DARKE COUNTY OHIO
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COUNTY INFORMATION
1895 Map of Ohio
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Map modified with permission of Ray Sterner from http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states
DATE CREATED
1809
PARENT COUNTY
Miami
COUNTY SEAT
Greenville
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MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS |
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Darke County Probate Court
4th & Broadway (300 Garst Ave.)
Greenville, OH 45331
937-547-7300
Darke County Health Dept
300 Garst Ave, Greenville, OH 45331
937-548-4196
Greenville Public Library
520 Sycamore St, Greenville, OH 45331
937-548-3915
OTHER INFORMATION
Darke County borders the state of Indiana about 30 miles northwest of Dayton. The surface is level and the soil productive with the Stillwater River crossing the county.
On the site of present-day Greenville, the county seat, General Anthony Wayne constructed Fort Green Ville. He invited 1,100 Indians to the fort to conclude the famous Treaty of Greene Ville.
The county was the home of Annie Moses, better known as Annie Oakley, the world's best woman marksman. She was later the star attraction of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Agricultural products in the county include; poultry, eggs, corn, and wheat. Other industries include; transportation equipment, machinery, stone-clay-glass, apparel, food, glass lenses and reflectors, poultry incubators, precision gauges and kitchen appliances.
Probate Court has birth & death records 1867 to 1908, marriage records from 1817; Clerk of Courts has divorce & civil court records from 1820; County Recorder has land records from 1816 & burial records (veterans graves) from 1832.
INFORMATIONAL LINKS
Bibliography (Includes detailed sources for all the information on this and the connected pages.) |
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.) |
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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