Cotton County, Oklahoma Genealogy

United States Oklahoma  Cotton County Cotton County, Oklahoma genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, 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
Cotton County Courthouse 301 N Broadway Street Walters, OK 73572-1271 Phone: 580.875-3026

County Clerk has birth records 1912-1945, divorce and land records, surveys and school census records; Clerk Court has marriage, divorce, proabte and court records

Parent County
1912--Cotton County was created 27 August 1912 from Comanche County. County seat: Walters

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

Populated Places

 * Ahpeatone
 * Cookietown
 * Devol
 * Emerson Center
 * Fivemile Corner
 * Hooper
 * Hulen
 * Randlett
 * Taylor
 * Temple
 * Walters (county seat)

Neighboring Counties

 * Clay County, Texas
 * Comanche
 * Jefferson
 * Stephens
 * Tillman
 * Wichita County, Texas

Cemeteries

 * Temple Cemetery, Temple BillionGraves

State Census Records

 * 1890 Oklahoma Territorial Census 1890 - Oklahoma Historical Societ
 * 1890 and 1907 Oklahoma Territorial Census, 1890 and 1907 at Ancestry — index and image ($)

Federal Census Records
Federal Censuses were taken for Oklahoma starting in 1860. For links to Federal census indexes, see Oklahoma Census.

Newspapers
Oklahoma Newspapers Online Oklahoma Newspaper Catalogs
 * GenealogyBank - ($), contains images of Oklahoma newspapers
 * Newspaper Archive - ($), contains images of Nebraska newspapers
 * Chronicling America - contains images of some Oklahoma newspapers; searching tips
 * Elephind - Free; search engine that retrieves newspaper images from other free newspaper websites
 * Oklahoma State Historical Society - catalog of known Oklahoma newspapers; lists repositories that have the newspapers
 * U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present on Chronicling America - contains a list of all known newspapers and the dates they cover; once you locate a newspaper name, contact the local library to see if they have copies of the newspaper


 * NewspaperArchive.com ($) has historical newspapers online including Lawton newspapers that may have included Cotton County residents. This database is free at some libraries.

Probate
Online Records
 * 1801 – 2008 Oklahoma Wills and Probate Records 1801-2008 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1887 – 2008 Oklahoma Probate Records 1887-2008 at FamilySearch — images

School Records

 * 1895 - 1936 at | FamilySearch — index and images

Marriage

 * 1890–1995 -  at FamilySearch — index and images

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.