Mahaska County, established in 1843 was named on the behalf of Chief Mahaska of the Iowa tribe and has a total area of 573.40 sq mi. The County seat is Oskaloosa. The total population of the county is over 22.3K with a rich blend of different and diverse races including White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others. The area is the domicile of around 8.8K housing units and 6.1K families.

Retrieving stories of the past like divorce decree information, civil court case lookups, American Civil War history, war and enlistment data, real estate and property facts, last will, World War I and II information, probate specifics, origin and birth details, marriage volume number, census data, immigration and naturalization specifics, obituary notice, burial and cemetery details, land and estate data along with demise facts and thus heaping them successfully is now possible with the help of the online county records research site of the Mahaska County, State of Iowa.