Logan County, Oklahoma Genealogy

United States Oklahoma  Logan County Logan County, Oklahoma 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.

County Courthouse
Logan County Courthouse 301 E Harrison Avenue Guthrie, OK 73044 Phone: 405.282-0266 Clerk Court has marriage records from 1889, divorce, probate court records; County Clerk has land records from 1889

Parent County
1890--Logan County was created in 1890. It was an original county. County seat: Guthrie

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

Cities

 * Cedar Valley
 * Crescent
 * Guthrie (county seat)

Towns

 * Cashion
 * Cimarron City
 * Coyle
 * Langston
 * Marshall
 * Meridian
 * Mulhall
 * Orlando

Unincorporated communities

 * Seward

Neighboring Counties

 * Canadian
 * Garfield
 * Kingfisher
 * Lincoln
 * Noble
 * Oklahoma
 * Payne

Cemeteries
LDS Cemetery Records Vol. 21 page 152 - Morris Heights Cemetery


 * Seward Cemetery, Guthrie BillionGraves

State Census Records

 * 1890 Oklahoma Territorial Census 1890 - Oklahoma Historical Societ
 * 1890 and 1907 Oklahoma Territorial Census, 1890 and 1907 at Ancestry — index and image ($)

Federal Census Records
Federal Censuses were taken for Oklahoma starting in 1860. For links to Federal census indexes, see Oklahoma Census.

Land
The County Clerk has the land records from 1889 to present.

Maps

 * Interactive Formation Boundary Map of Oklahoma - shows boundary changes for Oklahoma Counties
 * Maps n More - county and township maps.
 * Oklahoma Civil War Map of Battles

Newspapers
Oklahoma Newspapers Online Oklahoma Newspaper Catalogs
 * GenealogyBank - ($), contains images of Oklahoma newspapers
 * Newspaper Archive - ($), contains images of Nebraska newspapers
 * Chronicling America - contains images of some Oklahoma newspapers; searching tips
 * Elephind - Free; search engine that retrieves newspaper images from other free newspaper websites
 * Oklahoma State Historical Society - catalog of known Oklahoma newspapers; lists repositories that have the newspapers
 * U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present on Chronicling America - contains a list of all known newspapers and the dates they cover; once you locate a newspaper name, contact the local library to see if they have copies of the newspaper

Probate
Online Records
 * 1801 – 2008 Oklahoma Wills and Probate Records 1801-2008 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1887 – 2008 Oklahoma Probate Records 1887-2008 at FamilySearch — images

School Records

 * 1895 - 1936 at | FamilySearch — index and images

Marriage

 * 1890–1995 -  at FamilySearch — index and images

Societies and Libraries
The Logan County Genealogical Society houses their library in the in the Oklahoma Territorial Museum, 406 E. Oklahoma, Guthrie, OK 73044.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * The Logan County OK GenWeb Project, a member of The OKGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project