PICKAWAY COUNTY OHIO INFO

PICKAWAY COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTH
Franklin County

NORTHEAST
Fairfield County

SOUTHEAST
Hocking County

SOUTH
Ross County

SOUTHWEST
Fayette County

NORTHWEST
Madison 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

Ross, Fairfield, Franklin

COUNTY SEAT

Circleville

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

Pickaway County Probate Court
217 S Court St
Circleville, OH 43113-0000
740-474-6093

Pickaway Cnty Probate Clerk
217 S Court St, Circleville, OH 43113
740-474-1524

Pickaway County Recorder's Office
Court House, Court Street
Circleville, OH 43113

Pickaway County Vital Statistics
Circleville, OH 43113
740-477-9667

Pickaway County Board Of Health
110 Island Rd, Circleville, OH 43113
740-474-8861

Pickaway County Public Library
165 E Main St, Circleville, OH 43113
740-477-1644
Email: [email protected]

Pickaway County Historical & Genealogical Society
The Pickaway County Historical Society
The Pickaway County Historical and Genealogical Library
A Chapter of O. G. S.
P.O. Box 85, Circleville, Ohio 43113

Pickaway County Genealogical Library
P.O. Box 85, South Court Street
Circleville, OH 43113
Hours: 1 - 4, Tuesday through Friday

Clarke-May House
West Union and South Scioto Streets
Indian Artifacts
War Memorabilia
Eggs & Nests of Ohio Birds
Tuesday thru Friday
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
April 1 thru October 31
1-740-474-1495

Moore House
South Court and East Mound Streets
Genealogy and General Research
Resource Materials
Historical Displays
Tuesday thru Friday
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
1-740-474-9144



OTHER INFORMATION

Pickaway County was established in 1810. The name "Pickaway" was taken from the Indian word "Piqua" which means "man risen from the ashes". The surface of the county is level and the soil is productive.

Circleville, the county seat, is known for its annual Pumpkin Festival each October.

Family History Library has some birth, marriage, death, cemetery, civil court, land, probate & 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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