LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO INFO

LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTHWEST
Jackson County

NORTHEAST
Gallia County

EAST SOUTHEAST
West Virginia

SOUTHEAST
West Virginia

SOUTHWEST
Kentucky

WEST
Scioto 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

1815

PARENT COUNTY

Gallia, Scioto

COUNTY SEAT

Ironton

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

Lawrence County Probate Court
Fifth and Park Avenue
One Veteran's Square
Ironton, Ohio 45638-0000
740-533-4300 or 1-800-734-2470

Lawrence County Health Dept
2122 S 8th St, Ironton, OH 45638
740-532-3962

Ironton City Health Dept
2120 S 8th St, Ironton, OH 45638
Attn: Penny Jiles, Registrar
740-532-2172

Briggs Lawrence County Public Library
Hamner Room
321 South 4th Street
Ironton, OH 45638
740-532-1124 or 740-867-3080
Fax: 740-532-4948
Contact Us Page
Hours Library is open for research:
Mon, Tues and Thur 9:00 AM-8:30 PM
Wed, Fri, and Sat 9:00 AM-5:30 PM

Flatwoods Public Library
1705 Argillite Rd, Flatwoods, KY 41139
606-836-3771

Boyd County Public Library
1740 Central Ave, Ashland, KY 41101
606-329-0090

Boyd County Public Library
1016 Summitt Rd, Ashland, KY 41102
606-928-3366

Lawrence County Genealogy Society
P O Box 945, Ironton, OH 45638-0945
For addition information, please call:
Sheri Pettit 1-304-525-5720 or Pat Green 1-740-698-3341

Lawrence County Page of the OHGenWeb Project (This site is chock full of information, a must see for anyone researching in Lawrence County!)

The Lawrence Register (Genealogical and Historical Website for Lawrence County, Ohio)

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OTHER INFORMATION

Lawrence County, Ohio's southernmost county is situated on the Ohio River. It was named in honor of a naval hero, Captain James Lawrence, who commanded the U.S. Frigate Chesapeake during the War of 1812.

The early settlers were Dutch, Irish, German and Scotch from Pennsylvania, Virginia and Tennesee. They were farmers, furnace workers and miners. Ironton, the county seat, at one time contained an important iron industry.

Coal is currently mined in the county with other industries including; chemicals, metals, refractories, iron castings, coke, cement, oil, tar, acid, athletic equipment, plastics, methanol, formaldehyde, dairy products and apples.

Probate Court has birth records from 1864 to 1908, marriage records from 1900, death records from 1868 to 1933, probate records from 1817; Health Department has birth & death records form 1908; Clerk of Courts has divorce records from 1819 & civil court records from 1817; County Recorder has land records from 1817.

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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