Welcome to Adair County, KY History and Genealogy Presented by Kentucky Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Kentucky is covered under our "Southern" States mailing list. Formed out of Green County in 1801, the county is named after John Adair, commander of Kentucky troops in the Battle of New Orleans and Governor of Kentucky. County Courthouse The county seat is Columbia, Kentucky. Adair was the 44th Kentucky county formed, created from Green County on December 11, 1801 and formed in 1802. It is named for General John Adair - Governor of Kentucky 1820-1824. Located in the eastern Pennyrile region and western Appalachian areas of the state, the main waterway is the Green River. This county runs along the Cumberland and Great Lakes Trail.  Its current boundaries were settled in 1860. The county took land from Green County and from Cumberland County in 1805. It gave up land to Metcalfe County and Russell County when it was formed. It lost land to Wayne County in 1804 and to Casey County in 1844. Adair County is a prohibition or completely dry county.   Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles History Notable Citizens Historical Places & Markers Post Offices Marriages 1802 - 1810 Brown ~ Garland Stephens Family Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records  Website Updates: Marriage Announcements; Death Notices;  Stephens Family Marriages; Adair County Courthouse 424 Public Square, Suite 1 Columbia, KY, 42728-1451 Phone: (270) 384-2801 ------------------------------ GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY P.O. BOX 613 COLUMBIA, KENTUCKY 42728 ------------------------------ SURROUNDING COUNTIES Taylor / Green / Metcalfe / Cumberland / Russell / Casey Back to Kentucky Trails   Visit Our National Genealogy Trails Site Subscribe to our mailing lists to get notification when we update this and our other Southern websites. Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.