Welcome to Wahkiakum County  Washington Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please SEND IT TO US and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information Wahkiakum County was formed April 25, 1854 from Cowlitz County. It is named after Chief Wahkiakum ("Tall Timber") of the Chinook The county seat is the town of Cathlamet, which is also the county's largest and only incorporated community. The County operates the Wahkiakum County Ferry, which connects Cathlamet to Westport, Oregon, across the Columbia River. Unincorporated Communities * Altoona * Brookfield * Dahlia * Deep River * Elochoman Valley * Grays River * Pillar Rock * Puget Island * Rosburg * Skamokawa Online Data Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriage Records Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Gleanings Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Mar 2013: 1883 Pensioners on the Roll; "The Broken Tribes"; Early Settlers, Death Records, Marriage Records; Post Master Appointments (under County Records) Dec 2012: Death notice for HOFFMAN June 2012: Sick list news Previous Updates SEARCH OUR SITES Don't Miss Another Update! Join our Genealogy Trails Pacific States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. Our Pacific Mailing List covers the states of California | Oregon | Washington | Alaska | Hawaii Adjacent Counties * Pacific County - northwest * Lewis County - north/northeast * Cowlitz County - east/southeast * Columbia County, OR - southeast * Clatsop County, OR - southwest VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit WASHINGTON STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.