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Auglaize County, Ohio

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43newspaper titles
1digitized titles
23historic places
1800earliest paper
1848formed
46,422pop. 2020
67cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 43 newspaper titles published in Auglaize County, Ohio, with the earliest starting in 1800. 1 of these titles have digitized pages on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 23 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Wapakoneta, New Bremen, St. Marys.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Auglaize

Library of Congress
43 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
The Semi-Weekly DemocratSaint Marys1800–1899
The St. Marys CommercialSaint Marys1800–1899
The St. Marys Free PressSaint Marys1800–1899
The Wapakoneta UnionWapakoneta1800–1899
Waynesfield ChronicleWaynesfield1800–1999
The Saturday HeraldSaint Marys, Saint Marys1832–1833
The Saturday Herald, and Mercer County AdvertiserSaint Marys, Saint Marys1833–1899
The SentinelSaint Marys1841–1849
The Saint Marys MessengerSaint Marys1850–?
Auglaize County DemocratWapakoneta1856–1926
The Wapak CourantWapakoneta1870–1999
The Wapakoneta BeeWapakoneta1870–1899
The Wapakoneta RepublicanWapakoneta1872–1879
Stern Des Westlichen Ohio = Star of Western Ohio DigitizedNew Bremen, Minster1874–?
The St. Marys ArgusSaint Marys1878–1896
Auglaize RepublicanWapakoneta1881–1922
New Bremen SunNew Bremen1886–1961
The Democratic TimesWapakoneta1888–1999
The Saint Mary's GraphicSaint Mary'S1890–1912
Minster VolksfreundMinster1894–1999
The Daily DemocratSaint Marys1895–1899
The Minster PostMinster1896–1964
The St. Marys Argus and DemocratSaint Marys1897–1999
The Bi-County ReviewCridersville1899–1999
Buckland TribuneBuckland1900–1999
The North American FarmerSaint Marys1900–1999
The Daily NewsSaint Marys1902–1905
St. Marys Evening LeaderSaint Marys1905–1999
The Daily NewsWapakoneta1905–1914
The Evening LeaderSaint Marys1914–?
The Wapakoneta Daily NewsWapakoneta1914–?
The Daily RepublicanWapakoneta1922–1999
Shawnee-Cridersville WeeklyLima, Fort Shawnee, Cridersville1962–1999
The Community PostMinster1964–?
Cridersville PressWapakoneta, Cridersville1977–1980
Waynesfield JournalWapakoneta1977–1985
Botkins TimesWapakoneta, Botkins1978–1980
Jackson Center RecordWapakoneta1978–1985
Botkins-Anna TimesWapakoneta1980–1985
Shawnee Cridersville PressWapakoneta, Shawnee, Cridersville1980–?
Shelby-Auglaize ReviewWapakoneta1985–1988
The CourierSaint Marys1987–?
Shelby County ReviewWapakoneta1988–?

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.

18001856191319692026

Sample front pages

Chronicling America

Digitized page-1 issues from papers published in Auglaize. 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 Auglaize 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

21 of 23 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

23 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Auglaize County CourthouseWapakonetaBuilding1973
Blume High SchoolWapakonetaBuilding1996
Boesel, Adolph, HouseNew BremenBuilding1979
Boesel, Julius, HouseNew BremenBuilding1978
Egypt Catholic Church and RectoryEgyptBuilding1979
First Presbyterian Church of WapakonetaWapakonetaBuilding1985
Fledderjohann, H. E., House, Doctor's Office and Summer KitchenNew KnoxvilleBuilding1993
Fort Amanda SiteWapakonetaSite1970
Fountain Hotel, TheSt. MarysBuilding1997
Glynnwood Catholic ChurchGLynnwoodBuilding1979
Holy Rosary Catholic ChurchSt. MarysBuilding1979
Luelleman, William, HouseNew BremenBuilding1975
Minster Elementary SchoolMinsterBuilding1979
Nichols, John H., HouseWapakonetaBuilding1988
Rinehart, Hugh T., HouseUniopolisBuilding1978
Round BarnNew HampshireBuilding1980
St. Augustine Catholic ChurchMinsterBuilding1979
St. John Catholic Church and Parish HallFryburgBuilding1979
St. Joseph Catholic Church and SchoolWapakonetaBuilding1979
Uniopolis Town HallUniopolisBuilding1994
Wapakoneta Commercial Historic DistrictWapakonetaDistrict1989
Williams, Dr. Issac Elmer, House And OfficeSt. MarysBuilding1979
Wintzer, Charles, BuildingWapakonetaBuilding2010

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Auglaize was formed in 1848 (1848-03-01) from Allen, Mercer.

AUGLAIZE created from ALLEN and MERCER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

47k29k11k1850188019201940196020002020
18501860188019001920194019501960198020002020
11,33817,18725,44431,19229,52728,03730,63736,14742,55446,61146,422

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

67 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 67 of 67 listed
NameLatLon
Arnett Cemetery40.53275-84.29832
Benner Cemetery40.55088-84.39634
Berry Cemetery40.62047-83.89101
Bethel Cemetery40.62477-84.14495
Buckland Cemetery40.62783-84.25801
Burk Cemetery40.52782-84.23133
Calvary Cemetery40.64088-84.43634
Concord Cemetery40.60336-83.9938
Conner-Kaiser Cemetery40.60704-84.1099
Craft Cemetery40.61644-84.11022
Crow Cemetery40.58972-84.24187
Elm Grove Cemetery40.53283-84.39523
Evergreen Cemetery40.57588-84.18828
Fairmount Cemetery40.61561-84.03856
Fort Amanda Cemetery40.68199-84.26995
German Cemetery40.45327-84.37408
Gethsemane Cemetery40.53421-84.39467
Geyer Cemetery40.50865-84.05994
Greenlawn Cemetery40.56338-84.21912
Haruff Cemetery40.55533-84.1355
Helminger Cemetery40.50385-84.07787
Hittepole Cemetery40.50699-84.23106
Hopewell Cemetery40.62858-83.9122
Horn Cemetery40.63949-83.97494
Jacob Baker Cemetery40.63091-84.25847
Julion Cemetery40.55616-84.25884
Keller Cemetery40.53946-84.16607
Kossuth Cemetery40.65838-84.34717
Lockhart Cemetery40.56693-84.0797
Lutheran Cemetery40.53889-84.38507
Mars Hill Cemetery40.63005-83.97522
Mount Lookout Cemetery40.59897-84.02642
Mount Tabor Cemetery40.52004-84.03855
Mount Union Cemetery40.6781-84.37718
Murray Cemetery40.53706-84.3818
New Salem Cemetery40.67644-84.42523
Old Catholic Cemetery40.54432-84.37696
Old Saint Johns Cemetery40.52632-84.15822
Old Saint Josephs Cemetery40.56922-84.21023
Olive Branch Cemetery40.49678-84.23605
Pilger Ruhe Cemetery40.48894-84.33467
Plank Road Cemetery40.43643-84.39245
Pratt Cemetery40.63421-84.34603
Protestant Evangelical Cemetery40.48782-84.31633
Reinhart Cemetery40.56746-84.10772
Robbins Cemetery40.66616-84.41634
Rupert Cemetery40.49841-84.16277
Saint Augustines Cemetery40.38446-84.38122
Saint Johns Cemetery40.51755-84.14495
Saint Johns Cemetery40.52644-84.16328
Saint Johns Cemetery40.55755-84.08356
Saint Joseph Cemetery40.55727-84.16273
Saint Josephs Cemetery40.38506-84.43435
Saint Thomas Cemetery40.58283-84.31801
Schemmel Cemetery40.50699-84.19106
Scott Cemetery40.49892-84.20551
Stevely Cemetery40.62199-84.18356
Tam Cemetery40.59672-84.10856
Vaughan Cemetery40.61553-84.06353
Walnut Hill Cemetery40.55782-83.92216
Wesley Chapel Cemetery40.58338-84.03217
Wheeler Cemetery40.63866-84.20356
Willow Branch Cemetery40.60087-83.95644
Willow Grove Cemetery40.4608-84.36332
Wisely Cemetery40.52726-84.23078
Zion Cemetery40.5572-84.26948
Zion Cemetery40.67192-84.31794
Historical populated places — 3 of 3
NameLatLon
Bay40.55421-84.27801
Pusheta Town40.5681-84.22967
Rineharts40.60061-84.03217

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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