Notary in Johnston County, North Carolina.
Johnston County is in North Carolina's Coastal Plain. Once online notarization opens, you can have many documents notarized from Clayton, Smithfield and Selma on live video, with a commissioned North Carolina notary.
Launch List members get first pick of appointments in launch week, plus $5 off their first online session.
Johnston County: fewer miles between you and a notary.
Life in Johnston County, near the Neuse River, doesn't revolve around office hours. Online sessions will include Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings.
Skip traffic and waiting rooms. Once online notarization opens, sessions will include evenings and Saturdays, and we check your document for missing pages and signature blocks before you pay.
Clayton, Smithfield and the I-95 corridor.
Johnston County is one of the fastest-growing counties in North Carolina, with Clayton and the western end of the county filling with Raleigh commuters. Smithfield, the county seat, is home to the Ava Gardner Museum and Carolina Premium Outlets, near where I-95 and I-40 meet.
For commuters, getting to a notary during business hours is the hard part. Online notarization will let you sign many documents from home in Clayton, Smithfield or Selma, on a weekday evening or Saturday morning.
Local tip: Buying or selling a home here? North Carolina closings are supervised by an attorney. Ask your closing attorney which documents can be signed online.
Every way to notarize in Johnston County.
Sign from Smithfield or anywhere in the U.S.$25 per signature
About 190 miles from Smithfield. For documents that must be signed in person$10 per signature
Fees follow G.S. 10B-31. Mobile travel is at the IRS business mileage rate and agreed in writing before we travel. No booking or convenience fees.
Wills, codicils, trusts and vehicle titles can't be notarized online. Health care powers of attorney and living wills need two qualified witnesses. What must be signed in person
What Johnston County families ask us for.
- Affidavits on a lunch break. Most online sessions take about 15 minutes once your document passes our review.
- Family members in different places. Each signer can join from wherever they are in the U.S., when the document allows it.
- Consent and travel forms. Minor travel consent and other everyday forms, reviewed before you pay.
- Financial power of attorney. Notarized online, a power of attorney must be recorded with a North Carolina Register of Deeds.
What happens when you sign online.
- A state-licensed platform. Your session runs on a platform licensed by the North Carolina Secretary of State, never Zoom or FaceTime.
- Your photo ID is scanned. The platform checks that your government-issued ID is genuine.
- A few identity questions. Drawn from public records, so only you should know the answers.
- Your notary matches your face to your ID on live video, then watches you sign.
- Recorded and kept as North Carolina law requires, and your sealed document is delivered electronically.
Johnston County questions.
Is there a notary office in Smithfield?
Our office is in the Charlotte area, by appointment. For Johnston County, our service is online notarization once it launches. For documents that must be signed in person, use a local notary or book our Charlotte-area office.
Where is the Johnston County Register of Deeds?
In Smithfield, the county seat. A power of attorney notarized online must be recorded with a North Carolina Register of Deeds. Ask the person who prepared the document which county to record in.
When will online notarization start?
Online notarization in North Carolina starts once the Secretary of State licenses the first platform. No date has been announced. Join the Launch List and we'll email you the day our online appointments open.