Wood County, Ohio map collection

Collection

Identifier: MS-1206

Staff Only

Collection Overview

Abstract

Collection of hand-drawn and printed maps collected by the Wood County Historical Museum; shows jurisdictional divisions, acreage and names of owners, some physical features of the landscape, such as marshes, bogs, sandbars, and streams, and other administrative maps such as school and sewage districts and voting districts, and historical topical maps compiled by Lyle Fletcher for the Wood County Historical Society.

Dates

Creation: 1888-1984, undated

Extent

4.17 Cubic Feet (12 tube containers housed in 1 oversize box)

Scope and Contents

Among the responsibilities various county offices and local jurisdictions was maintaining records related to taxable property. In that capacity the county was in charge of conducting property assessments, which sometimes included maps and plats. This collection includes both printed and hand-drawn maps of townships and local jurisdictions used by county offices and by other entities such as utilities and road building. Showing acreage and names of owners, some of the maps show physical features of the landscape, such as marshes, bogs, sandbars, and streams. The collection also includes other administrative maps such as school and sewage districts and voting districts, and historical topical maps compiled by Lyle Fletcher for the Wood County Historical Society. All the maps are rolled and labeled and are stored in tubes in an oversize box. Maps of townships are first (not all townships are represented), separated from maps of smaller local jurisdictions.

Conditions Governing Access

No known access restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Separated Materials

The following maps were removed from the collection and cataloged separately:

Alkire, Robert L. Oil & gas fields of Ohio. 1948 (MAP 21-087)
Alkire, Robert L. Oil & gas pipe lines in Ohio. 1949 (MAP 21-088)
White, George Willard. Mineral industry map of Ohio. 1947 (MAP 21-089)
Bier, James A. Landforms of Ohio. 1967 (MAP 21-090)
Smith, N.D. Map of Wood County, Ohio, 1858. 1984 reprint (MAP 18-061)
Bowling Green Corporation thoroughfare plan. 1970 (MAP 18-062)

Related Materials

There are other sources in the CAC’s collection for similar map or plat information should the maps here have gaps or not cover certain time periods. Some of these are separately cataloged, including single maps of the county or townships. The various published Wood County atlases are cataloged as G1398.W6 G7 1886, G1398.W6 A83 1912, G1398.W6 G73 1982, G1398.W6 G73 1988, and G1398.W6 W6 1982 (a combined atlas that includes from 1875 through 1912). There is also a Hixson plat from the 1920s cataloged as pOG-2035, and one published by Harvest Line for 1978 as pOG-2200.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Originally collected by the Wood County Historical Museum and transferred by the museum to the Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University in May 2014.