The four offices you may deal with
County clerk. Certificates of title, title transfers, duplicates, lien filings and releases, recorded affidavits of conversion, and delinquent property tax bills after they transfer from the sheriff.
Property valuation administrator (PVA). Assessment of the home and land, ownership and mailing address records, and exemption applications such as the homestead exemption.
Sheriff. Collection of the current-year property tax bill.
District court clerk. Probate, when an owner has died and the estate needs a representative with authority to sign.
Getting a useful answer on the first call
Have the VIN or serial number, the property address, the parcel number if you have a tax bill, and the name exactly as it appears on the title or deed. Say plainly what you are trying to do — "I need to find out whether there is still an active title on a manufactured home" is a question a clerk can answer in a minute. "I have a trailer question" is not.
Small-county realities
In many Kentucky counties the clerk's office is small, extremely knowledgeable, and closed at lunch. Deputy clerks in the coalfield counties handle manufactured home titles constantly and are usually the fastest source of accurate local procedure — faster than any statewide summary, including this one.