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United States Kansas Grant County

	Kansas Online Records

County Courthouse

Grant County Courthouse
108 S Glenn
Ulysses, KS 67880-2551
Phone: 316.356.1335

Probate Judge has marriage records.
Clerk Disrict Court divorce, probate, and court records.
Register of Deeds has land records.
City Clerk has cemetery records; local census taken every year. ^[1]

History

Parent County

1873--Grant County was created 6 March 1873 from unorganized territory. County seat: Ulysses ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Finney
• Hamilton
• Haskell
• Kearny
• Stanton
• Stevens

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Military

• Grant County was not organized until after the Civil War.

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog
• Grant County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Grant County, Kansas page 251, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).