Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States

Details for Pocahontas County

Name

Pocahontas County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Pocahontas (Center Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		42.7333076		42° 43' 59.9" N
Longitude		-94.6669245		94° 40' 00.9" W

Population

9,525

Elevation

372 m

Surrounding Counties

Palo Alto N
Kossuth NE
Humboldt E
Webster SE
Calhoun S
Sac SW
Buena Vista W
Clay NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465264

Histopolis Place ID

116633646

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Pocahontas County

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

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=622 (24 Aug 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Pocahontas 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/PC.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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

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

Pocahontas County, Iowa IA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Pocahontas 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=7598 (13 Nov 2008)

Pocahontas County, USGenWeb Iowa Archives Table of Contents [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/pocahontas/pocahontas.htm (30 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Pocahontas County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Pocahontas County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Pocahontas/cem/ (1 Dec 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Pocahontas County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Pocahontas County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Pocahontas/ (26 Feb 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Pocahontas County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7598&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (2 Dec 2008)

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Surveys in Pocahontas County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 16 Townships

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

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Townships of Pocahontas County

17 Townships

Bellville	Cedar	Center	Colfax
Cummins	Des Moines	Dover	Garfield
Grant	Lake	Lincoln	Lizard
Marshall	Powhatan	Roosevelt	Sherman
Swan Lake

Cities of Pocahontas County

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

Blanden (u.p.)	Fonda	Gilmore	Havelock
Laurens	Lizard (historical u.p.)	Palmer	Plover
Pocahontas	Ridotto (u.p.)	Rolfe	Rolfe (historical u.p. in Des Moines Township)
Rubens Siding (u.p.)	Rusk (u.p.)	Stein's Rockin R Mobile Home Park (u.p.)	Varina
Ware (u.p.)	Westview (u.p.)

Cemeteries of Pocahontas County

27 Cemeteries, 7 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Calvary	Cedar	Clinton-Garfield	Elfsborg
Elfsborg - Dover Township	Elfsborg Lutheran	Grant Township	Havelock
Laurens	Lizard	Marble Valley	Marshall
Old Rolfe	Palmer	Powhatan	Sacred Heart
Saint Columbkille's	Saint Johns (Garfield Township)	Saint Johns (Lizard Township)	Saint Josephs
Saint Margarets	Saint Paul	Saint Pauls American Lutheran	St. Columbkille's (*)
St. Johns (* Garfield Township)	St. Johns (* Lizard Township)	St. Josephs (*)	St. Margarets (*)
St. Paul (*)	St. Pauls American Lutheran (*)	Summit Hill	Swan Lake
Swedish Mission Bethany	Zion

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