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HOCKING COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTHWEST
Fairfield County

NORTHEAST
Perry County

EAST
Athens County

SOUTH
Vinton County

SOUTHWEST
Ross County

NORTHWEST
Pickaway 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

1818

PARENT COUNTY

Athens, Ross, Fairfield

COUNTY SEAT

Logan

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

Hocking County Probate Court
1 E Main St.
Logan, OH 43138-1207
740-385-5195

Health Dept
2197 E Front St, Logan, OH 43138
740-385-6851

Logan Hocking County Library
10 N Walnut St, Logan, OH 43138
740-385-2348

Hocking County Chapter
Ohio Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 115, Rockbridge, OH 43149-0015

Hocking Hills Internet Guide


OTHER INFORMATION

Hocking County takes its name from the Indian word "Hockhocking" which means "bottle".

The county seat of Logan was established by Colonel Thomas Worthington in 1816 and named for a Mingo leader, James John Logan. The canal in the 1840's and later the railroad opened the town to trade.

Probate Judge has birth, marriage & probate records; Health Department has death records; Clerk of Courts has divorce & civil court records from 1873; County Recorder has land records.

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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