HANCOCK COUNTY OHIO INFO

HANCOCK COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTH
Wood County

EAST NORTHEAST
Seneca County

EAST SOUTHEAST
Wyandot County

SOUTH
Hardin County

WEST SOUTHWEST
Allen County

WEST NORTHWEST
Putnam 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

1820

PARENT COUNTY

Logan

COUNTY SEAT

Findlay

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

Hancock County Probate Court
300 S. Main St.
Findlay, OH 45840-9039
419-424-7037

Findlay Health Dept
222 Broadway St, Findlay, OH 45840
419-424-7869

Hancock County Health Dept
222 Broadway St, Findlay, OH 45840
419-424-7869

Findlay City Health Dept
318 Broadway St # 115, Findlay, OH 45840
419-424-7105

Hancock County Library
206 Broadway St, Findlay, OH 45840
419-422-1712 or 419-422-1737
Fax: 419-422-0638
Local & Family History Librarian: Diane Wood
Main Library Hours:
Mon.-Thurs. 9:30am-8:30pm
Fri.-Sat. 9:30am-5:00pm
Sun. 1:00pm-5:00pm
(Closed on Sun. June 1 to Labor Day)

Hancock County Chapter OGS
P.O. Box 672, Findlay, OH 45839-0672
When writing to the chapter please include a five-generation chart or family work sheet to help them relate information to the subject of your inquiry.

Obituary Researcher
Margaret Kelley
3426 TR 232, Findlay, OH 45850
Send SASE for complete information.

Center for Archival Collections
Bowling Green State University

Jerome Library, 5th Floor
Bowling Green, OH 43403


OTHER INFORMATION

Hancock County was named in honor of John Hancock, president of the first Continental Congress and first signer of the Declaration of Independence. The county is level with a rich sand-mixed soil and a thick underlayer of limestone.

The city of Findlay, the present county seat, was established in 1829. By 1890 the city had the largest natural gas wells in the world, but eventually the supply gave out. Today Findlay is the headquarters of an oil company which maintains the largest fleets of private planes in the country.

Major industries in Hancock County include; rubber, machinery, food, locomotives, drain tile, film processing, plastics, stone and concrete products, washers and dryers, petroleum. Agricultural products include; wheat, soybeans, corn and livestock.

FHL has some birth, marriage, death, cemetery, civil court, land, probate, and tax 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 Tools for Genealogy Researchers
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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