same as Circuit, Family, or District Court files. The County Clerk records land documents, issues marriage licenses, manages election and voter registration work, handles motor vehicle registration services, and receives delinquent tax bill duties after the sheriff turnover date. Court filings, court dockets, criminal charges, divorce cases, traffic citations, and probate case records are court-system records.

Trimble County Land Records

The County Clerk records page links land records to eCCLIX. Research found that deed images are available from April 2002 to current and mortgage images are available from September 2006 to current. Older land records, missing images, copy questions, and record-certification needs should go to the County Clerk because the online index does not replace every recorded book or image.

Land records can include deeds, mortgages, assignments, liens, releases, plats, judgment liens, state tax liens, and recorded wills. A court judgment may lead to a recorded lien, but the court case and the recorded lien are separate records. The court file is accessed through the Circuit Court Clerk, while the recorded lien or land instrument is accessed through the County Clerk.

1. Start with the County Clerk records page to confirm whether the document type is in eCCLIX.
2. Search eCCLIX for available land-record indexes and images within the published date ranges.
3. Contact the County Clerk for older documents, certified copies, unclear book/page references, or unavailable images.
4. Use the clerk's open-records policy if a written public-record request is needed.

Trimble County Marriage Records

The County Clerk issues marriage licenses and provides marriage copies. The official marriage-license page says a marriage-license photocopy is $0.50 per page and a certified copy is $5.00. After the ceremony, the officiant returns the signed marriage application to the County Clerk's Office, where it is filed and the marriage license is issued to the couple.

Kentucky does not use the County Clerk for divorce case records. Divorce belongs to Circuit/Family Court. A person looking for a divorce decree or case document should use KYeCourts, the docket search, or the Circuit Court Clerk, not the County Clerk. A person looking for a marriage license or certified marriage copy should contact the County Clerk.

Trimble County Clerk Requests

The County Clerk open-records policy says requests should be submitted on the Open Records Request Form and may be hand-delivered, mailed, faxed, or emailed. It states that a determination will be made within five working days from receipt, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. Requests must identify the public records sought, and commercial-purpose copy requests require a certified statement of purpose.

Note: County Clerk open-records requests do not replace court-case copy requests through the Circuit Court Clerk.

Trimble County Clerk Fees

The Trimble County Clerk publishes recording fees effective January 1, 2020, and the clerk open-records policy supplies copy charges when no other statutory fee schedule applies. Not all clerk services use the same fee rule. Recording a deed is different from buying a marriage copy, and a court-file copy is handled by the court clerk rather than this office.

Trimble County Clerk Forms

The Trimble County Clerk forms page states that completed forms must be mailed or delivered in person and cannot be emailed or faxed because original signatures are required. That rule is important for users who find a PDF form online but still need to complete the official filing route. The same office contact details should be used when a form requirement is unclear.

Original signature

A wet or legally accepted signature required before the clerk can process certain filed forms.

Recording

The act of placing a document into county land or official records.

Certified copy

A copy authenticated by the clerk for official use.

Commercial request

A records request that requires a certified statement of commercial purpose under the clerk policy.

County Clerk vs Circuit Court Clerk

Trimble County has a split record structure. The County Clerk is the office for marriage licenses, land records, recording, elections, motor vehicles, and delinquent tax records. The Circuit Court Clerk is the court-record custodian for Circuit, Family, District, and Business Court records. That means a traffic citation, misdemeanor case, felony case, divorce case, court docket, or probate case record starts with Kentucky court systems or the Circuit Court Clerk.