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| Name | Pulaski |
| Alt names | Pulaski | source: Getty Vocabulary Program | | Switzerland of America | source: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS29025742 |
| Type | County |
| Coordinates | 37.833°N 92.2°W |
| Located in | Missouri, United States (1833 - ) |
| See also | Camden, Missouri, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Crawford, Missouri, United States | Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Laclede, Missouri, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Maries, Missouri, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Phelps, Missouri, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Texas, Missouri, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Wayne, Missouri, United States | Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Wright, 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
Pulaski County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 52,274. Its county seat is Waynesville. The county was organized in 1833 and named for Kazimierz Pułaski, a Polish patriot who died fighting in the American Revolution.
Pulaski County is the site of Fort Leonard Wood, a U.S. Army training base. It comprises the Fort Leonard Wood, MO Micropolitan Statistical Area which has nearly one-third of the total county population.
Timeline
| Date | Event | Source
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| 1833 | County formed | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1833 | Probate records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1834 | Court records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1840 | First census | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1860 | No significant boundary changes after this year | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1903 | Land records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1903 | 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
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| 1840 | 6,529
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| 1850 | 3,998
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| 1860 | 3,835
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| 1870 | 4,714
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| 1880 | 7,250
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| 1890 | 9,387
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| 1900 | 10,394
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| 1910 | 11,438
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| 1920 | 10,490
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| 1930 | 10,755
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| 1940 | 10,775
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| 1950 | 10,392
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| 1960 | 46,567
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| 1970 | 53,781
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| 1980 | 42,011
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| 1990 | 41,307
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Research Tips
External links
www.rootsweb.com/~mopulask/
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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