Norton County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Norton County

Guide to Norton 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
Norton County Courthouse 101 S Kansas Avenue Norton, KS 67654-0070 Phone: 785.877.5710

Name changed to Billings 6 Mar 1873. Name changed back to Norton 19 Feb 1874 Clerk District Court has marriage and divorce records, and probate court court records Register of Deeds has land records from 1874 and some cemetery records. City Clerks have birth and death records.

Parent County
1867--Norton County was created 26 February 1867 from unorganized territory. County seat: Norton

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

Neighboring Counties



 * Decatur
 * Furnas County, Nebraska
 * Graham
 * Harlan County, Nebraska
 * Phillips
 * Sheridan

Cemeteries
Lenora Cemetery Association Index may provide the following information of three cemeteries: Lenora East,  Lenora South, and Pairie Gem:


 * Surname
 * Given Names
 * Birth Date
 * Death Date
 * Age
 * Inscription
 * Other Information
 * Photo

Norton County Kansas Cemeteries Index by the Norton County Genealogical Society has information on all cemeteries, providing essentially the same information as above.

South Star Cemetery transcription gives directions to the cemetery and provides the essentially the same information as above.

Maps
Standard Atlas of Norton County, Kansas, 1917 published by George A. Ogle &amp; Co., 1917. The Index of the atlas shows the names of landowners. It has a patrons' directory, and plats of towns as of the year of publication. Available on Kansas Memory.

Military

 * Norton County was not organized until 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

 * 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
Norton County Genealogical Society One Washington Square Norton 67654 Website

Norton County Historical Society PO Box 303 Norton 67654

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county.
 * Norton County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Solomon Valley Chronicles - a website for genealogy and local history of Graham, Norton and Sheridan Counties.
 * Solomon Valley Chronicles - a website for genealogy and local history of Graham, Norton and Sheridan Counties.