About the Curry County Clerk
Curry County was formed in 1909 from parts of Quay and Roosevelt counties and named for George Curry, who was serving as territorial governor of New Mexico at the time. Its seat, Clovis, was platted in 1907 as a Santa Fe Railway division point and, according to local lore, was named by a railroad official's daughter after the fifth-century Frankish king Clovis I -- two decades before archaeologists digging nearby at Blackwater Draw identified the Clovis culture, one of the earliest known human cultures in North America, and borrowed the town's name for it. Sitting on the flat High Plains along the Texas border, the county built its early economy on dryland wheat and sorghum farming until deep-well irrigation arrived in the 1940s, after which dairying expanded to become one of the leading segments of the local economy. Cannon Air Force Base, home to Air Force Special Operations units since the World War II era, is another major fixture of Curry County's economy and population.
Cities and Communities Served
Recording jurisdiction runs countywide, not by city limits — if the property sits anywhere within Curry County, this is the Curry County Clerk that will accept the deed. That includes:
Incorporated cities: Clovis (county seat), Texico, Melrose, Grady.
Unincorporated communities: Broadview, Bellview, Pleasant Hill, Ranchvale.
Office Details
Address: 417 Gidding St, Suite 130, Clovis, NM 88101
Phone: (575) 763-5591
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Recording Fee: New Mexico charges a flat, statute-set recording fee per document, with an added fee once a document runs past a set number of index entries -- not a percentage of the property's value. Contact the county clerk's office for current amounts.
E-recording: Curry County is part of the CSC eRecording network, allowing deeds and other real property documents to be submitted electronically.
Good to know before you go: Even though the Curry County Clerk's office keeps counter hours until 5:00 p.m., documents submitted for recording are only accepted until 4:00 p.m. -- arriving late in the afternoon can mean a document gets recorded the next business day instead of the same day.
How to File a Document
- Sign in Front of a Notary -- In Person or Remotely: New Mexico requires the grantor's signature to be acknowledged before a notary public before the Curry County Clerk will accept a deed for recording. New Mexico has permitted remote online notarization on a permanent basis since January 1, 2022, under the state's Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts (NMSA 1978, Sections 14-14A-1 to 14-14A-32) -- the notary handling it must be commissioned and physically located in New Mexico at the time, even if you're signing from somewhere else.
- Attach a Full Legal Description, Not Just an Address: A street address alone won't satisfy New Mexico's requirements -- the deed needs the property's actual legal description (a metes-and-bounds description, a government survey reference, or a platted lot and block, depending on how the parcel was originally surveyed and subdivided), plus a reference to the prior deed that brought the property into the grantor's name, to keep the chain of title intact. You can usually copy the legal description directly from the deed that transferred the property to you.
- Get Both Spouses to Sign if It's Community Property: New Mexico is a community property state, and state law (NMSA 1978, Section 40-3-13) generally requires both spouses to join in a deed transferring community real property -- even when only one spouse's name appears on the title. Skipping the second signature doesn't necessarily void the transfer outright, but it leaves the deed open to being challenged, so it's worth confirming with the Curry County Clerk or an attorney whether your specific situation calls for both signatures before you file.
- File a Real Property Transfer Declaration Affidavit With the Assessor: For most residential property transfers, New Mexico law (NMSA 1978, Section 7-38-12.1) also requires a separate Real Property Transfer Declaration Affidavit to be filed with the county assessor's office -- not the Curry County Clerk -- within thirty days of recording the deed. It's a distinct step from recording itself, used to keep the assessor's records current for property tax purposes, and the assessor's office can supply the current form.
- Record With the County Clerk: Bring, mail, or (where the county supports it) e-file the signed, notarized deed with the Curry County Clerk for the county where the property sits. New Mexico charges a flat, statute-set recording fee per document, with an added fee once a document runs past a set number of index entries -- never a percentage of the property's value -- and the state has no separate real estate transfer tax on top of it. The first page needs roughly an inch and a half of blank space at the top for the clerk's recording stamp, with the document's title placed just below it.
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Other Counties in New Mexico
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