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Hardin County, Ohio

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44newspaper titles
0digitized titles
7historic places
1800earliest paper
1820formed
30,696pop. 2020
46cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 44 newspaper titles published in Hardin County, Ohio, with the earliest starting in 1800. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Kenton, Ada, Mount Victory.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Hardin

Library of Congress
44 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
Das Kenton WochenblattKenton1800–1999
The Kenton Daily NewsKenton1800–1899
The Mt. Victory ObserverMt. Victory1800–1999
Hardin DemocratKenton1840–1899
Hardin Intelligencer1840–1899
Kenton RepublicanKenton1847–1853
The Democratic ExpositorKenton1851–1899
Hardin County RepublicanKenton1853–1866
The Hardin County DemocratKenton1857–1869
Democratic AdvocateKenton1866–1866
The Kenton DemocratKenton1866–1874
The Kenton RepublicanKenton1866–1892
Forest ReviewForest1870–1912
The Ada CommercialAda1870–1999
The Ada RecordAda1872–1927
Hardin County DemocratKenton1875–1885
The Dunkirk StandardDunkirk1875–1942
The Forest NewsForest1875–1899
The Fair Daily DemocratKenton1877–1899
Kenton Daily DemocratKenton1885–1889
Ohio Normal University HeraldAda1885–1890
The Kenton DemocratKenton1885–1946
The Graphic-NewsKenton1890–1911
University HeraldAda1890–1916
The Kenton Daily DemocratKenton1892–1953
The Kenton Daily RepublicanKenton1892–1896
The Hardin County Weekly RepublicanKenton1893–1999
The News-RepublicanKenton1896–1938
The Kenton PressKenton1897–1906
The LightKenton1897–1899
Northwest TimesKenton1900–1984
The Alger NewsAlger1900–1999
The Mt. Victory NewsBelle Center, Mount Victory1900–1999
The Mt. Victory ObserverMount Victory1900–1999
The ObserverMount Victory1900–1999
Forest AdvertiserForest1907–1999
Graphic-News-RepublicanKenton1911–1920
The Review-AdvertiserForest1912–1999
The Ada HeraldAda1916–?
The Forest JournalForest1920–1999
The Kenton News and RepublicanKenton1938–1953
The Kenton TimesKenton1953–?
The Times CoverKenton1984–?
The Hardin County RepublicanKenton?–

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

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Ada Pennsylvania Station and Railroad ParkAdaBuilding1998
Hardin County CourthouseKentonBuilding1979
Kenton Courthouse Square Historic DistrictKentonDistrict1984
Kenton Public LibraryKentonBuilding1983
Mount Victory Historic DistrictMount VictoryDistrict2001
North Main-North Detroit Street Historic DistrictKentonDistrict1985
Zimmerman KameRoundheadSite1974

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Hardin was formed in 1820 (1820-04-01) from unknown / original county.

HARDIN created from Non-County Area 5 attached to DELAWARE and Non-County Area 9 attached to LOGAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Hardin County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

33k16k221820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
224,59813,57027,02331,18729,16727,06128,67329,63332,71931,94530,696

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

46 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 46 of 46 listed
NameLatLon
Bailey Cemetery40.55911-83.63739
Bowdle Cemetery40.59782-83.8716
Candler Cemetery40.792-83.87911
Carman Cemetery40.732-83.86161
Cessna Cemetery40.71783-83.65854
Dola Cemetery40.77994-83.67482
Dunkirk Cemetery40.77626-83.64123
Fairview Cemetery40.59143-83.77715
Fisher Cemetery40.57149-83.46815
Fulton Cemetery40.68505-83.69215
Grant Cemetery40.72421-83.56076
Grove Cemetery40.64644-83.58715
Hale Cemetery40.53172-83.55076
Hastings Cemetery40.6426-83.4391
Henkle Cemetery40.587-83.84196
Hueston Cemetery40.80421-83.55465
Huntersville Cemetery40.72255-83.76299
Lee Cemetery40.62256-83.4877
Lynn Grove Cemetery40.59311-83.56798
Maysville Cemetery40.73366-83.87744
Mc Arthur Cemetery40.58081-83.82249
McClure Cemetery40.79183-83.8697
McElroy Cemetery40.80838-83.78438
McKendree Cemetery40.66366-83.45159
Morrison Cemetery40.62394-83.51187
Mount Pleasant Cemetery40.51839-83.43853
Mount Victory Cemetery40.532-83.51798
New Roundhead Cemetery40.56088-83.82993
Norman Cemetery40.59855-83.67227
Old Fairview Cemetery40.58949-83.78049
Old Roundhead Cemetery40.56032-83.83382
Otterbein Cemetery40.58394-83.50437
Patterson Cemetery40.78727-83.52853
Pleasant Hill Cemetery40.62365-83.84132
Potters Field Cemetery40.64985-83.63601
Preston Cemetery40.71019-83.8224
Price Cemetery40.78949-83.53159
Ridgeway Cemetery40.5245-83.55354
Rutledge Cemetery40.59453-83.86648
Saint Johns Cemetery40.75616-83.86188
Saint Marys Cemetery40.64644-83.58937
Shadley Cemetery40.71135-83.80341
Sieg Cemetery40.55394-83.65326
Sloan-Yelverton Cemetery40.53858-83.7198
Smith Cemetery40.73283-83.71077
Woodlawn Cemetery40.74661-83.82139
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
NameLatLon
Blocktown40.747-83.69077
Marshs40.55895-83.44159

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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