Platte County, Missouri, United States

Details for Platte County

Name

Platte County

Place Type

County

Located in

Missouri, United States

County Seat

Platte City (Carroll Township)

Established

1838

Coordinates

Latitude		39.4166651		39° 24' 60" N
Longitude		-94.8002390		94° 48' 00.9" W

Population

57,867

Elevation

292 m

Surrounding Counties

Buchanan N
Clinton NE
Clay E
Jackson SE
Wyandotte (Kansas) S
Leavenworth (Kansas) SW
Atchison (Kansas) W

USGS GNIS FeatureID

758537

Histopolis Place ID

945069335

Updated Oct 17, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Platte County

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

Platte County, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platte_County,_Missouri (28 Jul 2010)

USGenWeb Archives MO Platte Co. Cemeteries Records [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/platte/platcem.html (8 Dec 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Platte County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Platte County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MO/Platte/ (9 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Platte County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Platte County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MO/Platte/cem/ (19 Nov 2008)

Ancestor Explorer - Platte County Missouri [Ancestor Explorer]
http://www.ancestorexplorer.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=plattecountymissouri (22 Jun 2011)

Platte County, Missouri MO, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Platte County, Missouri MO, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=20599 (17 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Platte County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=20599&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (29 Nov 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Platte County, Mo. [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/MO/PL.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Platte County, Missouri Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Platte County, Missouri
http://www.interment.net/us/mo/platte.htm (16 May 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=1479 (12 Sep 2009)

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Surveys in Platte County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 23 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Platte County. You can navigate to any of the 23 survey townships that overlap Platte County using the navigation tool below.

Survey: Range:

Townships of Platte County

14 Townships

Carroll	Fair	Fox	Green
Kickapoo	Lee	Marshall	May
Pawnee	Pettis	Preston	Sioux
Waldron	Weston

Cities of Platte County

15 Cities, 4 Villages, 32 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Bean Lake Station	Beverly	Breen Acres	Buena Vista
Buxton	Camden Point (city)	Dearborn (city)	Dye
East Leavenworth	Edgerton (city)	Edgerton Junction	Farley (village)
Ferrelview (village)	Hampton	Haydite	Hell Town
Hoover	Houston Lake (city)	Iatan (village)	Kansas (city)
Kerrville	Lake Waukomis (city)	Linkville	Milton
New Market	North Moor	Northern Heights	Northmoor (city)
Parkdale	Parkville (city)	Platte (city)	Platte Gardens
Platte Woods (city)	Rialto	Ridgely (village)	Ringgold
Riverside (city)	Sadler	Smithville (city)	Stillings
Stubbs	Sugar Lake	Tarrytown	Tiffany Springs
Tracy (city)	Waldron	Weatherby Lake (city)	West Platte
Weston (city)	Winston	Woodruff

Cemeteries of Platte County

47 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Alexander	Allen	Bain	Bellis
Brasfield	Brightwell	Brown	Camden Point
Campground	Chinn	Cockrell	Collier
Dixon	Dunagan	East Slope Memorial Gardens	Ellis
Farmer	Fox	Fulton	Graceland
Gray	Green	Hackett	Hampton
Hawkins	Heath	Jewett	Kitchen
Lawn Hill	Lutes	Martin	Maupin
McComas	Mount Zion	Mt. Zion (*)	Naylor
New Market	Nolan	Pancake	Ridgeley
Rixey	Saint Marys	Smith	St. Marys (*)
Standiford	Todd	Union Mill	Waller
Wilkerson

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