Crawford County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Crawford County

Guide to Crawford County, Kansas ancestry, family history and genealogy 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
Crawford County Courthouse PO Box 249; Girard, KS 66743-0249 Phone: 316.724.6115 County Clerk has birth and death records 1886-1911 and burial records 1860’s-1976. Clerk District Court has marriage, divorce, probate, court and naturalization records. Register of Deeds has land records from 1869 military records.

Parent County

 * 1867--Crawford County was created 13 February 1867 from Bourbon and Cherokee Counties. County seat: Girard

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

Neighboring Counties



 * Barton County, Missouri
 * Bourbon
 * Cherokee
 * Jasper County, Missouri
 * Labette
 * Neosho
 * Vernon County, Missouri

Resources
Cemeteries

The Crawford County Genealogical Society offer several CD's for sale. One of those is Tombstone Transcriptions of All Known Cemeteries in Crawford County, Kansas 1867-1976. The price of this CD is $12 for members of the Genealogical Society and $22 for non-members. Membership is $13 per year.

Some Crawford County burials can be found online at
 * List of Crawford County Cemeteries
 * Interment.net - Crawford County

Maps

 * Map of Crawford County townships (Histopolis)

Military

 * For information about Civil War records see Bourbon County.

Newspapers

 * Newspaperarchive.com ($) has historical newspapers available on-line. Their database has Joplin, Missouri newspapers from the early 1900's that covered local news that included residents from Crawford County communities.

Probate
Online Records


 * 1803 – 1987 Kansas Wills and Probate Records 1803-1987 at Ancestry.com — index and images $obate Intro|Crawford}}

Births

 * 1818 - 1936 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1885 - 1911 Kansas, Births and Christenings Index, 1885-1911 at Ancestry.com — index $

Death Records

 * 1885 - 1930 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1885 - 1930 Kansas, Deaths and Burials, Index, 1885-1930 at Ancestry.com — index $

Marriage Records

 * 1840 - 1935 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1855 - 1911 Kansas, County Marriages, 1855-1911 at Ancestry.com — images $

Societies and Libraries
The Crawford County Genealogical Society 308 N. Walnut Pittsburg, KS 66762 620-230-5558 email: [mailto:genealogy@pittsburg.lib.ks.us genealogy@pittsburg.lib.ks.us]

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county.
 * Crawford County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Crawford County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)