Gunnison County Recorder Information

About Gunnison County Recorder

The Office of the Clerk and Recorder is responsible for maintaining land records for real property located in Gunnison County.

Recording Fees

Colorado implemented a significant change to recording fees effective July 1, 2025. Beginning July 1, Colorado will implement a uniform flat recording fee of $40 per document, plus a combined $3 surcharge that includes $2 for the Electronic Recording Technology Board and $1 for the Clerk & Recorder technology fee. This brings the total to $43 per recorded document, regardless of page count.

Documentary fee: $.05 per $500 dollars of applicable sales consideration

The following documents do not have a documentary fee: Deed of trust (mortgage), real estate (mortgage), indentures (mortgage), and mineral and royalty deeds.

The postage charge for standard size 10 page documents is $1 flat rate. Cash and checks are accepted as forms of payment.

Document Formatting Requirements

* Documents must be legible and of good quality in order to be digitally archived. Black ink on white paper should be used.

* All documents received for recording should contain a top margin of at least 1 inch. Bottom and side margins should be at least .5 of an inch.

* On the front or back page of a document submitted for recording, a complete and accurate return address should be provided.

* Both the grantor and grantee must be named in the document. The grantee's address should be given on any real property document. The grantor must sign the document and must have his/her signature acknowledged or proved.

* An accurate and complete legal description of the real property is required. If an instrument contains a newly created legal description, provide the name and address of the person who created such description.

* Immediately before or after the legal description, provide the street address or comparable identifying numbers, if such address or numbers are displayed on the property. As an aid to identification, the document preparer can provide the assessor's parcel number or schedule number.

* All instruments wherein the parcels of property affected are not separately enumerated or listed but are described as being from one numbered, lettered, or designated parcel to another shall be construed as including the first and last designated parcels and also the intervening parcels, unless a contrary intention is expressly and clearly set forth in the instrument.

Any conveyance document presented for recording shall be accompanied by the Colorado Real Property Transfer Declaration (TD-1000).