Jefferson County, Oregon Genealogy

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Courthouse
66 SE D Street, Suite D, Madras, Oregon 97741


 * Culver was the county seat 1914 to 1916

Records Held at the Courthouse

 * County Records Inventory listing the records held at the Jefferson County Court House as of August 2005.
 * Record Loss:

History

 * Named for Mount Jefferson, located on west boundary. It was named in turn for Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States of America.

Parent County

 * Created from Crook County 12 Decembr 1914.

Indian Reservation

 * Warm Springs (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs)

Neighboring Counties
Crook | Deschutes | Linn | Marion | Wasco | Wheeler

Cemeteries (rural area)
Gray Butte Cemetery

Local Histories

 * Trivia Tidbits: Little biographic bits associated with the names of non-population localities.

Websites

 * The Jefferson County GenWeb Project part of The ORGenWeb Project, a state project affiliated with The USGenWeb Project
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Jefferson County.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Jefferson County. (Backup site)
 * FamilySearch.org Family History Library Catalog for Jefferson County.