Big Horn County, Wyoming Genealogy

Guide to Big Horn County, Wyoming ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

United States Wyoming  Big Horn County

Historical Facts

 * Parent County: created 12 March 1890 from Fremont, Johnson and Sheridan counties
 * County Seat: Basin
 * Neighboring Counties: Big Horn County, Montana | Carbon County, Montana | Johnson | Park | Sheridan | Washakie

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Wyoming County boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Wyoming County Boundary Maps" (1848-1965) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

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

Church Records
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Basin, Belfry, Burlington, Byron, Cody, Cowley, Greybull, Ionia, Lovell, Lovell West, Otto

Newspapers

 * Wyoming Newspaper Project

Probate
The bulk of the probate case files from the 1890's to the 1940's have been transferred to the Wyoming State Archives in Cheyenne. Check their website for additional details.

Courthouse
County Clerk has marriage and land records from 1896. Clerk District Court has divorce, probate and court records from 1896.

Family History Centers

 * Basin-Greybull Wyoming Family History Center
 * Burlington Wyoming Family History Center
 * Lovell Wyoming Family History Center

Marriage

 * Western States Marriage Index over 1,936 marriages 20 Jan 1897 to 13 Nov 1922

Websites

 * Big Horn County, WY History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
 * Wyoming Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * Wyoming Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * The Big Horn WY GenWeb Project, a member of The WYGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * County Clerk
 * Lookups (GenWeb)
 * Wikipedia