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Seneca County, Ohio

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92newspaper titles
6digitized titles
46historic places
1800earliest paper
1820formed
55,069pop. 2020
76cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 92 newspaper titles published in Seneca County, Ohio, with the earliest starting in 1800. 6 of these titles have digitized pages on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 46 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Tiffin, Fostoria, McCutchenville.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Seneca

Library of Congress
92 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
Bloomville Independent and Seneca County RecordBloomville1800–1999
Seneca County Fair BulletinTiffin1800–1899
The Daily TimesFostoria1800–1999
The Fostoria TimesFostoria1800–1999
The Tiffin City TribuneTiffin, Tiffin City1800–1899
The Weekly Review DispatchFostoria1800–1999
Tri-Weekly StandardTiffin1800–1899
Seneca PatriotTiffin1832–1833
The Independent Chronicle and Seneca AdvertiserTiffin1834–1835
The Tiffin Gazette and Seneca AdvertiserTiffin1836–1899
The Tiffin GazetteTiffin1838–1842
The Van Burenite and Seneca County AdvertiserTiffin1840–1841
The Seneca AdvertiserTiffin1842–1890
The Whig StandardTiffin1845–1849
Seneca AdlerTiffin1848–1848
The Seneca WhigTiffin1848–1850
The Tiffin Tribune DigitizedTiffin1848–1859
The Tiffin Tribune DigitizedTiffin1848–?
Tiffin Family Newspaper and WhigTiffin1848–1859
The Western Whig StandardTiffin1849–1850
The Literary CasketRepublic1850–1899
The North-Western ContinentTiffin1850–1851
Der EvangelistCleveland, Tiffin1856–1875
The Tiffin Weekly Tribune DigitizedTiffin1859–1868
The Tiffin Weekly Tribune DigitizedTiffin1859–?
Fostoria NewsFostoria, Fostoria, Fostoria1860–1869
The Fostoria Weekly NewsFostoria, Fostoria, Fostoria1860–1870
Fostoria Campaign HeraldFostoria1865–1899
The Tiffin Tribune DigitizedTiffin1868–1887
The Tiffin Tribune DigitizedTiffin1868–?
The StarTiffin1869–1875
The Tiffin Weekly StarTiffin1869–1879
The Fostoria ReviewFostoria1870–1897
Deutsche PresseTiffin1872–1913
Die Tiffin PresseTiffin1872–1913
SupplementTiffin1873–1899
The Buckeye BoyTiffin1873–1999
The Fostoria PressFostoria1874–1879
The Green Spring SentinelGreen Springs1874–1876
Tiffin Daily StarTiffin1874–1879
The Fostoria DemocratFostoria, Fostoria, Fostoria1875–1912
Attica JournalAttica1876–1899
The Evening HeraldTiffin1877–1889
Fostoria Daily TimesFostoria1880–1999
Green Spring TimesGreen Spring, Green Spring, Fremont1880–1895
Morning CourierTiffin1880–1899
The Tiffin NewsTiffin1880–1999
The Daily AdvertiserTiffin1886–1933
Fostoria Daily DispatchFostoria1887–1897
Tiffin Daily TribuneTiffin1887–1887
Tiffin Daily Tribune and HeraldTiffin1887–1921
Tiffin Weekly TribuneTiffin1887–1919
The Plow and HammerTiffin1889–1893
Tiffin Weekly TimesTiffin1889–1899
Green Spring HeraldGreen Spring, Green Spring1890–1899
The Semi-Weekly Seneca AdvertiserTiffin1890–1894
The EchoTiffin1892–1999
The Fostoria Daily ReviewFostoria1892–1893
The TatlerFostoria1892–1999
The Daily ReviewFostoria1893–1897
The KilikilikTiffin1893–1999
Seneca AdvertiserTiffin1894–1919
Attica HubAttica1896–?
Seneca County Commercial ReviewTiffin1896–1999
The Greenspring EchoGreen Springs, Green Springs1896–1979
Tiffin Daily NewsTiffin1896–1900
The Daily Review-DispatchFostoria1897–1908
Bettsville VidetteBettsville1900–1999
The Bettsville HeraldBettsville1900–1999
The Bloomville GazetteBloomville1900–1971
The Fostoria Daily TimesFostoria1900–1999
The Kansas HeraldKansas1900–1999
The Fostoria Daily ReviewFostoria1909–1943
The Republic ReporterRepublic1910–1971
The TaxpayerBettsville1920–1999
The Tiffin TribuneTiffin1921–1931
The Talk of the TownsTiffin1929–1999
Tiffin Daily TribuneTiffin1931–1933
The Advertiser-TribuneTiffin1933–?
Fostoria Review TimesFostoria1943–1961
The Review TimesFostoria1943–?
The Community WeeklyBettsville1948–1999
The Weekly HeraldBettsville, Wayne1956–1999
The Bloomville Gazette and the Republic ReporterBloomville1971–1972
The Bloomville GazetteBloomville1972–?
The Republic ReporterRepublic1972–1983
The Seneca SentinelTiffin1975–?
Rfd NewsFostoria1976–?
The Fostoria Morning StarFostoria1980–1980
The Morning StarFostoria1980–1999
The Sunday Morning StarFostoria1980–1980
The Tiffin Weekly NewsTiffin?–

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 Seneca. 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 Seneca 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

34 of 46 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

46 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Aigler Alumni BuildingTiffinBuilding1979
Bagby-Hossler HouseTiffinBuilding1986
Beatty Glass CompanyTiffinBuilding1980
Black Student Union CenterTiffinBuilding1979
Bowman's DistilleryTiffinBuilding1980
Camp Pittenger Historic DistrictMcCutchenvilleDistrict2024
College HallTiffinBuilding1979
Cory, Ambrose, HouseFostoriaBuilding1979
Downtown Tiffin Historic DistrictTiffinDistrict1978
Fine Arts BuildingTiffinBuilding1979
Fort Ball-Railroad Historic DisrictTiffinDistrict1979
Fostoria Downtown Historic DistrictFostoriaDistrict2001
Founders Hall, Heidelberg CollegeTiffinBuilding1973
France HallTiffinBuilding1979
Gerhart-Rust ResidenceTiffinBuilding1979
Great HallTiffinBuilding1979
Hanson Machinery CompanyTiffinBuilding1980
Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon GristmillTiffinBuilding1980
Henny BarnFlat RockBuilding1979
Heter FarmBellevueBuilding1979
Hunter, William, HouseTiffinBuilding1980
Laird HallTiffinBuilding1979
Miami Street Grade SchoolTiffinBuilding1979
Michaels FarmKansasBuilding1979
Mueller BreweryTiffinBuilding1980
Mueller, Christ, HouseTiffinBuilding1980
National Home, Daughters of AmericaTiffinBuilding2003
National Orphans' Home, Junior Order United American MechanicsTiffinDistrict1990
North Sandusky Street Historic DistrictTiffinDistrict1980
Northeast Tiffin Historic DistrictTiffinDistrict1980
Octagon, TheTiffinBuilding1979
Ohio Lantern CompanyTiffinBuilding1980
Omar ChapelAtticaBuilding1987
Pfleiderer Center for Religion and the HumanitiesTiffinBuilding1979
Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church and CemeteryTiffinBuilding1993
President's HouseTiffinBuilding1979
Social Science HouseTiffinBuilding1979
SpringdaleTiffinBuilding1993
St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church, School, Rectory, and Convent of the Sister of the Precious BloodNew RiegelBuilding1982
Tiffin Agricultural WorksTiffinBuilding1980
Tiffin Art Metal CompanyTiffinBuilding1980
Tiffin WaterworksTiffinBuilding1980
Umsted FarmTiffinBuilding1979
Wagner Brothers Bottling WorksTiffinBuilding1980
Webster ManufacturingTiffinBuilding1980
Williard HallTiffinBuilding1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

SENECA created from Non-County Area 8 attached to HURON and Non-County Area 9 attached to LOGAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Seneca County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

62k34k5,15918301840188019201930196020002020
183018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
5,15918,12830,86836,94741,16343,17648,49952,97859,32661,90158,68355,069

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

76 cemeteries and 5 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 76 of 76 listed
NameLatLon
Adams Lutheran Cemetery41.18255-82.97574
Armstrong Cemetery41.12506-82.94297
Assumption Cemetery41.15311-82.87963
Attica Cemetery41.06783-82.88018
Bare Cemetery41.02171-83.22768
Baugher Cemetery41.01533-83.18991
Bethel Cemetery40.99866-83.22769
Big Spring Cemetery41.00339-83.38742
Block Cemetery41.17532-82.97713
Bloom Township Cemetery41.03748-83.04782
Bloomville Cemetery41.067-83.01245
Brundedge Cemetery40.99369-83.11296
Bunker Hill Cemetery41.21254-83.07584
Caroline Lutheran Cemetery41.05227-82.89546
Clay Cemetery41.14556-82.98129
Coffman Cemetery41.1695-83.03464
County Home Cemetery41.07756-83.16353
Crissa Cemetery41.22573-83.22332
Dunkard Cemetery41.07363-83.01488
Dysinger Cemetery41.22671-83.38619
East Baseline Baptist Cemetery40.99388-83.01148
Egbert Cemetery41.16867-83.09853
Fairmont Cemetery41.13532-83.17794
Farewell Retreat Cemetery41.11727-83.01324
Feaselburg Cemetery41.21227-83.24353
Fireside Cemetery41.227-82.90741
Flat Rock Cemetery41.22589-82.8738
Fravel Cemetery41.16926-83.18189
French Town Cemetery41.02839-83.34298
Greenlawn Cemetery41.10256-83.15158
Hite Cemetery41.23276-83.21748
Hopewell Cemetery41.13561-83.23548
Jerusalem Cemetery41.04394-83.26325
Kagy Cemetery41.049-83.16679
Lay Cemetery41.25532-82.98158
Liberty Cemetery41.21755-83.28659
Loudon Township Cemetery41.13533-83.38742
Lowell Cemetery41.21289-83.04654
McMeen Cemetery41.18821-83.10456
Mennonite Cemetery41.03766-82.97372
Methodist Cemetery40.99699-83.25325
Null Cemetery41.18511-83.27946
Omar Cemetery41.11894-82.86296
Payne Cemetery41.1982-82.97583
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery41.16863-83.09839
Pleasant Union Cemetery41.22561-83.1427
Pleasant View Cemetery41.02171-83.05519
Randall Cemetery41.06478-83.15214
Raymond Cemetery41.2495-83.01996
Reformed Cemetery41.0556-83.01574
Reformed Cemetery41.1656-82.98102
Reisz Cemetery41.05034-83.29539
Rock Creek Cemetery41.067-83.09464
Rock Creek Cemetery41.07811-83.13214
Saint Andrews Cemetery41.17755-83.28492
Saint Boniface Cemetery41.05422-83.32326
Saint Jacobs Cemetery41.17005-83.05019
Saint Josephs Cemetery41.09672-83.17714
Saint Marys Cemetery41.12117-83.14992
Saint Michaels Cemetery41.19283-82.8513
Saint Patricks Cemetery41.10839-83.31548
Saint Peters Cemetery41.06561-83.38437
Saint Stephens Cemetery41.02287-82.96862
Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery41.06699-82.88129
Sand Ridge Cemetery41.13199-83.28603
Scipio Township Cemetery41.0956-83.00546
Seneca Memory Gardens41.10547-83.25683
Sheller Cemetery41.09811-83.40243
Shiloh Cemetery41.18227-83.19742
Shock Cemetery41.02255-83.13213
Swamp Cemetery41.00949-82.85212
Thompson Center Cemetery41.21172-82.90241
Underhill Cemetery41.20954-82.88029
Union Cemetery41.21215-82.97098
Woodlawn Cemetery41.05644-83.03352
Zion Lutheran Cemetery41.18109-83.34298
Historical populated places — 5 of 5
NameLatLon
Elizabethtown41.06672-83.06853
Linden41.21728-83.22659
Raineys41.14283-83.34381
Saint Nicholas41.01422-83.33965
Thomsontown41.21172-82.87935

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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