Get a Death Certificate in Northampton County, PA
This service isn't handled by the Register of Wills & Orphans' Court. Here's where to go instead.
Certified death certificates are issued by Pennsylvania Vital Records (Department of Health), not the county office. Note: some county Registers of Wills hold pre-1906 birth and death records for genealogical research.
🌐 Go to the official portalhealth.pa.gov ↗Northampton County's Register of Wills & Orphans' Court holds death records from 1893 to 1936. Its own page says: “Death Records FROM 1893 to 1936, are available in the Northampton County, Register of Wills Office” (as of 26 September 2026) ↗
If you need a certified copy of a current death certificate, that is not this office. It comes from Pennsylvania Vital Records (Department of Health, Division of Vital Records, New Castle) — the route above.
Each certificate is $20.00. Posting this form is the cheapest route — ordering online adds a $10.00 service fee on top. Mail it to the Division of Vital Records in New Castle, or take it to one of the six walk-in offices (Erie, Harrisburg, New Castle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton), where a request handed in before 2.30pm can be issued the same day; Philadelphia is by appointment, the other five take walk-ins. Pennsylvania vital records are state-held, so this office cannot issue one.
⚠️ This office does not process death certificates. Use the agency linked above. The office below is your county's Register of Wills & Orphans' Court — useful for other services.