JACKSON COUNTY OHIO INFO

JACKSON COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTH
Vinton County

EAST
Gallia County

SOUTH SOUTHEAST
Gallia County

SOUTH
Lawrence County

SOUTH SOUTHWEST
Scioto County

WEST
Pike 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

1816

PARENT COUNTY

Scioto, Gallia, Athens, Ross

COUNTY SEAT

Jackson

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

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

Jackson County Boundary Changes

Jackson County Ohio's Community Web Site


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.)
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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