Jefferson County, Oregon Genealogy

United States Oregon  Jefferson County



County Courthouse
County Clerk has marriage, divorce, probate and land records from 1914.

Jefferson County Government

County Records Inventory listing the records held at the Jefferson County Court House as of July 2011.

Jefferson County Court is structured differently. Check the County Records Inventory link for addresses for location of records (left column).

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs maintain separate government.


 * Culver was the county seat 1914 to 1916


 * Record Loss:

Historical Facts
Named for Mount Jefferson, located on west boundary. It was named in turn for, third president of the United States of America by.

Trivia Tidbits: Little biographic bits associated with the names of non-population localities.

Parent County
12 Decembr 1914: Created from Crook County.

Cities
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Culver | Madras | Metolius

Communities
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Ashwood | Camp Sherman | Horse Heaven | Warm Springs

Indian Reservation
Warm Springs (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs)

Neighboring Counties
Crook | Deschutes | Linn | Marion | Wasco | Wheeler

Trivia Tidbits
Information about localities, too small or too brief to describe in separate pages. Exception to this are Post Offices. &gt; Trivia Tidbits

Cemeteries (rural area)
Gray Butte Cemetery

Census

 * 1920
 * 1930

Rivers and Waterways
Details about the rivers and waterways where farms and settlements are often found along them. &gt;&gt; Rivers and Waterways

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Websites

 * The Jefferson County GenWeb Project part of The ORGenWeb Project
 * Linkpendium
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project (Backup site)