Clark County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Clark County

Guide to Clark 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
Clark County Courthouse 913 Highland Street Ashland, KS 67831 Phone: 316.635.2753 County Clerk has birth records 1904-1910. City Clerk has birth and burial records from 1910. Probate Judge has marriage and probate records. Clerk District Court has divorce and court records. Register of Deeds has land records.

Parent County

 * 1885--Clark County was created 7 March 1885 from Ford County. County seat: Ashland

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

Neighboring Counties



 * Beaver County, Oklahoma
 * Comanche
 * Ford
 * Harper County, Oklahoma
 * Kiowa
 * Meade

Military

 * For information about Civil War records see Ford County.

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 at | FamilySearch — images
 * 1855 - 1911 Kansas, County Marriages, 1855-1911 at Ancestry.com — images $

Web Sites

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