Atchison County Historical Society

Research resources for Atchison County, Kansas

 

Atchison County Historical Society

www.atchisonhistory.org

contact us at GoWest@atchisonhistory.org

  • City Directories from 1859-1860 forward
  • Cemetery Records
  • Certain maps and copies of maps related to the area
  • City and County information
  • Certain School records
  • General History files, books, reference materials, ACHS publications, etc.

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Kansas State Historical Society

Center for Historical Research, 6425 SW Sixth Street, Topeka, KS 66615

785-272-8681

www.kshs.org

  • Kansas birth and death records.
  • Basic Kansas information.
  • Kansas censuses.
  • Microfilm of virtually all Kansas newspapers.
  • Records of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.

Atchison Public Library

401 Kansas Ave., Atchison, KS 66002

913-367-1902

www.atchisonlibrary.org

(Also location of Atchison County Kansas Genealogical Society-website not updated since 2001) http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/atchison/index.html

  • Microfilm of Atchison Daily Globe and other Atchison County newspapers.
  • Census information.
  • City directories on microfilm.
  • Obituary files.
  • Book collections on Amelia Earhart and E. W. Howe.

Benedictine College Library

1020 N. Second Street, Atchison, KS 66002

913-367-5340 ext. 2608

http://www.benedictine.edu/students.asp?pgID=899

  • Atchison Champion and other newspapers on microfilm.
  • General Atchison information.
  • Government documents.
  • Special collections room with rare books, etc.

Atchison County Courthouse

Fifth and Parallel, Atchison, KS 66002

913-367-2568

http://www.atchisoncountyks.org/

  • Records of marriages, wills
  • Other court related documents.
  • Deeds and land records.
  • Maps of county.

Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority

Atchison Juvenile Correctional Facility

1900 N. Second Stree,t Atchison, KS 66002

913-367-6590. ext. 200 (switchboard) or 203

ask for Janet or Vicki

  • Information on the Atchison County Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home (now the Atchison Juvenile Correctional Facility).
  • Information is only available to relatives.
  • Information is now in a database with records from early 1900s at least through late 1930s.
  • Before you call have the name of person you are searching for, relationship to that person, date of birth if known, any other name the person sought may have gone by and the county they were originally from.
  • You may call to check to see if records are available- they can check to see if something is in the database then send out necessary release forms.
  • To receive records you must complete a release, the JJA will send out forms to complete and have notarized, when returned to JJA, they will determine if records can be sent.

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Atchison County Historical Society

200 S. 10th Street, Santa Fe Depot • P.O. Box 201 • Atchison, KS 66002 • 913-367-6238

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