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Pike County, Ohio

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29newspaper titles

0digitized titles

8historic places

1832earliest paper

1815formed

27,088pop. 2020

131cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 29 newspaper titles published in Pike County, Ohio, with the earliest starting in 1832. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Piketon, Morgantown, Jasper.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Pike

Library of Congress

29 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
The Waverly Democrat	Waverly	1832–1899
The Hickory Sprout	Piketon	1844–1845
Pike County Tocsin	Piketon	1845–1847
The Piketonian	Piketon	1845–1846
The Piketon Journal	Waverly, Piketon	1847–1860
The Weekly Piketon Union	Piketon	1850–1861
Pike County Democrat	Piketon	1851–1899
The Scioto Valley Times	Piketon	1854–1855
The Weekly Scioto Valley Union	Piketon	1856–1859
Pike County Republican	Waverly	1860–1865
Pike County Press	Piketon	1861–1862
Waverly Democrat	Waverly	1862–1867
The Waverly Watchman	Waverly	1867–1896
Pike County Republican	Waverly	1868–1893
The Clipper	California, Flat	1883–1884
The Weekly Clipper	Flat	1884–1885
The Piketon Tribune	Piketon	1885–1886
The Piketon Sun	Piketon	1886–1889
Waverly Courier	Waverly	1889–1896
The Waverly News	Waverly	1893–1914
The Courier-Watchman	Waverly	1896–1906
The Piketon Independent	Piketon	1904–1910
The Waverly Democrat	Waverly	1906–1916
The Waverly Watchman	Waverly	1912–1975
The Republican Herald	Waverly	1914–1952
The Waverly News and Republican-Herald	Waverly	1952–1974
The News-Watchman	Waverly	1975–1991
The Pike County News Watchman	Waverly	1991–?
The Pike County News Watchman	Waverly	1991–?

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

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Eager Inn	Morgantown	Building	1974
Friendly Grove	Piketon	Building	1970
Jones-Cutler House	Jasper	Building	1976
Piketon Historic District	Piketon	District	1974
Piketon Mounds	Piketon	Site	1974
Scioto Township Works I	Wakefield	Site	1974
Vanmeter Stone House and Outbuildings	Piketon	Building	1975
Waverly Canal Historic District	Waverly	District	1978

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Pike was formed in 1815 (1815-02-01) from Adams, Ross, Scioto.

PIKE created from ADAMS, ROSS, and SCIOTO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,253	7,626	13,643	17,927	18,172	14,151	16,113	14,607	19,380	22,802	27,695	27,088

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
HOCU	Park unit	34.1 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 80 of 131 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Abbott Cemetery	39.05867	-83.19046
Alderman Cemetery	39.15034	-83.24713
Allen Chapel Cemetery	39.12395	-82.80878
Arkoe Cemetery	39.0459	-83.22879
Bailey Chapel Cemetery	38.99451	-82.99073
Barger Cemetery	39.08449	-82.98074
Barnes Cemetery	39.00368	-83.02399
Barnes Number 2 Cemetery	39.13228	-83.02351
Barnett Cemetery	39.17451	-83.13423
Barton Cemetery	39.10451	-82.83072
Barton Cemetery	39.11461	-83.22711
Beaver Chapel Cemetery	39.03229	-82.87934
Beaver Union Cemetery	39.03395	-82.83156
Beekman Cemetery	39.05909	-83.25667
Bethel Cemetery	39.01099	-83.12453
Blosser Cemetery	39.01562	-82.92323
Bond Chapel Cemetery	39.14789	-83.15879
Brewer Cemetery	39.05182	-83.13717
Brown Cemetery	38.97744	-83.14816
Brown Cemetery	39.10062	-83.11018
Brust Cemetery	39.15006	-82.95545
Brust Number 2 Cemetery	39.05895	-82.95573
Calkins Cemetery	39.04861	-83.07931
Carrs Run Cemetery	39.12117	-82.87045
Carson Cemetery	39.1397	-82.88677
Chase Cemetery	39.11229	-82.93027
Chestnut Cemetery	39.01951	-83.15546
Clayton Number 1 Cemetery	39.11174	-83.1822
Clayton Number 2 Cemetery	39.10756	-83.18379
Condon Cemetery	39.14565	-82.92537
Cordle Cemetery	39.03979	-82.86906
Corwine Cemetery	39.14257	-82.94434
Cousins Cemetery	39.18043	-83.10564
Cynthiana Cemetery	39.17506	-83.34657
Daleville Cemetery	39.10238	-83.06019
Daley Cemetery	39.00534	-83.0174
Daniels Cemetery	39.05277	-82.96342
Dapp Cemetery	39.09312	-82.97239
Downing Cemetery	39.10451	-82.96656
East Cemetery	39.10126	-83.26833
Edger Cemetery	39.14876	-83.19414
Evergreen Cemetery	39.11729	-82.98379
Ewing Number 1 Cemetery	39.14089	-82.95906
Fairview Cemetery	39.15954	-83.29257
Foster Cemetery	39.13223	-82.89867
Foster Cemetery	39.14336	-82.94018
Frey Cemetery	39.16673	-82.94101
Funk Cemetery	39.0059	-82.82517
Gardner Cemetery	39.10957	-83.1716
Gee Cemetery	38.96688	-82.90364
German Chapel Cemetery	39.15409	-82.79913
Germany Cemetery	39.00423	-82.90684
Givens Chapel Cemetery	39.05034	-82.93045
Gladstone Cemetery	39.17283	-83.08447
Grandview Cemetery	39.13701	-82.84656
Gravel Hill Cemetery	38.98006	-82.88184
Greenbrier Cemetery	39.16389	-83.24975
Greggs Hill Cemetery	39.08923	-82.97906
Hall Cemetery	38.96424	-82.91322
Hamman Cemetery	39.05886	-82.95187
Harris Cemetery	39.13342	-82.85231
Haskind Cemetery	38.99185	-82.97327
Hatfield Cemetery	39.16978	-82.90045
Hawk Cemetery	39.00376	-82.97725
Haynes Cemetery	39.13158	-82.8673
Henry Cemetery	39.03938	-83.16851
Holt Cemetery	39.04183	-82.97924
Howard Cemetery	39.14426	-82.97084
Howard Cemetery	38.99312	-82.99573
Howard Number 2 Cemetery	38.96729	-83.0524
Jackson Cemetery	39.08423	-82.80517
James Cemetery	39.02285	-82.94401
Jasper Methodist Cemetery	39.04947	-83.05502
Jones Cemetery	39.19604	-83.3178
Kincaid Cemetery	39.10339	-83.27018
Lapperell Cemetery	39.1295	-83.28241
Leeth Creek Cemetery	39.11069	-83.14974
Little Ettie Cemetery	38.99368	-82.84545
Lucas Cemetery	39.06256	-82.96976
Mechlin Cemetery	38.98701	-83.13545

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Cars Run	39.0959	-82.86656
Hills	39.17923	-83.04157
Robbins	39.03813	-82.87823
Stony Ridge	39.06257	-83.1124

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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