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Comanche County Clerk Contact

The official Comanche County Clerk page identifies Bri Uhl as County Clerk and Michelle Burt as Deputy Clerk. The office is at the courthouse in Coldwater and serves as the county Election Office. It also publishes weekday hours with a noon closure, which matters for in-person records work in a rural county where visitors may drive some distance.

The County Clerk page states that the office's goal is to serve citizens with services and information as requested. That statement fits the office's role as a county government contact point, but it should not be read as a court-record help desk. For court dates, ticket costs, case copies, or certified decrees, the District Court Clerk remains the correct route.

County Clerk vs Court Clerk

Comanche County has a split clerk structure. The County Clerk handles county government records and election duties. The Clerk of the District Court handles district court case files. The County Clerk FAQ gives a direct local example: questions about a traffic ticket cost or court date should go to the District Court Clerk's Office at 620-582-2182.

The distinction also keeps tax, land, and law-enforcement requests from being mixed together. The County Clerk prepares tax rolls and levy documents, but tax payment questions may involve the Treasurer. Deed and land recording questions route to the Register of Deeds. Accident reports, civil process, fingerprints, VIN inspections, and sheriff open-records requests route to the Sheriff's Office.

Comanche County Clerk Duties

The County Clerk is the official clerk to the Board of County Commissioners and maintains Board of County Commissioner official records and minutes of all meetings. The office also performs accounts payable work, payroll functions for county departments, county employee benefits administration, and personnel file maintenance.

Tax roll work is a large part of the office. The County Clerk prepares real estate and personal property tax rolls, prepares state-assessed and special-assessment rolls, computes tax levies for all entities in Comanche County, distributes mill levy sheets, and prepares changes to the original tax roll such as abatements, refunds, and added taxes.

• Maintains and provides election information.
• Conducts and supervises elections.
• Maintains voter registration.
• Receives candidate filings.
• Secures polling sites and assigns board workers.
• Prepares ballots.

Other duties include assisting with homestead claims, issuing hunting and fishing licenses, administering oaths of office, maintaining copies of oaths, preparing tax abstracts and state reports, checking county funds through Treasurer daily statements, and assisting townships with budget preparation.

Request County Clerk Records

The research did not locate a separate County Clerk request PDF. The official County Clerk page provides office contact channels, including phone, fax, mail, in-person service, and protected email links. For county administrative records, a request should be narrow enough for staff to identify the record without creating a new report or legal explanation.

A copy request should also say whether inspection is enough or whether the requester needs a paper copy, faxed copy, mailed copy, or certified copy if that option is available for the record. If the record involves elections, tax rolls, county payroll, personnel files, or voter registration, access may be affected by privacy limits, exemptions, or office procedures. Asking for the format and cost before pickup or mailing reduces back-and-forth.

1. Identify whether the record is a county administrative record rather than a court case, sheriff record, land record, or vital record.
2. Name the record type, such as commission minutes, election information, voter registration record, tax roll item, levy sheet, oath, township report, or county report.
3. Give a date range, meeting date, election year, tax year, property or entity name, candidate name, or other locating detail.
4. Contact the County Clerk by phone, mail, fax, protected email link, or in person during posted hours.
5. Ask whether inspection, paper copies, certification, postage, or staff time costs apply before expecting the record to be prepared.

County Request Details

County administrative record requests work best when the request describes the record and the county function behind it. A broad request for all county records can be hard to process. A targeted request lets the County Clerk check commission minutes, election files, tax roll records, levies, reports, oaths, or township files more efficiently.

Comanche County Clerk Fees

The research did not locate a County Clerk fee schedule for administrative copies, certified county records, election records, fax service, postage, or staff time. Kansas public-records law allows public agencies to charge fees for providing access or copies in appropriate circumstances. The best local step is to ask Bri Uhl's office for the current cost before submitting a request that requires copying or staff search time.

Fee uncertainty should be stated plainly rather than filled with generic prices. The known fee table in the research belongs mostly to court filings, KDHE marriage certificates, sheriff services, and KBI criminal history searches. Those amounts should not be reused as County Clerk copy fees. County Clerk costs need office confirmation because the official research did not publish a local schedule.

Comanche Elections and Taxes

The County Clerk page states the office serves as the Election Office for Comanche County. That makes it the local source for election information, voter registration, candidate filings, polling site coordination, election board workers, and ballot preparation. Requests for election records should name the election date or year and the specific record sought.

Election records can be more sensitive than ordinary meeting minutes because voter registration data and election administration files may have access limits. A useful request avoids asking for broad data exports without a purpose or date range. It should name the election cycle, filing, candidate, ballot item, polling place, or registration record that the requester needs reviewed.

Tax records handled by the County Clerk are not the same as tax payments or property deeds. The Clerk prepares tax rolls, levies, mill levy sheets, tax abstracts, abatements, refunds, and added taxes. Property payment issues may involve the Treasurer, and recorded deeds route to the Register of Deeds, but the County Clerk's tax roll work is the administrative record source identified in the research.

County Record Routing Process

Choosing the right custodian is the main step for Comanche County records. The County Clerk can help with many county office records, but court, sheriff, register of deeds, and vital-statistics records have different custodians.

County administrative flow: Identify county function › contact County Clerk › give date range and record type › confirm access and fee › inspect or receive copy.

Court case flow: Search CaseSearch or courthouse terminal › contact Clerk of the District Court › request plain or certified copies › pay confirmed costs.

Other county record flow: Sheriff records route to the Sheriff's Office, land records route to the Register of Deeds, and certified marriage certificates route through KDHE when a vital-statistics certificate is needed.

Note: The County Clerk's protected email links were found on the county page, but the rendered address was not captured in the research.