Woods County, Oklahoma An OKGenWeb/USGenWeb Project

Woods County is available for adoption, if interested please e-mail the State coordinator for details.

Woods County is located in northwestern Oklahoma, created at statehood from a portion of Woods County, Oklahoma Territory. 
 The county took its name for Sam Wood, Kansas political leader.
Alva is the county seat for Woods Co. A post office was established August 25, 1893.  It was named for Alva Adams, railroad attorney, who later was governor of the state  of Colorado.

Woods County Courthouse
P. O. Box 386
Alva, Oklahoma 73717
County Clerk has marriage records from 1894;
divorce, civil court, land records from 1893;
probate records from 1901; school records

Woods County Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 234
Alva, Oklahoma 73717

If you would like to volunteer for a county in Oklahoma, contact Linda Simpson (State Coordinator)
 or Mel Owings (Assistant State Coordinator)