Yavapai County, Arizona Genealogy

United States Arizona  Yavapai County

County Courthouse
Yavapai County Arizona 1015 Fair Street Prescott, Az 86301 Phone: 520-639-8110

Clerk Superio Court has marriage, divorce probate and court records County Recorder has land records

Parent County
Arizona was part of New Spain until 1821, and then part of Mexico until 1846. Some records of early Arizona settlers may have been sent to an archives in Seville, Spain, or to archives in Mexico City.

Moreover, Arizona was part of the United States' New Mexico Territory from 1846 to 1863. In 1852 New Mexico Territory set up counties that stretched east and west including all the land that became part of Arizona. Present-day Yavapai County, Arizona was once part of Santa Ana, Valencia, and Socorro counties of New Mexico. When Arizona was created in 1863, these former counties were dissolved within Arizona's borders and eventually new counties were formed.

If an ancestor lived in what is now Yavapai County, Arizona between 1852 and 1863, first check for records in Yavapai County. However, there is also a small chance that a few papers were recorded in a parent county's courthouse in Arizona (if any), or in the corresponding parent county in New Mexico.

1864--Yavapai County was created 21 December 1864 as an original county. County seat: Prescott

Neighboring Counties

 * Coconino
 * Gila
 * La Paz
 * Maricopa
 * Mohave

Cemeteries
Arizona Cemetery Transcription and Photo Project

The Yavapai County Cemetery Database is an accumulation of a cemetery project which began in 1989 by the Northern Arizona Genealogy Society and housed on the Sharlot Hall Museum Archives website at: http://sharlot.org/archives/gene/cemetery/index.html

Prescott National Cemetery: 3,195 Veterans Administration burial records are included. Does not include all burials in the cemetery, only those provided by the VA.

BillionGraves:


 * Ferguson-Morrell Cemetery, Prescott
 * Humboldt Cemetery, Dewey-Humboldt
 * Rolling Hills Cemetery, Prescott

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Bagdad

Newspapers

 * Arizona Daily Journal-Miner - full-text digital issues in Google News Archive; covers 1900-1902
 * Arizona Journal-Miner - Google News Archive; covers 1903-1912
 * Arizona Miner - Google News Archive; covers 1866-1871
 * Arizona Weekly Journal-Miner - Google News Archive; covers 1893-1900
 * Arizona Weekly Miner - Google News Archive; covers 1877

Vital Records
4,374 marriages are listed on the Western States Marriage Index.

Societies and Libraries
Northern Arizona Genealogical Society- Our Society is a general genealogical society covering the counties of Yavapai and Coconino Arizona. Prescott is the county seat for Yavapai County and Flagstaff is the county seat for Coconino County.

Camp Verde Historical Society 435 South Main Camp Verde, AZ 86322 Telephone 928-567-9560 Hours 11-3 Sat. &amp; Tues

Verde Historical Society One N. Willard St. Cottonwood, AZ 86326 Telephone 928-634-2868 Hours 9-12 Wed.; Fri.-Sun. 11-3

Jerome Historical Society 200 Main Street Jerome, Arizona 86331 (928) 634-5477 Hours 9-4:30 daily

Family History Centers
Introduction to Family History Centers

Bagdad Arizona Community Dr Bagdad, Yavapai, Arizona, United States Telephone: 928-633-2073

Cottonwood Arizona 1377 Hombre Dr Cottonwood, Yavapai, Arizona, United States Telephone: 928-649-0116

Prescott Arizona 1001 Ruth St Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona, United States Telephone: 928-778-2311

Spring Valley Arizona HWY 69 (2 mi from Dordis Jct) Spring Valley, Yavapai, Arizona, United States Telephone: 928-632-7168

These are not mailing addresses. Due to limited staff, Family History Centers are unable to respond to mail inquiries.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Yavapai County, Arizona Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Yavapai County, Arizona Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)