Furnas County, Nebraska Genealogy

United States Nebraska  Furnas County

Furnas County, Nebraska genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

County Courthouse
Furnas County Courthouse 912 R St P.O. Box 387 Beaver City, NE 68926-0387 Phone: 308.268.4145 County Judge has marriage, probate and court records. Clerk District Court has divorce records. County Clerk has land records from 1873.

Parent County
1873--Furnas County was created 27 February 1873 from unorganized territory. County seat: Beaver City

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Populated Places
Arapahoe

Beaver City

Cambridge

Edison

Hendley

Holbrook

Oxford (part)

Wilsonville

Neighboring Counties

 * Decatur County, Kansas
 * Frontier
 * Gosper
 * Harlan
 * Norton County, Kansas
 * Phelps
 * Phillips County, Kansas
 * Red Willow

Cemeteries
Arapahoe Cemetery

Deaver Cemetery

Edison Cemetery

Fairview Cemetery (Cambridge)

Hendley Cemetery

Holbrook Cemetery

Hollinger (Union) Cemetery (Beaver City)

J. O. Stone Cemetery

Maple Creek Cemetery

Mount Hope Cemetery (Beaver City)

St. John's Catholic Cemetery (Cambridge)

St. Matthew's Cemetery (Arapahoe)

Spring Green Cemetery

Wilsonville Cemetery

Civil War

 * 1861-1865 - at FamilySearch — index

Probate
Online Probate Records
 * 1806 – 1989 Nebraska Wills and Probate Records 1806-1989 at Ancestry.com — index and images $

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.