Smith County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Smith County

Guide to Smith County, Kansas ancestry, family history and genealogy 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
Smith County Courthouse 218 S Grant Street Smith Center, KS 66967 Phone: 785.282.6533 Probate Judge has marriage and probate records from 1875. Clerk District Court has divorce and court records from 1875. County Clerk has land records from 1872.

Parent County
1867--Smith County was created 26 February 1867 from unorganized territory.County seat: Smith Center

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

Populated Places

 * Lebanon
 * Smith Center

Neighboring Counties



 * Franklin County, Nebraska
 * Jewell
 * Osborne
 * Phillips
 * Webster County, Nebraska

Lutheran

 * Records of the Christ Lutheran Church, Gaylord, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).

Maps
Plat Book, Smith County, Kansas, 1900, Northwest Publishing Co. This atlas shows maps of each township with the names of landowners. It has a patrons' directory and plats of towns as of the year of publication.

Military
Smith County was organized after the Civil War.

Probate
Online Records


 * 1803 – 1987 Kansas Wills and Probate Records 1803-1987 at Ancestry.com — index and images $

Birth Records

 * 1818 - 1936 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1885 - 1911 Kansas, Births and Christenings Index, 1885-1911 at Ancestry.com — index $

Death Records

 * 1885 - 1930 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1885 - 1930 Kansas, Deaths and Burials, Index, 1885-1930 at Ancestry.com — index $

Marriage Records

 * 1811 - 1911 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1840 - 1935 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1855 - 1911 Kansas, County Marriages, 1855-1911 at Ancestry.com — images $

Societies and Libraries
Smith County Historical Society PO Box 38 Kensington 66951

Smith Center Public Library: Library holdings can be searched in Pathfinder Central. The library may have cataloged unique items related to genealogy and local history, in addition to published works for this area.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county.
 * Smith County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Smith County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)