Pike County, Ohio's W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of the blog.

 Pike County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of the blog.  

This is a collection of the W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps for Pike County, Ohio. The maps exist at the Pike County Map office. 

The Pike County Recorder has the individual veteran's grave registration cards that are arranged alphabetically for each cemetery.  

The townships of Pike County are.:

Beaver

Benton

Camp Creek

Jackson

Marion

Mifflin

Newton

Pebble

Pee Pee

Perry

Scioto

Seal

Sunfish

Union 

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This Pike County W.P.A. Cemetery Map collection consists of maps that essentially are original drawings created early in the project with limited handwritten information in the Legend Box that is positioned at the bottom of a map page in the lower right-hand corner.  The map pages are numbered.  

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Unfortunately, only one of these map pages include the names of any of the veterans who were buried at any of the cemeteries in Pike County. 

The page is:

WPA CEMETERY PLAT MAPS - PIKE COUNTY - SEAL TWP - MOUND CEM #2 - SECTIONS A & B & C & D & & L - COL JOHN GUTHERY REV. WAR VET - PAGE 72:

Lt. Col. John Guthery on Find a Grave buried at the top of the mound.

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However, many of the maps do show the normal coffin-like symbols in the plot where a veteran was buried. 

Example below.:

WPA CEMETERY PLAT MAPS - PIKE COUNTY - MIFFLIN TWP - WASHBURN CEM - NO VETS NAMES - PAGE 85

Close up view.:

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Unlike the W.P.A .Cemetery Plat Map pages in other counties, there is only one instance with a map page having mixed townships for the cemeteries.  

Otherwise, it is uniform throughout with only one township name for any number of cemeteries on a page.  

Below is the image of Page 1 that has one cemetery in Camp Creek Township and the remainder of the cemeteries are located in Sunfish Township.:

WPA CEMETERY PLAT MAPS - PIKE COUNTY - CAMP CREEK TWP - MECHLIN CEM - SUNFISH TWP - ABBOTT CEM & MUSTARD CEM & RUSSELL CEM - NO VETS NAMES - PAGE 1:

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Pike County is a rural county in Southern Ohio and thus there are a great number of smaller size cemeteries that are located in it. Most cemeteries are on county or township roadways.

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Below are are some links regarding Pike County, Ohio Cemeteries as of February 25, 2024:

The Pike County Genealogical Society's listing of cemeteries organized under their respective counties.:

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Find a Grave Cemetery Listing for Pike County.:

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Ohio Gravestones.org –Pike County cemeteries burial listing.

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LDS Genealogy.

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Ohio Genealogy Express - Pike County Cemeteries

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