Maryland County Resources

Maryland has twenty-three counties and the city of Baltimore, which is not under county jurisdiction. At the courthouses are recorded transfers of land, estates, and other records. The first column below indicates the map coordinate. In the second column is the name of the county with the mailing address of the county circuit court clerk, where deeds, mortgages, vital records, divorces, naturalizations, and other matters are recorded. In the third column is the date the county was created and the name or names of the parent county or counties. The date the earliest land deed was recorded appears in the fourth column. In the last column is the date when Orphans' Court records begin, followed by the mailing address of that court's clerk and the register of wills, if different from the circuit court clerk. While some records are available in the counties, most original and/or microfilm copies of land, estate, vital, and court records have been transferred to the Maryland State Archives. As new county records are created, they will continue to be microfilmed and sent to the state archives. Other county offices not included below may have different mailing addresses.

Map	County	Circuit Court	Date Formed	Parent County(ies)	Deeds	Orphans' Court
B2	Allegany	30 Washington St., Cumberland 21502	1789	Washington	1791	1790
	A courthouse fire in 1893 destroyed marriage records for 1791'1847 and naturalizations for 1892'1893.
G4	Anne Arundel	P. O. Box 2395, Annapolis 21404-2395	1650	original	1653	1777 7 Church Cir., Annapolis 21401-2368
	The courthouse was destroyed by fire in 1704, with the loss of all but three court record volumes. Deeds before 1699 were lost, but there are five volumes of re-recorded deeds.
G2	Baltimore	401 Bosley Ave., Towson 21204-4403	by 1659/60	original	1661	1666
G2	Baltimore City	Land Records Division, 100 N. Calvert St., Rm. 610, Baltimore 21202-3417	1851	Baltimore Co.	1851	1851 111 N. Calvert St., Baltimore 21202
G5	Calvert	175 Main St., Prince Frederick 20678	1654	original	1882	1882
	Prince Frederick 20678. Most records were destroyed when the courthouse burned in 1882, but some deeds dating back to 1840 were re-recorded. Abstracts of deeds sent to Annapolis beginning in 1784 and provincial court deeds/land office records also make up for some of the destroyed records.
J4	Caroline	109 Market St., P. O. Box 356, Denton 21629-0356	1773	Dorchester/ Queen Anne's	1774	1774 109 Market St., P. O. Box 416, Denton 21629-0416
F2	Carroll	55 N. Court St., Rm. G-8, P. O. Box 190, Westminster 21157-0190	1837	Baltimore/ Frederick	1837	1837 55 N. Court St., Rm. 104, Westminster 21157
	Most early papers of the county court have been lost.
J2	Cecil	129 East Main St., Elkton 21921	1674	Baltimore	1674	1675
	Many early court records have disappeared.
F6	Charles	200 Charles St., P. O. Box 3060, La Plata 20646-3060	1658	original	1658	1665 5200 Charles St., P. O. Box 3080, La Plata 20646-3080
H6	Dorchester	206 High St., P. O. Box 583, Cambridge 21613-0583	1669	Somerset/ Talbot	1669	1852 206 High St., Cambridge 21613
	There are gaps in the court records. Some were probably lost in a fire in 1852.
E2	Frederick	100 W. Patrick St., Frederick 21701	1748	Baltimore/ Prince George's	1748	1751
	There were two major fires, but no major loss of records.
A2	Garrett	203 S. 4th St., P. O. Box 447, Oakland 21550-0447	1872	Allegany	1873	1872 313 E. Alder St., Rm. 103, Oakland 21550
H2	Harford	20 West Cortland St., Bel Air 21014	1773	Baltimore	1773	1774
	Some records were destroyed in a fire in 1858.
F3	Howard	8360 Court Ave., Ellicott City 21043	1850	Anne Arundel	1839	1840
	The county was formed in 1838 as Howard District of Anne Arundel Co., but did not gain full county status until 1850.
J3	Kent	103 North Cross St., Chestertown 21620-1511	by 1642	original	1648	1674
	A courthouse fire in 1720 destroyed some records.
F3	Montgomery	50 Maryland Ave., Rockville 20850	1776	Frederick	1777	1777
	A southern section of the county was set off in 1788 to form the District of Columbia.
	Patuxent		1654 (renamed Calvert, 1658)	original
G5	Prince George's	14735 Main St., P.O. Box 1600, Upper Marlboro 20773-1600	1696	Calvert/Charles	1696	1698 5303 Chrysler Way, P.O. Box 1729, Upper Marlboro
J4	Queen Anne's	100 Courthouse Sq., Centreville 21617	1706	Dorchester/ Talbot/Kent	1707	1706 107 North Liberty St., P.O. Box 59, Centerville 21617-0059
G6	Saint Mary's	41605 Court House Dr., P.O. Box 676	1637	original	1827	1658 41605 Court House Dr., P.O. Box 602, Leonardtown 20650-0602
	The courthouse was destroyed by fire in 1831. Some deeds were re-recorded back to 1781, and abstracts of deeds sent to Annapolis beginning in 1784 also make up for some of the records that were destroyed.
J7	Somerset	30512 Prince William St., P. O. Box 279, Princess Anne 21853-0279	1666	original	1665	1664 30512 Prince William St., Princess Anne 21853
	The courthouse burned in 1831, but the records were saved.
H5	Talbot	11 N. Washington St., Easton 21601	by 1661/2	original	1662	1668 P. O. Box 816, Easton 21601-0816
D2	Washington	95 W. Washington St., Hagerstown 21740	1776	Frederick	1777	1777
	Some records were lost in a courthouse fire in 1871.
J6	Wicomico	North Division and Main St., P. O. Box 806, Salisbury 21801-0806	1867	Somerset/ Worcester	1867	1866 North Division and Main St., P. O. Box 787, Salisbury 21801-0787
K6	Worcester	1 W. Market St., Rm. 104, Snow Hill 21863- 1074	1742	Somerset	1742	1742 1 West Market St. Rm. 102

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