Darke County, Ohio
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Darke County, Ohio
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The following nine large images (over 500 KB each) represent a list of farmers from the booklet identified below. Without typing out the nine pages of very dense text, this image format is the best I can do. Use your BACK key to return to this page.
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There are 20 townships in Darke County, Ohio. They are arranged, more or less, in a 4-townships-across by 5-townships-down grid. The computer-drawn map below shows the townships in relation to one another and the dates they were first formed. The last township was formed in 1841, and in 1848 what was the twenty-first township (called Gibson) became part of Mercer Co. to the north.
Plat maps show the recorded property owners. City lots are platted separately and are not included in the maps whose links appear below. The large township plat maps available at this site were digitized (scanned) from:
Darke County Ohio Farm Plat Book and Directory, Town & Country Publishing, Co., Inc. (POB 689 / LaPorte, Indiana 46350), 1967. The slim paperbound volume has 40 numbered pages. It's cost was then $10.
These images are large and require patience in downloding. It is hoped that these images have not been 'shrunk' too much to prevent reading the names hand-lettered on the maps. In the case of Greenville Twp, the map itself was more 'dense' as there are more properties to be platted and the quality is not as good as for the other townships.
Other items available at this site are a link to the county map which appeared in Beer's History of Darke County, Ohio, which was published in 1880. All the townships were extracted from that larger image to show the various ranges and townships. There are no property owners shown. Below that section are some tables prepared to show which ranges and township numbers assigned for each of the politically named townships. I also reversed that sort so that one can look up a range and township number and see in which politically named township where that range and township can be found. I hope these tables will help those with legal land descriptions (probate court records/deeds) determine where in Darke Co. those properties are located.
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The same computer-drawn image of the townships in relation to one another can be viewed at the TOWNSHIPS OF DARKE COUNTY (another site) where a general map of the county with links to individual township maps taken from Beer's History of Darke County, 1880, is available. The maps at this other site are not plat maps with owners' names of the parcels.
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[ A ] [ B ] [ C-D ] [ E-G ] [ H-J ] [ K-L ] [ M ] [ N-R ] [ S ] [ T-V ] [ W-Z ] Arranged by Ranges numbers in parentheses (...) are township numbers [ Range 1E (10-12) ] [ Range 1E (13) ] [ Range 1E (14) ] [ Range 2E (10-12) ] [ Range 2E (13) ] [ Range 2E (14) ] [ Range 3E (8-9) ] [ Range 3E (10-11) ] [ Range 3E (12) ] [ Range 4E (7-8) ] [ Range 4E (9-11) ] |
View map showing how Ranges and Townships are arranged and numbered in the lands West of the Miami (scanned from OHIO LANDS: A SHORT HISTORY, c1997, available from the at Ohio State Auditor): Congress Lands: First Meridian Survey
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management produced a CD showing Ohio lands purchased from various government land offices. All of that information is now available on-line at the Bureau of Land Management site. You can find the complete information there and even make arrangements to purchase a copy of specific deeds so indexed.
I have extracted from the CD all the purchases made for land in Darke Co. and sorted them by purchaser. I have deleted much of the information to permit a single-line entry for each purchase. More information about each purchase can be found at the BLM site. Virtually all of these cash purchases were made at the Cincinnati Land Office. The meridian is West of the Great Miami.
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