Wallowa County, Oregon Genealogy

United States Oregon  Wallowa County

County Courthouse
http://www.co.wallowa.or.us/

Wallowa County Courthouse 101 S. River Street Enterprise, OR 97828 (541) 426-4543

Quick Facts
11 February 1887: Wallowa county was created from Union County.

Named for Wallowa River. Lewis and Clark Expedition journals recorded Wil-le-wahas the name.


 * Records Held at the Courthouse

County Records Inventory listing the records held at the Wallowa County Court House as of July 2004.


 * Record Loss:

Places / Localities
The preceding list of places includes incorporated cities and towns, unincorporated towns and communities, and place names that may have been used in family histories. Some have well-organized records and even have web sites. Some are simply social communities with no official records, but which may be referenced in small-town newspapers. The list is provided to help researchers identify localities within the county. As records or histories of these localities are identified, a page will be added for each of these place names.

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


 * 35 years on Smith Mountain
 * My days in northeast Oregon: a memoir of wagon trains and pack strings in the 1890s
 * Angel from Paradise: the life and times of a Wallowa County cowboy
 * Of men and mountains

Cemeteries (Rural and General)
Asotin County, Washington, cemeteries; some Garfield and Columbia County, Washington and Wallowa County, Oregon cemeteries: their history and headstone inscriptions ▲

Census

 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Farms - Ranches

 * Wallowa County brand book, 1921 May 1
 * Index to chattel mortgages, Wallowa County, Oregon, 1913-1931

Gazetteers

 * Origin of Wallowa County place names

History

 * About Wallowa County: people, places, images
 * An Illustrated history of Union and Wallowa counties: with a brief outline of the early history of the state of Oregon
 * The old and the new: history of the post offices of Wallowa County
 * The Wallowa country, 1867-1877
 * The History of Wallowa County, Oregon
 * Historical sketches of Wallowa National Forest
 * Reminiscences of Wallowa County
 * Wallowa, the land of winding waters
 * Carving the north end wilderness;: Flora
 * Bits of Wallowa County lore
 * This valley : (Wallowa Valley)
 * The flora country; the hardships and struggles of the Matt Devin family as pioneers in northern Wallowa County, Oregon.
 * Gateway to the Wallowas
 * From The Wallowas
 * Pioneering in the Wallowas: four frontier tales
 * Heritage of the Wallowas: life as it was
 * Wallowa County, the Northwest's most scenic area; a land of beauty and opportunity
 * Memories: a nostalgic look at life in northeast Oregon
 * Wallowa County, Oregon: a capsule history
 * The story of Wallowa Lake
 * The forgotten grist and flour mills of Wallowa County, Oregon: a history of the eight grist or flour mills that have operated in Wallowa County, Oregon
 * Wallowa County, Oregon : the land of peace, prosperity and happiness

Maps

 * Map of Wallowa County, Oregon, 1922
 * Metsker's atlas of Wallowa County, Oregon, 1935

Newspapers
See Enterprise, Joseph and Wallowa for the newspapers published in these cities.

Periodicals

 * Signal mountain: Wallowa County's own historical magazine

Schools

 * School days in the Wallowas: a history of the ninety-one schools and communities, past and present, of Wallowa County, Oregon

Vital Records

 * Wallowa County, Oregon, marriage records, 1887-1983
 * Coroner's inquest, Wallowa County, Oregon, 1906-1915
 * Many early marriages are listed at the Western States Marriage Index.

Voting Records

 * 1) Election voter register, Wallowa County, Oregon, 1902, 1906, 1914

Websites

 * The Wallowa County GenWeb Project, part of The ORGenWeb Project
 * Linkpendium
 * USGenWeb Archives
 * USGenWeb Archives backup site
 * Family History Library Catalog for the latest