Our goal is to facilitate access to records and information of a genealogical nature for Clay County, Iowa. I am the coordinator for Clay County. Volunteers are needed and contributions are welcome. Several obituaries have been added in addition to new entries on the cemetery page.
All sections are now available.
Many thanks to Clay County volunteer Jane Ingram for transcribing and contributing the atlas. Clay County History Clay County was organized in the fall of 1858 and is named after Lieutenant Colonel Henry Clay Jr. of the Mexican War. Before its organization Clay County was attached to Woodbury County for judicial and civil reasons. The first county seat was located at Peterson where it remained until 1871. In 1871 the town of Spencer was formally laid out, and since it was more centrally located than Peterson, the county seat was moved after voters elected to do so in an election held in October of that same year.