Welcome to Oklahoma Genealogy Trails
A Part of the
Volunteers Dedicated to Free
Genealogy
Kingfisher County
Our goal is to help you track
your ancestors through time by
transcribing genealogical
and
historical data and placing it online for the free use of
all researchers.
This is
a
continuation of our
original Illinois
Trails History and
Genealogy
Project and we are
excited
about this opportunity to expand into other
states. Kingfisher County was created in 1890 following the run into The
Unassigned Lands and the organization of Oklahoma
Territory. A strip of
land was
later added to the
western edge of
the county after the
land run of
1892. First known as County
"Five," it was later
named to honor
the town
of Kingfisher, which had been
settled overnight after the land run of April 22,
1889,
and named for a settler who
operated a trading station on the Chisholm
Trail.
The Central Hotel in
Kingfisher housed the
first county
officials
until 1892, when Abraham
Seay and
William Grimes built a three-story brick
structure which
they in turn leased
to the county. When it was destroyed
by fire in
1901, county officials
had a four-story brick
building
constructed at
the cost of
$29,990.
Kingfisher County is located 45 miles
northwest of
Oklahoma City, and encompasses 906
square miles of
wide
prairie.
We welcome your
feedback and comments, and of course, your data
contributions. If you have
transcribed data that
you
would like
to have posted on
this
website, please send it to us.
If you would like to
be kept informed of our state and county
website
updates,
subscribe to our
This Kingfisher County Site is Available
for Adoption!
We are looking
for a coordinator for this site. We're
looking
for
folks
who share our
dedication to
putting data
online and are
interested in
helping
this
project be as helpful
and
useful to
researchers as it can be. If
you
are
interested in joining our
group,
view our
*
Cashion * Dover *
Hennessey *
Kingfisher
* Loyal *
Okarche *
Piedmont
Kingfisher County Online
Data
(Slim pickin's! We need some
help...
Send in YOUR families
data to help us build
this
site)
Website Updates:
Sep 2008: Marriage
Announcement for
MIDDAUGH-SMITH; Gossip
Items
Adjacent counties
*
Garfield
County (north)
* Logan County
(east)
*
Canadian
County
(south)
* Blaine County
(west)
*
Major
County
(northwest)
*
Oklahoma County
(extreme
southeast)
