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Iowa Atlases, Gazetteers, Maps, Plat Books, and Farm Directories

• History and legends of place names in Iowa : the meaning of our map
  This volume is a unique collection of historical facts and legends gleaned from available records concerning the names found on the map of Iowa.

Huebinger’s Map and Guides

The Huebinger series of automotive publications were popular a century ago as adventurous motorists braved the primitive roads and uncertain terrain of Iowa and beyond. Noted landmarks on these road-maps include schools, houses, churches, piles of stumps, unusual rocks, cemeteries, and windmills. Today, these map collections are actually history books showing how towns and cities have developed, roads have changed, and some communities have disappeared.

• 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Blue Grass Road: Council Bluffs, Burlington Ft. Madison, Muscatine
• 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Des Moines, Ft. Dodge, Spirit Lake and Sioux Falls Highway: combining the Des Moines, Ft. Dodge and Spirit Lake Highway and the Sioux Falls, Spirit Lake official highway
• 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Hawkeye Highway: Sioux City to Dubuque
• 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for North Iowa Pike: Sioux Falls, S.D. to McGregor, Iowa
• 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Panora Speedway
• 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Iowa official trans-continental route: Iowa division of the national highway New York – San Francisco
• 1912 Huebinger’s map and guide for Waubonsie Trail: Iowa and Nebraska division of the Waubonsie system

State of Iowa

• 1875 Illustrated historical atlas of the state of Iowa
• 1915 Map of Iowa, issued by the Board of Railroad Commissioners
• 1904 Atlas of the state of Iowa

Iowa Biographies

• History of Adair County Iowa and Its People, vol 2
  Back in 1915, Lucian Moody Kilburn, was engaged to write a history of Adair County Iowa by the Pioneer Publishing Company of Chicago Illinois, he then being at that time a resident of the county for 50 years. The manuscript was divided into two volumes. This volume, numbered 2, provides biographical sketches of 348 leading men and women of the County of Adair including many of its founding families. You can read or download the free eBook.
• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Story County, Iowa
  The full manuscript contains a condensed history of the state of Iowa, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the state of Iowa, a descriptive history of Story county and 229 selected biographical sketches of the citizens of Story County, Iowa.
• Ida County, Iowa Genealogy
  Biographies specific to Ida County that were extracted from numerous sources.
• Biographical sketches of the 25th General assembly of Iowa
  Biographical sketches of the state officers and Iowa members of Congress for the session during 1894.

Iowa Cemetery Records

• Iowa Cemetery Records
  • Monroe County Graves Registration

Iowa Census Records

• Iowa Census Records

Iowa Church Records

• Iowa Quaker Records
  Compiled from membership & marriage records, Minutes [1875-1922], Hinshaw notebook.
  • Volume 1: Arnold-Grinnell
  • Volume 2: Hamilton-North “M” Street
  • Volume 3: Oak Grove-West Branch

Iowa Directories

• State Wide Barber License Beginning – Apr 1929
• Cedar Rapids City Iowa Directories
  1876, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1883-6, 1888, 1890, 1892, 1893, 1895, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1906-14, 1916-20, 1922-26, 1928, 1929, 1931-39, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1956-60, 1962-91, 1993-98
• Cedar Rapids City Iowa Phone Books
  1924-1937, 1939-1946, 1949, 1951-1954, 1956-1960, 1963, 1964, 1967-1971, 1973-1975, 1977-1981, 1983-1993.
• 1921 Farmers’ Directory of Leroy Township, Iowa
• 1921 Farmers’ Directory of Lincoln Township, Iowa
• 1921 Farmers’ Directory of Melville Township, Iowa
• 1921 Farmers’ Directory of Viola, Iowa
• 1921 Farmers’ Directory of Sharon Township, Iowa
• 1921 Farmers’ Directory of Oakfield Township, Iowa

Iowa Genealogy

• History of the origin of county names of the state of Iowa
• Iowa pioneer families
  Surnames include: Adams, Adkins, Alden, Alter, Avery, Bartlett, Beaton, Bohen, Blam, Call, Clark, Clarke, Dempster, Dodge, Douglass, Dunton, Gifford, Grinnell, Hackman, Haggard, Hatch, Hempstead, Hodges, Hyde, Kellogg, King, Knight, Korns, Laffer, Lagan, Langworthy, Long, Magoun, McDonald, McKnight, Meacham, Miller, Mooers, Moses, Munger, Murphy, Park, Porter, Read, Rist, Royce, Sanders, Sanderson, Simpson, Smith, Spencer, Sprague, Taylor, Tyler, Ward, Way, Wherry, William, Young.
• Daughters of the American Revolution records: pioneers of Iowa
  Biographical & family information sheets on pioneers in Iowa.
• The Descendants of Franklin Mary Noyes Rowe of Humboldt County, Iowa
• History of the John Wilson Family

Iowa Genealogy Websites

• Iowa Genealogy
  • Harrison County Iowa Genealogy
  • Monona County Iowa Genealogy
  • Sac County Iowa Genealogy
  • Woodbury County Iowa Genealogy

United States GenWeb Project

• Iowa GenWeb

Adair, Clay, Hancock, Madison, Sac, Adams, Clayton, Hardin, Mahaska, Scott, Allamakee, Clinton, Harrison, Marion, Shelby, Appanoose, Crawford, Henry, Marshall, Sioux, Audubon, Dallas, Howard, Mills, Story, Benton, Davis, Humboldt, Mitchell, Tama, Black Hawk, Decatur, Ida, Monona, Taylor, Boone, Delaware, Iowa, Monroe, Union, Bremer, Des Moines, Jackson, Montgomery, Van Buren, Buchanan, Dickinson, Jasper, Muscatine, Wapello, Buena Vista, Dubuque, Jefferson, O’Brien, Warren, Butler, Emmet, Johnson, Osceola, Washington, Calhoun, Fayette, Jones, Page, Wayne, Carroll, Floyd, Keokuk, Palo Alto, Webster, Cass, Franklin, Kossuth, Plymouth, Winnebago, Cedar, Fremont, Lee, Pocahontas, Winneshiek, Cerro Gordo, Greene, Linn, Polk, Woodbury, Cherokee, Grundy, Louisa, Pottawattamie, Worth, Chickasaw, Guthrie, Lucas, Poweshiek, Wright, Clarke, Hamilton, Lyon, Ringgold, UNKNOWN

American History and Genealogy Project

• Iowa History and Genealogy Project

Buena Vista, Calhoun, Delaware, Harrison, Linn, Monona, Monroe, Pocahontas, Sac, Wayne, Woodbury

Iowa History

• Sagas of the Hawkeyes : being stories and incidents of early Iowa
  These articles about history in Iowa have been culled from old newspapers, local histories and biographies and were published in 1945 as a manuscript..
• IGS Certificates (Pioneer, Statehood & Century)
• Annals of Iowa (1863-2014)
  A quarterly, peer-reviewed journal of history published by the State Historical Society of Iowa.
• Irving Weber’s Iowa City History Articles
  In January 1973, at the age of 72, Irving Weber (1900-1997) began writing articles on local history for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Over the next 25 years the paper published 850 of his weekly columns. Half of the columns were reprinted in eight volumes titled Irving Weber’s Iowa City. This digital collection provides the complete set of Weber’s newspaper columns, either in their original formats or as reprinted in the books.
• Iowa Pioneer Lives
  Letters, diaries, and photographs documenting the lives of Iowa’s first white settlers, mid- to late-19th century.
• Looking backward on Hawkeyeland
  A reissue of the May 1947 printing, which is a revision and enlargement, prepared for the Iowa Centennial Committee, of an article published in the Morrell magazine, Dec. 1946.
• Our Iowa : its beginnings and growth
  The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Cumulative index, volumes I-XL, 1903-1942
  • A-C
  • D-H
  • I-M
  • N-Sl
  • Sm-Z
• One hundred years of Iowa medicine, commemorating the centenary of the Iowa State Medical Society, 1850-1950
  Iowa medicine prior to 1850. Iowa State Medical Society. The presidents, 1850-1950. Official branches of the State Society. City, district and county medical associations. Medical education in Iowa. Medical journalism in Iowa. Hospitals in Iowa. State Society Iowa Medical Women, and Branch 19 American Medical Women’s Association. Woman’s Auxiliary to the Iowa State Medical Society. Iowa State Medical Library. The doctor in Spanish American War, World War I, World War II. Iowa State Board of Health and Medical Examiners. Growth of psychiatry in Iowa. History of nursing in Iowa. Public health nursing. History of pharmacy in Iowa. Diary (1850-1913) of Dr. J.M. Shaffer, Keokuk. The Centennial session.
• The first 75 years: History of education in Iowa
  State Responsibility for Teacher Education in Iowa. Government and Maintenance of the Institution. The Faculty; Selection, Compensation, Tenure, Retirement. Scope and Limitation of the Institutional Program. The Program of Pre-Service and In-Service Education Teachers. The Students: Government, Social Education, and Extracurricular Activities.
• History of P. E.O. in Iowa
  P. E. O. is a society for women founded by seven students at Iowa Wesleyan College in 1869.
• History of Adair County Iowa and its People – vol 1
  Back in 1915, Lucian Moody Kilburn, was engaged to write a history of Adair County Iowa by the Pioneer Publishing Company of Chicago Illinois, he then being at that time a resident of the county for 50 years. The actual general history of the county, however, was prepared by Gordon K. Miller. The manuscript was divided into two volumes. This volume, volume 1, provides the general history of Adair County that Mr. Miller prepared. You can read or download the free eBook from this website.

Iowa Land Records

• U.S., Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-1908
  3,907 land management tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants. Additional items of information included in the tract books are as follows: number of acres, date of sale, purchase price, land office, entry number, final Certificate of Purchase number, and notes on relinquishments and conversions.
• Arizona Land Patents online. Index.

Iowa Locality Genealogical Records

Adair County, Iowa Genealogy

• Adair County, Iowa Grave Registration
  Transcribed in 1939. These grave transcriptions are compiled from all cemeteries in Adair County and then listed by surnames. Should make finding a particular person easier when the cemetery is not known.
  • A-E Surnames (vol. 1)
  • F-M Surnames (vol. 2)
  • N-Z Surnames (vol. 3)
• Middle River Homestead
  Written by Ernest Almon Smith and published in 1955. A history of his family and their settlement in Adair County, Iowa.
• Iowa Genealogical Records – DAR Vol 13
  Volume 13 of the Iowa Genealogical Records compiled by DAR in 1929. First marriage records for Adair, Calhoun, David, Mahaska, and Poweshiek counties; early settlers of Johnson county; History of Bethel Methodist Church, Sigourney; Mayflower list of passengers; first wills of Jefferson county; Genealogies of the Alden, Applegate, Atwood, Beaumont, Cozine, Eddy, Fuller, Hardenbergh, Higgins, Leech, Marshall, McCaddon, McHenry, Pierce, Pratt, Safford, Sampson, Smith, Stevens, Teater, Teter, Waldron, West, Wing, and Wormley families.

Adams County, Iowa Genealogy

• Monograph of Allen Abel Rawson, M.D. : and early days of Adams County, Iowa
• History of Washington Township, Adams County, Iowa
  A project of the Riverside Garden Club of Mt. Etna, Iowa, from Febr. 1936 to February, 1937

Allamakee County, Iowa Genealogy

• Iowa Genealogical Records – DAR Vol 1955
  Volume of the Iowa Genealogical Records compiled by DAR in 1953. Early wills of Allamakee County, 1854-1881; Early wills of Black Hawk County, 1853-1881; Record of Wills of Mahaska County up to 1900; Abstracts of wills, guardianships, and estates in Poweshiek County up to 1900; Woodbury County Will Book A, 1856-1885, Will Book B, 1880-1889.

Appanoose County, Iowa Genealogy

• Appanoose County, Iowa, 1850 Census
  An extraction of the 1850 United States Federal Census for Appanoose County, Iowa.

Audubon County, Iowa Genealogy

• Audubon County, Iowa Grave Registration
  Transcribed in 1939. These grave transcriptions are compiled from all cemeteries in Audubon County and then listed by surnames. Should make finding a particular person easier when the cemetery is not known.
  • A-H Surnames (vol. 1)
  • I-Z Surnames (vol. 2)

Benton County, Iowa Genealogy

• Pioneer recollections
  Stories and pictures depicting the early history and development of Benton county, selected from the family albums and libraries of the descendants of the pioneers of the county. Also stories as written or dictated by these residents, from records in their possession or tales related to them by their parents. Compiled by Harley Ransom and published in 1941.
• History of Benton County, Iowa
  Compiled from materials in the public archives, the Iowa Historical society’s collection, the newspapers, and data of personal interviews. Compiled under the editorial supervision of Mr. Luther B. Hill, General Historian, and a corps of local editors. Published in 1910 by Lewis Publishing Company. Poorly photocopied book.
  • Volume 1, History
  • Volume 2, Biographical Sketches
• 1872 Atlas of Benton County, Iowa
  Drawn from actual surveys and the county records, to which is added a rail road map of the state of Iowa
• Benton County, Iowa Records
  Contains marriage records from the Congregational Church of Belle Plaine, Iowa, 1896-1957 and cemetery records from four different cemeteries located in Benton County: Bear Creek Cemetery, Cox Cemetery, Keisling Cemetery, and Urbana Cemetery. There is an index to the cemeteries found on pages 25-26, but no index to the marriage records.
• Iowa Genealogical Records – DAR Vol 3
  Volume 3 of the Iowa Genealogical Records compiled by DAR in 1927. Marriage records from Black Hawk, Jones, Keokuk, Linn, Muscatine, and Wapello counties; court records of Muscatine County; history of Cass County; Genealogies on the Arnold, Cantwell, Hatfield, Clark, Curtis, Goodrich, Harvey, Hopkins, Hutchinson, Kellogg, Moorman, Newhouse, Painter, Pasco, Rogers, Ryan, Speer, Stone, Wheeler, and Wright families.
• Iowa Genealogical Records – DAR Vol 10
  Volume 10 of the Iowa Genealogical Records compiled by DAR in 1928. Grave records [cemeteries] from the following counties: Black Hawk, Benton, Clayton, Dallas, Hardin, Henry, Humboldt, Marion, Story, and Woodbury.
• Iowa Genealogical Records – DAR Vol 41
  Volume 41 of the Iowa Genealogical Records compiled by DAR in 1937. Cemetery records from Benton, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Butler, and Bremer counties. Also lists the 1859-1881 Bremer County marriage records.
• Iowa Marriage Records
  Consists primarily of D.A.R. records comp. from 1932-1955.
  • pt. 1 Marriage records from Christ Methodist Church, Belle Plaine, 1878-1954, Benton Co.
  • pt. 2 Marriage register no. 2, Buchanan Co. 1859-1865.
  • pt. 3 Lucas Co. marriages, 1881-1899.
  • pt. 4 Marriages in Mahaska Co., 1844-1851.
  • pt. 5 Union Co. marriage records, 1855-1880.
  • pt. 6 Genealogical Dept. records of the early pioneers of Slaughter or Washington Co., 1836-1932; from newspaper records

Grundy County, Iowa Genealogy

• Grundy County Assessor Book (1885-1916)
• Grundy County Iowa Justice Docket (1877-1914)

Beaman Genealogy

• Beaman Iowa Receipts and Disbursements Book (1907-1938)
• Beaman Iowa Warrant Register Clerk Book (1933-1942)
• Beaman High School Annuals (1941-1958)
• Records of Andersonville Post 155 – G.A.R. (1883-1916)

Hancock County, Iowa Genealogy

• History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
  History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and 641 biographies of representative citizens. Also included is a history of Iowa embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, and a brief review of its civil and military history.

Harrison County, Iowa Genealogy

• Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

Ida County Genealogy

• Ida County Iowa Genealogy

Kossuth County, Iowa Genealogy

• History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
  History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and 641 biographies of representative citizens. Also included is a history of Iowa embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, and a brief review of its civil and military history.

Story County, Iowa Genealogy

• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Story County, Iowa
  The full manuscript contains a condensed history of the state of Iowa, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the state of Iowa, a descriptive history of Story county and 229 selected biographical sketches of the citizens of Story County, Iowa.

Webster County, Iowa Genealogy

• Centennial History of Webster County, Iowa
  “Centennial History of Webster County, its towns and townships, and also the City of Fort Dodge.”

Winnebago County, Iowa Genealogy

• History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
  History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and 641 biographies of representative citizens. Also included is a history of Iowa embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, and a brief review of its civil and military history.

Iowa Military Records

• Iowa Forts
  List of colonial forts, trading posts, named camps, redoubts, reservations, general hospitals, national cemeteries, etc., established or erected in the United States from its earliest settlement to 1902.
• Revolutionary War
  • Revolutionary War Pension Records
  • 1840 Pensioners Census

• Civil War Records
  • Civil War Pensions Index Cards
    Each card gives the soldier’s name, unit, the application number, the certificate number and the state from which the soldier served. In some cases, the soldier’s rank, terms of service, date of death and place of death are given. The index cards refer to pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917. The majority of the records pertain to Civil War veterans, but they also include veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, Indian wars, and World War I.
  • Iowa Civil War Diaries and Letters
• Spanish American War
  • TAPS (United Spanish War Veterans Deaths)
  • Scott County, IA Soldier Orphans 1880
  • Soldiers Orphan Home Davenport 1870 – 1880
• Camp Dodge Records
  The Iowa National Guard Enlistment records are of those who enlisted in the Iowa National Guard between 1900 and 1940. If enlistee reenlisted that information is included.
• World War I Records
  • World War 1 Draft Registration Records
  • Iowa World War 1 Diaries and Letters
• World War II Records
  • World War 2 Casualties Army – Army Air Corps
  • Iowa Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard World War II Casualty List
  • Iowa World War II Diaries and Letters
  • Iowa World War II Press Clippings
    The State Historical Society of Iowa collected, sorted, and filed about 800,000 Iowa newspaper clippings documenting Iowa’s war efforts both at home and on foreign soil. More than 30 topics are covered by the clippings, including business and labor, casualties, education and training, farming and food, production and rationing, public health, life and activities, women’s military involvement, prisoners of war, and warships. The original clippings are closed to the public due to their deteriorating condition. However, through a cooperative preservation effort by the SHSI and the Iowa City Genealogical Society several of the topics are now available on microfilm through ILL or purchase. This digital collection makes a portion of the clippings available in an easily searchable online format.
• Korean War Casualty List
• Vietnam War Casualty List

Iowa Native American Records

• Iowa Indian Tribes
• Indian History of Winneshiek County Iowa
  History on the Indians of Winneshiek county, Iowa including: Decorah Family genealogy, Fort Atkinson, and Chied Winneshiek
• Sioux Indian Prisoners Confined at Camp Kearney

Iowa Vital Records

• Iowa Vital Records
• Iowa Vital Records
  Various records reporting on marriages as well as wedding anniversaries [probably extracted from newspapers, though source is not listed]. The content is arranged alphabetically by personal names.
  • Volume A-P
  • Volume R-Z

Iowa Yearbooks

• Drake University Yearbooks 1901-1994
• University of Iowa’s Hawkeye Yearbook 1892-1992
  Published from 1892 until 1992 (except for a brief interruption during the 1970s), The University of Iowa’s Hawkeye yearbook features student portraits, photographs of the campus, club and team information, and frequently a foreword by the administration. These documents highlight the continuity and change of life on The University of Iowa campus during late 19th and 20th centuries. Please note that from 1892-1946 the yearbook was a project of the junior class and therefore editions from that time were dated to reflect the class’s graduation year, not the year of publication.