Huron County

Established: February 9, 1807
County Seat: Norwalk
Map of Huron County Townships

Click townships in orange to be directed to our newspaper holdings

  • Alfonia
  • Bellevue
  • Berlin
  • Bismarck
  • Boughtonville
  • Bronson
  • Bronson Township
  • Carson
  • Centre Peru
  • Centerton
  • Chicago Junction (now Willard)
  • Clarksfield
  • Clarksfield Township
  • Collins
  • East Clarksfield
  • East Norwalk
  • East Townsend
  • Eldridge
  • Fairfield Township
  • Fitchville
  • Fitchville Township
  • Four Corners
  • Greenfield Township
  • Greenwich
  • Greenwich Station
  • Greenwich Township
  • Groton
  • Hartland
  • Hartland Township
  • Havana
  • Huron C. H. (now Norwalk)
  • Ives
  • Lafayette
  • Lyme
  • Lyme Township
  • Miles
  • Monroeville
  • Morehead
  • New Haven
  • New Haven Township
  • New London
  • New London Township
  • North Fairfield
  • North Fitchville
  • North Monroeville
  • North Norwich
  • Norwalk (was Huron)
  • Norwalk Township
  • Norwich Township
  • Olena
  • Peru
  • Peru Township
  • Plymouth
  • Pontiac
  • Richmond Township
  • Ridgefield Township
  • Ripley Township
  • Ripleyville
  • Sherman
  • Sherman Township
  • Steuben
  • Townsend Station
  • Townsend Township
  • Wakeman
  • Wakeman Township
  • Weavers Corners
  • West Clarksfield
  • Whitefox
  • Willard (was Chicago, Chicago Junction)
  • Woodford

CAC Holdings

Board of Commissioners

  1. Commissioners' Journals, 1815-1837, 1r (#86)
  2. Township Incorporation Petitions, 1819-1823, 1827, 1r (#89)

Board of Education

  1. Board of Examiners' Minutes, 1875-1883, 1897-1909, 2v/1r (#88)

Children's Services Board

  1. Matron's Monthly Reports, 1900, 1905-1910, 1r (#89)

Clerk of Courts

District Court

  1. Chancery Records, 1852-1861, 1r (#41)
  2. Index to Journal, 1818-1876, 1r (#123)
  3. Journal, 1852-1892, 2r (#88, 123)

Supreme Court

  1. Chancery Records, 1835-1851, 3r (#39-41)
  2. Complete Records, 1819-1835, 1r (#39)
  3. Journals, 1852-1876, 2r (#18, 123)
  4. Trial Dockets, 1821-1822, 1r (#39)

County Auditor

  1. Enumerations of Youth, 1918, 1r (#90)
  2. Insolvents' Oaths, 1820-1834, 1r (#7)
  3. School Land Records, 1819-1900, 1r (#89)
  4. Tax Lists, 1818-1841, 10r (#7, 9-17)

County Engineer

  1. Free Turnpike Record, 1884, 1r (#89)

County Home

  1. Admission Cards, ca. 1940-1960s; 1950-1970s, 1r (#160)
  2. Birth Records, 1898-1922, 1r (#6)
  3. Certificates of Admission, 1849-1871, 1883-1910, 2r (#1-2)
  4. Certificates of Application for Relief, 1891-1950, 1r (#90)
  5. Certificates of Indigency - County Charge, 1912-1927, 1r (#90)
  6. Correspondence, 1852-1960, n.d., 1r (#160)
  7. Death Records, 1884-1925, 1934, 2r (#4, 160)
  8. Indenture Records, 1850-1859, 1r (#89)
  9. Minutes, 1848-1902, 1913-1926, 2r (#4-5)
  10. Pauperism Statistics, 1846-1847, 1900, 1r (#89)
  11. Records of Infirmary Commitments, 1883-1898, 1r (#3)
  12. Registers, 1849-1946, 4r (#4, 6, 89, 160)
  13. Township Trustees' Relief Reports, 1882-1897, 1r (#3)
  14. Transfers from the Toledo Asylum, 1893-1894, 1r (#90)

County Recorder

  1. Deed Records (Sufferers' Deeds: Land deeded to Veterans and/or "Sufferers" of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) when their Connecticut lands were burned. The "Sufferers" paid small fee for land in Huron County area), 1795-1809, 3r (#7-9)
  2. Land Surveys, 1828, 1r (#89)
  3. Plat Maps, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1952, 1r (#89)
  4. Soldiers' Discharge Records, 1865-1931, 1r (#47)

County Treasurer

  1. Tax Duplicates, 1822-1825, 1r (#7)

Court of Common Pleas

Civil Division

  1. Appearance Dockets, 1818-1853, 3r (#18, 45-46)
  2. Chancery Records, 1822-1901, 6r (#34-39)
  3. Complete Records, 1815-1854, 8r (#26-33)
  4. General Index, 1826-1850, 2r (#33-34)
  5. Issue and Appearance Dockets, 1824-1829, 1r (#45)
  6. Journals, 1817-1879, 9r (#18-26)
  7. Justices' Oaths and Mayors' Certificates Records, 1860-1883, 1r (#87)
  8. Licenses Records, 1818-1851, 1r (#7)
  9. Naturalization Records - Certificate Stubs, 1910-1926, 1r (#122)
  10. Naturalization Records & Declarations of Intent, 1846-1905, 1r (#120)
  11. Naturalization Records - Declarations of Intent, 1907-1929, 2r (#121-122)
  12. Naturalization Records - Petitions & Records, 1907-1929, 2r (#120-121)
  13. Record of Notary's Commissions 1858-1876 (#87)

General Health District

  1. Birth Certificates, 1908-1929, 6r (#91-96)
  2. Burial Transit Permits, 1950-1995 (some restrictions apply), 1r (#117)
  3. Death Certificates, 1908-1997, 21r (#97-116, 119)
  4. Index to Births, 1908-1989, 1r (#118)
  5. Index to Deaths, 1908-1989, 1r (#118)

Probate Court

  1. Administrators' and Guardians' Records, 1825-1832, 1849-1855, 2r (#49-50)
  2. Administrators' and Executors' Dockets, 1815-1890, 2r (#48-49)
  3. Birth Records, 1867-1908, 1941, 3r (#52-54)
  4. Birth Records - Corrections and Registrations, 1867-1908, 4r (#54-57)
  5. Criminal Docket, 1853-1874, 1r (#87)
  6. Criminal Records, 1895-1928, 1r (#87)
  7. Death Records, 1867-1908, 1r (#58)
  8. Estate and Guardianship Case Files, 1815-1865, 36r (#124-159)
  9. Estate Files, 1852-1865, 17r (#143-159)
  10. Final Record of Citizenship, 1859-1885, 1r (#62)
  11. Index to Administrators' and Executors' Dockets, 1852-1900, 1r (#48)
  12. Index to Probate Estates and Guardianships, 1815-1852, 1r (#49)
  13. Marriage Records [Marriage Record Index in Volume 1], 1818-1977, 19r (#67-85)
  14. Mentally Ill Persons Records, 1855-1873, 1899-1954, 3r (#42-44)
  15. Naturalization Records, 1864-1893, 1r (#65)
  16. Naturalization Records - Aliens, 1903-1905, 1r (#63)
  17. Naturalization Records - Declarations of Intention (listed as "First Papers"), 1859-1905, 3r (#59-61)
  18. Naturalization Records - Minors, 1885-1903, 1r (#66)
  19. Naturalization Records - Proof of Residency, 1864-1903, 1r (#64)
  20. Record of Licenses and Permits, 1815-1828, 1r (#67)
  21. Will Records, 1903-1911, 2r (#50-51)

Municipalities

Village of New London

  1. Burial Permits, 1937-1941, 1952-1957, 1r (#1)

Village of Plymouth

Cemetery Trustees

  1. Deed Account Books, 1933-1966, 1r (#1)
  2. Deed Books, 1904-1951, 1967, 1r (#1)
  3. Minutes, 1873-1892, 1933-1945, 1949-1965, 1r (#3)
  4. Record of Interment, 1826-1885, 1r (#2)

Council Clerk

  1. Birth Records, 1909-1915, 1917-1926, 1929-1937, 1r (#2)
  2. Death Records, 1927-1931, 1934-1948, 1r (#2)

Townships

Sherman Township

Board of Trustees

  1. Minutes, 1893-1990, 2r (#1-2)

Other Resources

  • 1863 to 1900 Burial Records, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Monroeville, Ohio. [Norwalk, Ohio: Huron County Chapter, OGS, 1989?]. (pOG 3760)
  • 1870 Huron County, Ohio Federal Census Index. Norwalk, Ohio: Huron County Chapter, OGS, 1999. (OG F 497.H8 H876 1999)
  • 1880 Census Index for Huron County, Ohio. Norwalk, Ohio: Huron County Chapter, OGS, [19--] (pOG 3759)
  • Huron County, Ohio Birth Index 1867-1908. [Norwalk, Ohio]: Huron County Chapter, OGS, 1998. (OG F 497.H8 H862 1998)
  • Death Index, Huron County, Ohio, 1867-1908. [Norwalk, Ohio]: Huron County Chapter, OGS, 1998. (OG F 497.H8 D42 1998)
  • Death Index, Huron County, Ohio, 1908-1919. Norwalk, Ohio: Huron County Chapter, OGS, 1999. (pOG 4903)
  • Huron County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions. Norwalk, Ohio: Huron County Chapter, OGS, 1997. (OG F 497.H8 O45 1997)
  • Scheuer, Larry . Huron County, Ohio Marriages. Warsaw, Ind.: Scheuer Publications, 1992. (OG F 497.H8 S34 1992)
  • Early Common Pleas Court Naturalizations. Norwalk, Ohio: Huron County Chapter, OGS, 1992. (pOG 4904)
  • Huron County First Families. Norwalk, Ohio: Huron County Chapter, OGS, 1999. (pOG 4901)

Updated: 06/05/2023 09:27AM