Iron County, Missouri Genealogy

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History
The unusual shape of Iron County, Missouri, according to Goodspeed's 1888 History of Southeast Missouri, resulted from the difficulty inherent in creating the county. Land was taken from six other counties in order to form Iron County, but it became a challenge to accomplish this without reducing the size of those counties below their constitutional limits.

Iron County derives its name from its prevalence of iron ore. The county is located in a part of southeast Missouri that at one time was important as a mining center.

The county court first met 4 Aug 1857 at Arcadia. That was when Iron County was subdivided into the townships of Dent, Kaolin, Iron, Pilot Knob, Arcadia, Liberty, and Union.

The county is home to Pilot Knob, known as the site of a significant Civil War battle, the Battle of Pilot Knob, which took place in 1864.

For more about the history of Iron County, Missouri, see:


 * History of Iron County (Iron Co. Hist. Soc.)

Parent County
1857--Iron County was created by a legislative act of 17 February 1857 from Dent, Madison, Reynolds, St. Francis, Washington, and Wayne Counties. County seat: Ironton

Populated Places

 * Annapolis
 * Arcadia
 * Belleview
 * Bixby
 * Des Arc
 * Glover
 * Goodland
 * Hogan
 * Ironton (county seat)
 * Middle Brook
 * Pilot Knob (Wikipedia page)
 * Viburnum
 * Vulcan

In addition, see:


 * Alphabetical List of Towns, 1885, Iron County, Missouri (U.S. GenWeb Archives

Neighboring Counties

 * Crawford
 * Dent
 * Madison
 * Reynolds
 * St. Francois
 * Washington
 * Wayne

Cemeteries

 * Iron County, Missouri Cemeteries (U.S. GenWeb Archives)
 * Links to Iron County Cemeteries (Tom Caulley's Iron Co., MO Gen. Page)

1860

 * 1860 Iron County Census (surname index; Iron Co. Gen. Soc.)
 * 1860 Mortality Schedule, Iron Co., MO, part 2 (partial listing; U.S. GenWeb Archives)

1870

 * 1870 Iron County Census (surname index; Iron Co. Gen. Soc.)

1880

 * 1880 Iron County Census (surname index; Iron Co. Gen. Soc.)

1890 Special Enumeration

 * 1890 Iron County, Missouri Special Enumeration, Union Veterans Census (U.S. GenWeb Archives)

1900

 * 1900 Iron County Census (surname index; Iron Co. Gen. Soc.)

1910

 * 1910 Iron County Census
 * Iron County, Missouri 1910 Census. Arcadia, Missouri: Iron County Genealogy Society, 2001. WorldCat page.

1920

 * 1920 Iron County Census
 * 1920 Iron County, Missouri Census. Arcadia: Iron County Genealogy Society, 2002. WorldCat page.

1930

 * 1930 Iron County Census
 * 1930 Iron County, Missouri Census. Arcadia: Iron County Genealogy Society, 2003. WorldCat page.

Church

 * Lohman, Marcine. Immanuel Ev. Lutheran Church of Pilot Knob, Missouri, Iron County, 1861-1931. Firestone, CO: Self-published, 2007?. WorldCat page.

Court

 * Hackworth, Sharon. Iron County, Missouri Naturalizations, 1871-1906. Arcadia: Iron County Genealogy Society, 2007. WorldCat page.

Local Histories

 * Barnes, Thomas S. (biography, from "Goodspeed Brothers, 1894") (U.S. GenWeb Archives)
 * Citizens of Iron County: History of Southeast Missouri Biographical Appendix (Iron County Gen. Soc.)
 * Early History of Iron County: 1850-1899 (timeline; U.S. GenWeb Archives)
 * First Families of Iron County, Missouri. Arcadia, MO: Iron County Genealogy Society, 2007. WorldCat page.
 * Iron County Biographies (Tom Caulley's Iron Co., MO Gen. Page)
 * Iron County, Missouri Records. Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press, 2006. WorldCat page.
 * Ironton in 1868 (Iron Co. Hist. Soc.)

Military

 * Iron County Genealogy Society. When the Smoke Settled: Civil War Soldier Stories. Arcadia, MO: Iron County Genealogy Society, 2001?. WorldCat page.

Newspapers

 * Early Iron County, Missouri Newspaper Items (U.S. GenWeb Archives)

Schools

 * Iron County, Missouri Schools (U.S. GenWeb Archives)

Births

 * Iron County Births and Stillbirths 1883-1887

Marriages

 * Iron County Marriages 1857-1998 (Tom Caulley's Iron Co., MO Gen. Page)
 * Iron County, Missouri Marriages (U.S. GenWeb Archives)

Deaths

 * Iron County, Missouri Deaths (U.S. GenWeb Archives)
 * Links to Iron County Births, Deaths, and Obituaries (Tom Caulley's Iron Co., MO Gen. Page)

Societies and Libraries

 * Iron County Historical Society
 * Iron County, Missouri Genealogy Society

Web Sites

 * Iron County, Missouri (RootsWeb)
 * Iron County, Missouri (Wikipedia)
 * Iron County, Missouri GenWeb (MO GenWeb)
 * Iron County, Missouri GenWeb Archives (U.S. GenWeb Archives)
 * Iron County, Missouri MO-AGHP Project
 * Tom Caulley's Iron County, Missouri Genealogy Page
 * Tom Caulley's Iron County, Missouri Genealogy Page