Brown County, Kansas, United States

Details for Brown County

Name

Brown County

Place Type

County

Located in

Kansas, United States

County Seat

Hiawatha

Coordinates

Latitude		39.8000025		39° 48' 00" N
Longitude		-95.5835939		95° 35' 00.9" W

Population

11,128

Elevation

350 m

Surrounding Counties

Holt (Missouri) NE
Doniphan E
Atchison SE
Jackson SW
Nemaha W
Richardson (Nebraska) N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

484976

Histopolis Place ID

296825341

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Brown County

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

Brown County Genealogical Society, Hiawatha, Kansas
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/society/hiawatha/ (12 Dec 2007)

Brown Co., KS-Cemetery Registration [USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project]
http://www.usgwtombstones.org/kansas/brown.htm (15 Aug 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Brown County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=4487&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (11 Nov 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Brown County, Kan. [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/KS/BR.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Brown County, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_County,_Kansas (4 Aug 2010)

KSGenWeb Archives: Brown County, Kansas Table of Contents [USGenWeb Archives]
Kansas USGenWeb Archives Brown County
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/brown/brown.htm (28 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Brown County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Brown County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/KS/Brown/ (20 Feb 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=890 (12 Sep 2009)

Brown County, Kansas KS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Brown County, Kansas KS, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4487 (23 Sep 2008)

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Surveys in Brown County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 15 Townships

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

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Townships and Cities of Brown County

10 Townships, 2 Cities (Township is assumed unless noted)

Hamlin	Hiawatha	Hiawatha (city)	Horton (city)
Irving	Mission	Morrill	Padonia
Powhattan	Robinson	Walnut	Washington

Cities of Brown County

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

Baker (u.p.)	Everest	Fairview	Hamlin
Hiawatha	Horton	Mercier (u.p.)	Morrill
Padonia (u.p.)	Powhattan	Reserve	Robinson
Sabetha	Sun Springs (u.p.)	Willis

Cemeteries of Brown County

62 Cemeteries, 26 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

All Saints	Aller (*)	Anderson (*)	Barker (*)
Bemis	Black (historical cemetery)	Campbell	Carr
Claytonville	Comet	Congregational	Cornelison
Cottrell (historical cemetery)	Dunkard	Dunkard (*)	Dunkard (*)
Fairview	Fairview City (*)	Funderburgh (historical cemetery)	Grand Prairie (* 180th & Grasshopper)
Grasshopper	Hamlin	Hart	Hiawatha
Horton (*)	Horton Municipal	Immanuel Lutheran	Isley
Kennekuk	Kenyon	Killey (*)	Kimberlin
Klinefelter (*)	Lambertson	Laus Creek	Lone Pine (*)
Lutheran	Madison	Marion (historical cemetery)	Miller
Morrill	Mount Hope	Mount Roy	Mount Zion (*)
Mt. Hope (*)	Mt. Roy (*)	Mt. Zion (*)	Niles
Oakland	Old Fairview	Padonia (*)	Page
Partlow	Pioneer Burial Ground	Pleasant Dale (historical cemetery)	Pleasant Hill (Hamlin Township)
Pleasant Hill (Irving Township)	Pleasant Hill (Walnut Township)	Pleasant Hill Brethren in Christ Church (*)	Pleasant Ridge
Poor Farm (*)	Powhattan (105th & Barnswallow)	Powhattan (180th & Grasshopper)	Rose Hill
Saint Leo's Catholic	Saint Paul	Saint Paul's Lutheran (*)	Saint Peters
Sanner	Scott (historical cemetery)	Shelton	South Powattan (* 105th & Barnswallow)
St. Leo's Catholic (*)	St. Paul (*)	St. Paul's Lutheran (*)	St. Peters (*)
Stumbo	Sun Springs (*)	Sycamore Springs	Tesson
Tyler	United Bretheren Church	Unnamed	Ununda
Upper Wolf Lutheran	Wolf River	Zion Evangelical (*)	Zion Lutheran

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