Buckten, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Buckten, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Geography
The municipality of Buckten is in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated in the upper Homburger on the road to pass over the Unteren Hauenstein.

Buckten (as of 2009) has an area of 1.99 km² (0.77 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 49.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 32.7% - forested
 * 17.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.0% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 1266, Buckten was first mentioned by the name of Butuchon.

The population history of Buckten is: 1680 - 201 inhabitants 1798 - 285 inhabitants 1850 - 438 inhabitants 1860 - 388 inhabitants 1870 - 364 inhabitants 1880 - 323 inhabitants 1888 - 354 inhabitants 1900 - 375 inhabitants 1910 - 377 inhabitants 1920 - 421 inhabitants 1930 - 437 inhabitants 1941 - 398 inhabitants 1950 - 408 inhabitants 1960 - 434 inhabitants 1970 - 496 inhabitants 1980 - 605 inhabitants 1990 - 686 inhabitants 2000 - 644 inhabitants 2021 - 708 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 14.3% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 65.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 2.17% belonged to another Christian church
 * 5.43% belonged to the Islamic faith

Spiritually, Buckten is part of the parish of Rümlingen.

Church Records
Buckten belongs to the parish of Rümlingen. For records, see Rümlingen.

Census
(See here for information regarding Basel-Landschaft census records.)

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Buckten:
 * 1815 (images 82-90)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Buckten prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Basel-Landschaft

Societies
Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Region Basel (GHGRB)