Welcome to the USGenWeb home of Ashland County, Ohio. This site is intended to be your genealogical guide to Ashland County, Ohio.

Ashland County was formed by legislative act on February 24, 1846. On the first Monday of April, 1846, the county-seat was located at Ashland.

Ashland County was formed out of Richland, Huron, Lorain, and Wayne Counties. From Richland, fractional townships Mifflin, Milton, and Clear Creek were taken. Also, the full townships of Hanover, Green, Vermillion, Montomery, and Orange were taken. From Huron, the full township of Ruggles was taken. From Lorain, the full townships of Troy and Sullivan were taken. And from Wayne, fractional townships of Jackson, Perry, Mohican, and Lake were taken.

• Ashland County - a coming attraction...
  
• Cemeteries - names and general locations of cemeteries in Ashland County
  
• Genealogical Society - Information about the Ashland County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society
  
• Historical Places - a list of hisorical places in Ashland County
  
• Mailing lists
• Maps - various maps of Ashland County
  
• Other Interesting Links - Links to other relavent pages
  
• Reference Lookups - submit request for lookup (please consider providing lookups if possible)
  
• Source Data Files - online genealogy data
  
• Surname Register & Query Index - view and submit queries/surnames
  
• Towns - another coming attraction...
  

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