For an explanation of
| Clarke County Courthouse |
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| 100 S. Main |
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| Osceola, Iowa 50213 |
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| Court House Phone Numbers |
| Clerk of Court - ( 641) 342-6096 |
| Recorder - (641) 342-3313 |
| Treasurer - (641) 342-3311 |
CENSUS
- 1860-1920 Federal censuses
- 1856-1925 Iowa censuses (microfilm at Osceola Public Library)
VITAL RECORDS
- Marriage records - 1853 to present (Recorder's Office); 1853-1900
(microfilm at Osceola Public Library)
- Birth records - 1880 to1991 (Recorder's Office) The cost of
certified birth certificates in Iowa are going up from $10 to
- $15 on July 1, 2003; 1880-1897 (book at Osceola & Murray Public
Libraries)
- Death records - 1880 to present (Recorder's Office); some obituary
clippings at Osceola & Murray Public Libraries and Historical Museum
PROBATE & RELATED RECORDS
- Wills & Probates - 1853 to present (Clerk's Office); abstracts
of first 5 will books (Historical Museum)
LAND & RELATED RECORDS
- 1853 to present (Recorder's Office); some abstracts (Historical
Museum)
MAPS, ATLASES
- 1902, 1909, 1915 & 1930 plat atlases and farm directory atlases
from 1950s (Historical Museum and Osceola & Murray Public Libraries)
COURT RECORDS
- earliest records incomplete (Clerk's Office)
CEMETERY, FUNERAL HOME RECORDS
- WPA Graves Registration (Osceola & Murray Public Libraries)
- Webster Funeral Home Records (Osceola) -transcribed 1900-1905;
1915-22; 1922-28; 1928-34; 1934-44; 1944-49 (Osceola Public Library)
- Forster's Funeral Home of Woodburn (Osceola Public Library)
CHURCH, BIBLE RECORDS
- Some Bible records & church histories (Historical Museum)
MILITARY
- Military Discharge records - 1919 to present and a few Civil
War (Recorder's Office)
- Iowa Roster (Civil War) and some transcribed GAR records (Osceola
Public Library)
NEWSPAPERS
- bound -The Osceola Sentinel 1951 to 1982; The Osceola Tribune
1951 to 1982; The Osceola Sentinel-Tribune 1983 to present (Osceola Public
Library)
- microfilm -The Osceola Sentinal 1863-1868; 1883-1992 (issues
missing in early years); The Osceola Democrat 1898-1914, 1917-18; the Osceola
tribune 1925-1982 (Osceola Public Library)
PUBLICATIONS
- Clarke County Historical & Biographical Record,
1886 Lewis Publishing (Historical Museum and Osceola Public Library)
- Clarke County Birth Records 1880-1897
by Celia Davis (Osceola & Murray Public Libraries)
- Murray Centennial 1868-1968 (Historical
Museum and Osceola & Murray Public Libraries)
- Murray Quasquicentennial 1868-1993
by Joan Callison (Murray Public Library)
- Historic Hopeville and Vicinity, 1850-1982
by Dorothy Jones & Kathy Parmenter (Historical Museum and Osceola Public
Library)
- Clarke County Historical Society Bicentennial Picture Book
(Historical Museum and Osceola Public Libary)
Information gathered by Diane Peters Shough from
Jim Miller, Margaret Alley, Pat Hailey and Celia Davis
Last Revised August 29, 2010