Jefferson County, Iowa, United States

Details for Jefferson County

Name

Jefferson County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Fairfield

Coordinates

Latitude		41.0333530		41° 02' 00.1" N
Longitude		-91.9501726		91° 57' 00.6" W

Population

16,310

Elevation

234 m

Surrounding Counties

Washington NE
Henry E
Van Buren S
Davis SW
Wapello W
Keokuk NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465239

Histopolis Place ID

287598859

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Jefferson County

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

Jefferson County, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Iowa (20 Jul 2010)

Jefferson County, Iowa County Information - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Get all the local information you need on Jefferson County, Iowa, IA - community history, demographics, local search and more at ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7408 (20 Aug 2009)

Iowa Ghost Towns - Jefferson County [Iowa Ghost Towns]
http://iowaghosttowns.com/jeffersoncounty.html (24 Jul 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Jefferson 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/JF.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Jefferson County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7408&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (29 Nov 2008)

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Jefferson County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Jefferson County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Jefferson/ (14 Jan 2010)

Jefferson County, IAGenWeb Archives Table of Contents [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/jefferson/jefferson.htm (31 Jan 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=597 (13 Sep 2009)

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Surveys in Jefferson County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 15 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Jefferson County. You can navigate to any of the 15 survey townships that overlap Jefferson County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Jefferson County

12 Townships

Black Hawk	Buchanan	Cedar	Center
Des Moines	Liberty	Lockridge	Locust Grove
Penn	Polk	Round Prairie	Walnut

Cities of Jefferson County

8 Cities, 15 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Abingdon	Batavia (city)	Beckwith	Bernhart
Brookville	Collett	Coppock (city)	East Pleasant Plain
Ellmaker	Fairfield (city)	Germanville	Glasgow
Libertyville (city)	Linby	Lockridge (city)	Maharishi Vedic (city)
Merrimac	Packwood (city)	Perlee	Pleasant Plain (city)
Salina	Veo	Whitefield (historical u.p.)

Cemeteries of Jefferson County

76 Cemeteries, 4 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Abingdon	Antioch	Armstrong	Batavia City
Bethesda	Blue Point	Bonnifield	Bradshaw
Brethren	Brooks	Cedar Hill	Chilcott
Clinkenbeard Family	Coon	County Poor Farm	Courtney
Crane	Evergreen	Fell	Fielder
Forrest	Friends	Galliher Family	Gantz
German Lutheran	German Methodist	Germanville Catholic	Gilmore
Glasgow	Gonferman	Gray	Gregg
Holmes	Hope	Hopkirk	Howard Grove
Jones Family	Long	Lower Richwoods	McCleary
McDowell	Memorial Lawn	Moorman	Mount Zion
Moyer	Mt. Zion (*)	Myers	New Sweden
New Sweden Baptist	New Sweden Lutheran	Patterson	Perlee
Peterson	Pioneer	Polishville	Prairie Center
Roth	Saint Johns Lutheran	Saint Josephs	Saint Peters and Pauls German Catholic
Salina	Shuppy	Smith (Center Township)	Smith (Locust Grove Township)
St. Johns Lutheran (*)	St. Josephs (*)	St. Peters and Pauls German Catholic (*)	Steele
Switzer	Thompson	Union (Lockridge Township)	Union (Walnut Township)
Upland	Upper Richwoods	Walnut	Walnut Hill
Westenhaver Family	Wheeler	Winsell	Wright

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