Search Iberville Parish Property Records

Iberville Parish property records are filed with the Clerk of Court in Plaquemine and cover deeds, mortgages, conveyances, and other land documents going back generations. You can search these records online through the eClerks LA statewide portal or visit the clerk's office in person on Main Street in Plaquemine. The parish assessor also keeps ownership and valuation data that you can access separately. Both offices are your main starting points for any Iberville Parish property search.

Iberville Parish Clerk of Court

The Clerk of Court handles all recorded land documents in Iberville Parish. The office sits at 58050 Meriam Street in Plaquemine. Staff can help you search conveyances, mortgage releases, and related filings. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM.

No dedicated public website is listed for the Iberville Clerk of Court. Use eClerks LA or Clerk Connect (described below) to search records online. For in-person help, visit the Meriam Street address during business hours.

The Iberville Parish GIS mapping portal gives a visual look at parcel boundaries and ownership. Visit atlas.geoportalmaps.com/IBERVILLE to access current parcel data and maps for the parish.

The map viewer lets you click on any parcel to see the owner name, legal description, and assessed value -- a quick way to confirm a property's details before pulling full deed records.

What Property Records Are Kept in Iberville Parish

Under La. R.S. 44:1, most records created or held by public offices in Louisiana are open to inspection. The Clerk of Court's conveyance and mortgage books are the main land record sources for Iberville Parish.

The conveyance records cover every transfer of ownership -- sales, donations, successions, and partition deeds. Mortgage records show loans secured against real property, including acts of sale with mortgages and collateral mortgage notes. Both sets are indexed by grantor and grantee name, so you can search from either side of a transaction.

Other records kept in the same office include UCC filings (financing statements for personal property), mineral leases and assignments, servitude agreements, and subdivision plat maps. Plat maps matter because they define lot boundaries and can settle disputes about fences, driveways, and easements.

Recording in the parish where the land sits is required for a document to affect third parties. This rule comes from La. Civ. Code art. 3338, which says unrecorded acts are not enforceable against anyone other than the parties who signed them. That is why title searchers check the Clerk's index before every closing.

Iberville Parish sits in sugar cane country with a long history of mineral activity. Mineral lease records at the Clerk's office show who holds rights to oil, gas, and other minerals on a given tract. These leases can be separate from surface ownership, so a full title search covers both sets of records.

How to Search Iberville Parish Property Records

There are three main ways to search. Each has different costs and levels of detail.

eClerks LA (free index): eClerks LA provides a free name-based index of documents filed in Iberville Parish. You can search by grantor, grantee, or document type and see filing dates and instrument numbers. The index does not include images of the actual documents, but it tells you what exists and when it was filed. This is a solid starting point for any search.

Clerk Connect (subscription): Clerk Connect is a paid service that gives access to scanned images of recorded documents. If you need to read the full text of a deed or mortgage, a Clerk Connect subscription lets you pull those images from home or the office. Pricing is based on use volume.

In-person at the Courthouse: Walk-in searches are welcome during business hours. The Clerk's staff can help you use the index books or computer terminals. Certified copies of documents cost a per-page fee -- call (225) 687-5160 for current copy rates. Mail requests are also accepted; send a written request with the grantor or grantee name and date range to P.O. Box 423, Plaquemine, LA 70765.

The Iberville Parish Assessor's property search tool at ibervilleassessor.org/property-search/ lets you look up assessed values and owner names by address or parcel number. This is useful for confirming ownership before pulling deed records from the Clerk's office.

Iberville Parish Assessor

The Assessor's office is headed by John Randall "Randy" Sexton. It shares the courthouse building at 58050 Meriam Street. The Assessor values all real and personal property in the parish for ad valorem tax purposes each year.

Louisiana law sets assessment ratios by property class under La. Const. art. VII, sec. 18. Residential property is assessed at 10% of fair market value. Commercial property is assessed at 15%. Public service properties -- railroads, utilities -- are assessed at 25%. The Assessor applies these ratios to set the taxable value on which your bill is based.

If you think your property is over-assessed, you can appeal to the Iberville Parish Board of Review and then to the Louisiana Tax Commission. Deadlines for appeals are set each year during the open inspection period. Watch the Assessor's website for dates and act fast -- you can't appeal after the window closes.

Property Taxes in Iberville Parish

Property tax bills in Iberville Parish go out in the fall. They are due by December 31 of each year. Miss that date and interest and penalties begin to accrue right away.

The parish tax collector holds a tax sale for properties with unpaid taxes, usually in the spring. After a tax sale, the original owner has three years to redeem the property by paying the back taxes, interest, and costs. This right of redemption is strong in Louisiana. Buyers at tax sales typically cannot take possession until the redemption period ends. If you are researching a property with a tax sale in its history, check whether redemption occurred before assuming the title is clean.

Under La. R.S. 44:411, tax records are permanent public records. That means old assessment rolls and tax sale records are retained and can be inspected. If you need records going back decades, the Clerk's office and the tax collector's files can both be useful sources. Tax records often show who owned a property in years when deed records are incomplete or hard to read.

Homestead exemptions are available for owner-occupied primary residences. The first $75,000 of assessed value is exempt from parish and city taxes (but not from special assessments). To claim the exemption, file with the Assessor's office. You only need to file once as long as you stay in the same home and ownership does not change.

Nearby Parishes

Properties along Iberville Parish borders may have records filed in adjacent parishes. Check these offices if a tract crosses a parish line or sits near a boundary.