Lisa Crane, Recorder
Taylor Thornsberry, Deputy

406 DODGE ST. 
P.O. Box 475
KEOSAUQUA, IOWA 52565
Telephone: 319 293-3240

email: lcrane@vanburencounty.iowa.gov

Office hours: 8:00 A.M. thru 4:30 P.M. - Monday thru Friday

General duties include:

• Recording official real estate documents including deeds, mortgages, easements and surveys
• Issuance of marriage licenses and certified copies of birth, death and marriage records
• DNR licensing station for boats, snowmobiles, ATVs, ORVs
• Agent for issuing hunting, fishing, trapping licenses and state and federal duck stamps
• Agent for issuing deer and turkey tags

For genealogy purposes we have:

• Real Estate records dating back to 1837
• Marriage records dating back to 1837
• Birth and death records dating back to 1880