Wallace County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Wallace County

Guide to Wallace 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
Wallace County Courthouse; 313 Main Street Sharon Springs, KS 67758 Phone: 785.852.4282 County Clerk has birth, marriage and death records 1895-1911. Clerk District Court has divorce records. Probate Judge has probate and court records. Register of Deeds has land records.

Parent County
1868--Wallace County was created 2 March 1868 from unorganized territory. County seat: Sharon Springs

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

Neighboring Counties



 * Cheyenne County, Colorado
 * Greeley
 * Kit Carson County, Colorado
 * Logan
 * Sherman
 * Wichita

Military

 * Wallace County was organized after the Civil War.

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

 * 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 Kansas, County Marriages, 1855-1911 at Ancestry.com — images $

Web Sites

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