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Buffalo County, Nebraska genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

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Buffalo County, Nebraska
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[[Image: |200px|Map of Nebraska highlighting Buffalo County ]] Location in the state of Nebraska
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Facts
Founded	March 14, 1855
County Seat	Kearney
Courthouse
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Address	Buffalo County Courthouse 1512 Central Ave. Kearney, Nebraska 68848 Phone: 308.236.1226

County Courthouse

Buffalo County Courthouse
1512 Central Ave
PO Box 1270
Kearney NE 68848
Phone: 308-236-1270
County Vital Records Telephone: (308)236-1226

County Clerk has marriage records from 1872.
County Judge has probate and court records
from 1872. Clerk District Court has divorce records.
Reg of Deeds has land records. ^[1]

History

Parent County

1855--Buffalo County was created 14 March 1855 as an original county.
County seat: Kearney ^[2]

Boundary Changes

The records are in the county record office.

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Cities and Villages

• Amherst
• Buda
• Elm Creek
• Gibbon
• Kearney
• Miller
• Pleasanton
• Ravenna
• Riverdale
• Shelton

Buffalo County is also divided into some 26 townships

Neighboring Counties

• Adams
• Custer
• Dawson
• Hall
• Howard
• Kearney
• Phelps
• Sherman

Resources

Cemeteries

• Buffalo County Cemeteries. Most of the county's cemeteries have been inventoried since around the rear 2000 and posted on Rootsweb, There is an alphabetical list of burials, also a list by cemetery. Each Cemetery is listed by name, code, and township and range.
• The cemetery for the Immanuel Lutheran Church is located about 2 miles Northwest of the town of Amherst. It's a small cemetery. Many of the headstones are for people of German descent.
  

Census

For tips on accessing Buffalo County, Nebraska census records online, see: Nebraska Census.

Church

Court

Buffalo County houses a District Court and a County Court. The District Court issues writs and orders, collects and disperses child support fees, keeps court records, and records court proceedings.The County Court handles probate, civil, criminal and traffic cases.

• Buffalo County District Court
  PO Box 520
  Kearney, Nebraska 68848
  Telephone (308)236-1246
  Website: http://www.buffalogov.org/offices/ClerkDistrictCourt/
• County Court of Buffalo County
  1512 Central Ave, PO Box 520
  Kearney, Nebraska 68848
  Telephone: (308)236-1229
  Website: http://www.supremecourt.ne.gov/county-court/county-court-website/buffalopub.htm

Land

• Buffalo County Register of Deeds
  PO Box 1270
  Kearney, Nebraska 68848
  In Nebraska counties with more than 20,000 inhabitants, there is a separate office for the Register of Deeds. The Register of Deeds website has an alphabetical index to Buffalo County Land Patents compiled by the agency.

Local Histories

Maps

Migration

Early migration routes to and from Buffalo County, Nebraska for European and African American settlers included:

• Platte River
• Oregon Trail 1830s to 1890s from western Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon^[3]
• California Trail 1846 to 1869 from western Missouri to northern California^[4]
• Mormon Trail 1846 to 1869 from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah^[5]

Military

Newspapers

Probate

Probate records are held and created by the Buffalo County Court listed in the County section on this page.

The Family History Library has microfilm copies of Buffalo County &columns=*,0,0 probate records 1906-1956housed by the North Platte Genealogical Society in North Platte, Nebraska. As of April 2010 the society has an internet address but no web content.

Points of Interest

• Trails and Rails Museum in Kearney, Nebraska

Taxation

Vital Records

The Family History Library has microfilm copies of Buffalo County &columns=*,0,0 marriage records 1896-1993housed in the Nebraska State Historical Society and the Buffalo County Courthouse.

Societies and Libraries

• Buffalo County Historical Society
  PO Box 523
  Kearnney, Nebraska 68848
  Telephone: (308)234-3041
  The Trails and Rails Museum at 717 West 11th St. in Kearney houses their collection. The Society's archives have county atlases for various years, family papers from a few families, family histories, marriage records beginning 1872, probate records from 1872, newspapers published in Kearney and Shelton,  naturalization records, school census records, Kearney water companty records from 1887-1893, and more.
• Fort Kearney Genealogical Society
  PO Box 22
  Kearney, Nebraska
  The Fort Kearney Genealogical Society was organized in 1978. It has in its own collection, or has access to early school records, cemetery inventories, census and Soundex records, microfilms of the Kearney HUB and other county newpapers, land patents, marriages, delayed birth records naturalizations, early probates, etc. It publishes a quarterly journal titled Buffalo Chips,  They are happy to do look-ups in their own archives and libraries and at the courthouse.
• Ravenna Historical Society
  105 Aba Ave
  Ravenna, Nebraska 68869

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Kearney Nebraska Family History Center

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Buffalo County, Nebraska page 428, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
3. ↑ Jim Tompkins, "The Oregon Trail 1841-1848 Map II" in Oregon Trail Landmarks at http://www.oregonpioneers.com/OTMap2.jpg (accessed 18 July 2011).
4. ↑ "Oregon California Trails Association" at http://octatrails.micromaps.com/ (accessed 18 July 2011).
5. ↑ "The Pioneer Story: The Mormon Pioneer Trail" in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at http://lds.org/gospellibrary/pioneer/pioneerstory.htm (accessed 18 July 2011).

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