Pike County, Pennsylvania Genealogy

United States Pennsylvania  Pike County

History
Named for General Zebulon Montgomery Pike Jr., American soldier and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named. His Pike expedition mapped much of the southern part of the Louisiana Purchase.

Parent County
26 March 1814: Pike County was created 26 March 1814 from Wayne County.

Boundary Changes
1 April 1836: Monroe County was set off.

Neighboring Counties
Monroe | Wayne | Sussex County, New Jersey | New York counties: Orange | Sullivan

Cemeteries
Pine Grove Cemetery, Tafton BillionGraves

Land
Due to the lack of vital records for Pennsylvania, land records are an important tool in early Pennsylvania research. Land records will list the seller and purchaser of the property and may hide clues to family connections. Land records for Greene County are available from the recorder's office for 1804 to the present.

Some of the records are available on-line. To search and view the records available on-line is free and no password is needed.

Maps
Ancestor Tracks has a CD of the First Landowners of PA: Warrantees of Wayne &amp; Pike Counties, Map &amp; Index by Jason Torrey, 1814 ($). The CD contains first landowner names and tracts, the warrant register index for Northampton County (the source for both Pike and Wayne Counties), and the warrant registers for both counties.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.