Polk County Circuit
Court Records Collection, 1835-1900
*Additional Circuit Court Records, 1900-1911
Retrieval Fee | Explanation of Terms | Index
Description of Records
The Missouri Secretary of State’s Office
and Missouri State Archives
finished the processing of the circuit court records for
Polk County in 2013.
These records, dating 1835-1900, were taken to the State
Archives for microfilming
and will be returned to the PCGS Archives for patron
usage.
As of 2019, all of the boxes have been returned to our
archives floor and are
available for research, under the supervision of our
archivist or other
library volunteers. Photocopies will be 50 cents per page.
*PCGS Archivists are processing circuit
court records starting with the year 1900.
More years will be added to the collection
as the boxes are finished.*
If you are unable to visit our archives floor, PCGS will
photocopy
the files for you. Some files are very large while
some are only a few pages
long. Most pages are legal size and will be copied
on 8 1/2 x 14" paper.
Some of the pages are smaller than 8 1/2 x 11" so
they will be combined
when photocopied if applicable.
Retrieval Fee
$10.00 per file
Postage is included with retrieval fee
Five photocopied pages included in fee
Additional pages are 50 cents per page
(If a case has more than one file or folder, it will be
$10.00 per folder.)
Explanation
of Terms
Most of the terms used in this
index are familiar to people but there may be some that
are not.
Here are links to a couple of websites where one can
search for legal terms and their definitions.
http://dictionary.law.com/
http://www.nolo.com/dictionary
Index
Use
this search box to search ONLY
the Circuit Court records index.
site
search
by freefind
Search tips:
*This is a simple search engine.
If you type the words Wilson
murder in the search box, it
will find all of the pages
containing the words Wilson
and murder.
If you type "Wilson murder" it will
search for the exact phrase, which
may not get you the correct results.
*Try every alternate spelling as even
common names are misspelled sometimes
in court records.
*Try searching for just the first name
of person. It will bring up more
results but will likely lead to the
correct entry.
The
box numbers are for organizational
purposes and do not reference
any particular year or surname from
1835-1900.
From 1900 on, the links are arranged by
years.
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