Palo Alto County, Iowa, United States

Details for Palo Alto County

Name

Palo Alto County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Emmetsburg (Emmetsburg Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		43.0832993		43° 04' 59.9" N
Longitude		-94.6669241		94° 40' 00.9" W

Population

10,669

Elevation

375 m

Surrounding Counties

Kossuth E
Humboldt SE
Pocahontas S
Buena Vista SW
Clay W
Dickinson NW
Emmet N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465262

Histopolis Place ID

360458938

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Palo Alto County

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

Palo Alto County Iowa Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/paloalto/cemetery.html (4 Oct 2009)

Palo Alto County, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto_County,_Iowa (16 Jul 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Palo Alto County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Palo Alto County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Palo_Alto/ (5 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=620 (10 Sep 2009)

Iowa Ghost Towns - Palo Alto County [Iowa Ghost Towns]
http://iowaghosttowns.com/paloaltocounty.html (27 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Palo Alto County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Palo Alto County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Palo_Alto/cem/ (5 Dec 2008)

Palo Alto County, Iowa IA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Palo Alto 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=7583 (13 Nov 2008)

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

Cemeteries in or near Palo Alto County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7583&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (5 Dec 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Palo Alto 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/PA.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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Surveys in Palo Alto County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 16 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Palo Alto County. You can navigate to any of the 16 survey townships that overlap Palo Alto County using the navigation tool below.

Survey: Range:

Townships of Palo Alto County

16 Townships

Booth	Ellington	Emmetsburg	Fairfield
Fern Valley	Freedom	Great Oak	Highland
Independence	Lost Island	Nevada	Rush Lake
Silver Lake	Vernon	Walnut	West Bend

Cities of Palo Alto County

9 Cities, 4 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (City is assumed unless noted)

Ayrshire	Curlew	Cylinder	Depew (u.p.)
Emmetsburg	Fairville (u.p.)	Fallow (u.p.)	Graettinger
Mallard	Osgood (u.p.)	Rodman	Ruthven
West Bend

Cemeteries of Palo Alto County

23 Cemeteries, 6 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Calvary (Highland Township)	Calvary (Silver Lake Township)	City	Crown Hill
Ellington	Evergreen	Highland	Lincoln
Lost Island Lutheran	Lutheran	Riverside (Fern Valley Township)	Riverside (West Bend Township)
Rush Lake	Saint Jacobs	Saint Johns (Emmetsburg Township)	Saint Johns (Fairfield Township)
Saint Lukes	Saint Marys	Saint Pauls	Silver Lake
St. Jacobs (*)	St. Johns (* Emmetsburg Township)	St. Johns (* Fairfield Township)	St. Lukes (*)
St. Marys (*)	St. Pauls (*)	Valley View	Vernon Township
West Bend

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