Covering a total area of 793 sq mi and having a total population of over 70K with an amalgamation of White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others with more than 25.9K housing units and 18.2K families, Pottawatomie County has its county seat and the largest town in Shawnee. The county was established in 1891 and was named after the Pottawatomie Native American people.

Today the Pottawatomie County record index is extremely useful for those who are seeking to obtain information regarding probates and property deeds, separation decree information, death and obituary news along with burial and cemetery details, birth certificate numbers, ancestral SSN and census reports, immigration and naturalization specifics, World Wars I & II and Civil War accounts, military, adoption history, court public documents are found here.