Champaign County, Ohio Genealogy

United States Ohio Champaign County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Franklin and Greene counties 20 February 1805.
 * County Seat: Urbana
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Logan (north)·Union (northeast)·Clark (south)·Shelby (northwest)· Miami (southwest) ·Madison (southeast)

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

Cemeteries

 * Grandview Cemetery, Urbana BillionGraves
 * Oakdale Cemetery, Urbana BillionGraves

Genealogy
Miami Valley Genealogy Index is an Index to more than a half million pointers to records all over Miami Valley including Champaign County.

Military

 * Civil War, 1861-1865

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


 * - 113th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies E and K

Roster of Soldiers who enlisted from Champaign County, Ohio, for service in the Armies of the United States during the war of 1861-1865, who died or were killed in the service. List courtesy of Champaign County Historical Society.

Champaign County Military burials with many brief biographies at Find A Grave (11 records)

Newspapers
Online Newspapers Online Newspaper Abstracts Newspaper Extracts and Abstracts in Book Form

Courthouse
Champaign County Courthouse 200 N Main Street Urbana, OH 43078 Phone: 937.653.2746

Probate Judge has birth, marriage and probate records. County Health Department has death records. County Auditor has burial records. County Recorder has land records. County Clerk has divorce and court records.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Dayton Ohio East Family History Center. For additional nearby Family History Centers, search online in the FHC directory.

Societies
Champaign County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society. PO Box 682. Urbana, OH 43078-0680

Birth
Online Birth Indexes and Records


 * 1821–1962 - at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This is an incomplete index of extractions of original records and of patron-submitted records. This index is not complete for any particular place or region. Information may have been previously published in the International Genealogical Index or Vital Records Index collections.


 * 1856–1909 - at FamilySearch Historical Records – free; Index. The collection includes a name index and images of county birth records in Ohio. The time period and type of record varies by county.

Original Birth Records on Microfilm

Marriage
Online Marriage Indexes and Records
 * 1789–1994 - at FamilySearch Historical Records – free; Index. Name index and images of county marriage records acquired from local courthouses.

Original Marriage Records on Microfilm
 * 1800–1958 - at FamilySearch Historical Records – free; Index. Name index to marriage records from the state of Ohio. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and FamilySearch Centers. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later

Death
Online Death Indexes and Records


 * 1854–1997 - at FamilySearch Historical Records – free; Index. Name index to death and burial records from the state of Ohio. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. This set contains 2,535,556 records. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.


 * Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch. 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, windowed or divorced, occupation of deceased.
 * 1908–1932, 1938–1944, and 1958–2007 - at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. Index of deaths from the Ohio Department of Health in Columbus. Index provided by Ancestry.com.

Original Death Records on Microfilm


 * Champaign County Library Family History Center
 * Piqua Public Library Family History Center