Carbon County, Pennsylvania Genealogy

United States Pennsylvania  Carbon County

County Courthouse
4 Broadway Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

History
Named for extensive deposits of coal in the region.

Parent County
13 March 1843: Carbon County was created from Monroe and Northampton Counties.

==== Boundary Changes ====


 * Before 1836: Today's Carbon County was included in Northampton County.
 * 1 April 1836: When Monroe County was created from Northampton County, future Carbon County was split between Monroe County and Northampton County.

Neighboring Counties
Lehigh | Luzerne | Monroe | Northampton | Schuylkill

Land
Recorder of Deeds P.O. Box 89 Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 Phone: (570) 325-2651

Due to the lack of vital records for Pennsylvania, land records are an important tool in early Pennsylvania research. Land records will list the sellor and purchaser of the property and may hide clues to family connections.

Maps

 * Ancestor Tracks has posted free and downloadable images from the Map of the Counties of Munroe and Carbon, Pennsylvania from Surveys under the Direction of H. F. Walling (New York, 1860). This wall map located in the library of Congress shows major landowners and geographic sites at the date of publishing. While the physical maps are in the puiblic domain, the images we have taken of the maps belong to us and are not to be used commercially.  We hereby give permission to use them strictly for personal use; please attribute to Ancestor Tracks
 * 1875 County Atlas of Carbon, Pennsylvania by F. W. Beers has been posted on Rootsweb.com site.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * Linkpendium - Carbon County
 * USGenWeb project.