HURON COUNTY OHIO
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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
1815
PARENT COUNTY
Portage, Cuyahoga
COUNTY SEAT
Norwalk
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MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS |
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Huron County Probate Court
2 E Main St.
Norwalk, OH 44857-0000
419-668-3092
Huron County Health Dept
180 Milan Ave, Norwalk, OH 44857
419-668-1652
Bellevue Board Of Health
423 W Main St, Bellevue, OH 44811
419-483-3404
Norwalk Public Library
46 W Main St, Norwalk, OH 44857
419-668-6063
Huron County Chapter OGS
P.O. Box 923
Norwalk, OH 44857-0923
Firelands Historical Library
9 Case Ave, Norwalk, OH 44857
419-663-0392
Bellevue Public Library
224 E Main St
Bellevue, OH 44811
419-483-4769
North Fairfield Public Library
5 E Main St
North Fairfield, OH 44855
419-744-2285
Monroeville Public Library
34 Monroe St
Monroeville, OH 44847
419-465-2035
Norwalk Public Library
46 W Main St
Norwalk, OH 44857
419-668-6063
New London Public Library
67 S Main St
New London, OH 44851
419-929-3981
Firelands Historical Museum
4 Case Ave, Norwalk, OH 44857
419-663-0392
Milan Historical Museum Inc
10 Edison Dr, Milan, OH 44846
419-499-2968
Huron Historical & Cultural Museum
401 Williams St, Huron, OH 44839
419-433-4660
Plymouth Area Historical Society
15 Sandusky St, Willard, OH 44890
419-687-5411
OTHER INFORMATION
Huron County is located about 50 miles southeast of Cleveland. The county is named for the Huron Indians. The Huron and Vermillion rivers drain in the county.
The county seat of Norwalk is an example of the many English names found among Huron County towns. Norwalk was a center for education when the Norwalk Academy for men and the Presbyterian Female Seminary were open. Among those who attended the academy was Rutherford B. Hayes.
Probate Judge has birth & death records from 1867 to 1908, estate & guradianship records from 1815, naturalizations from 1859 to 1900; Health Department has birth, death & death records 1908 to present except for city of Bellevue, Ohio (those records are in its health department); County Clerk of Courts has common pleas court records from 1815, divorce & naturalization records to 1859; County Recorder has land & mortgage records from 1808, Connecticut Fire Sufferers records 1792 to 1808, military discharge records from 1865; County Auditor has tax records from 1820; County Historical Library has infirmary records from 1848 to 1900, tax records from 1815 to 1825, County Comissioners Journals from 1815, Land partition records from 1815 to 1920, County militia lists 1864 & 1865, indigent soldier burial records 1880 to 1920.
INFORMATIONAL LINKS
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Bibliography (Includes detailed sources for all the information on this and the connected pages.) |
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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.) |
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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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