JACKSON 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
1816
PARENT COUNTY
Scioto, Gallia, Athens, Ross
COUNTY SEAT
Jackson
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MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS |
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Jackson County Probate Court
226 E Main St. Jackson, OH 45640-0000
740-286-3301
Jackson County Health Dept
226 E Main St, Jackson, OH 45640
740-286-5094
Jackson City Library
21 Broadway St, Jackson, OH 45640
740-286-4111
Jackson County Chapter of the OGS
P.O. Box 807, Jackson, OH 45640-0807
Meetings are the third Monday of each month at 7:30 pm at the Jackson City Library. Library/Research materials are housed at the Jackson City Library during their regular hours |
OTHER INFORMATION
Jackson County is located about 60 miles southeast of Columbus. The county is named in honor of Andrew Jackson.
The county was settled by the Welsh people and in the early days Welsh was the language commonly spoken here. Jackson, the county seat, was once the center of the nation's silvery iron industry. It now houses one of the country's largest manufacturers of canned Chinese food products.
Probate Judge has birth, marriage & probate records; County Health Department has death & burial records; Clerk of Courts has divorce & civil court records; County Recorder has land records.
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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