McCurtain County, Oklahoma Genealogy

United States  Oklahoma   McCurtain County

McCurtain County, Oklahoma 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
McCurtain County Courthouse 108 N Central Avenue Idabel, OK 74745 Phone: 580.286-2370 Clerk Court has marriage, divorce, probate and court records from 1907

Parent County
1907--McCurtain County was created 16 July 1907 from Choctaw Lands. County seat: Idabel

Populated Places
Alikchi, America, Battiest, Beachton, Bethel, Bokhoma, Boss, Broken Bow, Buck Creek Landing, Burwell, Clebit, Crossroads, Doaksville (historical), Eagletown, Eastport, Farmers Hill, Felker, Garvin, Glover, Golden, Goodlake, Goodwater, Harris, Haworth, Hill Chapel, Hochatown, Holly Creek, Idabel, Iron Stob Corner, Kulli, Kullituklo, Lukfata, Millerton, Moon, Mound Grove, Mount Herman, Mount Zion, Nani-chito, North Pole, Oak Hill, Pickens, Plainview, Pleasant Hill, Plunketville, Redland, Ringold, Rufe, Sherwood, Shinewell, Shults, Slim, Smithville, Steel Junction, Stephens Gap, Tiner, Tom, Ultima Thule, Valliant, Watson, Wright City

Neighboring Counties

 * Bowie County, Texas
 * Choctaw
 * LeFlore
 * Little River County, Arkansas
 * Polk County, Arkansas
 * Pushmataha
 * Red River County, Texas
 * Sevier County, Arkansas

Cemeteries
Battiest, Beachton, Beechtree, Bethel, Big Lick, Bohanan, Bokhoma, Broken Bow, Buffalo, Byrms, Canfield, Clear Creek, Crown Hill, Cusher, Denison, Eagletown, Eastport, Forest Hill, Harris, Harris Mill, Haworth, Hochatown, Joe Slater Memorial, Kulli Tuklo, Kulli-Chito, Lukfata, Manning, Milton, Miners, Moran, Mountain Fork, Naniah Chito, Nani-Chito, Oka Achukma, Old Bohanan, Old Panther, Old Smithville, Panki Bok, Parson, Parsons, Philadelphia, Pine Ridge, Pruitt's Field, Redland, Ringold, Rufe, Sand Hill, Sherwood, Smithville, Sweet Home, Thomas Chapel, Tohwali, Tonka, Valliant, Valliant Upton, Waterhole, Watson, Watsons Memorial, Wheelock, Wilson Chapel, Wright City, Yasho

McCurtain County Cemetery Locations- Satellite Views

Court
Oklahoma Public Court Records

Local Histories
McCurtain County and southeast Oklahoma : history, biography, statistics, a complete church, lodge, school, professional, business and trade directory of the county

The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy, Valliant, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, now called the Alice Lee Elliott Memorial...

Newspapers
The website Gateway to Oklahoma History has digitized a few issues of McCurtain County newspapers from the early 1900s, including:

McCurtain Gazette, Idabel, Oklahoma

Millerton Progress, Millerton, Oklahoma

Millerton Progress-News, Millerton, Oklahoma

Vital Records
McCurtain County Obituaries

Societies and Libraries
McCurtain County Historical Society

McCurtain County Libraries:

The Southeastern Public Library System of Oklahoma serves several counties, including McCurtain.

Individual libraries are:


 * Broken Bow Public Library
 * Idabel Public Library
 * Mattie Terry Public Library(Valliant)

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * Gateway to Oklahoma History
 * Indian Pioneer Collection- University of Oklahoma
 * Linkpendium: Oklahoma: McCurtain County
 * OKGenWeb: McCurtain County