From:
Angie King
Mercer County Recorder
Telephone: (419) 586-4232 x.241
Fax Number: (419) 586-3541
101 North Main Street, Room 203
Celina, Ohio 45822
$2.00
fee per page for a copy of an Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Map at a county recorder's
office, per the Ohio Revised Code:
ORC 317.352 B (I)
I) For
photocopying a document, other than at the time of recording and indexing as
provided for in division (A)(1) or (2) of this section, a base fee of one
dollar and a housing trust fund fee of one dollar per page, size eight and
one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction thereof;
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ADAMS COUNTY OHIO
None
found.
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ALLEN COUNTY OHIO
July 12, 2013
Ronald J. Meyer II, P.E., P.S.
Planning Engineer
Allen County Engineer’s Office
1501 North Sugar Street
Lima , Ohio 45801
Office: 419-228-3196
Fax:
419-227-2920
“Allen County WPA Cemetery Maps are located
at the Allen County Engineer's Office and are scanned as .tiff images on a
CD. As time permits, they are being
posted on this site as converted .jpg images.
Ron Meyer, the Planning Engineer, has been so kind to email the map page
images.”
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ASHLAND COUNTY OHIO
September
18, 2013
Michal E. Crow
Courthouse
142 W 2nd Street
Ashland, OH 44805
Phone: 419-282-4238
Fax: None
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00-4:00
(Due to staffing issues this office may be closed from
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm for lunch)
“We do have this book in my office.
Anyone can come in, view and make
copies. Copies are .10 cents per sheet of paper.
If we make the copies it is $2.00 a
page. We are short staffed & will
help as much as we can. Our hours are
Monday thru Friday, 8am to 4pm.”
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ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO
August 22,
2013
Barbara
Schaab
Astabula
County Recorder’s Office
25 West
Jefferson Street, 2nd Floor
Ashtabula
County, OH 44047
On
August 22, 2013, called the Ashtabula County Recorder’s Office and spoke with
Vicki. She confirmed that their office
holds the WPA Cemetery Plat Maps for Ashtabula County. Hours for researching: 8:00a.m. to 4:15p.m. They are located in the Ashtabula County
Courthouse and you will need to go through security first.
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ATHENS COUNTY OHIO
September 17, 2013
John D Cunningham, library volunteer
library@athenshistory.org
Levering Library
Athens County Historical Society
& Museum
65 N. Court St.
Athens, OH 45701
740-592-2280
“We have similar maps. They are in
fragile condition, but readable. They are not yet catalogued. It is possible to see them and take a
photograph.
Once we have the funds, we will
encapsulate them according to archival standards.
For now they are lying flat in a map
drawer.We have no means to copy them at the moment.
The museum is open 12 to 4 on Tues
thru Saturday, but there will be no one present for a viewing on Saturday.
of the building for patrons.”
John Cunningham
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AUGLAIZE COUNTY OHIO
September 17, 2013
Chris
Lambert
Auglaize
County Recorder
209 S. Blackhoof St. Suite 103
Wapakoneta, Oh 45895
Hours: 8:00 A.M. Thru 4:30 P.M. (M-F)
Phone: 419-739-6735
Fax: 419-739-6736
Email: clambert@auglaizecounty.org
“There is actually a book in my office
about 3’ by 3’ that has the WPA maps in it.
I do not have any way of making copies of this but it is in my
office. And I contacted my Veteran’s
Office to see if they had anything like this that they could make copies of but
they do not.
My office hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00 am
to 4:30 pm. And the address is:209 S
Blackhoof St. Ste. 103 Wapakoneta OH 45895. We are in the County's Administration Building
and we are the main floor.”
Chris
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BELMONT COUNTY OHIO
October 2, 2013
Mary Catherine Nixon
101 W Main Street
St Clairsville, OH 43950
Phone: 740-699-2140
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:30-4:30
Belmont County Recorder has WPA Plat
Maps, however, unsure if copies other than digital photographs can be made at
their office.
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BROWN COUNTY OHIO
September 16, 2013
Amy Jo DeClaire
Administration Bldg
800 Mt Orab Pike Ste 151
Georgetown, OH 45121
Phone: 937-378-6478
Fax: 937-378-2848
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:00-4:00
“Yes we do have a book of these
types of maps.
The book is very
large and copying would be difficult but not impossible. Our copy fee is 10 cents per page. And we are open 8-4 Monday-Friday.”
Amy Jo DeClaire
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BUTLER COUNTY COUNTY OHIO
Butler County Veteran Grave Registration Search -- Some entry dates from 1864 and continues to
present.:
July 9, 2013
Denise Goll
Chief Deputy
Butler County Recorder's Office
Phone #: (513) 887-3195
"We do not have
anything like that. I also checked with
the county engineer and they do not have anything either.
We do have our online
Veteran Grave Registration Search if you have any specific names.
I can also break this
database down by cemetery."
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CARROLL COUNTY OHIO
None found.
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CHAMPAIGN COUNTY OHIO
July 3, 2013
Robin Edwards
1512 S US HWY 68 Ste B-200
Urbana, OH 43078
Phone: 937-484-1630
Fax: 937-484-1628
Email: redwards@co.champaign.oh.us
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:00-4:00
"We do have reduced copies of
the cemetery plats in the recorders office."
Thank you,
Robin K. Edwards
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Also,
Publication:
"Champaign County Ohio
cemetery plates, Veterans' Graves Registration, Works Projects
Administration"
Link Below:
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CLARK COUNTY OHIO
October 15, 2013
Nancy Pence
31 N Limestone Street
Springfield, OH 45502
Mailing Address:
PO Box 1406
Springfield, Ohio 45501
Phone: 937-521-1709
Recorder's Office: 937-521-1705
Fax: 937-328-4620
Email: recorder@clarkcountyohio.gov
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:00-4:30
Spoke with deputy
recorder, Judy Webb, who said their office has two large bound volumes of the
WPA Cemetery Plat Maps for Clark County.
They charge $2.00 per page.
If you make a partial
page copy yourself, she said the cost is .10 cents per page. There is a nearby parking garage with $5.00
per day parking available.
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Also,
October 23, 2013
Clark County Historical Society
117 South Fountain Avenue
Springfield, OH 45502
Phone #: 937-324-0657
Email address: nataliemfritz@aol.com
Library and Archives Hours: Wedneday – Friday 10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.;
Saturday 10:00a.m. to 3:00p.m.
“The only WPA Cemetery map we appear
to have in the archives is a Columbia Street Cemetery map.”
Sincerely,
Natalie Fritz
Curatorial Assistant
Clark County
Historical Society
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CLERMONT COUNTY OHIO
July 3, 2013
Deborah J. Clepper
101 E Main Street
Batavia, OH 45103
Phone: 513-732-7236
Fax: 513-732-7891
Email: dclepper@co.clermont.oh.us
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
"We have some
cemetery plat maps here that show where some of the veterans are buried. They
are American Revolution, War of 1812 and a couple more older wars. If that is what you are looking for let me
know and I can look for stuff on them or possible e-mail you certain cemeteries,
if you would like."
Thanks,
Marsha Collier
Clermont County
Recorder's Office
513-732-7236
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CLINTON COUNTY OHIO
July 9, 2013
Clinton County Engineer
1326 Fife Avenue
Wilmington, OH 45177
937-382-2078
937-302-0993 cell
937-382-5318 fax
WPA Cemetery Plat
maps are online:
Link below to Clinton
County Cemetery Maps:
http://www.clintoncountyohgis.org/Maps/MapsIndex/Pages/MapsC/Cemeteries.htm
http://www.clintoncountyohgis.org/Maps/MapsIndex/Pages/MapsC/Cemeteries.htm
For other questions
you may call my map office at 937-382-4335
Jeffrey B.
Linkous P.E.,P.S.
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COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO
September 23, 2013
Columbiana County Engineer
235 South Market St.
Lisbon, OH 44432
Phone #: 330-424-1740
Jackie Shreeve
“We do have maps of all the Cemetery
Maps like the ones you just showed. Also
we have the books as well. Copies are
$3.00 each.
Hours are: Monday through Friday 8:00a.m. – 4:00p.m.”
Thanks,
Paula
plparks@cceng.org if you have any questions
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COSHOCTON COUNTY OHIO
None found.
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CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO
July 11, 2013
Karen J. Scott
112 E Mansfield Street Suite 206
Bucyrus, OH 44820-0788
Phone: 419-562-6961
Fax: 419-562-6061
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30-4:30
"We do have these maps, but we can't
copy them. The Engineer/Tax Map Office would have to copy them on their copier.
If you are coming to see them, we are open 8:30 to 4:30 Monday thru Friday If you want copies you will have to let us
know."
Karen J. Scott
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CUYAHOGA COUNTY OHIO
July 8, 2013
Judy Cetina
County Archivist
Public Works-Cuyahoga County
Archives
2905 Franklin Blvd., N.W.
Cleveland, OH 44113
Phone: (216) 443-7250
Fax: (216) 443-3636
"Yes, the Archives does have in its
holdings both microfilm and hard copies of the Cemetery Plat Map for Cuyahoga
County. As the original record is somewhat fragile the staff will ask you to use
the copy on microfilm.
The Archives has one volume for Cuyahoga
County; and it includes a large index map that identifies all of the cemetery
locations in the County, and that map is followed by individual pages for the
various cemeteries. The cemetery maps
only document the names and burial sites for veterans of the Revolutionary War,
War of 1812, Spanish American, WWI, etc.
The County Archives is open Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. No appointment is necessary.
Please let me know if you have any
questions or will require other information."
Sincerely,
Judith G. Cetina,
Ph.D., CA
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DARKE COUNTY OHIO
October 2, 2013
Garst Museum
205 North Broadway
Greenville, OH 45331
Phone #: 937-548-5250
Fax# : 937-548-7645
“We have a set of the
WPA maps of the cemeteries. These maps
just have the markings/numbers of the grave where the veteran is buried, and no
names on the maps. I did see a small
cemetery where names were on the page.
We also have notebooks
with all the burials of the Civil War veterans listed with the grave # and
cemetery information. I am now also
getting the 1812, Mexican and Spanish Am. veterans copied and typed up. (from the grave registration cards at the
Recorders office) I hope to get those
typed up in a couple of weeks but can check my notes for any of those burials.
The WPA maps are
rather large and may be difficult to copy.
Some of the smaller cemeteries would be easy to copy. I think we got our maps from the Engineers
office.”
Sincerely,
Phyllis Crick,
librarian
Darke County Research
Center at Garst Museum
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DEFIANCE COUNTY OHIO
July 22, 2013
Cecilia Parsons
500 Second Street, Suite 201
Defiance, OH 43512
Phone: 419-782-4741
Fax: 419-782-3421
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30-4:30
"Yes our Cemetery
Plat Book was created WPA. It has all
the veterans graves that were there at the time that was completed.
That book is not
online it is in our office. It does
include the Civil War.
We have a public
research room. We are open from 8:30
a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday."
Cecilia A. Parsons
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DELAWARE COUNTY OHIO
October 11, 2013
Jack Jennings, P.S.
Supervisor
Map Department (DCMD)
Delaware County Engineer
740-833-2450 (Delaware)
740-548-7313 (Columbus)
(See address
information below)
www.delawarecountyengineer.org
“Our cemetery record
sheets are bound in a large book. We do have a few miscellaneous prints stuck
in with them. Back in the late 1960's and upto maybe ten (10)years ago, they
were available for copying. A little
over six (6) ago, the county engineer asked me to serve as the map department
supervisor and, at that time, I started scanning the pages. I can now print a copy from the digital file
I created (which we are required to charge a nominal fee for) or I can, in my
opinion, now justify providing a PDF or TIF formatted file(s) at no charge ...
because (again, in my opinion) there are no copier or supplies expense involved
in providing the "digital copy" to the general public. And, oftentimes, folks just want them to view
or for reference only, anyway. And, of
course, as I'm sure you know, since those formats are so standard now, especially
PDF, folks can always print them at home, if they want.
Our office is located
in the Rutherford B. Hayes Administration Building, on the 1st floor, at 140
North Sandusky Street and our hours are 8am to 5pm, Monday thru Friday, except
holidays (we are open Columbus Day, also).
I always suggest that visitors who are not familiar with our area
actually use an address of "140 North Union Street" in their
navigation units, which directs them much better to the actual available
parking and entrance to the building.”
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ERIE COUNTY OHIO
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Amanda Buser
Erie County Engineer’s Office
2700 Columbus Ave
Sandusky,Ohio 44870
Phone #: 419.627.7710
“We do have some cemetery maps.”
Amanda S. Buser,P.S.
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FAIRFIELD COUNTY, OHIO
July 23, 2013
Curtis L
Truax
GIS
Technician
Fairfield
County Auditor
210 E Main
Street
Lancaster,
OH 43130
Phone #:
740-652-7063
Fax #:
740-681-5596
“I believe we have exactly what you are looking for. Our business hours are from 8:00 am to 4:00
pm.”
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FAYETTE COUNTY OHIO
Publication:
"Cemetery Plat Book 1924
Fayette County, Ohio"
by Peggy Gilmore. Fayette County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society
2004
Link Below:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/cemetery-plat-book-1924-fayette-county-ohio/oclc/56833666&referer=brief_results
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FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO
July 5, 2013
Terry J. Brown
373 S High Street
18th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: 614-525-3930
Fax: 614-525-4071
"We do have the
Cemetery plats in our office, but they are not available online. If you would
like to inquire about a specific cemetery, I can look at it if you have the
name of the cemetery. We have them in
microfiche format & on the computer.
If you have further questions, call
me at 614-525-3953."
Eric T Johnson Deputy Recorder
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Also,
Ohio Historical Society:
August 16, 2013
Collection. Franklin
County veterans grave registration cemetery plats. circa 1800-1940. [State
Archives Series 7515]
Creator: United
States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio. ; Franklin County (Ohio).
Recorder.
Extent
(quantity/size): 62 microfiche.
Media: Microfiche
Location/Public
Access Data: FCH 128
Scope and Content
These plat drawings
show the location of soldiers' graves in various cemeteries in Franklin County.
The drawings were done as part of the Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Official Project #465-42-3-467 and #665-42-3-232, which were co-sponsored by
Adjutant General Gilson D. Light and the American Legion Department of Ohio.
Veterans served from the American Revolution through World War I.
Includes Agudath
Achim Cemetery, Alton Cemetery, Arlington Park Cemetery, Amaranth Abbey
Cemetery, Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery, Central Cemetery, Concord Cemetery,
Eastlawn Cemetery, Evergreen Burial Park, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Galloway
Cemetery, Glen Rest Cemetery, Grove City Cemetery, I.O.O.F. Dublin Cemetery,
Jefferson Township Cemetery, Maplewood Cemetery, Memorial Burial Park, Mifflin
Cemetery, Mr. Calvary Cemetery, Oak Grove Cemetery, Obetz Cemetery, Otterbein
Cemetery, Pioneer Cemetery, Riverside Cemetery, Silent Home Cemetery, St.
Josephy Cemetery, Union Cemetery, Union Grove Cemetery, Walnut Grove Cemetery,
Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Franklin Hills Memory Garden "Garden of the
Christus," and Glen Rest Memory Estate as well as various smaller
cemeteries.
Lisa
Research Services
Department
Ohio Historical
Society
800 E. 17th Ave.
Columbus, OH
43211-2474
614-297-2510
reference@ohiohistory.org
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FULTON
COUNTY OHIO
July 25, 2013
Sandra K.
Barber
152 S Fulton St Ste #175
Wauseon, OH 43567
Phone #: 419-337-9232
Fax #: 419-337-9282
Email: sbarber@fultoncountyoh.com
Office
Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30-4:30
“We have the WPA Cemetery Plats but not
scanned. Yes, you would be able to
search them in my office. The hours are 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, Monday through
Friday.”
Sandra K Barber
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GALLIA COUNTY OHIO
None found.
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July 26, 2013
Geauga
County Archives and Records:
Clair
Wilson
Geauga
County Archives and Records
470
Center St., Building 8D
Chardon,
Ohio 44024 | Phone: 440-279-1770 | Fax: 440-285-8207
Website:
"We don’t have any WPA
maps; however we do have a book that was published that contains every burial
in Geauga County up to 1983. It includes
maps of the cemeteries and the plots. We also have the notes that the author
used. This may help you."
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GREENE COUNTY OHIO
September 24, 2013
Greene County Archives
535 Ledbetter Road
Xenia, OH 45385
Phone #: 937-562-6487
Hours: 9:00a.m. to 4:30p.m. – Monday through Friday
Spoke to Joan at the
Greene County Archives. She said that
they have the WPA Cemetery Plat maps bound in a large book. They are not able to make copies for
you. A researcher would have to take
photograph of the page(s) themselves.
War Veterans’ Graves,
Record of;1 volume, 1824 – 1986
WPA Veterans’ Graves
Registration (Plot Maps);1 volume (oversize) , dated 1939
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Colleen
Wheatley627 Wheeling Ave Ste 305
Cambridge,
OH 43725
Phone:
740-432-9275
Fax:
740-439-6258
Email:
cwheatley@guernseycounty.org
Office
Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00-4:00
Guernsey County Recorder
– maps are online:http://www.guernseycounty.org/cms/Cemetery-Maps
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HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO
Wayne Coates
138 E Court Street
Suite 209
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone #: 513-946-4561
Fax #: 513-946-4568
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:00-4:00
Hamilton County Recorder – their WPA
Cemetery Plat Maps are online:
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HANCOCK COUNTY OHIO
October 29, 2013
Hancock County Engineers Office
1900 Lima Avenue
P.O. Box 828
Findlay, Ohio 45839-0828
Phone #: 419.422.7433
Fax #: 419.424.5057
Email: engineer@co.hancock.oh.us
Kevin C. Coppler wrote
on October 29, 2013 that the Hancock County Engineer’s Office does have Hancock
County Cemetery Plat Maps. They are not
WPA Cemetery Plat maps, however, they appear to be more recently drawn maps and
show the plot owner names in boxes that denote with the lot number for the locations
of burials.
These maps do not have
veteran listings, however, but the maps are well drawn and may be of help to
researchers. Contact the Hancock
Engineer’s office directly for more information. They have scanned their maps in large .pdf
formats.
Hancock County Engineers
CADD Manager
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HARDIN COUNTY OHIO
November 21, 2013
Hardin County Tax Map Office
One Courthouse Square – Suite 150
Kenton, OH 43326
Phone #: 419-674-2225
Hours: 8:00a.m. to 4:00p.m.
From a phone call to
the Tax Map Department on November 21, 2013:
The Tax Map Department has the actual WPA Cemetery Plat Maps in their
office in large bound volumes. They
quoted a price of $3.00 per page for copying.
No email address found for them.
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Also, for more information
about Hardin County cemeteries, contact the Hardin County Engineer’s Office to
obtain current phone numbers for Hardin County Township Trustees. (I am not sure if township trustees hold
actual WPA Cemetery Plat Maps as well, but they may have information for you
regarding more recent burials, in particular.):
Hardin County Engineer
Mr. Michael L. Smith, P.E., P.S.
13177 CR 130
Kenton, Ohio 43326-9401
Phone #: 419-674-2222
“Those maps are with
each Township so if you know the township the cemetery is located in you can
contact the township trustee and look at them that way.
If you know the
Township, you can call our office at 419-674-2222 and we can further assist you
with numbers for the trustees in the township you are looking for.”
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HARRISON COUNTY OHIO
November 21, 2013
Tray L. Boyer
100 W Market Street
Cadiz, OH 43907
Phone: 740-942-8869 or 740-942-8523
Fax: 740-942-4693
Email: hcrec@frontier.com
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:30-4:30
The Harrison County
Recorder’s Office is currently undergoing renovations, however, it retains normal
hours of operations. The WPA Cemetery
plat maps are in several large bound volumes.
A researcher can come in and obtain a copy for $2.00 a page or take a
digital picture (without flash I was told).
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HENRY COUNTY OHIO
August 1, 2013
Sara Myles
660 N Perry Street Room 202
Napoleon, OH 43545
Phone: 419-592-1766
Recorder: 419-592-8001
Fax: 419-592-1652
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:30-4:30
Email: recorder@henrycountyohio.com
Or
“We have a large book
of plats from most of the cemeteries in the county. These are not up-to-date, but do show the
original drawing of each. They do no
show who is buried in which plot – that information would be obtained from
whomever is in charge of each cemetery in the city, villages or townships.
We do have information
on where most veterans are buried on data cards that can be looked at in this
office.
None of the above
information is available online – it would require someone to come into this
office to view the maps and burial cards.
Sara Myles
Recorder
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HIGHLAND COUNTY OHIO
None
found.
HOCKING COUNTY OHIO
September
11, 2013
Sandra
K. Hunt
Courthouse
1
E Main Street
Logan,
OH 43138
Mailing
Address:
PO
Box 949
Logan,
Ohio 43138
Phone
#: 740-385-2031 or 740-385-0147
Fax
#: 740-385-0377
Email:
shunt@co.hocking.oh.us
“We do. It is a very large book and the information is
very similar to your attachments. Yes,
public can view all of our books. Copies
can be made for a fee. Our office is
open Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4.”
Sandy Hunt
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HOLMES COUNTY OHIO
October 18, 2013
Anita Hall
75 E Clinton St Ste 101
Millersburg, OH 44654
Phone: 330-674-5916 or 330-674-9519
Fax: 330-674-0782
Email: ahall@co.holmes.oh.us
Recording of Documents: Monday -
Friday 8:00-4:00
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:00-4:30
“We do have a book
that contains maps similar to those of Auglaize and Barton, although the book
does not contain a WPA map title page. We also have an index to war veterans
graves. I've attached two spreadsheets that I compiled from another card index
in our office.
If you wish to view
the book of maps or the index you may do so in our office during regular
business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.”
Anita Hall
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HURON COUNTY OHIO
July 18, 2013
Jan M. Tkach
12 East Main Street
Norwalk, OH 44857
Phone #: 419-668-1916
Fax #: 419-663-4052
Email: huroncorecorder@gmail.com
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00
am - 4:30 pm
"We do have a
book of cemetery plat maps. I do not
know for certain if they are from the WPA era.
Some of them indicate that they were done in 1960. They are available to view at our
office. You might try contacting our
local historian, Henry Timman.”
Here is his contact
information:
Henry Timman
3985 Medusa Rd
Norwalk, OH 44857
(419) 668-1122
Henry may have access to more
information as he maintains a large collection of local history."
Sincerely,
Jan Tkach
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JACKSON COUNTY OHIO
None found.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY OHIO
August 19, 2013
Paul R. McKeegan
301 Market Street
Steubenville, OH 43952
Phone#: 740-283-8566
Fax #: 740-283-4007
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30-4:30
“The Recorder's Office
has some of the cemeteries. Yes you can
view them, they are in large book form, we are located at 301 Market Street Steubenville, Ohio 43952. Our
hours are 8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m.”
Denise Mirabella
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KNOX COUNTY OHIO
September 19, 2013
Knox County Tax Map Office
117 East High Street
Mt. Vernon, OH 43050
Phone #: 740-393-6752
Below is a direct link to the Knox
County Tax Map Office’s online listing of the WPA
Cemetery Plat Maps.
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LAKE COUNTY OHIO
Ann M. Radcliffe
105 Main Street
Painesville, OH 44077
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 490
Painesville, Ohio 44077
Phone: 440-350-2510
Fax: 440-350-5940
Email: recorder@lakecountyohio.org
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00-4:00
“The Lake County Recorder’s office has a Lake County
Cemetery Location Book in their record room which the public can look through.
They are located at 105 Main Street Painesville, Ohio The Lake County
Administration Building.”
Bob Gockel
Lake County Tax Map Dept.
105 Main Street
Painesville, OH 44077
Phone #: 440-350-2501
Fax #: 440-350-5942
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August
24, 2013
“The recorders office does hold the WPA cemetery plat
maps. They are a big book located in
what they call the "archives."
Jeanette Towne many years ago did a re-creation of them in a smaller
scale to have at Morley Library. Although still an oversized book, they are
much more manageable to copy.”
Inquire at
genealogy@morleylibrary.org
Cynthia Turk
Genealogist, Lake County, Ohio
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LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO
October 2, 2013
Sharon Gossett Hager
111 South 4th Street
Ironton, OH 45638
Mailing Address:
PO Box 77
Ironton, OH 45638
Phone #: 740-533-4314
or 740-533-4312
Fax #: 740-533-4411
Email: lawcorecorder@gmail.com
Office Hours: Monday -
Friday 8:00-4:00
“I
am pleased to inform you that my office does have WPA Cemetery Maps. They are in a very large black book that is
located in our back record room and are rarely used. I realized, after talking with you, that was
probably what you were inquiring about.
The name WPA just didn't ring a bell with me at the time. Thanks for refreshing my memory on these
maps.”
Sharon Hager,
Lawrence County Recorder
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LICKING COUNTY OHIO
None found.
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LOGAN COUNTY OHIO
Main Logan County Engineer Maproom Page (as of July 1, 2013):
Logan County Title and Index of Cemetery Names for Veterans Graves
Registration - WPA :
LORAIN COUNTY OHIO
October
16, 2013
Joseph
A. Vondruska
Elyria
Public Public Library
320
Washington Avenue
Elyria,
OH 44035
Phone #:
440- 322-0461
Email: jvondruska@elyrialibrary.org
“I
wanted to let you know that I spoke with a man I know from the map department
of the Lorain County Auditor's Office. After looking through their computer, he
discovered that they had all of the scanned pages from the WPA Map book that we
talked about .
The
URL is listed below. You should be about to open all of the PDF and TIF files.”
LINK BELOW for WPA Cemetery Plat Maps for Lorain County:
Sincerely,
Joe
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October 22, 2013
Joseph A. Vondruska
“I have indeed seen
them at the Lorain County Recorder's Office. It appears that the large pages were all cut out of the book and each page
was put in a plastic sleeve. They are in three large and heavy volumes that are
on top of the cases where the recorder's volumes are stored. If you see them, you will need help to get
them down. There is no title page in the books, but these do look like orginal
copies of the maps that are in the computer files.
In addition to these
files, the files are also available at the Recorder's Offive on a computer with
a very large screen along a side wall toward the back of the office. The
computer is easily used and you can pull up a large view of the maps.”
Contact information for the
Lorain County Recorder’s Office:
Lorain County Recorder
Judith Nedwick
226 Middle Avenue
Elyria, OH 44035
Phone #: 440-329-5140
Fax #: 440-329-5477
Email: lcrecorder@loraincounty.com
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:00-4:30
Contact: Dave Keener – 440-329-5162
Contact Dave Keener at
the Lorain County Recorder’s Office for more specific information if a hard
copy of one or more of the original WPA Cemetery Plat maps is requested to be
copied while visting the Recorder’s Office in person. He said that they are not able to send out by
mail a large copy of these maps. The
size of the pages are approximately 2’ x 3’.
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LUCAS COUNTY OHIO
September 23, 2013
Lucas County Recorders Office
One Government Center Suite 700
Toledo, Ohio 43604
419-213-4400
Bonnie
Spoke to Kathy in the scanning
department. She said that they have 8
microfiche of Toledo’s Woodlawn Cemetery.
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August 26, 2013
Charles
Reed
1
N Main Street
Courthouse,
Room 40
London,
OH 43140
Phone:
740-852-1854
Fax:
740-845-1776
Email:
recorder@co.madison.oh.us
Office
Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00-4:00
“We do
hold the WPA cemetery plat maps, in book form.”
Chuck Reed
Madison County Recorder
Madison County Recorder
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MAHONING COUNTY OHIO
None found.
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MARION COUNTY OHIO
September 11, 2013
Karen L. Douglas
22 W Center St
Marion, OH 43302
Phone: 740-223-4100
Office Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30p.m.
I spoke by phone to
Karen Douglas, Marion County Recorder on September 11, 2013. She said that their Recorder’s Office does
have the WPA Cemetery Plat Maps in Book form that can be copied at $2.00 per
page. There is no email address for
them at this time.
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MEDINA COUNTY OHIO
July 13, 2013
Medina County District Library
210 South Broadway Street
Medina, OH 44256
Main Phone #: 330-725-0588
"WPA Medina County Cemetery
Veterans 4a" -- Title on Microfilm Box
Microfilm box is
filed in the same drawer with birth and death records."
Located on the Second
Floor at the main Medina County District Library.
Direct Phone #: 330-722-4257 for Reference Desk
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MEIGS COUNTY OHIO
None
found.
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MERCER COUNTY OHIO
August
29, 2013
Angie King
Mercer County Recorder
101 N Main Street
Courthouse Sq, Rm 203
Celina, OH 45822
Phone#: 419-586-4232
Fax #: 419-586-3541
Office Hours: Monday 8:30-5:00
Tuesday - Friday 8:30-4:00
“Yes, we do have a few cemetery plat maps.” We are open
Monday 8:30 – 5 pm; Tuesday – Friday
8:30 – 4pm.
Yes, we would be happy to make copies. We charge $2.00 per page per Ohio Revised
Code.”
Angie King
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MIAMI COUNTY OHIO
October 3, 2013
Engineering Department
2100 N. County Rd. 25A
Troy, OH 45373
Phone #: 937- 440-5656
Fax #: 937- 440-5659
From the Miami County
Recorder’s office:
“I spoke with our
engineering department and they have these maps in their department. You can contact them at 937-440-5656.”
Toni (Miami County Recorder)
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MONROE COUNTY OHIO
September
16, 2013
Monroe
County Historical Society
Monroe
County Senior Center (Records Room)
118 Home
Avenue
Woodsfield,
OH 43793
“We
have some of the WPA Cemetery maps. I am not sure that we have an entire set of
Monroe County. We have not reproduced them as of yet, they are too large to
scan or copy here, but you would be welcome to come in and look at them. Let me know when you are coming so that I can
dig them out. Are you looking for a particular soldier? I can look at them for
you if you are not close enough to visit.
We are located
in the Monroe County Senior Center building in the Records room. 118 Home Ave.
Woodsfield OH 43793. 1-740-472-1933.
We house the tax records for Monroe COunty as well as the Society'spaper
archives. As I said before, we only have a partial set and do not know where
the rest are. Some came from the Court House and some from the Veteran's office
in hopes to locate them all in one place.
Our summer
hours are in place at this time. Mon.,
Tues., Fri. 10:00-2:00. We will begin our fall hours September 23, 2013 Mon., Tues., Fri., 9:00-4:00. Of course we
work with folks traveling a distance and try to meet their needs on any given
day.”
Joyce Wiggins
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO
None found.
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MORGAN COUNTY OHIO
September
11, 2013
Peggy
Barnes
Morgan
County Recorder
155 E Main St Room 160
McConnelsville, OH 43756
Phone #: 740-962-4051
Office
Hours: Monday Friday 8:00 to 4:00 (Due
to staffing issues this office may be closed
from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. for lunch)
“Yes we do
have these Cemetery Plats Maps in our office. We don’t however have them
scanned so that we can email them to you. You will have to come in and have our
map office make copies for you. Hope this helps. If you have any questions
please contact us by email or phone.”
Morgan County Recorder
Peggy Barnes
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MORROW COUNTY OHIO
Not sure.
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MUSKINGUM COUNTY OHIO
Muskingum County Engineer's Office (as of July 2, 2013):
The scans of the WPA
cemetery book on our website:
Once on the site, the following path will get you to the scans:
Surveying
Browse Images
Cemeteries
Veterans
(Link below)
This should make
it easier for you to research.
Denis Swierz, P.S.
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Also, if you visit in person - Zanesville, Muskingum County:
"They have this book in the map room on the 3rd floor
in our court house in Zanesville (401 Main St).
It shows all of the cemeteries that existed in the 1930’s in Muskingum
County and the location of all of the veterans graves in each cemetery.
Brett, who works in
our map room (740) 455-7195, can help you with any further questions regarding
this book or its contents"
Here is his email : btstottsberry@muskingumcounty.org
Denis Swierz, P.S.
Muskingum County Engineer's Office
155 Rehl Road
Zanesville, Ohio 43701
(740)454-0155
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NOBLE COUNTY OHIO
Not at
Recorder.
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OTTAWA COUNTY OHIO
None
found.
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PAULDING COUNTY OHIO
October
9, 2013
Carol E. Temple
Courthouse, Room 103
115 N Williams Street
Paulding, OH 45879
Phone: 419-399-8275
Recorder: 419-399-8276
Fax: 419-399-2862
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 AM
to 4:30 PM
“This office does have some cemetery
maps you can view for Paulding County.
In addition to the maps, we also
have a cemetery listing of graves.”
Carol Temple
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PERRY COUNTY OHIO
October
15, 2013
Engineer's Office
2645 Old Somerset Road
New Lexington, OH
43764
Phone #: 740-342-2191
“We have a book that
shows locations, pictures, and directions for the cemeteries in the
county. There are no plats. I have some of the cemeteries on my computer
that are plats (some with names and locations), however I do not have all of
them. If you are looking for a specific
cemetery I may have it. The book I use
is the Perry County Chapter Ohio Genealogical Society. If we can help at all please let me know.”
Thanks Jerry
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PICKAWAY COUNTY OHIO
September
27, 2013
Joyce R. Gifford
207 S Court Street
Circleville, OH 43113
Phone: 740-474-5826
Fax: 740-477-6361
Pickaway County Recorder’s Office
has WPA Cemetry Plat maps. “Yes, you can
come in and view and get copies. Copies are $2.00 a sheet.”
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PIKE COUNTY OHIO
September 27, 2013
Misty
Brewster
230 Waverly Plaza Ste 500
Waverly, OH 45690
Phone: 740-947-2622
Fax: 740-947-7997
Email: misty@pike-co.org
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 -
4:00
“We do have cemetery
plat maps but they’re not scanned so I can’t email them. Those plat books are 20X20 and it would take
several copies to get everything on the page.
However, the Property Map Office could copy them for you but they would
be that size. Let me know if I can be of
any further assistance.
The map office is
across the hall from our office and we are located at 230 Waverly Plaza,
Waverly. We’re open M-F 8:30-4:00.
We can take the plat
book for you or you’re welcome to do it.
The pages do come out of the book so that will make it easier.”
Misty Brewster
Pike County Recorder
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PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
September
19, 2013
Bob Renner, Engineering Technician
PORTAGE COUNTY ENGINEER
5000 Newton Falls Road
Ravenna, OH 44266
Phone: (330) 298-3937
E-Mail brenner@portageco.com
“I have 50+ Plats you need to come
in and go through them to see if these will help you, Iwill be here to assist
you.”
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PREBLE COUNTY OHIO
None
found.
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PUTNAM COUNTY OHIO
None
found.
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RICHLAND COUNTY OHIO:
Where the Richland County WPA Cemetery Maps are kept:
July 4, 2013:
Kiefer, Elaine
Our WPA Cemetery Maps
are in two places in our county.
“The first is in theTax Map Office
which is the original vellums, and we have also scanned them as .tiff files and
are in the county Recorder’s Office, which is a copy of the maps bound in a
very large cemetery book.”
Elaine A. Kiefer
Tax Map Supervisor
(419)774-5620
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ROSS COUNTY OHIO
Ross County Recorder
Attention: Kathy Dunn
Ross County Courthouse
2 N Paint Street Ste E
PO Box 6162
Chillicothe, OH 45601
Phone: 740-702-3000
Fax: 740-702-3006
Email: rossrec@bright.net
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30-4:30
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SANDUSKY COUNTY OHIO
July 3, 2013:
Rich Randolph
Sandusky County Engineer's Office
2500 W. State St
Fremont, OH 43420
Phone #: 419-334-9731
Fax #: 419-334-9733
email: rrandolph@co.sandusky.oh.us
website:
www.sanduskycountyengineers.com
“I have attached a compressed folder with
some photos of the plats that we have in our office. It appears that a project was started and
cover sheet shows this, but as you can see from the other files in the folder, the
plats show all of the lots blank. All of
the pages are like these. The only one
that had any numbers in it at all, I included in the folder (Oakwood). I also included an old plat of Oakwood
Cemetery which is the only other plat I could find that had Veteran areas
identified on it. Hope this information
helps.”
Thanks,
Rich Randolph
Sandusky County
Engineer's Office
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SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO
September 16, 2013
Scioto County Recorder
Gail L. Alley
602 Seventh Street – Room 110
Portsmouth, OH 45662
“We
do have some of the maps of the cemeteries in Scioto County. You would have to come into our office and
look through them, if we can get the book apart we will run you a copy $1.00
per page.”
Gail Alley
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SENECA COUNTY OHIO
None found.
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SHELBY COUNTY OHIO
October 3, 2013
Jodi L. Siegel
129 E Court Street
Sidney, OH 45365
Phone: 937-498-7270
Office
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:30-4:30, Friday 8:30-12:00
“We do have these maps in our
office. Our office hours are 8:30-4:30
Mon- Thurs and 8:30-12:00 on Friday. Unfortunately,
we are not able to provide copies. You are welcome to bring along a camera if
you plan on visiting our office. I apologize for this inconvenience.”
Jodi Siegel
Shelby County
Recorder
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STARK COUNTY OHIO
November
13, 2013
Stark
County Engineer
5165
Southway Street S.W.
Canton,
OH 44706
Phone
(330) 477-6781
Fax
(330) 477-3926
On
November 12, 2013, I called 330-447-6781 to the Stark County Engineer’s
Office. I was transferred to their Tax
Map office and spoke with a gentleman there named Paul. He told me that his office did not have WPA
Cemetery Plat Maps, however, he said their office has cemetery plat maps that
were drawn much later. He mailed me a CD
of the maps. They are saved in the .tiff
format. A researcher would have to
contact them regarding viewing and/or copying any of the cemetery plat maps
that they have.
Thus, I am still looking for the actual WPA
Cemetery Plat maps as of this writing.
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SUMMIT COUNTY OHIO
September 30, 2013
Walter Schostak, P.S.
Surveyor, Summit County Engineer
538 E. South Street
Akron, OH 44311-1843
Phone #: 330-643-8560
“The maps that you
seek are available here at the Summit County Engineer’s office.
We have scanned the
maps so they are available digitally (in a *.tiff format). You may have copies
in a variety of ways:
· I can send you the
images at no charge (sample page attached) via an internet download service
· I can place the images
on a CD/DVD
· I place the images on
an external hard drive or flash drive provided by you
· Or we can print the
maps for you (Note full size copies are $5.00 each, 324 pages = $1620.00)
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FYI: The Akron Public
Library, Special Collections, has a copy of these maps (paper and digital).
Akron-Summit County
Public Library
60 South High Street
Akron, OH 44326
(330)643-9030
Web site: http://sc.akronlibrary.org
“We do have paper and
digital copies of these cemetery plats. They are not, however, available on our
website. If there is a particular map
you are interested in, I would be happy to email the file to you.”
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TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO
None
found.
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TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO
None
found.
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UNION COUNTY OHIO
October 9, 2013
Union
County Engineer’s Office
233 West
6th Street
Marysville,
OH 43040-5513
Phone
#: 937-645-3018
Hours:
7:30a.m. to 5:00p.m.
The Union
County Engineer’s Office informs that they have the WPA Cemetery Plat Maps for
Union County, Ohio.
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VAN WERT COUNTY OHIO
October 7, 2013
Van Wert County Engineer’s Office
Attention: Mike Wortman
220 S. Market Street
Van Wert, OH 45891
Phone #: 419-238-2010
Hours: 7:00a.m. – 3:30p.m.
“We have the maps you are looking
for in our office.” Large format;
approximately 24” x 36” inches in size.
The cemetery plat map sheets are flat and bound, however, they are
removable. A few copies can be made at
the office. Or, someone can take a
digital photograph of the map(s) they need.
In the future, the maps may be posted on line in a PDF format, and the
hard copies deposited at the veterans’ office.
Mike Wortman
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VINTON COUNTY OHIO
November 15, 2013
Margaret Knox
100 E Main St
McArthur, OH 45651
Phone: 740-596-4314
Fax: 740-596-2265
Email: recorder@vintonco.com
Office Hours: Mon - Fri 8:30-4:00,
Closed for lunch 12:00p.m.-1:00p.m.
“The maps you are
looking for are in the Recorders office.
If you are going to visit, as you go into the deed book room they are to
your right back in the corner. They are
a bunch of cemeteries showing where the veterans are buried and what wars they
fought in.”
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WARREN COUNTY OHIO
Warren County Genealogical Society’s “Warren County, Ohio Virtual
Cemetery Project”:
Click on the link
above, and scroll down the page.
After the heading: “Information about Warren County Burials”,
scroll down to the listing of individual cemeteries (See table with headings: Cemetery,
Township, Coordinates, Location
Next, click on an individual
cemetery name.
Next, click on “Links”
and look for “WPA Plat Map of Cemetery #..
Please note, not every
cemetery listed has a WPA Cemetery Plat Map:
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WASHINGTON COUNTY OHIO
October 1, 2013
Tracey C. Wright
205 Putnam Street
Marietta, OH 45750
Phone: 740-373-6623 Ext 235 or 236
Fax: 740-373-9643
Email: twright@wcgov.org
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:00-5:00
“I did some research
after I sent your email to find out more about WPA maps. I began working here in 1980 and you are only
the 2nd request I can remember. We do
have maps that look like your examples.
It is $2.00 per page for copies of our records and if you would like to
request copies, you may do so via e-mail.
I will then email the cost to you and once the payment is received I can
mail the copies to you. We also have
excellent resources for history here in Marietta, one being the Historical
Society and their phone number is 740-373-1788 and another being the Washington
County Public Library.”
Tracey Wright,
Recorder
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WAYNE COUNTY OHIO
September 30, 2013
Jane
Carmichael
428 W Liberty Street
Wooster, OH 44691
Phone: 330-287-5460
Fax: 330-287-5685
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:00-4:30
Yes, the Wayne County Recorder’s
Office has Wayne County WPA Cemetery Plat Maps.
Cost for copies is $2.00 a page.
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WILLIAMS COUNTY OHIO
September 30, 2013
Patti Rockey
One Courthouse Square
2nd floor
Bryan, OH 43506
Phone: 419-636-3259
Email: recorder@wmsco.org
Office Hours: Monday
- Friday 8:30-4:30
“I
believe I have located the maps. If you
are would like to look at the maps, they are here in the Recorder’s office.”
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WOOD COUNTY OHIO
Actual WPA Cemetery maps have not
been located. However, the Wood County Engineer has some
more recently drawn and platted cemetery maps in their records and files. See below:
October 22, 2013
Office of the Wood County Engineer
One Courthouse Square
Bowling Green Ohio 43402
Direct Phone: 419-354-9068
Office Phone: 419-354-9060
Fax: 419-354-1409
Hours: 8:00a.m. – 4:30p.m.
Sautter, Jesicca
“I do work with the
Wood County Engineer. We do have
cemetery maps. They are all different
depending on each locations records. I
have attached an example. I have also
attached our index of Cemetery records.
Let me know if a specific item on the list seems helpful and I will be
happy to send you a copy.
The researcher is
welcome to come into our office and look at any file we have. Copies are $2.00 per sheet for anything 24 X
36. If the copy can be made on a regular
copy machine (11 X17 or smaller), the copies are $0.05 each.
We also have the files
scanned to our computer system.
If you bring in a
thumb nail drive we would be happy to copy them to the drive for you free from
charge.”
Jesicca Sautter (Wilhelm)
Office Manager
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WYANDOT COUNTY OHIO
October 1, 2013
Sandy Micheli
109 S Sandusky Avenue
Room 24
Upper Sandusky, OH 43351
Phone: 419-294-1442
Fax: 419-294-6405
Email: recorder@co.wyandot.oh.us
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
8:30-4:30
The Wyandot County Recorder’s Office
has the WPA Cemetery maps both in their large original size format, and in
smaller size paper copies. Individual
arrangements must be made to photograph the larger size pages. The smaller size map pages are more difficult
to read.
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Grave Registrations of Soldiers Buried in Ohio.
Microfilm of grave
files; originals housed at the Office of the Ohio Adjutant General, Columbus,
Ohio. Filmed by the Genealogical Society
of Utah, 1958, 92 rolls, beginning with FHL film #182702.
These are veterans’
records on individual grave record cards.
~~~~~~~~~~
Veterans Grave Registration -
Works Projects Administration Official
Project Nos. 465-42-3-467 &
665-423-232 sponsored by Gilson D.
Light Adjutant General co-sponsored by American Legion Dept. of Ohio.
These are individual
cemetery plat maps that also list the names of veterans and note what plots the
veterans are buried in at a cemetery.
(I have checked with the
Ohio Historical Society, the State Library of Ohio, Western Reserve Historical
Society in Cleveland, Bowling Green State University, and Wright State Univeristy. I was informed that none of the above have a
statewide collection of these WPA Cemetery Plat Maps.
In some counties, the
Recorder's offices hold these WPA Cemetery Plat Maps, but not in all cases,
thus necessitating further research with other county government deparments,
libraries, genealogical societies and historical societies.)
