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ASHLAND COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTHWEST
Huron County

NORTHEAST
Medina County

EAST
Wayne County

SOUTHEAST
Holmes County

SOUTH
Knox County

WEST
Richland County


COUNTY INFORMATION

1895 Map of Ohio
(Click on Thumbnail
for Large Map)

Map modified with permission
of Ray Sterner from http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states

DATE CREATED

1846

PARENT COUNTY

Wayne, Richland, Huron, Lorain

COUNTY SEAT

Ashland

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

Ashland County Probate Court
W. 2nd St.
Ashland, OH 44805-0000
419-289-0000

Ashland Municipal Court
206 Claremont Ave.
Ashland, OH 44805
419-289-8137

Ashland County Health Dept
801 Orange St.
Ashland, OH 44805
419-289-3359

Ashland Public Library
224 Claremont Ave.
Ashland, OH 44805
419-289-8188


OTHER INFORMATION

Ashland County, located 60 miles southeast of Cleveland, was established in 1846.

The county seat, is also named Ashland. It produces over half of the world's supply of toy balloons and is the home of Ashland College founded in 1816. Ashland College is also the home site of Johnny Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed.

Dairy products are the main agricultural industry. Other industries include; metals, machinery, transportation equiptment, rubber, stone-clay-glass, chemicals, automotive equiptment, home appliances and microphones.

Clerk of Courts has divorce and civil court records from 1846.

INFORMATIONAL LINKS

Bibliography (Includes detailed sources for all the information on this and the connected pages.)
Covered Bridges - Ohio
Discovering Family Histories - Ohio
Favorite Genealogy Web Links
Genealogy Look Up Forum
Hixson Plat Maps, Ohio Townships W. W. Hixson & Company, Rockford, Illinois (These plat maps were published without dates or copyright notice, but are believed to be from the 1920s and 1930s. The W. W. Hixson Company published an Ohio Atlas around 1925 with individual County maps and Township plat maps.)
Individual Ohio County Selection Table
Join the Maggie_Ohio Mailing List! or the OHROOTS-L Mailing List!
Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever
OHGenWeb Archives
Ohio Clickable Map
Ohio County Courthouse Project
Ohio County Information Page
Ohio Government Mapping System - GNIS for land features, historical places
Ohio Memory An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History
Ohio Migration Trails
Ohio Network of American History and Research Centers (This is a descriptiong of the central storage places for groups of Ohio counties.)
Ohio Vital Record Data By Batch Numbers at familysearch.org
USGenWeb Project - Ohio
Vital Statistics (Includes Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce, Land, Will & Estate Records.) This is an area that explains where to look for vital records in the state of Ohio.

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