Wagoner County, Oklahoma Genealogy

United States Oklahoma  Wagoner County Wagoner 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
Wagoner County Courthouse 307 E Cherokee Street Wagoner, OK 74467 Phone: 918.485-2216

Clerk Court has marriage, divorce, probate and court records from 1908

Parent County

 * 1907--Wagoner County was created 16 July 1907 from Cherokee Lands.
 * County seat: Wagoner

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

Places/Localities
==== Populated Places ====

Cities

 * Bixby
 * Broken Arrow
 * Catoosa
 * Coweta
 * Tulsa
 * Wagoner (county seat)

Towns

 * Fair Oaks
 * Okay
 * Porter
 * Redbird
 * Tullahassee

Unincorporated communities

 * Choska
 * Clarksville
 * Gibson
 * Mallard Bay
 * Neodesha
 * Oneta
 * Rocky Point
 * Stones Corner
 * Taylor Ferry
 * Toppers

Former community

 * New Tulsa, Oklahoma - Dissolved in 2001. Now part of Broken Arrow.

Neighboring Counties

 * Cherokee
 * Mayes
 * Muskogee
 * Okmulgee
 * Rogers
 * Tulsa

Cemeteries
Elmwood

Elmwood - Bennett Addition

Gibson

Gipson

Greenwood

Jacob Morey

Lincoln

Memorial Park

Pioneer

Pleasant Valley

Vernon

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.

Local Histories
Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma: including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1922

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.

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.