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Ashland County, Ohio

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34newspaper titles
6digitized titles
20historic places
1835earliest paper
1846formed
52,447pop. 2020
86cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 34 newspaper titles published in Ashland County, Ohio, with the earliest starting in 1835. 6 of these titles have digitized pages on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 20 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976. Most listings are in or near Ashland, Loudonville, Hayesville.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Ashland

Library of Congress
34 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
The Ohio GlobeAshland1835–1836
Ashland DemocratAshland1846–1849
The Ashland StandardAshland1846–1849
The Ohio Union DigitizedAshland1849–1854
The Ohio Union DigitizedAshland1849–?
Ashland TimesAshland1853–1903
The Ashland Union DigitizedAshland1854–1868
The Ashland Union DigitizedAshland1854–?
Vermillion SpyHayesville1866–1999
The States and Union DigitizedAshland1868–1872
The States and Union DigitizedAshland1868–?
The IndependentLoudonville1870–1874
The Ashland PressAshland1872–1920
Loudonville AdvocateLoudonville1873–1890
The Hayesville JournalHayesville1875–1890
The Brethren EvangelistAshland1879–?
The Loudonville DemocratLoudonville1879–1920
The SurpriseLoudonville1884–1899
The Ashland SunAshland1885–1893
The Full MoonLoudonville1886–1899
The Ashland GazetteAshland1887–1903
The AdvocateLoudonville1890–1893
The Loudonville CourierLoudonville1892–1999
Loudonville AdvocateLoudonville1893–1920
The Perrysville EnterprisePerrysville1898–1999
Ashland Times-GazetteAshland1900–1921
The Purple and GoldAshland1900–1999
The Ashland Times and the Ashland GazetteAshland1903–1907
The Ashland TimesAshland1907–1921
Loudonville TimesLoudonville1920–2017
Ashland Times-Gazette and the Ashland PressAshland1921–1947
The Ashland CollegianAshland1922–?
Ashland Times-GazetteAshland1947–?
Ashland Free PressAshland1985–?

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18301879192819772026

Sample front pages

Chronicling America

Digitized page-1 issues from papers published in Ashland. Thumbnails link to the Library of Congress.

Courtesy Library of Congress, Chronicling America. Page images are hotlinked from loc.gov; generally public domain / no known restrictions (U.S. papers older than 95 years are public domain in their entirety; newer issues may contain some copyrighted third-party material). Rights & access.

On this day

Front pages

No digitized front pages for Ashland were found on today’s month/day in the sampled years. Try the sample front pages above, or browse Chronicling America.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

11 of 20 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

20 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Anderson SchoolhouseAshlandBuilding1977
Arthur Street SchoolAshlandBuilding2021
Ashland County Children's HomeAshlandDistrict2019
Ashland County CourthouseAshlandBuilding1979
Black, Philip J., HouseLoudonvilleBuilding1980
Bull, T.J. and Sarah, HouseLoudonvilleBuilding2007
Center Street Historic DistrictAshlandDistrict1976
Center Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)AshlandDistrict1993
City Hall and Opera HouseLoudonvilleBuilding1997
Crittenden FarmSavannahDistrict1982
Crumrine, John, FarmNovaBuilding1990
Crumrine, Michael, FarmNovaBuilding1990
Downtown Ashland Historic DistrictAshlandDistrict2013
Garst, John, HouseLoudonvilleBuilding1982
Hayesville Opera HouseHayesvilleBuilding1976
Kelley, William, Hardware Store-Hayesville Odd Fellows HallHayesvilleBuilding2017
Lakefork SchoolJeromesvilleBuilding1982
Myers Block-Home Company BuildingAshlandBuilding1997
Sprott's Hill Mounds SiteAshlandSite1976
Vermilion InstituteHayesvilleBuilding1978

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Ashland was formed in 1846 (1846-02-24) from Huron, Lorain, Richland, Wayne.

ASHLAND created from HURON, LORAIN, RICHLAND, and WAYNE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Ashland County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

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18501860188019001920194019501960198020002020
23,81322,95123,88321,18424,62729,78533,04038,77146,17852,52352,447

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

86 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 86 listed
NameLatLon
Ackley Cemetery40.80117-82.24016
Albion Cemetery40.97457-82.17695
Andrews Cemetery40.81476-82.36852
Ashland Cemetery40.86803-82.32508
Ashland Memorial Park40.90738-82.33989
Beeghley Cemetery40.92255-82.31016
Bethel Cemetery40.8134-82.1382
Bethesda Cemetery40.71255-82.25988
Brandt Cemetery40.84218-82.17566
Brytes Churchyard40.91584-82.38711
Burge Cemetery40.95787-82.24244
Bushnell Cemetery40.77728-82.24127
Cannon Cemetery40.91297-82.23333
Chestnut Grove Cemetery40.8216-82.37742
Chilcote Cemetery40.96296-82.24277
Cliff Cemetery40.78449-82.18432
Close Street Cemetery41.05912-82.2538
Copus Hill Cemetery40.73449-82.35848
County Home Cemetery40.80594-82.26574
County Line Cemetery40.71799-82.22155
Crouse Cemetery40.90117-82.27423
Dickey Church Cemetery40.84184-82.25296
Evangelical Church Graveyard40.9006-82.15543
Fast Cemetery40.94231-82.33615
Ford Cemetery40.92725-82.31625
German Lutheran Cemetery41.01171-82.34238
Gould Cemetery41.01451-82.2243
Green Lawn Cemetery40.65422-82.2971
Gregg Cemetery40.97838-82.35877
Hammond Methodist Cemetery40.74958-82.31574
Harlan Cemetery40.74116-82.31738
Heiffner Cemetery40.93168-82.27537
Hopewell Cemetery40.99227-82.24321
Hubler Cemetery41.04289-82.19968
Imhoff Cemetery40.87006-82.41294
Jeromesville Cemetery40.8006-82.19349
King Cemetery40.98524-82.16672
Krebs Cemetery40.98089-82.30627
Lakefork Cemetery40.75394-82.14598
Loudonville Cemetery40.63089-82.23238
Marsh Cemetery41.01564-82.20854
McAdoo Cemetery40.82889-82.30478
McCrory Cemetery40.769-82.28897
McFall Cemetery40.63227-82.29738
McKay Cemetery40.70422-82.24571
Meng Cemetery40.82033-82.1721
Methodist Cemetery40.80536-82.19433
Mifflin Cemetery40.77283-82.36155
Miller Cemetery40.79895-82.30614
Mohicanville Cemetery40.72672-82.18376
Nankin Cemetery40.92171-82.27599
North Orange Cemetery (historical)40.99256-82.31072
Nova Cemetery41.03421-82.30405
Ohl Cemetery40.83625-82.367
Old Hopewell Cemetery40.87949-82.33905
Old Presbyterian Cemetery40.65588-82.31155
Old Rowsburg Cemetery40.85033-82.15515
Old Sixteen Cemetery40.69505-82.1646
Peterson Cemetery40.72727-82.36849
Pioneer Cemetery40.69657-82.15237
Pleasant Valley Cemetery40.87894-82.22682
Polk Cemetery40.94421-82.20432
Reformed Church Cemetery40.91609-82.38791
Rice Cemetery41.0286-82.20424
Rickert Cemetery40.95837-82.33974
Rickle Cemetery40.92916-82.13072
Ripple Cemetery40.88338-82.24932
Rowsburg Cemetery40.85922-82.1546
Ruggles Township Cemetery41.02894-82.401
Saint Lukes Cemetery40.94486-82.29176
Saint Peters Cemetery40.64505-82.22821
Sandridge Cemetery40.58228-82.30988
Savannah Cemetery40.9656-82.36988
Smeltzer Cemetery40.83977-82.38655
Southview Cemetery41.02532-82.22071
Strickland Cemetery40.79823-82.30551
Sultzer Cemetery40.84078-82.36758
Sunset Cemetery40.71172-82.25043
Swope Cemetery40.94526-82.14739
Synagogue Cemetery40.74755-82.24043

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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