Lipscomb County, Texas Genealogy

United States Texas  Counties L  Lipscomb County

County Courthouse
Lipscomb County Courthouse PO Box 70 Lipscomb, TX 79056 Phone: 806.862.3091 County Clerk Clk has birth, marriage, divorce, probate, court and land records from 1887, military discharge records from 1919 and naturalization records 1926-1927

Parent County
1876--Lipscomb County was created 21 August 1876 from Bexar Land District. County seat: Lipscomb

Populated Places
Booker (partly in Ochiltree County) | Darrouzett | Follett | Higgins | Lipscomb

Neighboring Counties

 * Beaver County, Oklahoma
 * Ellis County, Oklahoma
 * Hemphill
 * Ochiltree
 * Roberts

Cemeteries

 * Lipscomb County Cemeteries, book by LaVaun Kraft. Iinformation on each of the nine Lipscomb County cemeteries: Heart Cemetery, Kiowa Cemetery, View Point Cemetery, Darrouzett Cemetery, Fairview Cemetery, Fairmont Cemetery, Lipscomb Cemetery, St. John's Cemetery, and Higgins Cemetery; each section includes information about the origins of the cemetery with deeds and certificates, an index of the persons buried in the cemetery, a list of the information on each of the headstones in the cemetery, and a list of the veterans buried in the cemetery. Digital version online at The Portal To Texas History.
 * Lipscomb County Cemeteries from the TXGenWeb site.

Census

 * 1880 Census for Lipscomb County, census images on line at archive.org; transcription from the TXGenWeb site.
 * 1900 Census for Lipscomb County, census images on line at archive.org; transcription from the TXGenWeb site.
 * 1910 Census for Lipscomb County, census images on line at archive.org; transcription from the TXGenWeb site.
 * 1920 Census for Lipscomb County, census images on line at archive.org; transcription from the TXGenWeb site.
 * 1930 Census for Lipscomb County, census images on line at archive.org; transcription from the TXGenWeb site.

Local Histories

 * A History of Lipscomb County, 1876-1976, by the Lipscomb Historical Survey Committee. Read the book on line at The Portal to Texas History.
 * Lipscomb County History from the Handbook of Texas Online.

Maps
Texas Counties Map. Click on the county to go to the Texas Genweb site

Births

 * Lipscomb County Birth Records 1926-1993, selected years from the TXGenWeb site.
 * Lipscomb County Births compiled from World War I Civilian Draft Card Registrations, from the TXGenWeb site.

Marriages

 * Lipscomb County Marriages 1851-1900 from the TXGenWeb site.

Deaths

 * Lipscomb County Deaths 1964-1998 from the TXGenWeb site.
 * Texas Death Index 1964 to 1998 [no images] Name index to Texas Statewide Death Certificates or four million people who have died since 1964.
 * Texas Death Records 1890 – 1976 [with images] Name index and images of statewide death certificates, 1890-1976. The name index has been created by FamilySearch and is tied to images of the Texas death certificates. Few certificates are available prior to 1903.

Societies and Libraries

 * Wolf Creek Heritage Museum Highway 305 Lipscomb, Texas 79056 806-852-2123

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * Lipscomb County TXGenWeb site maps, history and other information for Lipscomb county.