Kearny County, Kansas Genealogy

Kearny County, Kansas 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.

United States Kansas  Kearny County

County Courthouse
Kearny County Courthouse 305 N Main Street Lakin, KS 67860 Phone: 316.355.6422 County Clerk has birth, marriage and death records 1900-1910. Clerk district court has divorce and court records 1894 and probate records from 1895. Register of Deeds has land records from 1894. County Clerk and County Historical Society have newspapers. County Appraiser has local census from 1913.

Parent County
1873--Kearny County was created 6 March 1873 from unorganized territory. County seat: Lakin

Neighboring Counties



 * Finney
 * Grant
 * Hamilton
 * Haskell
 * Scott
 * Stanton
 * Wichita

Military

 * Kearny County was not organized until after the Civil War. See Marion County for records.

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.
 * Kearny County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Kearny County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)