Josephine County, Oregon Genealogy

United States Oregon  Josephine County

County Courthouse
County Clerk has marriage and land records from 1857. Clerk Circuit Court has divorce, probate and court records.

Records Held at the Courthouse

 * County Records Inventory listing the records held at the Josephine County Court House as of September 2005.


 * Record Loss:

Quick Facts
Named for Virginia Josephine Rollins Ort, the first white woman to settle in southern Oregon.

Parent County
22 January 1856: Created from Umpqua County.

Cities
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Cave Junction | Grants Pass

Communities
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Galice | Fruitdale | Harbeck | Kerby | Merlin | O'Brien | Redwood | Selma | Sunny Valley | Takilma | Waldo | Williams | Wolf Creek

Defunct Post Offices
Almeda | Altamont |

Neighboring Counties
Curry | Douglas | Jackson | California counties: Del Norte | Siskiyou

Trivia Tidbits
Information about localities, too small or too brief to describe in separate pages. Exception to this are Post Offices. &gt; Trivia Tidbits

Census

 * 1850
 * 1860
 * 1870
 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Rivers and Waterways
Details about the rivers and waterways where farms and settlements are often found along them. &gt;&gt; Rivers and Waterways

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Cave Junction Oregon Family History Center
 * Grants Pass Oregon Family History Center

Websites

 * The Josephine County GenWeb Project part of The ORGenWeb Project
 * Linkpendium
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project (Backup site)