Josephine County, Oregon Genealogy

United States Oregon  Josephine County

County Courthouse
Josephine County Courthouse 500 NW 6th Street Grants Pass, OR 97526 Phone: 541.474.5243 County Clerk has marriage and land records from 1857. Clerk Circuit Court has divorce, probate and court records.

Records Held at the Courthouse

 * County Records Inventory listing the records held at the Josephine County Court House as of September 2005.


 * Record Loss:

Quick Facts
Named for Virginia Josephine Rollins Ort, the first white woman to settle in southern Oregon.

Parent County
22 January 1856: Created from Umpqua County.

Cities
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Cave Junction | Grants Pass

Communities
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Galice | Fruitdale | Harbeck | Kerby | Merlin | O'Brien | Redwood | Selma | Sunny Valley | Takilma | Waldo | Williams | Wolf Creek

Defunct Post Offices
Almeda | Altamont |

Neighboring Counties
Curry | Douglas | Jackson | California counties: Del Norte | Siskiyou

Trivia Tidbits
Information about localities, too small or too brief to describe in separate pages. Exception to this are Post Offices. &gt; Trivia Tidbits

Census

 * 1850
 * 1860
 * 1870
 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Rivers and Waterways
Details about the rivers and waterways where farms and settlements are often found along them. &gt;&gt; Rivers and Waterways

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Cave Junction Oregon Family History Center
 * Grants Pass Oregon Family History Center

Websites

 * The Josephine County GenWeb Project part of The ORGenWeb Project
 * Linkpendium
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project (Backup site)