This catalog of Collections at the County Archives includes a listing of records and materials housed and available for research and viewing in our reading room by appointment. Please contact us to book an appointment. Please visit the Clerk-Recorder’s Office website for records indicating to contact their office.

Story on Open Data efforts in the County of Santa Clara

Fiscal Year 2019-20 Adopted Budget for all children- and youth-oriented programs and services in the County of Santa Clara.

This Naturalization Index lists 8,000 individuals naturalized in Santa Clara County courts from 1850 to 1934. Each entry may include the name of the person naturalized, their nationality, the date of admission, the court in which they were naturalized, and a book and page reference.

The Archives does not hold any naturalization records, which are in the custody of the Santa Clara County Superior Court at 191 N. First Street, San Jose. The County's Declarations of Intention from 1850 to 1930 have been microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, and the microfilm should be available through Family History Centers. A copy of the microfilm also may be viewed at the California State Archives in Sacramento.

The Points of Interest (POI) Dataset is a digital representation of the physical geographic and commercial features across all of Santa Clara County. This dataset aims to provide accurate location information in the map. Sources: Info USA (2010), California Department Of Education (2016), Santa Clara County Combined data (2016).

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Data on County employee demographics and job categories and functions as defined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. More information about the job categories and functions can be found in Appendix 2 and Section 5C at the following link: https://eeocdata.org/EEO4/howto/instructionbooklet

The County Clerk-Recorder records average customer wait-time for the official records, vital records, fictitious business name, marriages, passports, and other services the Clerk- Recorder provides to County residents.

The Coroner Inquests Collection consists of 9,600 reports of corner inquests from 1891 to 1932. Coroner inquests were made to establish a cause of death. Each inquest record includes basic information about the subject of the inquest (name, age, country of birth, and residence at time of death), date of death, and the cause of death established by the inquest. Additional remarks or notes also are sometimes present.
You may search the coroner inquests collection using the index below. Each index entry includes the name of the deceased, his or her birthplace, age, residence at death, date of death, and volume and page location. The Corner Registers, which contain the inquest reports, are available at the County Archives. Additional information about any inquest also may be obtained by contacting the Archives by e-mail or phone.

The County Photographers' Collection consists of over 57,000 images which depict a wide array of the County's activities and development between 1950 and 1993. The pictures include aerial photographs of rural and urban parts of the county; portraits, award ceremonies, and retirement functions of county officials and employees; interior and exterior construction progress of various county buildings, such as the county government center, county service center, juvenile center, public and mental health centers, county jails and hospitals; and a variety of photographs that include the airports, schools, courts, and parks throughout the county. Of the 57,000 images, approximately 50,000 are negatives, 2,500 slides, and 4,500 prints. The photographs are available for viewing at the County Archives. For additional information about the collection, please see the description in the http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt00002317