Septic records and services in Lafayette, Oregon

In Yamhill County, Oregon, which covers Lafayette, we have measured 8,576 parcels on septic and 23,809 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Lafayette on its own and this page does not estimate one.

What Lafayette is, in the records

Lafayette is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 45.246856, -123.111899 and its land area at 0.93 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the city level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.

What we hold for the county that covers Lafayette

Our collection for Yamhill County, Oregon is small, at 285 septic records. Treat it as a starting point for a Lafayette property rather than a search that settles the question. The county is genuinely mixed: 8,576 of 32,385 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a Lafayette address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. The county publishes a records portal that we were able to search without creating an account, which makes checking a specific parcel something you can do yourself in a few minutes.

Start from who you are

Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.

Questions people ask

Does Parcel Perfect have a septic count for Lafayette?

No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Yamhill County, Oregon, which covers Lafayette, we have measured 8,576 parcels on septic and 23,809 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Lafayette on its own and this page does not estimate one.

Which county is Lafayette in?

Lafayette is in Yamhill County, Oregon.

Records and services around Lafayette

• Yamhill County septic records — what we hold, and where the county keeps the originals
• Oregon septic regulations — the rules that actually bind here, which no page on this site restates from memory
• Oregon septic records index

ZIP codes that overlap Lafayette

From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Lafayette’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.

• ZIP 97127 (98% of the city)
• ZIP 97128 (2% of the city)

Nearest other places

Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Lafayette.

• Dayton — 2.5 mi
• Carlton — 4.5 mi
• McMinnville — 4.6 mi
• Dundee — 5.5 mi
• St. Paul — 7.0 mi
• Yamhill — 7.4 mi
• Newberg — 8.5 mi
• Amity — 10.0 mi
• Gaston — 13.1 mi
• Donald — 13.5 mi
• Butteville — 13.5 mi
• Woodburn — 14.0 mi
• Gervais — 14.2 mi
• Sherwood — 15.2 mi
• Hubbard — 15.5 mi
• Brooks — 15.5 mi
• Cherry Grove — 15.6 mi
• Dilley — 16.9 mi
• Labish Village — 17.1 mi
• Wilsonville — 17.2 mi
• Aurora — 17.3 mi
• Keizer — 17.4 mi
• Sheridan — 17.4 mi
• Bull Mountain — 17.8 mi
• King City — 18.3 mi
• Tualatin — 18.7 mi
• Barlow — 19.0 mi
• Cornelius — 19.0 mi

Get the septic design for a property here

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 Yamhill County, Oregon.

Open the parcel map and design tool