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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.
Click here for more detailed lists - check back as we post more information for your reference needs - we will add material as it is processed for the web
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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