Yankton County Register of Deeds Office
Phone: (605) 260-4400, Ext 5
Fax: (605) 668-9682
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday
Mailing Address:
321 W. Third St., Suite 205
Yankton, S.D., 57078
Welcome to the Yankton County Register of Deeds Office. Our office is located on the second floor of the Yankton County Government Center at 321 W. Third St., in downtown Yankton.
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2019 Report
The Register of Deeds provides many services to the county. This office is the primary county record-keeping and archival office for vital statistics (birth, death and marriage records), burial permits, land records (such as plats, deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, assignments, etc.), military discharge records, hospital liens, mechanics liens, county, state and federal tax liens, powers of attorney, fictitious name filings, UCC filings and corner records.
Our office is also responsible for the issuance of marriage licenses, as well as certified copies of birth certificates, death certificates and marriage certificates.
2019 Report
Yankton County Register of Deeds staff collected $303,522 in fees in 2019. That total includes $116,771 in Land Transfer Fees from $116.8 million in sales of residential properties, commercial properties and farmland last year.
Yankton County Register of Deeds staff completed over 8,000 transactions in 2019 involving vital records, land records, copy requests and liens. Some of the records, reports and documents processed by ROD in 2019 include:
• 1,308 death records
• 1,096 birth records
• 324 marriage records
• 162 marriage licenses
• 161 burial permits
• 991 land transfers
• 947 deeds
• 809 mortgages
• 714 satisfactions
• 120 addendums
• 108 easements
• 89 assignments
• 46 plats
• 669 copy requests
• 1,109 county liens
• 166 misc. liens