Wichita County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Wichita County

Guide to Wichita 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
Wichita County Courthouse 206 S 4th Street PO Drawer 968 Leoti, KS 67861-0279 Phone: 316.375.4454 Probate Judge has marriage and probate records from 1887 and court records. City Clerk has death and burial records from 1887. Clerk District Court has divorce records from 1887. Register of Deeds has land records from 1885.

Parent County
1873--Wichita County was created 6 March 1873 from Indian Lands. County seat: Leoti

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

Neighboring Counties



 * Greeley
 * Hamilton
 * Kearny
 * Logan
 * Scott
 * Wallace

Military

 * Sherman County was organized after the Civil War.

Obituaries
Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society has a number of scrapbooks in their library that contain obituaries cut from The Wichita Eagle and Beacon. Site gives an alphabetical listing of names appearing in those scrapbooks for the years 1955-2008.

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 $

Societies and Libraries
Wichita County Historical Society 201 N 4th St Leoti KS 67861 Telephone Number: 620-375-2316 Website

Wichita Genealogical Society PO Box 3705 Wichita 67201

Web Sites

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