Get a Death Certificate in Potter County, PA
This service isn't handled by the Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts. 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 ↗Potter County's Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts holds birth and death records for 1893-1905. Its own page says: “Our office carries death/birth records for 1893-1905, for all other records, please contact Division of Vital Statistics, New Castle, PA” (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 Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts — useful for other services.