Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
130newspaper titles
12digitized titles
92historic places
1800earliest paper
1808formed
374,853pop. 2020
150cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 130 newspaper titles published in Stark County, Ohio, with the earliest starting in 1800. 12 of these titles have digitized pages on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 92 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Canton, Alliance, Massillon.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
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On this day
Front pages
No digitized front pages for Stark 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
69 of 92 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.
Stark County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1810
1820
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
2,734
12,406
34,603
42,978
64,031
94,747
177,218
234,887
283,194
340,345
378,823
378,098
374,853
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
150 cemeteries and 16 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 80 of 150 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Alliance City Cemetery
40.93255
-81.11315
Amish Cemetery
40.82924
-81.18456
Armstrong Cemetery
40.75101
-81.56309
Baptist Cemetery
40.69205
-81.61783
Battlesburg Cemetery
40.69856
-81.38372
Baughman Cemetery
40.74259
-81.55661
Beech Mennonite Cemetery
40.87011
-81.20988
Beechwood Cemetery
40.88605
-81.13335
Beechy Cemetery
40.95672
-81.35761
Blough Cemetery
40.65608
-81.51012
Bose Cemetery
40.65351
-81.56309
Bowman Cemetery
40.68977
-81.33094
Brumbaugh Cemetery
40.97565
-81.31037
Calvary Cemetery
40.78864
-81.46858
Centenary Chapel Cemetery
40.712
-81.27594
Center Church Cemetery
40.81471
-81.28006
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
40.74922
-81.24094
Church of God Cemetery
40.70977
-81.48039
Clapper Cemetery
40.8339
-81.57792
Cross Roads Cemetery
40.72727
-81.57262
Dietrick Cemetery
40.68979
-81.55929
Dutch Church Cemetery
40.93061
-81.1054
East Greenville Cemetery
40.8006
-81.62707
East Nimishillen Cemetery
40.92532
-81.32902
East Sparta Cemetery
40.66533
-81.35483
Eden Cemetery
40.73782
-81.43847
Evangelical Cemetery
40.86594
-81.2779
Evergreen Park Cemetery
40.81602
-81.29751
Fairhope Evangelical Cemetery
40.82909
-81.29839
Fairmount Children's Home Cemetery
40.87078
-81.10532
Fairmount Grange Cemetery
40.85728
-81.10311
Fairmount Memorial Cemetery
40.87504
-81.10724
Farber - Knotts Cemetery
40.65172
-81.31511
Forest Hill Cemetery
40.84977
-81.38955
Freeburg Cemetery
40.83588
-81.1451
French Baptist Cemetery
40.90826
-81.24051
Gerber Cemetery
40.73702
-81.42682
German Cemetery
40.68672
-81.57956
Glass Cemetery
40.73004
-81.24695
Glen Cemetery
40.73853
-81.24629
Green Lawn Cemetery
40.65843
-81.63908
Greenlawn Cemetery
40.97821
-81.40981
Greenridge Cemetery
40.71208
-81.33331
Greentown Cemetery
40.92949
-81.39705
Grove Cemetery
40.69236
-81.41061
Hartville Lutheran Cemetery
40.96231
-81.3286
Hawkins Cemetery
40.81427
-81.11183
Hebrew Cemetery
40.77227
-81.3715
Henline Cemetery
40.6634
-81.4134
Henry Cemetery
40.86005
-81.33316
Hillcrest Cemetery
40.75119
-81.38303
Indian Run Cemetery
40.73977
-81.26788
King Church Cemetery
40.9681
-81.36483
Kountze Memorial Cemetery
40.78477
-81.28705
Kurtz Cemetery
40.83143
-81.61213
Lexington Cemetery
40.96187
-81.11164
Liberty Cemetery
40.7295
-81.15371
Limaville Cemetery
40.98005
-81.14982
Machamer Cemetery
40.94609
-81.34734
Magnolia Cemetery
40.65573
-81.2962
Maple Grove Cemetery
40.94185
-81.33811
Marlboro Cemetery
40.96449
-81.21454
Massillon Cemetery
40.77449
-81.51678
McFarren Cemetery
40.72339
-81.62543
McKinley Park Cemetery (historical)
40.79617
-81.37984
Melsheimer Cemetery
40.72033
-81.37483
Motts Cemetery
40.79557
-81.2039
Mount Peace Cemetery
40.96922
-81.34052
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
40.84679
-81.31857
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
40.90783
-81.40205
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
40.90616
-81.42178
Mount Tabor Cemetery
40.7845
-81.28372
Mount Union Cemetery
40.88932
-81.10479
Mount Zion Cemetery
40.74199
-81.34155
Myers Cemetery
40.77045
-81.55409
New Baltimore Cemetery
40.98319
-81.23578
New Franklin Cemetery
40.79977
-81.0937
Newman Cemetery
40.82913
-81.55978
Newman Creek Cemetery
40.84894
-81.62095
Niesz Cemetery
40.75157
-81.42767
Historical populated places — 16 of 16
Name
Lat
Lon
Bixler
40.66673
-81.49123
Brimestone Corners
40.87728
-81.6054
Congress Lake
40.97784
-81.32983
Diamond
40.90145
-81.32483
Hardscrabble
40.74561
-81.31594
Marchand
40.88172
-81.42817
Marks
40.75339
-81.27955
New Guinea
40.94478
-81.10065
Pauls
40.84617
-81.55401
Pinn
40.7795
-81.60374
Plainsburg
40.65034
-81.60651
Pleasant Valley
40.78006
-81.1526
Rhodes
40.77061
-81.55484
Shaffers
40.88728
-81.13399
Sherwood
40.80534
-81.55484
Summit
40.80561
-81.64596
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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