This Is Not a Government Office or Records Custodian. Butte County Residents Directory is a private reference service. It cannot retrieve records, certify copies, confirm a current resident, or change a government index. Send those requests to the office that created or keeps the record. Call 911 for an emergency. Anyone facing stalking or harassment should contact local law enforcement.
Need a Particular Record?
For common Butte County research questions, start with the custodian path that matches the record type:
- An address and its public trail: use the Butte County street directory route
- Printed volumes and past households: use the Butte County city directory collections
- One person and several identifiers: use the Butte County resident lookup workflow
- Custodian names and office links: start with the Butte County resident records offices
- A record that is not online: ask the named custodian about a request under the California Public Records Act
Public-records office: Butte County Clerk-Recorder, 155 Nelson Avenue, Oroville, California. Phone: 530-552-3400. Counter hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with a noon to 1 p.m. closure; recording ends at 4 p.m. The office also closes from 8:30 to 9 a.m. on the first Wednesday of each month.
For a county-wide California Public Records Act request, use the county's public-records request portal. The Clerk-Recorder's official-record index is the appropriate starting point for recorded instruments, but an index entry is not the document itself.