Decatur County, Kansas, United States

Details for Decatur County

Name

Decatur County

Place Type

County

Located in

Kansas, United States

County Seat

Oberlin

Coordinates

Latitude		39.8000051		39° 48' 00" N
Longitude		-100.4670883		100° 28' 01.5" W

Population

4,021

Elevation

814 m

Surrounding Counties

Furnas (Nebraska) NE
Norton E
Graham SE
Sheridan S
Thomas SW
Rawlins W
Hitchcock (Nebraska) NW
Red Willow (Nebraska) N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

484989

Histopolis Place ID

282447680

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Decatur County

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

South West Nebraska Genealogical Society Home Page
http://www.nesgs.org/~swngs/ (3 Jan 2010)

Decatur County, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decatur_County,_Kansas (21 Jul 2010)

KSGenWeb Archives: Decatur County, Kansas Table of Contents [USGenWeb Archives]
Kansas USGenWeb Archives Decatur County
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/decatur/decatur.htm (10 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Decatur County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Decatur County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/KS/Decatur/ (29 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=903 (25 Aug 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Decatur County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=4571&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (6 Dec 2008)

Decatur County, Kansas KS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Decatur 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=4571 (23 Sep 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Decatur 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/DE.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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Surveys in Decatur County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 26 Townships

The Sixth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Decatur County. You can navigate to any of the 26 survey townships that overlap Decatur County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships and Cities of Decatur County

25 Townships, 1 City (Township is assumed unless noted)

Allison	Altory	Bassettville	Beaver
Center	Cook	Custer	Dresden
Finley	Garfield	Grant	Harlan
Jennings	Liberty	Lincoln	Logan
Lyon	Oberlin	Oberlin (city)	Olive
Pleasant Valley	Prairie Dog	Roosevelt	Sappa
Sherman	Summit

Cities of Decatur County

5 Cities, 6 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Allison	Cedar Bluffs	Clayton (city)	Dresden (city)
Jennings (city)	Kanona	Leoville	Lyle
Norcatur (city)	Oberlin (city)	Traer

Cemeteries of Decatur County

32 Cemeteries, 3 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Allison	Ault	Bassettville	Big Timber
Catholic	Cedar Bluffs	Clayton	Dresden
Fairview	Grant Township	Harlan	Hawkee (*)
Hawkeye	Jackson	Jennings	Kanona
Lund	Lysle	Mennonite	Norcatur
Oberlin	Redman	Rexford	Saint Johns
Saint Johns	Sherman	Sherman	Shibboleth
Shirley	St. Johns (*)	St. Johns (*)	Traer
Vallonia	Vallonie	White

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