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Land records in Coos County, NH

The online index of recorded instruments for Coos County starts in 1977. Anything recorded before that is on paper, at the courthouse, and nowhere else.

Read from what the office publishes about itself on 4 September 2026. Every source is linked at the foot of this page, so you can check it rather than trust us.

The record, in short

Who records a deed herethe Registry of Deeds for Coos County
Online indexYes
Index reaches back to1977
Cost to search the indexfree
Document imagesbehind a paywall
Published throughFidlar Technologies (AVA free index / Laredo subscription / Tapestry pay-per-use)
The office's own warningIt says its online record is incomplete
The office says so itself: “ALL INFORMATION SHOWN IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY AND NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE ACTUAL REGISTRY INDICES AND/OR DOCUMENTS ... should not rely on any copy of an index for information about a recorded instrument but, should examine the instrument.”

How this state works

New Hampshire's ten county registries share one informational site but each runs its own separate search - there is no cross-county name search. The free tier in Coos is index only: you can see that an instrument exists and not read it without paying. That configuration varies by county on the same platform, so Coos is not a guide to Grafton.

What to ask, and who holds the answer

The office named above will answer a specific question on the phone, and the most useful one you can ask is what year their online index actually starts. It is a one-line answer and it tells you how much of the chain of title you can read from a desk. Everything older than that year exists, it is simply not online - so an empty search result is not evidence that nothing was recorded.

See what the record says about one parcel

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