Van Wert County, Ohio, United States

Details for Van Wert County

Name

Van Wert County

Place Type

County

Located in

Ohio, United States

County Seat

Van Wert (Pleasant Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		40.8667150		40° 52' 00.2" N
Longitude		-84.5832889		84° 34' 59.8" W

Population

30,464

Elevation

237 m

Surrounding Counties

Paulding N
Putnam NE
Allen E
Auglaize SE
Mercer S
Adams (Indiana) SW
Allen (Indiana) NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1074092

Histopolis Place ID

604886391

Updated Sep 3, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Van Wert County

10 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Ohio Gravestone Photo Project - Cemetery Index [Ohio Gravestone Photo Project]
Research your Ohio ancestors and family history by searching our online database of Ohio gravestone photos. Locate Ohio gravestone images of your descendants and discover your Ohio roots.
http://ohiogravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=81 (2 May 2011)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=2120 (9 Sep 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Van Wert County, Ohio [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/VW.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

USGenWeb Archives: Van Wert County, Ohio [USGenWeb Archives]
Ohio Archive Material And Records
http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/vanwert.htm (4 Feb 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Ohio > Van Wert County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Ohio > Van Wert County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/OH/Van_Wert/ (19 Dec 2009)

Van Wert County, Ohio OH, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Van Wert County, Ohio OH, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=17551 (21 Nov 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Ohio > Van Wert County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Ohio > Van Wert County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/OH/Van_Wert/cem/ (13 Oct 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Van Wert County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=17551&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (13 Oct 2008)

Van Wert County, Ohio Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Van Wert County, Ohio
http://www.interment.net/us/oh/vanwert.htm (16 May 2010)

Van Wert County, Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Wert_County,_Ohio (4 Aug 2010)

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Surveys in Van Wert County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 13 Townships

The First Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Van Wert County. You can navigate to any of the 13 survey townships that overlap Van Wert County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Van Wert County

12 Townships

Harrison	Hoaglin	Jackson	Jennings
Liberty	Pleasant	Ridge	Tully
Union	Washington	Willshire	York

Cities of Van Wert County

2 Cities, 8 Villages, 23 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Abanaka	Buena Vista (historical u.p.)	Cavett	Converse
Converse Station	Convoy (village)	Dasie (historical u.p.)	Delphos (city)
Dull	Elgin (village)	Frances (historical u.p.)	Glenmore
Hoaglin	Jonestown	Leslie (historical u.p.)	Liggett (historical u.p.)
MacAdam (historical u.p.)	Middle Point (village)	Middlebury	Monticello
Nowlan (historical u.p.)	Ohio City (village)	Richey	Schumm
Scott (village)	Seamersville	Shasta (historical u.p.)	Van Wert (city)
Venedocia (village)	Wetzel	Willshire (village)	Wolfcale
Wren (village)

Cemeteries of Van Wert County

39 Cemeteries, 3 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Balyeat	Dix	Duncard	Evangelical Protestant
Fissel Lauth	Fletcher	Glenn	Goodwin
Greenbriar	Hance	Horeb	King
Kings	McClure	McNeal	Metzer
Mohr	Mount Pleasant	Mt. Pleasant (*)	Oakland
Pleasant Grove	Redeemer Lutheran	Ridge (Liberty Township)	Ridge (Ridge Township)
Saint Johns	Saint Marys	Schumm	Smith
St. Johns (*)	St. Marys (*)	Sugar Ridge	Taylor
Township	Venedocia	Wallick	Walnut Grove
Westside	Willshire	Woodland	Woodlawn
Wren	Wright

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