Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
59historic places
—earliest paper
1776formed
42,425pop. 2020
15cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 59 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Wheeling, West Liberty, Valley Grove.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Ohio County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1790
1800
1820
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
5,212
4,740
9,182
13,357
22,422
37,457
48,024
62,892
73,115
71,672
68,437
61,389
47,427
42,425
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
15 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Cox Cemetery
40.17079
-80.58008
Dallas Cemetery
40.01757
-80.52146
Greenwood Cemetery
40.06174
-80.67925
Gregg Cemetery
40.09424
-80.68786
Morgan Cemetery
40.14696
-80.60402
Mount Calvary Cemetery
40.06035
-80.67091
Mount Wood Cemetery
40.08146
-80.7223
Mount Zion Cemetery
40.04535
-80.71341
Oaklawn Memorial Park
40.14702
-80.69286
Parkview Memorial Gardens
40.09174
-80.65591
Peninsular Cemetery
40.07591
-80.71425
Short Creek Cemetery
40.15648
-80.63866
Stone Church Cemetery
40.04174
-80.65286
West Liberty Cemetery
40.16756
-80.59368
Wilson Cemetery
40.161
-80.68106
Historical populated places — 4 of 4
Name
Lat
Lon
Glenns Run
40.12313
-80.69952
Shannon
40.15813
-80.62674
Willow Springs
40.14729
-80.70036
Wilson
40.16729
-80.68841
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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