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  Welcome to Kansas Trails' Pottawatomie 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 Pottawatomie County, providing our "experience" gained from years of researching our ancestors and website hostingWe 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 Pottawatomie 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.
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your Temporary Pottawatomie County host, Sara Hemp


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
Belvue
Blue
Blue Valley
Center
Clear Creek
Emmett
Grant
Green
Lincoln
Lone Tree
Louisville
Mill Creek
Pottawatomie
Rock Creek
St. Clere
St. George
St. Marys
Shannon
Sherman
Spring Creek
Union
Vienna
Wamego

Cities
Westmoreland (county seat)
Wamego
St. Marys
Onaga
St. George
Emmett
Belvue
Louisville
Olsburg
Havensville
Wheaton


Pottawatomie County was organized in 1856. It was named for the Pottawatomie tribe, which at the time of statehood called this area home; besides the cities listed at the left, the communities of Aikins, Barret, Duluth, Fostoria, Laclede and Swamp Angel lie within the boundaries of Pottawatomie County.



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This Month's Featured Data
Selected Biographies from Portrait and Biographical Album, Jackson, Jefferson and Pottawatomie County, 1890





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