Ohio Towns and Townships to 1900: a Location Guide

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by Julie Minot Overton. 486 p. Hardcover. Revised 2011 edition.
Edited by: Kay Ballantyne Hudson and Sunda Anderson Peters.
Julie Minot Overton’s work, stands as an indispensable resource for genealogists, historians, and researchers tracing Ohio’s early settlements. Published in 2000 by the Ohio Genealogical Society and revised in 2011, this comprehensive 486-page hardcover volume meticulously catalogs the state’s towns, villages, and townships up to the turn of the twentieth century, providing precise geographical coordinates, historical name changes, county affiliations, and variant spellings to aid in pinpointing ancestral origins. Overton’s work draws on a wealth of primary sources, including gazetteers, atlases, and census records, to illuminate the fluid boundaries and ephemeral communities that shaped Ohio’s frontier landscape, making it a vital tool for unraveling the complexities of Midwestern migration patterns and local administrative evolution.