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United States Missouri Phelps County

	Missouri Online Records

County Courthouse

Phelps County Courthouse
200 N Main Street FL 1;
Rolla, MO 65401
Phone: 573.364.1891 

County Clerk has marriage, divorce, court and
land records from 1857 and probate records^[1]

History

Parent County

1857--Phelps County was created 13 November 1857 from Crawford, Pulaski and Maries Counties. County seat: Rolla ^[2]

Boundary Changes

• See an interactive map of Phelps County border changes at N2Genealogy.

Record Loss

Places/Localities

• The State Historical Society of Missouri has information on historical Missouri place names for all 114 Missouri Counties.
  

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Crawford
• Dent
• Gasconade
• Maries
• Pulaski
• Texas

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps

• Map of Phelps County townships (Histopolis)
  

• The University of Missouri Digital Library has digital copies of Missouri county plat books (ca. 1930) for all Missouri counties including Phelps County. The city of St. Louis is not included in this collection.
  

Military

• There is an index for the State Federal Soldiers' Home in St. James, Mo. in Marie Concannon's Index of residents State Federal Soldiers' Home of Missouri, St. James, Missouri, 1899-1946 (FamilySearch) (Worldcat). The home was provided for indigent Union veterans of the Civil War, their wives, widows, and army nurses.

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Births

Marriages

Deaths

• Missouri State Archives provides on-line access to Missouri Death Certificates more than 50 yrs old starting in 1910.
  

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Rolla Missouri 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), Phelps County, Missouri. Page 404 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).