Chilton County Alabama Property Tax Ledgers 1872 - 1915, Scattered

Chilton County Tax Office Books That Have Been Scanned

Chilton Co Tax Ledger Books
Chilton Co Original Land Patents (broken down by Township/Section)
Chilton Co Plat Books (by year, then by Township/Section)

Transcription Progress of the Above Scans

Chilton Co Tax Ledger Books ( ONLY 1872, 1873, 1880, 1895 are currently indexed.)
- Some pages have duplicates where clerks copied the ledger by hand.
- Earliest (1872-1874) are strictly alphabetical by name.
- Later (1875->) are alpha by name, within electoral beats/precincts.
- Lots in towns often have no S/T/R values, only a comment, perhaps with lot numbers.

Detailed List of All Tax Ledger Books Scanned				Green=index done		Yellow=index partial
1872	1873	1874	1875 (first by "beats")	1877	1878	1879
1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1887	1888
1889	1891	1892	1893-1896	1893	1894	1895	1896
1897-1900	1897	1905-1908	1906 book 1	1906 book 2	1907 book 1	1907 book 2	1908
1909-1912	1909	1911 book 1	1911 book 2	1911 book 3	1912 book 1	1912 book 2	1913 book 1
1914 book 1	1914 book 2	1915 book 1	1915 book 2

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To search the tax ledger records by SECTION / TOWNSHIP / RANGE

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(See maps and diagrams below for rough ideas of Chilton County townships)

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Detailed List of All Tax Plat Books Scanned
1920-1923	1924-1927	1928-1931	1932-1935	1936-1939
1940-1943	1944-1949	1950-1955	1956-1961	1962-1967
1968-1975	1976-1981	1982-1987

Left image is a Township map of Chilton County, right is an approximate beat map from at least 1875 to 1895:


The diagram on the left below shows the section breakdown of a Township (like: T23 R13) and on the right is a further breakdown of a section. A section is 1 mile on each side (usually) and so a Township is 6 miles by 6 miles.

(Note: since the earth is a sphere and we are working with a flat map, there are a few oddities... like the sections in T23 R12 bordering T23 R13 which narrow to almost zero width by the northern county line and expand to full size by the lower part of the state. How the insides of those odd sections are numbered and described is largely a mystery to me.)