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Crawford County Name Lists


go 1872-1914, Alumni and Ex-Students of Iowa State College, ...with notes from 1917. Found in the Iowa History, an IAGenWeb Special Project.

Blue Folder 1875, List of 180 Crawford County Patrons of Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa.

Blue Folder 1893, Genealogical data for 285 Crawford County families from Biographical History of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties

Blue Folder 1899 - 1916, Paradise Township Officers from the Township Clerk's Record Book.
Blue Folder 1911, Genealogical data for 460 Crawford County families from History of Crawford County, Iowa, Vol. I.,

go 1933 Paradise Township Assessor's Book.

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Crawford County Census Data


Blue Folder 1840 Census of the Iowa Territory.

Blue Folder 1854 Census of Crawford County.

Blue Folder 1856 Census of Crawford County.

Blue Folder 1856 Census Population and Agricultural Statistics for Crawford County.

Blue Folder 1860 Census of Crawford County.

Blue Folder 1865 Census Population and Agricultural Statistics for Crawford County.

Blue Folder 1870 Census of Crawford County.

go 1870 - 1920, Federal and State census of Kiron area from Glenn Gustafson.

go 1880 United States, 1881 British Isles and Canadian Census data at the LDS Family Search Website.

Blue Folder 1885 Iowa State Census for
Towns of Aspinwall, Dow City, Vail and
Townships of Boyer, Charter Oak, Denison, Hanover , Hayes, Iowa, Milford, Morgan, Nishnabotany, Paradise, Washington , Willow and Union.

Blue Folder 1900 Crawford County Census

Blue Folder 1905 Iowa State Census Register for Crawford County. List of all people in the 1905 Iowa census.

Blue Folder 1930 Crawford County Census for
Towns of Arion, Buck Grove, Deloit, Denison, and Dow City and
Townships of Boyer, Goodrich, Milford, Paradise, and Union.

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Crawford County Church Records

Blue Folder 1823 - 1968 data from the Trinity Lutheran Church Registry, Ida County, Iowa. A church attended by many in Northern Crawford County. Includes Church Registry with birth dates beginning in 1823, Baptisms 1877 - 1921, Marriages 1880 - 1930, Deaths 1877 - 1968, Confirmations 1880 - 1906

Blue Folder 1878 and later, Baptisms, Confirmations, Weddings and Burials of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Hanover Twp.

go 1893 and later, Baptisms, Confirmations, Marriages from the Zion Lutheran Church, Manning, Iowa. Contains residents of Crawford County. Use the "Centennial Book" link, and then use the "Table of Contents" link and find pages for "Zion's Records".

Blue Folder 1895 - 1921, Confirmations in Trinity Lutheran Church, Manilla.

Blue Folder 1896 and later, Baptisms and Marriages, St. Boniface Catholic Church, Charter Oak.

Blue Folder 1902 - 1930, Baptisms with Birth Dates, St. John's Parish, Stockholm Township.

Blue Folder 1902 - 1945, Deaths, St. John's Parish, Stockholm Township.

Blue Folder 1903 and later, Baptisms, Confirmations, Marriages and Funerals, Friedens Evangelical Lutheran Church (United Church of Christ), Schleswig, Iowa.

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Crawford County Cemetery Lists

Blue Folder Maps for location of Cemeteries in Crawford County and Neighboring Counties.

Blue Folder Astor Cemetery

Blue Folder Bockelmann Family Cemetery in Hanover Township with six family burials, ca. 1871-1887.

Blue Folder Buck Grove Cemetery

Blue Folder Butler (Arion) Cemetery

Blue Folder Charter Oak Cemetery list of 454 burials from the IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project.

Blue Folder County Poor Farm Cemetery

Blue Folder Crawford Heights Cemetery list of 30 burials from the IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project.

Blue Folder Dow City Cemetery list of 175 burials from the IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project.

go Galland's Grove (aka LDS) Cemetery, Grove Township, near Earling in northwest Shelby County, near Crawford County.

Blue Folder Hayes Township Cemetery.

Blue Folder Iowa Township Cemetery

Blue Folder King Cemetery, Milford Township

go Kiron Cemetery Lists from Glenn Gustafson.

go Milford Township Cemetery, from Glenn Gustafson.

Blue Folder Morgan Township Cemetery. View photos of Gravestones submitted to the IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project.

Blue Folder Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Manilla.

Blue Folder Nishnabota Cemetery, Manilla, list of 60 burials from the IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project.

Blue Folder Oakland Cemetery, Denison, list of 118 burials from the IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project.

Blue Folder Old Catholic (Irish) Cemetery, East Boyer Township

Blue Folder Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery, Soldier Township, Complete Listing.

Blue Folder List of 139 burials in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery from the IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project.

Blue Folder St Johannis, St Petri Lutheran Cemetery

Blue Folder St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Charter Oak Township, Complete Listing.

Blue Folder List of 105 burials in the St. Paul Cemetery, from the IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project.

Blue Folder St. Paul Cemetery, Ricketts, list of 109 burials from the IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project.

go Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Defiance, Shelby County. Near Crawford County.

Blue Folder St. Rose of Lima Catholic Cemetery, Denison

Blue Folder Trinity Lutheran, Grant Township, Ida County. A church attended by many in northern Crawford County.

go Union Township Cemetery, Defiance, Shelby County. Near Crawford County .

Blue Folder Vail Cemetery

Blue Folder Additions to Vail, St. Ann's Cemetery listing

Blue Folder Valley View Cemetery, Boyer Township, with photos of the cemetery and gravestones.

Blue Folder Westside Cemetery Burial List (No Dates Given), Westside.

Blue Folder List of 143 burials in the Westside Cemetery from the IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project.

Blue Folder WPA cemetery records (ca. 1935) for Crawford County.

Blue Folder Zion Lutheran Cemetery in Denison.

Blue Folder The IAGenWeb Iowa Gravestone Photo Project. You can search or submit photos.

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Crawford County Military Personnel

Blue Folder 1861-1865, The Twenty Crawford County Men Who Served in the Military during the Civil War.

Blue Folder 1911, Roster of 375 military servicemen in History of Crawford County, Vol. II.

Blue Folder 1917-1918, World War I Lists of Draft Registrations, Enlistments, Mobilization, etc., from Crawford County as published in the Denison Review.

Blue Folder 1917-1919, World War I News from the Denison Review. Includes articles about Crawford County people and events, and letters from service people.

Blue Folder World War II news items about Crawford County people in the military.

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Crawford County Schools

Blue Folder 1858, Dow City schools early history.

Blue Folder 1875 - 1946, Photos of Denison School classes.

Blue Folder abt. 1884, History of Washington Township, District 7 School written in 1956.

Blue Folder 1886-1911 High School Graduates in Crawford County Schools.

Blue Folder 1894-1993 Dow City school alumni list.

Blue Folder 1896, Bell School Students, Belltown, Crawford Co., Kenwood School.

Blue Folder 1900 Souvenir card from Willow Township School #5.

Blue Folder 1902 Charter Oak High School Graduating Class Photo.

Blue Folder 1911 - 1994 History of Schleswig Public Schools.

Blue Folder 1911 - 1960 Alumni of Schleswig High School.

Blue Folder 1915, Vail High School Graduating Class Photo

Blue Folder 1921, Crawford Co. 8th Grade Graduation Class.

Blue Folder 1921, Photos of students in the North Brick School in Denison.

Blue Folder 1922 Manilla High School Class Photo.

Blue Folder 1928, Paradise Center #5, Paradise Township School Children.

Blue Folder 1929 Photo of the Denison High School Football Team.

Blue Folder 1930, Photo and Names of Students in St. John Lutheran School, Charter Oak.

Blue Folder 1931, Schleswig Public School, Students, Faculty, Jokes and more.

Blue Folder 1931, Dow City High School Yearbook photos and class notes.

Blue Folder 1937, Manilla High School students

Blue Folder 1939, Manilla High School Graduates

Blue Folder 1940s, Iowa Township 1 School, Students, Teachers, Photos.

Blue Folder 1940s, Iowa Township 6 School, Students, Teachers, Photos.

Blue Folder 1944, Manilla High School Graduation Class

Blue Folder 1945, Dow City High School Graduating Class Photo.

Blue Folder 1948, Crawford Co. 8th Grade School Graduation Class

Blue Folder 1948-49 Photos of Students in Morgan Township #9 School.

Blue Folder 1951 Eighth grade graduation class from Crawford County Schools with class photograph.

Blue Folder 1952-53 Elementary Classes in St. Paul's Lutheran School in Hanover Township.

go Kiron Schools from Glenn Gustafson.

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Crawford County Church Histories

Blue Folder Arion, 1903-1978, History of the First Congregational U.C.C.

Blue Folder Charter Oak, 1883-1982, History of St. Boniface Catholic Church.

Blue Folder Charter Oak, History of Saint John Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Blue Folder Charter Oak, History of United Methodist Church.

Blue Folder Charter Oak, History of the Presbyterian Church, 1895-1935.

Blue Folder Charter Oak, History of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1896 - 1914.

Blue Folder Charter Oak, History of The Swedish Church, built in 1890.

Blue Folder Charter Oak, History of the Willow or Mullen Country Church, 1883 - 1944.

Blue Folder Denison, History of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church.

Blue Folder Dow City, ca. 1860-1930, First Baptist Church.

Blue Folder Dow City, 1867-1994, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Blue Folder Dow City, 1870-1994, United Methodist Church.

Blue Folder Dow City, 1938-1994, Bethlehem Lutheran Church with photo of the Ladies Aid Society.

Blue Folder Dow City, 1947-1994, St. Mary's Catholic Church.

Blue Folder Grant Twp., Ida Co., Trinity Lutheran Church, 1870-1969.

Blue Folder Hanover Twp., 1874-1977, History of St. Paul Lutheran Church.

go Kiron Church Histories from Glenn Gustafson.

Blue Folder Manilla, 1895-1986, History of Trinity Lutheran Church.

Blue Folder Schleswig, 1903-1975, History of United Church of Christ and formerly Friedens Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Blue Folder Schleswig, 1912-1975, History of Immanuel Lutheran Church.

Blue Folder Soldier Township, 1889-1974 History of Immanuel Lutheran Church of Soldier Township

Blue Folder Vail, 1872-1967 History of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Blue Folder Vail, 1872-1967 History of the Episcopal Church.

Blue Folder Vail, 1873-1967, History of the United Presbyterian Church.

Blue Folder Vail, 1878-1967, History of St. Ann's Catholic Church.

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Crawford County Histories

Pages Of General County Historical Interest


Blue Folder Accounts of the murder of Yellow Smoke, Chief of the Omaha Indians. Dunlap, Iowa, 1868.

go Dunham's Grove, the first settlement in Crawford County. Offsite webpages on the Dunham family including photos of Dunham's Grove and a biography of Cornelius Dunham, the first white settler in Crawford County. Authored by Carrie Miller.

Blue Folder History of Township Establishment in Crawford County.

Blue Folder Post Offices and Postmasters in Crawford County, 1857 - 1887,

Blue Folder Denison, 1860, 1861 Letters from Mary L. McHenry to her friend Julia Agens in Monona County.

Blue Folder Hedwig Christiansen, the first child born in Schleswig, 1899, and her family.

Blue Folder County Poor Farm History.

Blue Folder Tragedies and Accidents Previous to 1908, Crawford Co.

Blue Folder Aspinwall's Five Mile House and the Annual "Schuetzen Verein"

Blue Folder An 1865 historical sketch of Crawford County found in the Iowa State Gazetteer.

Blue Folder An 1875 history of Crawford County and the early settlers.
Blue Folder An 1882 history of Crawford County from The History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth.
Blue Folder Fort Purdy built in 1856. What was it?

Blue Folder A History of the Civilian Public Service Camp 18 for Conscientious Objectors located in Denison during World War II.
Blue Folder 1951 Old Settlers Picnic.

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Crawford County Histories

Town Histories

Blue Folder Towns in Crawford County and Origin of Their Names.

Blue Folder Lost Towns and Abandoned Post Offices in Crawford County.

Blue Folder Astor, 1882 - 1934, in Nishnabotna Township. A town lost in history.

Blue Folder Bell Town, 1886 - ?, in Paradise Township. A town almost forgotten.

Blue Folder Brogan, 1899 - ?, in Jackson Township. Gone but not forgotten.

Blue Folder Ells, 1899 - ?, in Stockholm Township. Another "Ghost Town" in Crawford County.

Blue Folder Hohenzollern, 1883-1899, in Morgan Township. Another town almost forgotten.

Blue Folder Arion History, 1869-1994.

Blue Folder Aspinwall Early History from 1882.

Blue Folder Boyer History from 1898. Still kicking.

Blue Folder Buck Grove History from 1862.

Blue Folder Charter Oak History, 1891 - 1991.

Blue Folder Deloit and Mason's Grove History from 1850.

Blue Folder Deloit 1914 Businesses, Organizations, and People.

Blue Folder Denison, How it was founded and named in 1856.

Blue Folder Denison 1875. An article about Denison in the Chicago Inter-Ocean Newspaper.

Blue Folder Denison, 1882 history from The History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth.

Blue Folder Denison, Doud Milling Co. advertisement article found in the Denison Bulletin, ca. 1940.

Blue Folder Dow City, Early Settlers and History from 1851.

Blue Folder Dow City, 1882 history from The History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth.

Blue Folder Kenwood History, 1886-1994, in Paradise Township.

go Kiron History from Glenn Gustafson.

Blue Folder Manilla History, 1886-1986.

Blue Folder Ricketts, Early History from 1899

Blue Folder Schleswig, Early History and Residents from 1899.

Blue Folder Vail Early History from 1867.

Blue Folder Vail, 1882 history from The History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth.

Blue Folder Westside Early History from 1869.

Blue Folder West Side, 1882 history from The History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth.

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Crawford County Maps


Blue Folder A present day Crawford County Map.

Blue Folder 1875 Crawford County, and Township Maps.

Blue Folder 1875 Denison Town Plan.

Blue Folder 1895 Crawford County Map.

Blue Folder 1920 Crawford County Township Plat Maps.

go USGS/GNIS Database of Crawford County Place Names. Click on "Search Domestic Names". Choose State name, enter county name, choose a " Feature Class" you want to see, click on " Send Query ". You receive a table of place names descriptions. From the description page of the feature you have multiple choices for a map server.

go The 1895 Atlas of maps for any state and county in the United States.

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Miscellaneous Information Links

Blue Folder Traditional German Cookery. A project of Weihnachtsfest in Manning, Iowa.

go Iowa Orphan Trains.

Blue Folder 1858 Ship List, SS New York from Bremen that carried Fred Dethlefsen's g.g. grandparents to America.

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Copyright © 2009, Stacey Dietiker for Crawford County, Iowa, IAGenWeb Project.