Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Okmulgee County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Daily Democrat (Okmulgee, Oklahoma)1910-1913
- Daily Free-Lance (Henryetta, Okla.)1916-1937
- Daily Free-Lance With Which Is Combined the Henryetta Morning News (Henryetta, Okla.)1937-1939
- Henryetta Daily Free-Lance (Henryetta, Okla.)1942-Current
- Henryetta Daily Free=lance With Which Is Combined the Henryetta News (Henryetta, Okla.)1939-1942
- Henryetta Daily Standard (Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Okla.)1923-1924
- Henryetta Free-Lance (Henryetta, Creek Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]; Henryetta, Ok)1902-Current
- Henryetta Morning News With Which Is Combined the Henryetta News (Henryetta, Okla.)1937-1937
- Henryetta Record (Henryetta, Okla.)1908-19??
- Hoffman Herald (Hoffman, I.T. [Okla.])1906-191?
- Mid-Continent Oil News (Okmulgee, Okla.)1913-191?
- Morris Enterprise (Morris, Indian Territory [Okla.])1906-1907
- Okmulgee Chieftain (Okmulgee, Creek Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.])1905-19??
- Okmulgee Chieftain (Okmulgee, Creek Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.])1906-19??
- Okmulgee County Record Combined With Beggs Independent (Okmulgee, Okla.)1944-1945
- Okmulgee Daily Herald (Okmulgee, Okla.)1908-1912
- Okmulgee Daily Times (Okmulgee, Okla.)1918-2012
- Okmulgee Republican (Okmulgee, Okla.)1910-1913
- The Beggs Hustler (Beggs, Okla.)1911-191?
- The Beggs Independent (Beggs, Indian Territory [Okla.])1906-1944
- The Beggs Independent and Okmulgee County News (Beggs, Okla.)1945-1949
- The Coalton Enterprise (Coalton, Okmulgee County, Okla.)1915-191?
- The Dewar News (Dewar, Okmulgee County, Okla.)1924-1925
- The Dewar Telegram (Dewar, Okmulgee County, Okla.)1914-1924
- The Henryetta Standard (Henryetta, Okla.)1906-190?
- The Henryetta Standard (Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Okla.)1910-192?
- The Hoffman Observer (Hoffman, Okla.)1915-191?
- The Kusa Industrial (Kusa, Okmulgee County, Okla.)1915-192?
- The Morris News (Morris, Okmulgee County, Okla.)1910-Current
- The Okmulgee County News (Okmulgee, Okla.)1949-1984
- The Okmulgee Light (Okmulgee, Okla.)1914-191?
- The Preston Weekly Patriot (Preston, Okla.)1910-1910
- The Semi-Weekly Okmulgee Chieftain (Okmulgee, Creek Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.])1901-1905
- The Standard (Beggs, Indian Territory [Okla.])1901-190?
See the repository's descriptions and search options
Repository access note: Selected newspaper titles cataloged by the Library of Congress with explicit county geography. Priority is given to titles beginning by 1950; up to five later titles are included where no earlier dated title is listed for that county. Dates describe publication history, not the issues available at a library. Multiple format records with the same title, place and dates are grouped. The catalog may describe paper, microfilm or online resources. Open ends and the word Current reflect the catalog description; confirm present availability and exact holdings with the libraries listed on the linked record.
Sources: the catalogs and repository descriptions linked on the entries above. Selected inventories do not establish complete coverage of every record type or online access to original documents. Read the repository access note for source dates and limitations.
Where to find the records
- Find Okmulgee County's official website
We haven't checked this county's website yet, so this opens a web search. Look for an address ending in .gov, then find the county clerk, the court clerk and the Oklahoma Historical Society.
- The county clerk
Deeds and other land records.
- The court clerk
Marriage licenses, probate (wills and estates), divorces and court cases.
- The Oklahoma Historical Society
In Oklahoma City: Native American records, including Dawes Commission records, and county records and newspapers.
- Oklahoma Historical Society Research Centerfree
The state historical society's research center in Oklahoma City: Native American records, county records and newspapers.
- FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "Oklahoma, Okmulgee" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Created at statehood in 1907 from land of the former Indian Territory
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1907, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.
Research tip
Before statehood in 1907, Oklahoma was two territories: Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory. For Native American ancestors, the Dawes rolls and enrollment cards at the National Archives and the Oklahoma Historical Society are key.