Hillsborough County

County seat: Tampa. One of the few counties that records surveys as their own document type.

Pulling records in Hillsborough

Hillsborough is unusually retrieval-friendly. The Clerk records surveys as a discrete document category alongside plats, the county is fully electronic for recording, and the Property Appraiser publishes bulk parcel data. Three cities layer their own review on top of county recording.

• Deeds, plats, and recorded surveys all sit in the Clerk's Official Records, with surveys as their own document type, handy for pulling prior work.
• Fully e-recording with certified-copy access; tens of millions of documents back to 1846.
• The Property Appraiser publishes downloadable bulk parcel datasets, strong for fast retrieval.
• Three incorporated cities, Tampa, Temple Terrace, and Plant City, carry their own plat-approval layers; the rest is unincorporated county.
• FEMA flood-zone determinations for any elevation work.