Business search · Oregon
Oregon business search
The Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division keeps the official record of every company, LLC and corporation registered in Oregon. Look one up by name and see entity type, formation date and registered agent. Clerkfield reads Oregon's open data directly, and every result shows the source and the date of the data.
What Oregon's records include
The fields a Clerkfield result returns for Oregon, taken from the state's own record.
- Legal name
- Registry number
- Entity type
- Registry date
- Principal place of business address (or mailing address)
- Mailing address
- Registered agent name and address
- Authorized representative name and address
- Jurisdiction of formation
Not in Oregon's free records
Active companies only.
Types of business Oregon registers
- Domestic Limited Liability Company
- Assumed Business Name
- Domestic Business Corporation
- Foreign Limited Liability Company
- Domestic Nonprofit Corporation
- Foreign Business Corporation
- Domestic Professional Corporation
- Domestic Limited Partnership
- Cooperative
What Oregon's statuses mean
Oregon uses its own words for a business's standing. Clerkfield keeps the state's wording in every result and marks each one active or inactive.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Active | The registration is current. Every record in Oregon's open data, and so every Oregon result from Clerkfield, is active. |
| Inactive | The registration has ended, whether the business dissolved itself, was dissolved by the state, withdrew or merged. Inactive records are left out of Oregon's open data. |
| Administratively dissolved | The state ended the registration because the annual report was not filed. The business can generally apply to reinstate within five years. |
How to search Oregon records by hand
The state's own search is at sos.oregon.gov.
- Open sos.oregon.gov/business/Pages/find.aspx and enter the business name or registry number, or use the Advanced Business Name Search.
- Open the matching registry record.
- Read the entity status and the Next Renewal Date at the top of the record.
- Review the Summary History for recent filings, and print filing images free if you need them.
Fees and how current the data is
Fees
Searching is free, and many filing images can be printed free from the search. A Certificate of Existence costs $10 online and arrives in minutes.
How current it is
Open data refreshed weekly
Good to know about Oregon records
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Oregon's open data lists active registrations only, so a company Clerkfield cannot find may be inactive, not unregistered.
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The data names a registered agent and an authorized representative, but no members, managers or officers.
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Assumed business names (DBAs) get their own registry number even when an LLC or corporation owns them, so a search can return the DBA and its owner as separate records.
Liens on Oregon businesses
Oregon UCC filings are kept by the Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division, UCC section and searched at secure.sos.state.or.us. Clerkfield doesn't search Oregon liens yet.
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Not necessarily. Oregon's open data only holds active registrations, so an inactive or dissolved company returns nothing. Check the Secretary of State's Business Name Search, which shows inactive records too.
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Not in its open data. Each record names the registered agent, the principal place of business, a mailing address and, for some entities, an authorized representative, but no list of members or officers.
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Oregon gives every assumed business name its own registry number, even when an LLC or corporation owns it. Match the DBA to the owning entity before you fund.
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Most entities renew every year on the anniversary of their filing, and assumed business names renew every two years. The registry record shows the next renewal date.
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Order a Certificate of Existence through the Oregon Business Registry online. It costs $10 by card and arrives within minutes.