Meade County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Meade County

Guide to Meade 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
Meade County Courthouse 200 N Fowler St; PO Box 278; Meade, KS 67864; Phone: 316.873.8700 Reorganized 7 Mar 1885 Probate Judge has birth, marriage, probate and court records. City Clerk has burial record. Clerk District Court has divorce records. Register of Deeds has land records.

Parent County
1873--Meade County was created 8 January 1873 from unorganized territory. County seat: Meade

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

Neighboring Counties



 * Beaver County, Oklahoma
 * Clark
 * Ford
 * Gray
 * Haskell
 * Seward

Military

 * Meade 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 Records

 * 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
Meade County Historical Museum 200 E Carthage Meade Kansas Telephone Number: 620-873-2359 Website Museum Library offers a great deal of research material for the genealogist.

Meade County Genealogical Society PO Box 1053 Meade KS 67864 E-mail:[mailto:mcgsroots@yahoo.com mcgsroots@yahoo.com] Website

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county.
 * Meade County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Meade County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)