Licking County, Ohio

Date: 1808 [unknown]
Location: Licking, Ohio, United States
Surname/tag: Ohio

Location of Licking County in central Ohio.

See also: Category for Licking County, Ohio, The Ohio Project.

Contents 1 History 2 Communities 2.1 Cities 2.2 Villages 2.3 Townships 2.4 Census-Designated Places 2.5 Unincorporated Communities 3 Education 4 Resources

History

Licking County, Ohio was created on 30 Jan 1808 from part of Fairfield County. It is located in central Ohio.

Communities

Cities

• Heath
• New Albany
• Newark (county seat)
• Pataskala
• Reynoldsburg
• Johnstown

Villages

• Alexandria
• Buckeye Lake
• Granville
• Gratiot
• Hanover
• Hartford
• Hebron
• Kirkersville
• St. Louisville
• Utica

Map of Licking County, Ohio, showing location of each township and giving the township-range numbers for each.

Townships

Bennington Township Bowling Green Township Burlington Township Eden Township Fallsbury Township Franklin Township Granville Township Hanover Township

Harrison Township Hartford Township Hopewell Township Jersey Township Liberty Township Licking Township Madison Township Mary Ann Township

McKean Township Monroe Township Newark Township Newton Township Perry Township St. Albans Township Union Township Washington Township

• Lima Township (historical, merged with Pataskala in 1996)

Census-Designated Places

• Beechwood Trails
• Brownsville
• Etna
• Granville South
• Harbor Hills
• Marne

Unincorporated Communities

Amsterdam Appleton Ben Boston Chatham Columbia Center Fleatown Fredonia

Homer Jacksontown Jersey Linnville Lloyd Corners Locust Grove Luray New Way

Outville Perryton Rain Rock Toboso Union Station Wagram Welsh Hills Wilkins Run

Education

Higher Education institutions in Licking County include:

• Central Ohio Technical College
• Denison University
• Ohio State University, Newark Campus

Resources

• Wikipedia: Licking County
• County Histories:
  • N. N. Hill, Jr., History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, (Newark, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co., 1881); image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/oh-licking-1881-graham/).
  • Memorial Record of Licking County, Ohio, (Chicago: Record Publishing Company, 1894); image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00reco/).
  • E.M.P. Brister Centennial History of the City of Newark and Licking County Ohio, (Chicago-Columbus: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909);
    Volume I: image copy, Google Books, (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Centennial_History_of_the_City_of_Newark/MNUyAQAAMAAJ);
    Volume II: image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/oh-licking-1909-brister-2/).
• Licking County Records at FamilySearch
• Local History page from Licking County Library
• Newspapers, free:
  • Johnstown newspapers at the Mary E. Babcock Library Community History Archive
• Newspapers, paid subscription required:
  • Newspapers.com: Newark newspapers
  • Ancestry: Licking County newspapers
• Historic atlases of Licking County:
  • 1854: O'Beirne & Boell, Map of Licking County, Ohio, (Jersey City, New Jersey: O'Beirne & Boell, 1854); image copy, Library of Congress, (https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4083l.la002086).
  • 1866: F.W. Beers, Atlas of Licking Co., Ohio, (New York: Beers, Soule, & Co, 1866); image copy, Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library, (https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll9/id/9324/rec/1).
  • 1875: L.H. Everts, Combination atlas map of Licking County, Ohio, (Philadelphia: Thos. Hunter, 1875); image copy, Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library, (https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll9/id/9409).