ONLINE TAX RECORDS.

Tax records are online beginning with the 1999 tax year (taxes payable for 2000).
Click here to access online tax records.

Search Strategy:

• Use a parcel number if known

• If no parcel is available:

  • Search by site addresses first and use minimal information
     (enter the house number and part of the street name)

  • Search by owner name
    (Start by specifying only the last name.  Don't enter address or other information)

OTHER TAX RECORDS.  Tax records prior to the 1999 tax year are stored in book format.  Contact the Treasurer’s office to request specific records.

HISTORICAL TAX RECORDS.  The following historical Adams County tax records are stored at Gardner Museum of Architecture and Design:

Annual Real Estate Tax Assessment and Collections Books

City of Quincy:	1854-1930
	except 1857, 1862, 1881
Adams County (excludes Quincy):	1851-1860
Adams County Townships                                                 (includes Beverly, Columbus, Houston,      Keene, Lima, Liberty, McKee, Melrose,      Mendon, Northeast, Payson and Ursa)	1880
Personal property taxes                                                  (includes the City of Quincy and the townships of      Beverly, Burton, Clayton, Ellington, Gilmer, Keene,      Lima, Melrose,  Mendon, Northeast and Richfield)	1880
Railroad tax books	1873-1877 1800-1881 1897-1936
Quincy	1906

Delinquent lands and town lots sold in December 1823 for 1882 taxes

Mortgage loans prior to 1897

Further information may be available from the Secretary of State Archives Department in Springfield, Illinois. Contact (217) 782-4682 for more information.