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ROOKS County is in the second tier of the northwestern counties of Kansas, and fifth from the western boundary of the State. It contains 576,000 acres of land and is divided into twenty-one townships.

Organized in 1872. Stockton. In memory of John C. Rooks, private of Company I, Eleventh Kansas Infantry, who died December 11, 1862, at Fayetteville, Ark., of wounds received in the battle of Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862.

1. William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

2. History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, (Winfield: E.P. Greer. 1899)

Cemeteries
History - Directories
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Rooks County Medical Directory 1920	2K	Feb 2009	Joy Fisher
Patron's Directory 1904	30K	Oct 2009	Joy Fisher
Military Records
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Rooks County, KS 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll	6 kb	Nov 1997	Kenneth Thomas
Obituaries
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Crowell, Mark Loucis 1918	1K	Feb 2008	Joy Fisher

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