KNOX COUNTY OHIO INFO

KNOX COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTHWEST
Morrow County

NORTH
Richland County

NORTHEAST
Ashland County

EAST NORTHEAST
Holmes County

EAST
Coshocton County

SOUTH
Licking County

SOUTHWEST
Delaware 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

1808

PARENT COUNTY

Fairfield

COUNTY SEAT

Mt. Vernon

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

Knox County Probate Court
106 E High St.
Mt Vernon, OH 43050-3453
740-397-2727
NOTE: The only have records back to 1993

For Records Prior to that contact:
Knox County Law Library
117 E. High St, Mt Vernon, OH 43050
740-393-6781

Knox County Health Dept
117 E High St, Mt Vernon, OH 43050
740-392-2200

Mt Vernon Public Library
201 N Mulberry St, Mt Vernon, OH 43050
740-392-8671

The Knox County Genealogical Society
117 E. High Street, Room B153
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
web address: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohkcgs
email address: [email protected]

Fredericktown Historical Society
2 East Sandusky Street, Fredericktown, OH 43019
740-694-5741

Moundview Cemetery
307 Wooster Road, Mount Vernon, OH 43050
740-393-9581

Knox County Historical Society/Museum
997 Harcourt Road, Mount Vernon, OH 43050
740-393-5247
(Open 2-4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday)

Knox County Page of the OHGenWeb Project



OTHER INFORMATION

Knox County was formed in 1808 and named for Henry Knox, Washington's Chief of Artillery in the Revolution. The county is the birthplace of Mary Ann Bickerdyke, America's first nurse during the Civil War.

The county seat of Mt. Vernon has been called the Greek Revival Capital of Ohio, although many of the buildings in that style have been destroyed. The U.S. State Department chose Mt. Vernon to represent a model American City for an article in a Russian magazine.

Probate Judge has marriage records from 1803 & probate records; Clerk of Courts has divorce & civil court records from 1810; County Recorder has land records; County Health Department has birth records from 1908, death & burial 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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