Land Record Alert System

Sign up for a  free tool to help protect one of your most valuable assets.

Offered through Info Quick Solutions (IQS), ‘Fraud Alert’ will send an alert whenever a document, such as deed, mortgage, or release of mortgage is recorded under the property owner’s name. Documents can be viewed online or at the Town Clerk’s office.

“This alert system offers property owners some peace of mind,” said Town Clerk Wendy Gannon Lionetti.

When signing up, be sure to enter your name exactly as it appears on the land records and be aware that there may be other property owners in town that share your name.

Fraud Alert Sign Up


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Land Records & Survey Maps

Click Here to Access the Town of Ridgefield Land Records and Survey Maps

Land records can only be searched by owner name. Documents are searchable online from 1960 through the present. 

The Town Clerk's Office cannot perform title searches or give advice related to the preparation of documents.  We recommend seeking competent legal advice before recording a document on the land records to avoid costly and serious mistakes. 

The Ridgefield Town Clerk’s Office presents the information on this website as a service to the public. We have tried to ensure that the information contained in this index accurately represents the information recorded in this office; however, please note that recordings indexed in the previous 30 days may not have been audited. The user is advised to search on all possible spelling variations of proper names, in order to maximize the search results.

The Ridgefield Town Clerk is providing a free new tool to help property owners protect one of their most valuable assets. Sign up to receive alerts whenever a document, such as a deed or mortgage, is recorded under your name.  You can sign up at Fraud Alert - SearchIQS. Please note there may be other property owners in the town that share the same name. 

Drinking Water Source Protection Area Map (for Planning & Zoning applications)

Recording Documents

• $60 first page, $5 for each additional page (*See below regarding MERS documents)
• $2 fee for conveyances over $2,000 reportable to the state
• $20 Maps of two parcels or less
• $30 Maps more than two parcels 

All documents in which MERS is the grantor or grantee are $159.00 for the first page and $5.00 for each additional page, (per PA 13-247, Governor's Implementer Bill #6706 Sec 81 & 81) except when MERS is the grantor on an Assignment or Release, the fee is a flat fee of $159.00, (no subsequent $5 additional page fee).

Electronic Recording

The Town Clerks office accepts e-recordings for many land record documents. 

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ePN	www.goepn.com	(888) 325-3365
Indecomm Global Services	www.indecomm.net	(651) 766-2350
Simplfile	www.simplifile.com	(800) 460-5657

Copies

• $1 per page for copies of documents
• $3 map copy, $5 scale/blue line map copy
• $2 per document for a certified copy, in addition to $1 per page copy fee
• $20 hand-held scanner usage

State Conveyance Tax

• Residential dwelling or property and unimproved land that is less than $800,000.
  Consideration x .0075 = tax amount
• Portion of residential dwelling or property and unimproved land between $800,000 and $2.5 million.
  Consideration x .0125 = tax amount
• Portion of residential dwelling or property and unimproved land that exceeds $2.5 million.
  Consideration x .0225 = tax amount
• Checks made payable to Commissioner of Revenue Services

Local Conveyance Tax

• Consideration x .0025 = tax amount 
• Checks made payable to "Ridgefield Town Clerk"

List of contaminated or potentially contaminated sites (“Hazardous Waste Facilities” as defined by Section 22a-134f of the Connecticut General Statutes); Ridgefield begins on page 296.