Detroit City Property Records in Illinois
Detroit, Illinois, is a tiny village in Pike County in west-central Illinois, in farming country between the Illinois and Mississippi rivers and unrelated to the Michigan city. Its records are kept at the Pike County level.
Deeds, mortgages and plats are recorded by the Pike County Recorder in Pittsfield, the county seat. The Pike County Supervisor of Assessments maintains parcel and farmland assessment information, and the Pike County Treasurer collects property taxes. Court filings that affect title, such as foreclosures or quiet title actions, are on file with the Pike County Circuit Clerk (Eighth Judicial Circuit). Local questions about the village can go to the Village of Detroit. Early Illinois land patents are also searchable through the Illinois State Archives.