Welcome To Gove County Kansas

Hello and welcome to Gove County, Kansas. Our names are Lynette Wolf and Cristy Tuttle, and we are currently the co-coordinators for this site. We would like to acknowledge all previous coordinators and recognize their contributions to this web site. Thanks to all of you.

We hope you will find some valuable information here that will help you in your genealogical search. If you have any questions, comments or contributions for the Gove County KSGenWeb page, feel free to e-mail either of us.

Gove County Links

• Gove County Historical Association and Museum
• Grainfield Opera House
• Grinnell-Angelus Area Heritage Center
• US Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
  (Click on "Search Domestic Names" "Query Form for the United States and Territories" and limit your search within Gove County)
• Cutler's History of Kansas -- Gove County
  
  (Unorganized counties chapter)
• Kansas: a Cyclopedia of State History (1912) -- KSGenWeb Project
  
  Gove County Section
  
  
  
  Alanthus Section
  
  
  Ball Section
  
  
  Campus Section
  
  
  Castle Rock Section
  
  
  Catalpa Section
  
  
  Coin Section
  
  
  Gove Section
  
  
  Grainfield Section
  
  
  Grinnell Section
  
  
  Hackberry Section
  
  
  Jericho Section
  
  
  Jerome Section
  
  
  Monument Rock Section
  
  
  Orion Section
  
  
  Park Section
  
  
  Quinter Section
  
  
  Tweed Section
  
  
  Valhalla Section
  
  

What You'll Find Here on Gove County

• Country Schools of USD 291 Grinnell
  
  a cross curricular project
• Gove County Biographies
  
  (Short biographies of Gove County residents from books or written and submitted by researchers)
• Gove County "Bits & Pieces"
  
  (Bits and pieces on Gove County residents from directories, school listings, membership lists, etc.)
• Books and Articles about Gove County
  
  (A list of book and articles about Gove County with known Kansas library locations)
  Index to History and Heritage of Gove County, Kansas (compiled by Clark Benson)
  Index to Pioneer Reminiscences by Mildred Cass Beason (compiled by Clark Benson)
  Index to History of Gove County, Kansas by W.P. Harrington (compiled by C. Benson)
  
  
• Gove County Cemetery Records
  
  Virtual Tour of Gove County Cemeteries
  
  
• Gove County Census Records
  
  1880 Gove County Federal Census (transcribed by Clark Benson)
  
  
  An online index of the 1895 Kansas State Census for various Kansas counties
  
  including Gove County (provided by the Kansas State Historical Society)
  
  
  1900 Gove County Federal Census (transcribed by Clark Benson)
  
  
• An Incomplete Gove County Gazetteer
  
  (A partial list of former and current populated places in Gove County.)
• Gove County Maps Online
  
  (Old and new online maps of Gove County)
• Gove County Marriages
  
• Gove County Newspapers
  
  (Names and information from Gove County newspapers)
• Gove County Obituaries and Death Notices
  
  (Obituaries from researchers with a Gove County connection)
• Gove County Digital Library on KSGenWeb
  
  World War II Casualties from Gove County, Kansas
  
  
  (From an online book provided by the KSGenWeb Digital Library)
  Gove County, Kansas 1883 List of [Military] Pensioners on the Roll
  
  (From an online book provided by the KSGenWeb Digital Library)
• Grinnell Records at City Office in Grinnell
  
  Burial Permits

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Gove County Family Home Pages

If you have a home page with Gove County connections, we will be glad to provide a link to it.

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Other Gove County Links

• The Swedish Colony in southwest Gove County, Kansas
  
  by Ray and Becky Lewis (A part of the Swedish Connection in Kansas page)
• A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans 1919 edition--Biography Section
  
  written and compiled by William E. Connelley
  
  
  biographies that have Gove county connections

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KSGenWeb Links

• KSGenWeb Home Page
  
  (includes all Kansas County links)

Neighboring Counties

• Sheridan
• Thomas
• Logan
• Trego
• Lane
• Scott
• Graham
• Ness

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State Coordinators Tom & Carolyn Ward Columbus, KS ks@rootsquest.com tcward@columbus-ks.com

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Last updated April 2024

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