Monroe County, Iowa, United States

Details for Monroe County

Name

Monroe County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Albia (Troy Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		41.0333399		41° 02' 00" N
Longitude		-92.8668642		92° 52' 00.7" W

Population

8,114

Elevation

238 m

Surrounding Counties

Mahaska NE
Wapello E
Davis SE
Appanoose S
Wayne SW
Lucas W
Marion NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465256

Histopolis Place ID

771468547

Updated Oct 17, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Monroe County

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

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

Monroe County Iowa Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/monroe/cemetery.html (15 Oct 2009)

Iowa Ghost Towns - Monroe County [Iowa Ghost Towns]
http://iowaghosttowns.com/monroecounty.html (31 Jul 2008)

Monroe County, Iowa IA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Monroe County, Iowa IA, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7519 (13 Nov 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Monroe 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/ME.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Monroe County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Monroe County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Monroe/ (3 Jan 2010)

Monroe Co. Iowa Genealogy
http://www.iamonroe.org/ (20 Dec 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=614 (11 Sep 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Monroe County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Monroe County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Monroe/cem/ (15 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Monroe County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7519&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (29 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries of Monroe County Iowa [Monroe County Iowa Genealogical Resource]
http://www.iamonroe.org/cemetery/cemetery.html (6 Sep 2009)

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Surveys in Monroe County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 18 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Monroe County. You can navigate to any of the 18 survey townships that overlap Monroe County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Monroe County

12 Townships

Bluff Creek	Cedar	Franklin	Guilford
Jackson	Mantua	Monroe	Pleasant
Troy	Union	Urbana	Wayne

Cities of Monroe County

5 Cities, 24 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Albia (city)	Avery	Bluff Creek	Bridgeport
Brompton	Bucknell	Buxton	Consol
Eddyville (city)	Foster	Frederic	Georgetown
Hagerty	Halleys Mobile Home Park	Hiteman	Hocking
Lockman	Lovilia (city)	Maxon	Melrose (city)
Miami	Moravia (city)	Pleasant Corner	Rexfield
Selection	Tower Station (historical u.p.)	Tyrone	Ward
Weller

Cemeteries of Monroe County

64 Cemeteries, 8 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Abegglen	Arnold	Babb	Bell
Bethel	Blakesburg	Boggs	Boyer
Brandon	Bridgeport	Buxton	Caldwell
Chedister	Cuba	Dave Roberts Farm	Derby
East Bethel	Edan	Eldorado	Enix
Eslinger	Evans	Fall	Foster
Foutch	Georgetown	Grady	Hayden Chapel
Hayes	Hickory Grove	Hiteman	Hogeland
Hough	Inghram	Johnston Family	Kipnart
Manley	McAllister	Melrose Methodist	Mount Calvary
Mount Carmel	Mount Pleasant	Mt. Calvary (*)	Mt. Carmel (*)
Mt. Pleasant (*)	Oak Dale	Oak View	Oakdale (*)
O'Brien	Old Shahan	Osborn	Peterson
Piper	Pleasant Corners	Pleasant Divide	Prather
Rowley	Saint Marys (Cedar Township)	Saint Marys (Troy Township)	Saint Patricks
Saint Peters	Service Chapel	Smithfield	St. Marys (* Cedar Township)
St. Marys (* Troy Township)	St. Patricks (*)	St. Peters (*)	Trussell
Union Chapel	Watson	Welch	Woodlawn

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