Place:Wright, Missouri, United States

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Name	Wright
Alt names	Wright	source: Getty Vocabulary Program
Type	County
Coordinates	37.267°N 92.483°W
Located in	Missouri, United States (1841 - )
See also	Pulaski, Missouri, United States	Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
	Webster, Missouri, United States	Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Wright County is a county located in South Central Missouri in the United States. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the county's population was 18,815. Its county seat is Hartville. The county was officially organized on January 29, 1841, and is named after Silas Wright (D-New York), a former Congressman, U.S. Senator and Governor of New York.

1 Timeline
2 Population History
3 Research Tips
4 External links

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Timeline

Date	Event	Source
1841	County formed	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1850	First census	Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1853	Land records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1853	Probate records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1860	No significant boundary changes after this year	Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1895	Court records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1897	Marriage records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources

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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990

Census Year	Population
1850	3,387
1860	4,508
1870	5,684
1880	9,712
1890	14,484
1900	17,519
1910	18,315
1920	17,733
1930	16,741
1940	17,967
1950	15,834
1960	14,183
1970	13,667
1980	16,188
1990	16,758

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Research Tips

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External links

www.rootsweb.com/~mowright/

There is a Goodspeed's local history for this county, written in 1889, available free and searchable at: [1]

Searchable death certificates, with images, for deaths between 1910 and 1957, are available free online at [2] Searchable birth and death records for pre-1910 births/stillbirths/deaths are available free online at [3] Both of the above databases are from the Missouri State Archives.

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