In Washington County, Maine, which covers Machias, we hold 7,288 septic records. Parcels there are not yet classified septic against sewer, so this page reports documents held and nothing beyond them.
Machias is a census-designated place in Washington County, Maine. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 44.70064, -67.478612 and its land area at 2.70 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the census-designated place level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.
| County | Records we hold | Parcels on septic | Parcels on sewer | County records portal | Searchable without an account |
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| Washington County | 7,288 | none held | none held | county portal | account or login required |
We hold 7,288 septic records for Washington County, Maine. That is a substantial partial collection rather than a complete one, so a Machias property may or may not appear in it, and the county archive remains the authority. The county publishes a records portal, but reaching the documents needs an account or a login, so budget for that step rather than expecting an open search.
Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.
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No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Washington County, Maine, which covers Machias, we hold 7,288 septic records. Parcels there are not yet classified septic against sewer, so this page reports documents held and nothing beyond them.
Machias is in Washington County, Maine.
From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Machias’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.
Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Machias.
Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Washington County, Maine.