MADISON COUNTY OHIO INFO

MADISON COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTH
Union County

EAST NORTHEAST
Franklin County

EAST SOUTHEAST
Pickaway County

SOUTH
Fayette County

WEST SOUTHWEST
Greene County

WEST
Clark County

WEST NORTHWEST
Champaign 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

1810

PARENT COUNTY

Franklin

COUNTY SEAT

London

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

Madison County Probate Judge
1 N Main St, London, OH 43140
740-852-0756

Madison County Courthouse
1 N Main St, London, OH 43140
740-852-2972

Madison County Health Dept
13 N Oak St, London, OH 43140
740-852-3065

London Public Library
20 East First St, London, OH 43140
740-852-9543
Fax: 740-852-3691

Madison Chapter of OGS
PO Box 102, London, OH 43140

Madison County Historical Society
260 East High Street
London, Ohio 43140
740-852-2977

London Ohio Online

Madison County Sherrif's Office

Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
LONDON CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
Lawrence Mack, Warden
P. O. Box 69
London, Ohio 43140
740-852-2454

Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
MADISON CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

Ernie Moore, Warden
P. O. Box 740
London, Ohio 43140-0740
740-852-9650

Madison Press (London, Ohio Newspaper)


OTHER INFORMATION

Madison County was organized in 1810. It was named in honor of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, who was in office at the time the county was formed.

The county has some of the largest farms in the state, a few covering 5,000 acres. London, the county seat, has for a long time been important for its stockyards. The newest is one of the largest in this part of the country.

County Health Department has birth & death records; Probate Judge has marriage & probate records; Clerk of Courts has divorce records from 1800's & civil court records; 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 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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