Gray County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Gray County

Guide to Gray 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
Gray County Courthouse PO Box 487 Cimarron, KS 67835-0487 Phone: 316.855.3618 Probate Judge has marriage records from 1887 and probate records from 1885. Clerk District Court has divorce records from 1887. Register of Deeds has land records from 1887. County Clerk has tax roll census from 1889 and school records.

Parent County

 * 1887--Gray County was created 5 March 1887 from Finney and Ford Counties. County seat: Cimarron

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

Neighboring Counties



 * Finney
 * Ford
 * Haskell
 * Hodgeman
 * Meade

Military

 * Men from this County enlisted in 1st Infantry Regiment, Company A. For further information about the Civil War see Marion County, Kanas.

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

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

Web Sites

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