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Morrow County, Ohio

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18newspaper titles

0digitized titles

15historic places

1848earliest paper

1848formed

34,950pop. 2020

69cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 18 newspaper titles published in Morrow County, Ohio, with the earliest starting in 1848. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 15 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Chesterville, Mount Gilead, Marengo.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Morrow

Library of Congress

18 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
The Democratic Messenger	Mount Gilead	1848–1861
The Whig Sentinel	Mount Gilead	1848–1854
Morrow County Herald	Cardington	1857–1865
Mount Gilead Sentinel	Mount Gilead	1857–1859
Morrow Sentinel	Mount Gilead	1859–1860
Bloominggrove Review	Bloominggrove, Blooming Grove	1860–1869
Morrow County Sentinel	Mount Gilead	1860–?
The Union Register	Mount Gilead	1861–1971
The Cardington Reveille	Cardington	1865–1866
The Cardington Republican	Cardington	1866–1872
Cardington Independent	Cardington	1872–1889
The Spectator	Iberia	1882–1899
Morrow County Independent	Cardington, Mount Gilead	1889–1971
The Silver Times	Fulton	1898–1899
The Morrow County Republican	Mount Gilead	1905–1920
The Morrow County Independent Register	Cardington	1971–1971
The Morrow County Independent Register and Tri-County Star	Cardington	1971–1981
The Morrow County Independent	Cardington	1981–?

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.

18401886193319792026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

14 of 15 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

15 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Benedict, Reuben, House	Marengo	Building	2000
Brown, Samuel, P., House	Fulton	Building	1982
Chester Town Hall	Chesterville	Building	1979
Chesterville Methodist Church	Chesterville	Building	1979
Floral Hall	Mount Gilead	Building	1976
Jarvis House	Chesterville	Building	1979
Levering Hall	Mount Gilead	Building	1980
Miles, Enos, House	Chesterville	Building	1979
Morrow County Courthouse And Jail	Mount Gilead	Building	1974
Old Bartlett and Goble Store	Chesterville	Building	1979
Old Union School	Chesterville	Building	1979
Sears, A. B., House	Chesterville	Building	1979
Trimble, James S., House	Mount Gilead	Building	1982
U.S. Post Office	Chesterville	Building	1979
Wood Commercial Building	Chesterville	Building	1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Morrow was formed in 1848 (1848-03-01) from Crawford, Delaware, Knox, Marion, Richland.

MORROW created from CRAWFORD, DELAWARE, KNOX, MARION, and RICHLAND.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
20,280	20,445	19,072	17,879	15,570	15,646	17,168	19,405	26,480	31,628	34,950

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

69 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 69 of 69 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alum Creek Cemetery	40.40645	-82.86018
Armstrong Cemetery	40.61367	-82.82246
Asbury Cemetery	40.48118	-82.82287
Baldwin Cemetery	40.4237	-82.90569
Baptist Cemetery	40.44033	-82.96907
Bethel Cemetery	40.42366	-82.69989
Bethel Cemetery	40.53589	-82.92046
Biggs Cemetery	40.43283	-82.78489
Bingham Cemetery	40.56614	-82.84019
Bloomfield Cemetery	40.37867	-82.72211
Blooming Grove Cemetery	40.71089	-82.71768
Bryn Zion Cemetery	40.55673	-82.76823
Buck Cemetery	40.48123	-82.82232
Center Methodist Episcopal Cemetery	40.45923	-82.89518
Chester Baptist Cemetery	40.44839	-82.69795
County Home Cemetery	40.56528	-82.80767
Ebenezer Cemetery	40.42589	-82.82545
Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Cemetery	40.67006	-82.76629
Elliott Cemetery	40.45003	-82.96626
Fargo Methodist Episcopal Cemetery	40.35784	-82.82851
Forbes Cemetery	40.70434	-82.8268
Friends Cemetery	40.51668	-82.83543
Fulton Cemetery	40.46255	-82.8349
Garverick Cemetery	40.6395	-82.76573
Glendale Cemetery	40.50366	-82.8874
Haldeman Cemetery	40.65922	-82.66656
Harmony Chapel Cemetery	40.49644	-82.74823
Hexsite Cemetery	40.51698	-82.85493
Iberia Cemetery	40.66838	-82.83434
Kenney Cemetery	40.48956	-82.78791
Kile Cemetery	40.35073	-82.6662
Lineweaver Cemetery	40.35034	-82.66125
Maple Grove Cemetery	40.47619	-82.67786
Marengo Cemetery	40.41104	-82.80955
Moffit Cemetery	40.60222	-82.79774
Montgomery Cemetery	40.6034	-82.84039
Morehouse Cemetery	40.40716	-82.90175
Mosher Cemetery	40.51542	-82.86025
Mounds Cemetery	40.44922	-82.96268
Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Cemetery	40.59589	-82.76629
North Canaan Cemetery	40.62311	-82.91712
North Fargo Cemetery	40.38228	-82.8274
Owl Creek Cemetery	40.54534	-82.64712
Pagetown Cemetery	40.36939	-82.81744
Peace Reformed Cemetery	40.65311	-82.74129
Peak Cemetery	40.43825	-83.01067
Pleasant Grove Cemetery	40.617	-82.7474
Pompey Cemetery	40.43923	-82.90629
Pulaskiville Cemetery	40.53575	-82.71147
Purvis Cemetery	40.55006	-82.91427
Red Hill Cemetery	40.37597	-82.66166
Rice Cemetery	40.62701	-82.95133
River Cliff Cemetery	40.54732	-82.82446
Ross Cemetery	40.68128	-82.6812
Shauck Cemetery	40.63116	-82.64906
Shawtown Cemetery	40.48477	-82.96101
South Canaan Cemetery	40.55811	-82.94824
Stantontown Cemetery	40.37062	-82.89963
Sunfish Cemetery	40.57416	-82.79597
Tuttle Cemetery	40.69229	-82.82083
Union Cemetery	40.51589	-82.84268
Walters Cemetery	40.64783	-82.66378
West Point Cemetery	40.63673	-82.78435
Westfield Methodist Episcopal Cemetery	40.43422	-82.98018
Weston Cemetery	40.51841	-82.94419
Woodbury Methodist Episcopal Cemetery	40.42076	-82.8555
Woodlawn Cemetery	40.51116	-82.91624
Worden Cemetery	40.57589	-82.89879
Yankee Street Cemetery	40.51922	-82.66906

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Aaronsburg	40.39839	-82.69517
Kellker	40.61173	-82.7474
Morehouse	40.40701	-82.90074
Surprise	40.61061	-82.84324

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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