Iron County, Missouri Genealogy

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History
The unusual shape of Iron County, Missouri, according to Goodspeed's 1888 History of Southeast Missouri, resulted from the difficulty inherent in creating the county. Land was taken from six other counties in order to form Iron County, but it became a challenge to accomplish this without reducing the size of those counties below their constitutional limits.

The county court first met 4 Aug 1857 at Arcadia. That was when Iron County was subdivided into the townships of Dent, Kaolin, Iron, Pilot Knob, Arcadia, Liberty, and Union.

For more, see:


 * History of Iron County (Iron Co. Hist. Soc.)

Parent County
1857--Iron County was created by a legislative act of 17 February 1857 from Dent, Madison, Reynolds, St. Francis, Washington, and Wayne Counties. County seat: Ironton

Neighboring Counties

 * Crawford
 * Dent
 * Madison
 * Reynolds
 * St. Francois
 * Washington
 * Wayne

Cemeteries

 * Links to Iron County Cemeteries (Tom Caulley's Iron Co., MO Gen. Page)

Census

 * Iron County Census Records (Iron Co. Gen. Soc.)

General

 * Tom Caulley's Iron County Genealogy Page

Local Histories

 * Citizens of Iron County: History of Southeast Missouri Biographical Appendix (Iron County Gen. Soc.)
 * First Families of Iron County, Missouri. Arcadia, MO: Iron County Genealogy Society, 2007. WorldCat page.
 * Iron County Biographies (Tom Caulley's Iron Co., MO Gen. Page)
 * Ironton in 1868 (Iron Co. Hist. Soc.)

Births

 * Iron County Births and Stillbirths 1883-1887

Marriages

 * Iron County Marriages 1857-1998 (Tom Caulley's Iron Co., MO Gen. Page)

Deaths

 * Links to Iron County Births, Deaths, and Obituaries

Societies and Libraries

 * Iron County Historical Society
 * Iron County, Missouri Genealogy Society

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Iron County, Missouri (RootsWeb)
 * Iron County, Missouri MO-AGHP Project
 * Tom Caulley's Iron County, Missouri Genealogy Page
 * Tom Caulley's Iron County, Missouri Genealogy Page