Search Taunton Phone Directory

The Taunton phone directory provides contact numbers for city offices, county buildings, courts, and the Northern District Registry of Deeds all based in this Bristol County seat. Because Taunton is the county seat, it hosts more government offices than most cities its size. The Superior Court, Probate Court, District Court, and county commissioners all have offices here. That makes the Taunton phone directory especially useful for anyone who deals with Bristol County government. This page gathers the main phone numbers so you can reach the right office on the first try. Use the search tool or browse the listings below.

Taunton County Office Phone Numbers

As the Bristol County seat, Taunton is home to the county commissioners and several key county offices. The commissioners manage county-level services including courts, land records, correctional facilities, and the county law library. Their main office is on Court Street.

John R. Mitchell serves as Commissioner. The office handles public records requests for county-level documents. You can submit requests by phone, mail, or through the online public records request form. The mailing address is PO Box 208, Taunton, MA 02780.

The Bristol County Sheriff's Office has a civil process location in Taunton at 4 Court Street, Suite 106. Call (508) 828-1832 or (508) 828-1858 for civil process matters. The main sheriff's office is in North Dartmouth at (508) 995-6400, but the Taunton branch handles papers for the northern part of the county.

Note: The county commissioners office and the Taunton city government are separate entities with different phone numbers.

Northern District Registry in Taunton

The Bristol County Registry of Deeds Northern District sits in Taunton and serves 12 communities. This is the largest of the three Bristol County registry districts by number of towns served. Land records here go all the way back to April 1735, which makes it one of the oldest collections in the state.

The Northern District covers Taunton, Attleboro, Mansfield, North Attleborough, Norton, Raynham, Dighton, Easton, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Berkley, and part of Freetown. The Attleboro satellite office at 75 Park Street gives residents in the northern part of the county a closer option for land records services.

You can search records free online at tauntondeeds.com or through masslandrecords.com. The online index goes back to Book 24, recorded in 1735. All land court documents and recorded land plans are also available online. Viewing is free. Printing costs $1 per page.

The Taunton Registry website shows the full fee schedule, recording requirements, and search instructions for anyone looking up property records in the northern part of Bristol County.

Recording fees are the same across all three Bristol County districts. A deed costs $155 to record. Mortgages are $205. Homestead declarations are $35.

Taunton Court Phone Numbers

Taunton hosts several courts because it is the county seat. The Superior Court criminal session, the main Probate and Family Court, and a District Court all operate from buildings in downtown Taunton. These courts handle cases from towns across the county.

The Taunton District Court serves Berkley, Dighton, Easton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Taunton. You can email the clerk at cmtauntondc@jud.state.ma.us or fax documents to (508) 824-2282. The Superior Court in Taunton handles criminal matters only. Jennifer Sullivan serves as Clerk of Courts and Aaron Strojny is the ADA Coordinator at (508) 823-6588.

The Probate and Family Court at 40 Broadway, Suite 240 is the main office for all of Bristol County. Call (508) 977-6040 or email bristolprobate@jud.state.ma.us. They handle divorce, custody, estate, guardianship, and name change cases. Satellite offices in Fall River and New Bedford also take filings, so you have three locations to choose from.

The Juvenile Court at 40 Broadway, Suite 1521 can be reached at (508) 977-4910 or by email at bristol-jccallctr@jud.state.ma.us. The Housing Court at the same address handles landlord-tenant cases for Attleboro, Berkley, Dighton, Easton, Mansfield, North Attleboro, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Taunton.

The Bristol County District Attorney has a Taunton office at 40 Broadway, Suite 200. Call (508) 823-8801 for the DA's District and Juvenile Court staff.

How to Find Taunton Phone Numbers

For city-level contacts, start with the Taunton city government website. For county-level offices, the Bristol County website lists departments and phone numbers. Court phone numbers are available on the Massachusetts Trial Court site at mass.gov.

If you are searching for land records, you can look up deeds for free at masslandrecords.com. Select the Bristol Northern district from the dropdown to search the Taunton registry. The system lets you search by name, address, book and page, or document number. All records from 1735 forward are indexed. Documents recorded after January 1, 1960 are fully searchable by all fields. Older records are limited to grantor and grantee name searches.

The Bristol County Sheriff's Office public records line is (508) 995-1311 ext. 2406. For civil process, the Taunton branch at 4 Court Street is the closer option for anyone in the northern half of the county. The main switchboard in North Dartmouth is (508) 995-6400.

Note: Taunton hosts both city and county offices, so make sure you are calling the right level of government for your needs.

Bristol County Phone Directory

Taunton serves as the seat of Bristol County, a county of 20 cities and towns with a population near 589,000. Bristol County is unique in Massachusetts for having three separate Registry of Deeds districts. For the full county phone directory including all three registries, every court location, and the sheriff's office contacts, visit the main Bristol County page.

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