Licking County, Ohio Genealogy

United States Ohio Licking County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Fairfield County 30 January 1808.
 * County Seat: Newark
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Knox (north)·Fairfield and Perry (south)·Muskingum (east)·Coshocton (northeast)·Delaware and Franklin (west)

Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Licking County boundary changes.

Record Loss
1875--The courthouse was on fire on 2 April 1875. Records in the Recorder’s, Sheriff’s, Auditors and Treasurer’s offices were saved. The marriage records between 1829-1839 were not available possibly lost completely in the fire. Some estate records also were burned in the fire. There are gaps in records for this county. See Burned Counties.

1879--The tower of the New Licking County Courthouse caught fire, 29 Mar 1879. No records were destroyed.

Populated Places

 * Granville
 * Johnstown
 * Pataskala

Cemeteries
Green-Beard Cemetery

Military

 * Revolutionary War 


 * - Revolutionary War Veterans of Licking County, Ohio


 * Civil War Civil War service men from Licking County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies or regiments that were formed from men of Licking County.


 * - 1st Regiment, Ohio Cavalry, Companies D and F
 * -113th_Regiment,_Ohio_Infantry, Companies D and F

School Records
Jacksontown Alumni Book 1890-1959. Digitized book which includes the history of the school and numerous class photos.

Vital Records
Ohio, County Marriages, 1790-1950 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch-Historical Records. Databases include Marriage Records, 1808-1951 available at FHL, and Marriage Returns, 1875-1950 available at FHL. (For Licking County, the 1808-1951 database is variably extracted; often the Volume and Page number are not given. The "image numbers" given in the extracts refer to the image numbers in the microfilm, not to the image numbers as uploaded to Historical Records.  The links to images from search results in the Historical Records for this County are wrong for at least Volumes 7 and 11, but the user can often find the wanted record by going to the next image in sequence.  In Volume 7 the images are about 8 MB each, and in Volume 11 about 5 MB each, so searchers with slow internet connections should be prepared for considerable load time.)

Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch-Historical Records. Records include such information as birth date of deceased, city, county, and state of death, name of spouse if married, names of parents, maiden name of mother, name of informant, if deceased was single, married, widowed or divorced, occupation of deceased and disposition of remains.

Societies and Libraries

 * Licking County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.