Resources

There are hundreds of genealogy-related websites to help you with your family history development. We hope you find these resource links helpful. If you have additional resources that you have found to be quite helpful, please share them with us.

Index to Wichita County History Volume I
Index to Wichita County History Volume 2
Wichita County's 1895 Census
Graduates of Wichita County High School (1906-1936) (1937-1956) (1957-1966) (1967-1976) (1977-1986) (1987-1996) (1997-2003)
Kansas Pioneers Project
Wikipedia
FamilySearch
Cemeteries of Wichita County KS
Internet Archive
1912 Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence, by Frank W. Blackmar
Bureau of Land Management - land patents
Kansas Secretary of State
Maps of US - provides an interactive map of boundary changes
HistoricMapWorks - many maps, including township plats, are available to view at no cost
Sanborn Maps
National Register of Historic Places
KSGenWeb Digital Library
GenealogyTrails

The Wichita County Genealogy Society has the following books and resources:

Wichita County History Books, Volumes 1 and 2	Database of 13 County Cemeteries
County Declaration of Intent. & Naturalization Records	List of Civil War Veterans Buried In Wichita County
List of School Teachers from 1887 to 1945 in Wichita County	List of Civil War Veterans in Wichita County 1888
Microfilm of 1880, 1910, 1920 Federal Census of Wichita County and many other Kansas Counties!	World War I & II Veterans Discharge Records
Large Volume of Early Vital Records: births, death & marriages	Military Records - Civilian Registration Cards for W.W.I
High School Annuals from 1928	Old Land Records
Court Probate Records	Records of Many County Court Cases

Bound Volumes of The Leoti Standard Newspapers from 1885 to Present.

We also have on microfilm old newspapers of all the "Ghost Towns" in Wichita County

Coronado Chronicle	Jan 1888 to March 1888
Coronado Star	1886 to 1887
Wichita County Farmer	February 1888 to March 1888
Wichita County Herald	July 1886 to December 1886
Leoti Lance	April 1886 to December 1886
Leoti Transcript	April 1887 to January 1890
Leoti Standard	November 1889 to December 1930
Western Farmer	September 1888 to November 1890
Western Kansan	January 1891 to December 1896
Wichita County Democrat	August 1886 to June 1887
Wichita County Standard	November 1885 to October 1889
Selkirk Gossip	September 1940 to August 1942
Selkirk Graphic	September 1889 April 1891
Western Farmer	April 1888 to August 1888

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