Cleveland County was established in the year 1841 and named after Colonel Benjamin Cleveland. The total area of the county is 469 sq mi. More than 98K people with an amalgamation of White, Native American, Black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others along with 37K households and 27K family units reside in this region. Shelby is the county seat.

The Cleveland County search index features a massive collection of records including probates, immigration and naturalization minutiae, civil court data, birth history, census, war records, ancestral SSN, assets deeds, separation decree information, armed forces duty, death news, marriage particulars and such likes and thus has popularized the study of genealogy to an extent. Genealogists and records seeker display their interest to conduct their search with this online database.