Decatur County, Iowa, United States

Details for Decatur County

Name

Decatur County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Leon

Coordinates

Latitude		40.7505565		40° 45' 02" N
Longitude		-93.7835556		93° 47' 00.8" W

Population

8,338

Elevation

326 m

Surrounding Counties

Clarke N
Lucas NE
Wayne E
Mercer (Missouri) SE
Harrison (Missouri) SW
Ringgold W
Union NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465215

Histopolis Place ID

462950499

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Decatur County

10 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Decatur County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Decatur County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Decatur/ (20 Apr 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=573 (24 Aug 2009)

Iowa Ghost Towns - Decatur County [Iowa Ghost Towns]
http://iowaghosttowns.com/decaturcounty.html (27 Jan 2010)

Decatur County, Iowa County Information - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Get all the local information you need on Decatur County, Iowa, IA - community history, demographics, local search and more at ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7271 (16 Dec 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Decatur County, Iowa [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/DC.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Decatur County Iowa Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/decatur/cemetery.html (6 Oct 2009)

Decatur County, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decatur_County,_Iowa (4 Aug 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Decatur County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Decatur County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Decatur/cem/ (2 Dec 2008)

Decatur County, Iowa Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Decatur County, Iowa
http://www.interment.net/us/ia/decatur.htm (16 May 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Decatur County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7271&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (2 Dec 2008)

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Surveys in Decatur County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 12 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Decatur County. You can navigate to any of the 12 survey townships that overlap Decatur County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Decatur County

16 Townships

Bloomington	Burrell	Center	Decatur
Eden	Fayette	Franklin	Garden Grove
Grand River	Hamilton	High Point	Long Creek
Morgan	New Buda	Richland	Woodland

Cities of Decatur County

10 Cities, 11 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Barrell	Blockly	Brucewell	Davis (city)
Decatur (city)	Garden Grove (city)	Grand River (city)	High Point
Kingston	Lamoni (city)	Le Roy (city)	Leon (city)
Morgan	New Buda	Pleasanton (city)	Terre Haute
Togo (historical u.p.)	Tuskeego	Van Wert (city)	Weldon (city)
Woodland

Cemeteries of Decatur County

70 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Baker	Beaver	Bethel	Bucy
Campbell (Eden Township)	Campbell (Hamilton Township)	Cash	Chase (historical cemetery)
Chastain	Clinton	County Home	Cowles
Creveling	Dale	Davis City	Decatur City
Doze	Elk	Elm	Franklin
Fugate	Gammill	Garden Grove	Gatliff
Gore	Grand River	Hamilton	Hatfield
High Point	Hollen	Johnson	Kline
Lentz	Leon	Lillie	Logan
Manchester	McCullough	McKee	Meek
Metier	Miller	Millsap	Morman
Mount Tabor	Mt. Tabor (*)	Munyon	New Buda
New Salem	Oak Hill	O'Grady	Old Funk
Palenstine	Rose Hill	Saint Marys	Shields
Shy	St. Marys (*)	Sweet Home	Tennessee
Terre Haute	Trullinger	Union	Van Wert
Waller	Warrick	West	Westervelt
White Oak	Winters	Woodmansee	Young

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