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Benton County Records Inventory
County Commissioners Orders, Ordinances, and Resolutions
1960-[ongoing]
Series documents orders, ordinances, and resolutions passed by the board of county commissioners and the county court regulating and establishing guidelines for specific activities within the county. Information includes activity covered by order, ordinance, or resolution; administrative action number; who introduced; findings of fact; conclusions; recommendations; date heard; and hearings officer name and signature. Activities include noise abatement, nuisances, zoning, animal control, solid waste management, land division regulations, elections, comprehensive plan, and road and bridge use limits.
Orders, Ordinances, and Resolutions are also recorded in the M Series Clerk's Recordings. See the Clerk and Recorder Official Filings series.
Benton County Courthouse, Recorder's Vault:
[Board of Commissioners Meeting Packets-includes minutes, orders, ordinances,
and resolutions], 1996 (3 cu.ft.);
[Orders, Ordinances, and Resolutions],
1991-present (.60 cu.ft.);
[Ordinances], 1991-1994 (.25 cu.ft.);
[Resolutions], 1984-1994 (.10 cu.ft.).
Benton County Courthouse, Clerk's Vault:
Benton County Orders and Resolutions, 1972-1981 (1
cu.ft.);
BOC [Board of Commissioners Ordinances], ca.1979 (13 sheets of microfilm jackets);
BOC [Board of Commissioners Resolutions], 1980-1985 (.50 inch of microfilm
jackets);
BOC Files Sunsetted [Board of Commissioners-Zoning
Ordinance], 1982 (1 volume);
BOC Orders [Board of Commissioners], 1980-1985 (.50 inch of microfilm
jackets);
Development Case Files [Planning Files-includes planning commission minutes,
subdivision and partition case files, comprehensive plan amendments, zoning
text changes, and various other actions], ca.1981-ca.1993 (ca.48 inches
of microfilm jackets);
Ordinances BOC [Board of Commissioners-includes
comprehensive plan and zoning ordinances], 1970-1981 (.50
cu.ft.);
Planning Case Files [Planning Files-includes planning commission minutes,
subdivision and partition case files, comprehensive plan amendments, zoning
text changes, and various other actions], ca.1970-ca.1980 (12 inches
of microfilm jackets);
Sunsetted Ordinances [includes 1980 comprehensive plan and
zoning ordinance], 1974-1984 (1 cu.ft.).
Benton Plaza, County Board of Commissioners Office, Room 111:
BOC Meeting Packets [Board of Commissioners-includes
minutes, orders, ordinances, and resolutions-title varies],
2004-present (11 cu.ft.);
Ordinances
[County-includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and land division information],
1983-present (6 cu.ft.);
Ordinances [Land Use-includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and land division
information], 1979-1985 (1 binder).
Avery Land Services Building, Community Development
Office:
Comp. Plan Ordinances [Comprehensive], 2000-present (1 binder);
Development Code Ordinances [includes zoning and land
division information], 1990-present (1 binder);
[Miscellaneous Benton County Planning Publications-includes comprehensive
plan, zoning, and land division information], 1968-1990 (ca.2 cu.ft.);
Planning Files [includes planning commission minutes,
subdivision and partition case files, comprehensive plan
amendments, zoning text changes, and various other actions],
1969-1994 (38 inches of microfiche);
[Planning Files-includes subdivision and partition case files,
comprehensive plan amendments, zoning text changes, and other
actions], 1998-present (48 cu.ft.);
Zoning Codes, vol. A, 1960-1989 (1 binder).
Avery Land Services Building, Self Help Area:
Benton County Development Code [includes zoning and land division information],
1999 (1 binder).
Benton County Public Works Storage Building, Second Floor Community
Development Area:
Planning Files [includes subdivision and partition case files, comprehensive
plan amendments, zoning text changes, and other actions], 1993-1997 (20 cu.ft.).
Benton County Records Center:
B.C. Meeting Packets [Board of Commissioners-includes minutes, orders,
ordinances, and resolutions-title varies], 1994-2003 (ca.32 cu.ft.).
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, Second Floor:
Benton County Charter and Code, 1972-present (1 binder);
Benton County Development Code [includes zoning and land division information],
1999 (1 binder).
Benton County Web Site:
Benton County Code, n.d.-present (Internet);
Development Code [includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and land development information], ca.1990-present (Internet).
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