Rogers County, Oklahoma Genealogical Records Information

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Rogers County Facts

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Rogers County was created on July 16, 1907 from Cherokee Nation. The County was named for Clement V. Rogers, member of the Constitutional Convention and father of Will Rogers, the stage comedian. The County Seat is Claremore. See also County History for more historical details.

Counties adjacent to Rogers County are Nowata County (north), Craig County (northeast), Mayes County (east), Wagoner County (south), Tulsa County (southwest), Washington County (northwest)

Rogers County Cities & Towns Include Bushyhead, Catoosa, Chelsea, Claremore, Collinsville, Fair Oaks, Foyil, Gregory, Inola, Jamestown, Justus, Limestone, Oologah, Owasso, Sequoyah, Taiwah, Talala, Valley Park, Verdigris

Records at the Rogers County Courthouse

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All Departments below can be contacted at the Rogers County Courthouse at 219 S Missouri, Room 109, Claremore, OK 74017-7873; Phone: (918) 341-0585. NOTE: The record dates below are from the earliest date to present time.

Rogers County Clerk's Office has Birth Records from 1915, Death Records from 1915 and , Land Records from 1907.
The County Clerk's office is responsible for preserving all the legal instruments filed by private citizens and public officials with the County Clerk's office. The office maintains files of all real estate records, plats, judgments, liens, patents, military discharges, school records, county personnel, insurance and retirement records for employees, meeting notices, commissioners' proceedings and other documents. Although county clerks record births and deaths and provide information on request, certificates are available only from the Vital Records Section, State Department of Health

Rogers County Court Clerk's Office has Probate Records from 1907, Marriage Records from 1907, and Court Records from 1907.
The Court Clerk has the primary responsibility to record, file, and maintain permanent records of the proceedings of the District Court. We collect fines, fees, and forfeitures, and distribute the collected monies as provided by law to the appropriate agencies. There are numerous types of cases filed with the Court Clerk's Office some of which include: Civil, Small Claims, Probate, Guardianship, Adoption, Felony, Misdemeanor, Search Warrants, Licenses and more...

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Rogers County Vital Records

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Heavy spring rains with severe flooding in 1902 awakened Oklahoma's citizens to the need for better roads. Territorial laws placed responsibility with townships, and a road overseer was to be elected for each district. General property tax and some funds from liquor licenses collected by counties and townships were used to finance the building of public roads along section lines. A road tax was required, along with the requirement that all males between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five donate four eight-hour days a year to work on highways. Those who did not work or provide a substitute were fined $5 for each absence.

The county treasurer or assessor may have tax or assessment records. Some tax records are stored in museums, historical, and/or genealogical societies' repositories. Published tax records for Oklahoma are almost nonexistent. Some duplicated copies of county tax records are stored in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, State Archives Division for security purposes, but are not available for research. Koplowitz, Guide to the Historical Records of Oklahoma, indicates location of county records, including those of tax and assessments.

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Rogers County Tax Assesors Office, 219 S Missouri, Room 109, Claremore, OK 74017-7873; Phone: (918) 341-0585
The county assessor has the responsibility to appraise and assess the real and personal property within the county for the purpose of ad-valorem taxation. Also, the county assessor is required to compute the ad-valorem taxes due on all the taxable property. By law, the county assessor appraises all the taxable real property according to its fair cash value for which the property is actually being used.
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Rogers County Genealogical Addresses

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The Repositories in this section are Archives, Libraries, Museums, Genealogical and Historical Societies. Many County Historical and Genealogical Societies publish magazines and/or news letters on a monthly, quarterly, bi-annual or annual basis. Contacting the local societies should not be over looked. State Archives and Societies are usually much larger and better organized with much larger archived materials than their smaller county cousins but they can be generalized and over look the smaller details that local societies tend to have. Libraries can also be a good place to look for local information. Some libraries have a genealogy section and may have some resources that are not located at archives or societies. Also, take a special look at any museums in the area. They sometimes have photos and items from years gone by as well as information of a genealogical interest. All these places are vitally important to the family genealogist and must not be passed over.

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The Federation of Oklahoma Genealogical Societies, P.O. Box 2531, Ponca City, Oklahoma 74602
Oklahoma Historical Society, 2100 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Oklahoma Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 12986, Oklahoma City 73157-2986
Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Division of State Archives and Records, 200 N.E. 18th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 75105
National Archives; Southwest Region, 501 West Felix Street, Building 1, Fort Worth, Texas 76115-3405; E-mail: ftworth.archives@nara.gov. Mailing Address: P.O. 6216, Fort Worth, Texas 76115-0216
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Rogers County Church & Cemeteries

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There are many churches and cemeteries in Rogers County. Some transcriptions are online. A great site is the Rogers County Tombstone Transcription Project.

There are no centralized repositories dealing with church records in Oklahoma. Scattered records can be found in genealogical publications, the DAR compilations, and on microfilm. The Spanish missions have played a central role in Oklahoma's religious history.

Printed secondary sources of transcribed cemeteries exist for most Oklahoma counties. The Oklahoma State Society of the DAR has collected hundreds of such records. Transcripts are housed both at the national DAR and with some local chapters and libraries.

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County History

Rogers County, formerly an important section of the northwestern part of the Cherokee Nation, contains about seven hundred square miles of land, nearly all of which is well adapted to raising all of the staple crops of that latitude. The Cherokees were quick to recognize the excellent natural advantages of that vicinity and for nearly a century some of the leading Cherokee families have resided there. The white farmer and prospective investor, in search of a good agricultural location, eagerly watched and waited for the time to arrive when he could. legally purchase Indian lands. Some white farmers secured leases on portions of the farm land and raised crops thereon for many years before the Indians were permitted to alienate it. As a consequence, some of the oldest and best farms in Oklahoma are found within the present limits of Rogers County. The county was named after one of the prominent Cherokee families, Clem V. Rogers being one of its pioneers. He was born in the Cherokee Nation in 1839, shortly after the Indians came to Indian Territory, and as the Civil war began, just as he had reached manhood, he cast his fortune with the South and became a captain in General Stand Watie's regiment.

Toward the close of the war, he was compelled to flee to Texas, in company with a good many of his comrades. After peace was declared, he returned to the Cherokee Nation penniless, but still retaining his courageous spirit. He worked for wages for awhile, and as he began to regain his lost fortune, he embarked in business for himself and accumulated a comfortable fortune. He held numerous positions of honor and trust in the Cherokee Nation, engaged extensively in farming and in 1896 he assisted in organizing the First National Bank of Claremore, it being the first National bank to be established within the limits of the present Rogers County.

Oil

From year to year for many years, the farmers of this section were content to plod along, satisfied with the returns received from the cultivation of the soil, never dreaming, perhaps, that vast fortunes in oil and natural gas lay hidden underneath the soil. Early in 1906 oil was discovered four miles west of Claremore, at a depth of 700 feet, and since that time many profitable wells have been drilled.

The earliest discovery of oil in Rogers County, however, was made about thirty years ago, although the development was slow for ten or more years thereafter. Oil is found in numerous places in this county at a depth of not more than five hundred feet,. and some of the wells drilled fifteen or twenty years ago are still producing oil. This section of the state is what oil men call a "shallow" field, for the reason that oil is found much nearer the surface than in most other localities. The production of oil in this county is not limited to any one neighborhood, for profitable wells have been drilled in the extreme northern part of the county, around Chelsea, in the central part of the county around Claremore and in the extreme southern part around Inola. In connection with this development of oil quite a profitable business has developed within the past few years in the matter of manufacturing casing-head gasoline from the gas which is given off from the oil. This is an additional source of revenue, as formerly this gas was allowed to escape through the atmosphere.

Natural Gas

Rogers County is especially favored with an almost inexhaustible supply of natural gas at depths of from 650 to 1,250 feet. and the citizens of the county are especially fortunate in that none of its supply is connected with any. of the interstate great pipe lines which would take it. to the great cities of nearby states. This assures an ample supply for domestic and industrial purposes for this county for years in the future, and at rates that are lower than other parts of the Mid-Continent field.

There are so far developed three distinct gas pools, one covering several thousand acres south and east of Talala, in the Big Bend of the Verdigris River. This field .has been for ten years supplying Chelsea, Oolagah and the large shallow oil fields of the north part of the county, and is connected by a network of pipe lines, carrying gas to all points where there is a demand in the north part of the county, and to the gasoline plants of Nowata County.

The greatest gas field yet discovered in the county is that south and west of Foyil, seven miles north and west of Claremore, where numerous wells have been brought in, each with a daily volume of from 7,000,000 to 16,000,000 cubic feet. This field is being enlarged each month by addition of new wells, which have already proven the gas pool to embrace several thousand acres.
Several miles west and south of this field a new pool has been recently discovered which is deeper and of greater rock pressure than any of the others in tie county, and which gives every assurance of being of longer life, as the sand is found in the upper strata of the Mississippi lime.

In addition to the above there is a good gas field west of Claremore, also north and east of Claremore, which has for several years been-supplying the domestic consumption of the City of Claremore.

Claremore, Chelsea, Foyil and Oolagah have for years been amply supplied by local gas only, with every assurance of an ample supply for years to come, and in addition all the heat and power of the several cities of the county has been supplied with local gas as well as a large brick plant at Claremore, and another at Chelsea.

Financial Condition Of Rogers County

Rogers County has an area of about seven hundred and twenty-eight square miles. The total assessed valuation for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1920, was $16,733,605, this assessed valuation ranging from $10 per acre and up, from the pasture lands to the best farming lands.

It has forty-one school districts, all of which have good school buildings, using from one to twenty-five teachers. They are all in splendid condition financially, all of their bonds and coupons being met when due. Most all maintain a nine-months' school.

It has about one hundred and twenty-five miles of state roads and most of the section lines are open and passable to the public.
The county received for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1920, from advalorem levies $539,406.20 and from miscellaneous sources $154,168.47, making a grand total of $693,574.67.

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