Decatur County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Decatur County

Guide to Decatur 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
Decatur County Courthouse 120 E Hall; PO Box 89; Oberlin, KS 67749 Phone: 785.475.8102 Clerk District Court has birth, marriage and death records 1885-1913, divorce and court records from 1881, probate records from 1891 and naturalization records from 1880. Register of Deeds has land records from 1878 and military discharge records from 1862.

History


The county is named after U.S. naval officer Stephen Decatur (1779-1820).

Parent County
1873--Decatur County was created 6 March 1873 from unorganized territory. County seat: Oberlin

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

Neighboring Counties



 * Furnas County, Nebraska
 * Hitchcock County, Nebraska
 * Norton
 * Rawlins
 * Red Willow County, Nebraska
 * Sheridan
 * Thomas

Cemeteries
Decatur County Cemeteries gives the location of each cemetery and a transcription of graves in that cemetery. Some cemeteries have not been transcribed as yet.

Probate
Online Records


 * 1803 – 1987 Kansas Wills and Probate Records 1803-1987 at Ancestry.com — index and images $

Birth Records

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

Death Records

 * 1880, 1885-1911 Links to Deaths in Decatur County links to Obituaries, 1880 Mortality Schedule, Registered Deaths November 28, 1885-July 1, 1911, and The Obituary Daily Times web site


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

Marriage Records

 * 1811 - 1911 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1840 - 1935 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1855 - 1911 at FamilySearch — images
 * 1855 - 1911 Kansas, County Marriages, 1855-1911 at Ancestry.com — images $

Societies and Libraries
Decatur County Genealogical Society 258 South Penn Oberlin KS 67749

Web Sites

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