Reference architecture · Northeast Texas (Sabine basin)

https://Rains.County.Land

Every recorded instrument in Rains County since 1879 has been OCR'd, parsed, and tagged to the abstract it touches. 300 abstract polygons, 11,792 surface tracts with owner names, 195,432 documents — the deepest single-county dataset we own and the model for what every County.Land Foundation becomes once OCR is complete.

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Layers
Heat (5-yr activity: leases + permits) None 1 to 3 4 to 10 11 to 25 26+ Well/permit
195,432Recorded instruments (OCR'd)
300GLO survey abstracts
11,792Surface tracts (CAD)
1879Earliest year of record

The county

Rains County, at a glance.

Rains County Courthouse, Emory, Texas
Rains County Courthouse · Emory, Texas
Region
Northeast Texas (Sabine basin)
County seat
Emory
Cities
Emory (county seat) · plus Point, East Tawakoni

A little history

Created June 9, 1870 from parts of Hopkins, Hunt, Wood, and Van Zandt counties. Named for Emory Rains, a Republic of Texas legislator who pushed the bill creating the county. Emory, the seat, takes his given name. The county is small (about 232 sq mi) and sits on the south shore of Lake Tawakoni — but every chain of title back to sovereignty has been OCR'd and tagged abstract-by-abstract, all 195,432 instruments.

Public records

Courthouse and records, Rains County.

Courthouse: 167 E. Quitman Street, Emory, TX 75440

Rains County Clerk

Deeds, oil & gas leases, mineral conveyances, releases, affidavits of heirship, probate filings, marriage and birth records.

Address: 167 E. Quitman Street, Emory, TX 75440
Phone: (903) 473-2461

Rains District Clerk

Civil suits affecting title (quiet title, partition, declaratory judgments), trespass to try title, condemnation, contested probate.

Address: 167 E. Quitman Street, Emory, TX 75440
Phone: (903) 473-2461

Online records

For sovereignty-to-current chain of title in Rains County, our title team pulls deed records in person and reconciles them against the online index. Online date ranges vary by vendor and aren't always complete; for closing-grade title work, we verify at the courthouse.