Monroe County Historical Records Survey

 The Historical Records Survey was created to inventory all county government records of each county in the United States. It was started in January 1936 as a part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration, one of the many government sponsored projects created to provide employment during the Depression.

        The survey had two purposes: to list manuscripts, church records, and public records in county offices in a reference volume for the use of county officials and the general public, and to locate, classify, and catalog all extant county and city records to make them more easily accessible to county officials, historians, and research workers.

The Counties series is the largest series and includes forms, essays, maps, photographs, newspapers, and floor plans produced during the survey. Remember that the survey only surveyed existing records and did not collect them. The survey is a "snapshot" of what records existed and where they were stored during the late 1930s. Perhaps the most valuable part of the Counties series is the verbatim transcription of the county court record.

        This series is arranged alphabetically by county. Each county is further subdivided into some or all of the following categories: buildings, church records, city records, county office records, general information, laws, lists, manuscripts, newspapers, paintings and statuary, maps and photographs, floor plans, publications, township records, and transcription of county court records.

These records are available at:

Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia
23 Ellis Library
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65201-5149

f. 14223-14700	
f. 14223-14224	
f. 14225-14238	
f. 14239-14272	
f. 14239	
f. 14240-14245	
f. 14246-14247	
f. 14248	
f. 14249-14260	
f. 14261	
f. 14262	
f. 14263	
f. 14264-14267	
f. 14268	
f. 14269	
f. 14270	
f. 14271	
f. 14272	
f. 14273-14293	
f. 14294-14295	
f. 14296	
f. 14297 	
f. 14298-14299 
	
f. 14300  

f. 14301-14700 	


Monroe County, organized in 1831.  The county seat is Paris.
	Buildings
	Churches
	County Offices
	Assessor
	Circuit Clerk and Court
	Collector
	Coroner
	County Clerk and Court
	Highway Engineer
	Justice of the Peace
	Old Age Assistance
	Probate Court
	Prosecuting Attorney
	Sheriff
	Superintendent of Schools
	Surveyor
	Treasurer
General Information
Laws
Lists
Manuscripts, Newspapers, Paintings and Statuary
Maps, Photographs and Floor Plans.  Folder 14299 is 
OVERSIZE.
Publications:  Inventory of the County 
Archives of Missouri, No. 69, Monroe County.
Transcription of County Court Record, 1831-1863.  The 
transcription from January 1859 to April 1862 is missing.