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Clermont County Facts

Clermont County was created on December 6, 1800 and was formed from Hamilton County . The County was named for the province of Clermont in France. The County Seat is Batavia. See also County History for more historical details.

The Health Department has Birth & Death Records from 1908-Present, see the Vital Records section for more details.

Counties adjacent to Clermont County are Warren County (north), Clinton County (north), Brown County (east), Bracken County, Kentucky (south), Pendleton County, Kentucky (southwest), Campbell County, Kentucky (southwest), Hamilton County (west).

Clermont County Municipalities Include Loveland, Milford, Amelia, Batavia, Bethel, Chilo, Felicity, Moscow, Neville, New Richmond, Newtonsville, Owensville, Williamsburg. Townships Include Batavia, Franklin, Goshen, Jackson, Miami, Monroe, Ohio, Pierce, Stonelick, Tate, Union, Washington, Wayne, Williamsburg. Other localities Include Marathon, Miamiville, Point Pleasant, Utopia

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Records at the Clermont County Courthouse

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All Departments below are in the Clermont County Courthouse 76 S. Riverside, Batavia 45103-2602, (513) 732-7300, unless otherwise noted below. The Official County website is located at http://www.co.clermont.oh.us/ . NOTE: The record dates below are from the earliest date to present time.

Clermont County Clerk of Probate Court has Marriage Records from 1800, Birth / Death Records from 1851 and Probate Records from 1810. Phone # (513) 732- 7243
The Probate Court handles the following administrative functions: the probating of wills, estate administrations (full estates and releases from administration), trusts, guardianships of incompetent adults and minors, commitment hearings for the mentally ill and mentally challenged, adoptions, birth corrections, name changes, delayed birth registrations, custodial accounts, lost heir accounts, order disinterments, and issues marriage licenses. In addition, the Court tries litigation issues in all the above matters. A unique aspect of the Probate Court is that the Probate Judge is the ex-officio Clerk of Courts, thus, the Court performs all the duties as its own Clerk of Courts (indexing, filing, docketing, etc.).

Clermont County Recorder has Land Records from 1800 and is located at and is located at 101 Main St., Batavia, Ohio 45103-2958; Phone: 513-732-7236
In Ohio, the Recorder, as an elected official, is charged by law with the exacting duty of keeping certain specific records which may include: deeds, mortgages, financing statements, easements, leases, federal tax liens, personal tax liens, military discharges, powers of attorney, mechanics liens, plats, recognizance liens, partnerships, living wills, zoning resolutions, etc.

Clermont County Clerk of Court of Common Pleas has Court Records from 1801 and is located at 270 Main Street, Batavia, Ohio 45103. Phone Number: 513- 732-7308:
The Clerk of Courts of Common Pleas is responsible for various administrative and ministerial duties in conjunction with the Court of Common Pleas. These duties include filing, docketing, indexing, and preserving all court pleadings for civil, felony criminal and domestic relations cases. The Clerk of Courts must also follow procedure required by law and issues writs to carry out Court orders. Some of these writs include summons, subpoenas, warrants to arrest and to convey to penal institutions, and signing the death warrant in capital cases. The Clerk is responsible for the receipt and disbursement of all money paid into the court system. Other services provided by the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas are accepting bonds, recording notary commissions, administering oaths, keeping naturalization records, and recording and retention of coroner records.

There are a few online databases for Court, Land and Probate Records which include:Ohio Land Records and Ohio Early Land Ownership Records.

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Ohio Marriages: Extracted from the Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly
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Tax records for Ohio began as early as 1800. The archives section of the Ohio Historical Society has a collection of original Ohio tax lists from the state auditor's office. They include lists from the county's organization to 1838, usually arranged by county and township. They are not indexed. County courthouses hold various tax records that have not been inventoried. They are in the office of the county auditor or the county records manager. The FHL has microfilm copies of all known extant tax records 1800-38 for Ohio.

The National Archives-Great Lakes Region retains numerous federal tax records for Ohio. These include assessment books for 1867-73 and corporate and personal records for District 10, Toledo, and District 11, Columbus.

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Clermont County Genealogical Addresses

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The Repositories in this section are Archives, Libraries, Museums, Genealogical and Historical Societies. Many County Historical and Genealogical Societies publish magazines and/or news letters on a monthly, quarterly, bi-annual or annual basis. Contacting the local societies should not be over looked. State Archives and Societies are usually much larger and better organized with much larger archived materials than their smaller county cousins but they can be more generalized and over look the smaller details that local societies tend to have. Libraries can also be a good place to look for local information. Some libraries have a genealogy section and may have some resources that are not located at archives or societies. Also, take a special look at any museums in the area. They sometimes have photos and items from years gone by as well as information of a genealogical interest. All these places are vitally important to the family genealogist and must not be passed over.

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Clermont County Chapter, OGS, P.O. Box 394, Batavia, OH 45103-0394; meets at the Clermont County Public Library, Batavia Branch, 180 S. 3rd St., Batavia, OH on the first Thursday of each month, 7:30pm-10:00pm (library open 1 hour later)., E-mail: vgeesner@aol.com
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Ohio Historical Society, Archives-Library Division,1982 Velma Avenue, Columbus, OH 43211; Telephone: 614-297-2300
The Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library is, by law, the archives for the State of Ohio. As such, we collect, preserve, and make available to the public, documents pertaining to the operation of state and local governments.
Ohio Genealogical Society, 713 S. Main St, Mansfield, OH 44907-1644;(419) 756-7294, [EMAIL]
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Genealogy Division, 96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, OH 43215. 614-645-2ASK (2275);The Genealogy Division holds microfilm; printed, typescript, and manuscript collections, including family and local histories; atlases; cemetery records; city directories; military records; censuses and census indexes; and transcribed records provided by the Ohio chapters of the DAR.
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Clermont County Church & Cemeteries

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There are many churches and cemeteries in Clermont County. Some transcriptions are online. A great site is the Clermont County Tombstone Transcription Project.

Religion in Ohio was an early and important factor in settlement. The first Moravian mission was established in 1772. Presbyterians and Quakers were in the state at an early date, the latter having established forty-three monthly meetings and settlements between 1801 and 1883. The Presbyterians founded seventeen towns between 1784 and 1799. Baptists, Congregationalists, several reformed groups, Lutherans, Disciples of Christ, United Brethren, Methodists, and Catholics arrived prior to 1850. By 1890 the latter two denominations were the largest in the state. The Methodist circuit in Ohio was organized in 1798, with circuit riders traveling from log cabins to camp meetings across the territory. In 1831 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints migrated from New York to Kirtland in Lake County. No thorough survey exists of any of the holdings of individual churches in Ohio, although many are on microfilm through the FHL. The Ohio Genealogical Society is presently undertaking a church records survey.

According to the Ohio Genealogical Society, the majority of Ohio counties have published cemetery records in one form or another. They suggest contacting local societies or one of the major genealogical libraries in the state.

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Ohio Cemetery Records: Extracted from the Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly
Clermont County: Mt. Moriah Cemtery Burials Database Union Township, Ohio
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County History

On December 6, 1800, the Northwest Territory government authorized the creation of Clermont County. The county took its name from the French phrase for “clear mountain.” President Ulysses S. Grant was born in Clermont County, and his birthplace is now the site of a state memorial operated by the Ohio Historical Society. Ohio Governor John M. Pattison also resided in the county. In 1797, Francis McCormick founded the first Methodist Church in Ohio at Milford. Located on the Ohio River, across from the slave state of Kentucky, Clermont County residents played an important role in the Underground Railroad during the 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s, helping runaway slaves find freedom in the North.

Clermont County is located in southwestern Ohio, and its southern border resides upon the Ohio River. The city of Cincinnati or its suburbs cover a portion of the county’s 394 square miles. The county’s largest township is Batavia Township, home of the county seat, with a population of 42,332 people in 2000. The largest village is Milford, with a population of 6,249 people in 2000. Clermont County experienced tremendous growth between 1990 and 2000, as many residents of Cincinnati moved away from the busyness of this major city. Between 1995 and 2000, approximately eleven thousand people moved to Clermont County, increasing the county’s population to 177,977 residents. The county averages 394 people per square mile.

Most Clermont County residents work in Cincinnati. Those residents that find employment in the county proper, usually work in sales, manufacturing, or service industries. In 1999, the per capita income was just over twenty-six thousand dollars, with less than seven percent of the population living in poverty.

Clermont was the eighth of ten counties in the area that eventually would become Ohio. General Arthur St. Clair formed the counties from the southeast tip of the Northwest Territory.

Since its founding nearly two centuries ago, the county has retained nearly the same shape and size. Others - neighboring Hamilton, for instance - have changed dramatically.

The county was named for a French word that described the area in the late 1700s and early 1800s - "clear mountains and hills." Since all of Clermont County is in the Virginia Military District and the French aided the Americans in the final defeat of the British at the siege of Yorktown in 1781, many Virginians who helped settle the county felt it was appropriate to name it in honor of their French allies.

As a territorial county in the early 1800s, Clermont was composed of five townships. Eventually, the five townships were divided into 14. The original county seat was in Williamsburg (originally spelled Williamsburgh), where it remained until 1823. It then moved to New Richmond, along the Ohio River, for one year.

Clermont's first community was Williamsburg, the original county seat, located on the eastern edge of the county. Williamsburg, then known as Lytlestown, was platted in 1796. Early settlements also included Denhamstown, incorporated as Bethel in 1851. Jesse Grant, father of Ulysses S. Grant, was Bethel's first mayor.

Other early settlements included: Withamsville (then called Witham's settlement), Miami Township, Hageman's Mills (later Milford), Stonelick Township, Chilo, Goshen Township, Felicity, Moscow, Point Isabel and Amelia. All date to the early decades after 1800.

The county has grown from 15,820 people in 1820, 36,713 in 1880, and 42,182 in 1950 to about 177,000 in 1998.

Batavia is the county seat of Clermont County, Ohio. Established in 1814, Batavia became the seat of government in 1824, although Ezekiel Dimmit constructed the first cabin in the future town in 1797. The community grew slowly, having only 537 residents in 1840. By 1880, Batavia had 1,015 residents. Three newspapers, three churches, one bank, one carriage manufacturer, and one shoe factory existed in the community.

In 2003, Batavia claimed 1,649 residents. The city boasts a branch campus of the University of Cincinnati. In 2003, eighteen percent of Batavia’s residents over twenty-five years of age had attained a four-year college degree. Many of Batavia’s residents actually commute to the city of Cincinnati, which is approximately twenty-four miles away, to work.

Township History

Batavia was named for the village, which was named for the previous home of some of the county's first settlers, Batavia, N. Y. It was established in September of 1815, formed from parts of Williamsburg and Ohio townships.

Franklin was named after Benjamin Franklin, one of the United States' founding fathers. It was established in May of 1818, formed from Washington and Lewis (now part of Brown County) townships.

Goshen was named after the some of the community's first settlers, who arrived from Goshen, N. Y. It was established in March of 1819, and formed from Miami Township.

Jackson was named after President of the United States Andrew Jackson. It was established in June of 1834, from Wayne, Stonelick and Williamsburg townships. Jackson was president at the time the township was established.

Miami was named after the Little Miami River and the tribe of Indians who once controlled the area. Originally known as O'Bannon Township - in honor of the county's first surveyor - John O'Bannon, Miami was one of the county's original townships, established in February of 1801.

Monroe was named after President of the United States James Monroe. It was established in June of 1825, and formed from Ohio and Washington townships. Monroe's term of office ended early in the year the township was established.

Ohio was named after the state. It is one of the county's original townships, established in February of 1801.

Pierce was named after President of the United States Franklin Pierce. It was established in December of 1852 and formed from Ohio Township. Pierce was president at the time the township was established.

Stonelick was named for the creek that passes through it. It was established in March of 1812, formed from Miami and Williamsburg townships.

Tate was probably named for the Tate family, who settled in the area in its early days. Many Tates moved to Clermont County from the Tates Creek area of Kentucky, where they were companions of Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone. Tate Township was established in June of 1805, formed from Ohio and Williamsburg Townships.

Union was probably named after the union of the states that formed the United States. It was established in December of 1811, formed from Ohio Township.

Washington was named after President of the United States George Washington, who owned land in Clermont County. It is one of the county's original townships, established in February of 1801.

Wayne was named after Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne, who was directly responsible for opening Clermont County and the southern two-thirds of Ohio to legal settlement by citizens of the United States after the signing of the Treaty of Greenville in August, 1795. Wayne Township was established in March of 1819, formed from Stonelick Township.

Williamsburg was named for the village, which was named for its founder, William Lytle, also known as the "Father of Clermont County". It is one of the county's original townships, established in February of 1801.

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