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Christian County recorder reports $717,070 in 2024 revenue; Q4 brought $178,075
Summary
The Christian County recorder of deeds presented fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 financial and records activity to the Christian County Commission, reporting declines from pre-COVID levels and explaining changes to deed-processing work flows.
Miss Kelly, Christian County recorder of deeds, told the Christian County Commission that her office collected $178,075.94 in the fourth quarter of 2024 and $717,070.03 for the full year.
The figures matter because a portion of recorder revenues support county general revenue and the office tracks land- and vital-record activity. Miss Kelly said $327,685.50 of the 2024 total was transferred to general revenue, and detailed the office’s recorded transactions: 91 marriage licenses and 3,430 land documents in the fourth quarter, and about 657 marriage licenses and 3,430 (annual total recorded documents noted earlier) across 2024, plus recorded plats and surveys.
Miss Kelly told commissioners the county’s recording activity has slowed from a pre-COVID peak, when the office at times collected more than $1 million annually. “Pre COVID, interest rates were low. There was a lot of movement and shaking, a lot of things being built,” Miss Kelly said, adding that higher interest rates and the pandemic reduced subdivision and land-record activity. She noted the office continues to record new plats and surveys and that recordings remain available for public inspection in her office.
Commissioners pressed for more detail on certain items. One commissioner asked whether the 2024 total represented an increase; Miss Kelly said the county is “a little bit behind” last year and that historical highs exceeded $1 million. Commissioners and Miss Kelly also discussed a short-lived program that had county staff assist seniors with deeds and the administrative time the office spent providing free copies and services during that program; Miss Kelly said the assessor’s office now verifies and prints those deeds in some cases, which reduced duplicate processing in the recorder’s office.
Miss Kelly closed by offering to make plat maps and recordings available for inspection at the recorder’s office and answered commissioners’ questions about staffing and workload.
The presentation was informational; no formal action or vote on the recorder’s report was recorded in the transcript.
