Lucas County Iowa GenWeb Home Page

Welcome to Lucas County

The Lucas County Coordinator for IAGenWeb, Ann (Sears) Selvig, is on temporary personal leave...Aug 2024. I am Linda Ziemann, a Temporary Lucas Coordinator. Please feel free to email me below--Together we will KEEP Lucas Co. in good condition during Ann's absence.

2024 Newest Topic posted: Lucas County Burials in the IA Veterans Cemetery.

If you have data to contribute please contact the me by clicking on the following link. If you have a question or query, please post it to the Queries Board below.

Contact the Lucas County Temporary Coordinator

We look forward to hearing from you!




WW II Special Project	Iowa Gravestone Photo Project	Iowa State Census Project	Iowa in the Great War	Iowa in the Civil War	Iowa Old Press	Iowa Family Group Sheet	Iowa History Project	Iowa Graves Survey WPA
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Lucas County was founded January 13, 1846 and is named after former Territorial Governor Robert Lucas. The county has a total area of 434 square miles, of which 431 square miles are land, with 3.8 square miles being water.

Counties adjacent to Lucas include Warren County to the northwest, Marion County to the northeast, Monroe County to the east, Wayne County to the south and Clarke County to the west.

The population of Lucas County in the 2020 census was 8,634 people
which was a decrease of 254 people or decline of -3%.

The population of Lucas County in the 2010 census was 8,898 people which was a decrease of 524 people or decline of 5.6%.

The population of Lucas County in the 2000 census was 9,422 people.

Chariton is the county seat, as well as being the largest city with a population of 4,193 in 2020. Other cities include Russell, Lucas, Williamson and Derby with Norwood being unincorporated.

Lucas County has 12 townships, Benton, Cedar, English, Jackson, Liberty, Lincoln, Otter Creek, Pleasant, Union, Warren, Washington and Whitebreast.

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This project was last updated on 10/1/2024


Click the logo to submit a BIOGRAPHY (don't forget to cite your source)	Click the logo to submit a DOCUMENT (don't forget to cite your source)	Click the logo to submit an OBITUARY (don't forget to cite your source)	Post a new query, search or browse our QUERIES.

Resources	Photographs	Queries
Research Resources	Photographs of unidentified people	Archived Queries 1997
	Picture postcards Contributed by Gary Tharp	Archived Queries 1998 Jan - May

Lucas County Newspapers	Photos:	Lucas County Schools
Newspapers		Schools

Military	Lucas County Census	Lucas County Families
Resources	1850 United States Federal Census	Families
Lucas County GAR Posts	1860 United Stated Federal Census
1812 Lucas County Veterans	1870 United States Federal Census	Maps
Veteran Burials in Lucas County	1900 United States Federal Census	Maps
1883 Pensioners List
Vietnam war casualties	1895 Iowa State Census	Lucas County Directories
Korean war casualties		1943 Russell Directory
	Postcards of Lucas County	1955 Russell Directory
	Lucas County postcards	April 1963 Humeston Derby Phonebook
Lucas County Courthouse - Iowa State Association of Counties		June 1956 Chariton, Lucas, Williamson Phonebook
		Lucas County businesses 1912-1913
Wills	Lucas County Marriages	Cemeteries
William Naismith	Transcribed Marriage Indexes - 1850-1900	Lucas County Cemetery List
	Transcribed Early Marriages - 1880-1899	Other Cemetery Information
Miscellaneous	Lucas County Death Records	Lucas County Birth Records
	Iowa Mortality Schedules 1850-1880	1904-1906 Birth Index
Lucas County Ministers and Pastors	Lucas County Death Index Jul 1918 - 1922
1905 Post-Offices and Postmasters	Lucas County Death Index 1935 - 1939	Lucas County Physicians
Chariton class of 1879 Commencement		1886 - 1887
History of the Derby M. E. Church - 1900	Biographies
	1913 Past & Present of Lucas & Wayne Counties	Lucas County Mining History
		Lucas County Mining Casualties
		Lucas County Mine Inspections 1937-1947

	Lucas County, Iowa


	Lucas County Courthouse, Chariton, Iowa
	(Click on photo for larger image. Contributed by Delbert Spencer, Colorado)