Garfield County, Oklahoma Genealogy

United States Oklahoma  Garfield County

Garfield County, Oklahoma genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, 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
Garfield County Courthouse County Courthouse Enid, OK 73701 Phone: 580.237-0225 Clerk District Court has marriage, divorce, probate and court records from 1893; Register of Deeds has land records from 1893

Parent County
1893--Garfield County was created in 1893. It was an original county (Cherokee Outlet). County seat: Enid

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

Places/Localities
==== Populated Places ====


 * Bison
 * Blanton
 * Breckenridge
 * Carrier
 * Covington
 * Douglas
 * Drummond
 * Enid (county seat)
 * Etna
 * Fairmont
 * Garber
 * Hayward
 * Hillsdale
 * Hunter
 * Kremlin
 * Lahoma
 * North Enid
 * Waukomis

Neighboring Counties

 * Alfalfa
 * Grant
 * Kay
 * Kingfisher
 * Logan
 * Major
 * Noble

Cemeteries
LDS Cemetery Records Vol. 21 page 134 - Douglas Vol. 21 page 151 - Collett Cemetery, Fairmont

State Census Records

 * 1890 Oklahoma Territorial Census 1890 - Oklahoma Historical Societ
 * 1890 and 1907 Oklahoma Territorial Census, 1890 and 1907 at Ancestry — index and image ($)

Federal Census Records
Federal Censuses were taken for Oklahoma starting in 1860. For links to Federal census indexes, see Oklahoma Census.

Newspapers
Oklahoma Newspapers Online Oklahoma Newspaper Catalogs
 * GenealogyBank - ($), contains images of Oklahoma newspapers
 * Newspaper Archive - ($), contains images of Nebraska newspapers
 * Chronicling America - contains images of some Oklahoma newspapers; searching tips
 * Elephind - Free; search engine that retrieves newspaper images from other free newspaper websites
 * Oklahoma State Historical Society - catalog of known Oklahoma newspapers; lists repositories that have the newspapers
 * U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present on Chronicling America - contains a list of all known newspapers and the dates they cover; once you locate a newspaper name, contact the local library to see if they have copies of the newspaper

Probate
Online Records
 * 1801 – 2008 Oklahoma Wills and Probate Records 1801-2008 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1887 – 2008 Oklahoma Probate Records 1887-2008 at FamilySearch — images

School Records

 * 1895 - 1936 at | FamilySearch — index and images

Marriage

 * 1890–1995 -  at FamilySearch — index and images

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Enid Oklahoma Family History Center 419 N Eisenhower Enid OK 73703-3814 United States Location Map

Web Sites

 * The Garfield County OK GenWeb Project, a member of The OKGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.