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OHIO COUNTY, Indiana

*First created in 1844 from Dearborn County, Indiana.
*County seat: Rising Sun.
Located in southeastern Indiana, with the Ohio River at its eastern boundary, and Boone County, Kentucky across the river.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Aberdeen, Bascom Corner, Bear Branch, Blue, Buffalo, Camp Shor, Cofield Corner, Downey Corner, French, Hartford, Milton, North Landing, Pate, and Rising Sun.
Click HERE for General OHIO County information and links, OR
Select a TOWN from above to go to the township location, with links and information specific to that area, OR, select a TOWNSHIP from the following table:

Please note:  Though the information on this web page is believed to be correct, the possibility of error remains.  Please notify the webmaster should an error be found.

Townships in Ohio County (North = Top)
	UnionTownship
Pike Township	Cass Township	Randolph Township

Surrounding Counties:
                                             N =  Dearborn County, IN
    NW = Ripley County, IN       OHIO COUNTY     E = Boone County, Kentucky
                                            S and W = Switzerland County, IN
See USGebWeb for State Selection Page to visit Kentucky.

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• U. S. Census Bureau Ohio County Profile.
• Interactive Present day Map of Ohio County, Indiana.
• Use the query form, at USGS, to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated places, and more.  Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature.  This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
• Ohio County, Indiana Profile
• Rising Sun / Ohio County - Convention and Visitors Bureau.
• Ohio County, Indiana Fast Facts
• Brief History of Ohio County
• Enjoy Rising Sun, Indiana (Tourism)
• Ohio County Historical Museum
• 212 South Walnut Street - Rising Sun, IN 47040  -  Phone:  (812) 438-4915
• A Guide to The Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Ethnohistory Archive: "...a unique assemblage of primary and secondary resources pertaining to the Native American occupancy of the region..." Assembled by David R. Miller, Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University, (1979).
• First Nations Histories by Lee Stultzman
• Geographic Overview of First Nations Histories
• History of the Delaware
• Native American Links
• Local Catholic Church and Family History and Genealogy for Indiana
• History of the Catholic Church in Indiana.
• countyhistory.com: for Ohio County, by Ronald Branson!
• USGenWeb for Ohio County, Indiana Genealogy

· Indiana State Library.    140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296

o Online Databases

o Indiana Cemetery Locator Database

o Indiana Biography Index (published before 1990)

o Indiana Biography Index (published since 1990)

o Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.

o Index of Indiana Marriages, 1993 through 2002

o Newspaper Holdings: Holdings by county (in Indianapolis)

o Images of Indiana: 92 Counties // from Adams to Whitley

o Indiana Public Libraries

o WWII Servicemen Database

o Indiana Plat Books

Vital Information Exchange (VINE)

· 1880 Census Index, by familysearch.org

· 1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!

• Obtaining EDs for the 1930 Census in One Step (Large Cities), by Stephen P. Morse, PhD, Joel D. Weintraub, PhD and David R. Kehs, PhD

• The Doughboy Center - presented by The Great War Society.
• World War II Veterans Online Information Center

• Civil War: NPS: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

NARA: National Archives and Records Administration

• The Genealogy Page.
• About Census Records
• 1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses Catalog of NARA Microfilm
• 1930 Census Microfilm Locator
• The Soundex Indexing System
• Clues in Census Records, 1790-1840
• Clues in Census Records, 1850-1930
• Indian Census Rolls
• Nonpopulation Census Records
• Prologue, Spring 1996, Vol. 28, No. 1, "First in the Path of the Firemen" The Fate of the 1890 Population Census, by Kellee Blake.
• Native American Records
• Social Security Death Index Interactive Search, on Rootsweb
• Ohio River Information - ORSANCO (Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission)
• Ohio River and Water Quality Information...

DNR: Indiana Canoeing Guide and Rivers and Canoeing Trails.

• Ohio County History - "...The area encompassing Ohio County originally was a hunting ground for many Indian tribes..."
• Ohio County Historical Society and Museum

212 S. Walnut - P.O. Box 194 - Rising Sun, IN 47040  Phone: (812) 438-4915.

• Ohio County Public Library

100 N High Street - Rising Sun, IN  Phone: (812) 438-2257.

· Ohio County Health Department (For Birth & Death Certificates from ca. 1882) 515 Second Street - Rising Sun, IN 47040-1060  Phone: (812) 438-2551.

· Ohio County, Indiana Government

· Ohio County Circuit Court Clerk - (For Marriage, Divorce & Probate Records) Courthouse:  413 Main Street - Rising Sun, IN  47040  Phone: (812) 438-2610.

· Ohio County Recorder 413 Main Street - Rising Sun, IN  47040  Phone: (812) 438-3369.

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Ohio County Communities

Cass Township communities include:  Aberdeen, Bascom Corner, Blue, Cofield Corner, Downey Corner and Pate.

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Pike Township communities include:  Bear Branch.

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Randolph Township communities include:  Camp Shor, French (Buffalo), North Landing and Rising Sun (the county seat).  Buffalo, located, in the northeastern corner of Ohio county, is an alternate name for the town of French (see map).

• Enjoy Rising Sun, Indiana (Tourism)
• Ohio County Historical Museum

• 212 South Walnut Street - Rising Sun, IN 47040  -  Phone:  (812) 438-4915

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UnionTownship communities include:  Hartford and Milton.

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PROFESSIONAL HISTORICAL GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Ann McRoden Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist

Researching onsite, and with the vast resources of the Allen County Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical collections in North America.  Search the Library's online catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for a location or topic.

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Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002-2009, by Ann Mensch.  All Rights Reserved.

Printed resources for this page include:

• Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer.  First Edition, Second Printing.  Yarmouth, Maine:  Delorme.  1998.
• School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.
• New Sectional Township Map of Indiana.  Chicago, Illinois : Higgins Belden & Co., 1875.

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