Welcome to
Bourbon County

Where Your Journey Begins


  Welcome to Kansas Trails' Bourbon County. Our goal is helping you find your ancestors by placing data online for the Free use of all researchers.  We are proud to expand Kansas with Bourbon County, providing our "experience" gained from years of researching our ancestors and website hosting.  We want to hear about you and the history of your ancestors from this beautiful State. We also need contributions of your data, history and stories to make this a great place to research.  Everything is helpful: Obituaries, Biographies, Photos and County History, to name a few.
  As data becomes available, we will put it online.  Information for the County of Bourbon will be posted as fast as we can find, type and/or receive it.  We welcome your feedback and comments, and of course, your data contributions.
  You are welcome to browse the information here to gather the data needed in your research. Please remember that this data represents hours of painstaking research by the State Coordinator, County Host, Volunteers, and Contributors, who donate to this site. Show your respect for these efforts by not using it on other websites or publications without written permission of the host and/or Contributors nor claim as your own.

If you wish to submit data of any type to this site, it will be graciously accepted and added to this site.
Remember: Submitted data will always be YOURS.
CONTROL of any submitted data is yours.
At any time you can choose to remove it or keep it online
- from any site - wherever on the web.

your Temporary Bourbon County host, Peggy Thompson
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This County is available for adoption!
We're looking for people to put genealogical and historical data online for the free use of all researchers, visit our Volunteer Information page and then email Kim



Townships

Drywood

Franklin

Freedom

Marion

Marmaton

Mill Creek

Osage

Pawnee

Scott

Timberhill

Walnut

 

Cities

Ft. Scott

Bourbon

Uniontown

Fulton

Redfield

Mapleton

  Bourbon County was organized by the Territorial Legislature in 1855. It was named for Bourbon County, Kentucky--a member of the Territorial Legislature, Samuel A. Williams, requested that it be named for his former home county.

  Fort Scott is the county seat and largest city; besides the cities listed at the left, other communities include Devon, Garland, Hammond, Hiattville, Hidden Valley, Marmaton, Pawnee Station and Xenia.


COUNTY TOPICS

Biographies

Birth Records

Cemeteries

Census

County Seat

Death Records

Directories

Family Histories

Genealogy

History

Immigration

Land Records

Maps

Marriages

Military

Native Americans

Newspapers Items

Obituaries

Pictures

Schools

Taxes

 

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