Rooks County, Kansas, United States

Details for Rooks County

Name

Rooks County

Place Type

County

Located in

Kansas, United States

County Seat

Stockton (Township 3)

Coordinates

Latitude		39.3500098		39° 21' 00" N
Longitude		-99.3170441		99° 19' 01.4" W

Population

6,039

Elevation

606 m

Surrounding Counties

Smith NE
Osborne E
Russell SE
Ellis S
Trego SW
Graham W
Norton NW
Phillips N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

485045

Histopolis Place ID

126578240

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Rooks County

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Rooks County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Rooks County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/KS/Rooks/cem/ (18 Aug 2009)

Rooks County, Kansas County Information - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Get all the local information you need on Rooks County, Kansas, KS - community history, demographics, local search and more at ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4984 (18 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=965 (5 Sep 2009)

Rooks County, Kansas Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Rooks County, Kansas
http://www.interment.net/us/ks/rooks.htm (16 May 2010)

(page title not available) [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/rooks/rooks.htm

Cemeteries in or near Rooks County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=4984&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (22 Feb 2008)

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Rooks County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Rooks County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/KS/Rooks/ (14 Jan 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Rooks 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/RO.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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Surveys in Rooks County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 27 Townships

The Sixth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Rooks County. You can navigate to any of the 27 survey townships that overlap Rooks County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Rooks County

12 Townships

Township 1	Township 10	Township 11	Township 12
Township 2	Township 3	Township 4	Township 5
Township 6	Township 7	Township 8	Township 9

Cities of Rooks County

6 Cities, 3 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (City is assumed unless noted)

Codell (u.p.)	Damar	Laton (u.p.)	Palco
Plainville	Stockton	Webster (u.p.)	Woodston
Zurich

Cemeteries of Rooks County

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

Aurora	Center	Chalk Mound	Conger
Eureka	Green Mound	Hobart	Johnson
Mount Vernon	Mt. Vernon (*)	Old Stockton	Palco
Plainville	Pleasantview	Saint Joseph	Saint Thomas
Shiloh	Slate	Spring Branch	St. Joseph (*)
St. Thomas (*)	Survey	Twin Mound	Webster
West Hope	Woodston	Zurich

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