Guthrie County, Iowa Genealogy

United States Iowa  Guthrie County

Guide to Guthrie County Iowa ancestry, family history, and genealogy research page. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Parent County
1851--Guthrie County was created 15 January 1851 from unorganized territory. County seat: Guthrie Center

Record Loss
1857 and March 3, 1882 -- Courthouse burned and many records were damaged.

For further information on researching in burned counties, see the following:


 * Burned Counties Research in FamilySearch Wiki
 * Michael John Neill, Burned Counties in Family History Circle

Places/Localities
Town/city records in the FamilySearch Catalog

Neighboring Counties
Adair • Audubon • Carroll • Cass • Dallas • Greene • Madison

Local Histories

 * History of Adair and Guthrie County
 * Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa History at Ancestry.com ($)
 * Guthrie County Historical Society. Guthrie County centennial : 100 years of progress, 1851-1951. [Guthrie Center, Iowa?] : The Times & Guthrian, 1951.
 * Online at FamilySearch (Free)
 * Foresman, Sherry. Guthrie County, Iowa records. Menlo, Iowa : S. Foresman, 1995.
 * Online at FamilySearch (Free)
 * History of Guthrie and Adair counties, Iowa : together with sketches of their towns, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of old settlers and representative citizens. Springfield, Illinois : Continental Historical Co., 1884.
 * Online at FamilySearch (Free) and at Hathitrust (Free)and at Internetarchive (Free)
 * Past and present of Guthrie County, Iowa : together with biographical sketches of many of its prominent and leading citizens and illustrious dead. Chicago, Illinois : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1907.
 * Online at Internetarchive (Free)

Civil War

 * - 4th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Company C
 * - 29th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Companies I and K
 * - 29th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Company I :- 29th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Company K :- 4th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Company C

Newspapers
NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a large collection of digitized Iowa newspapers online. This database is sometimes free at libraries.