Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Oreville (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Oreville. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Oreville is located in Hocking County .
To see how the shape of Ohio's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hocking County : Athens , Fairfield , Perry , Pickaway , Ross & Vinton .
Below are the counties that are near Oreville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Oreville:
Hocking County (The home county of Oreville)
The following are listed by their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
Sand Run Junction (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Sand Run Junction is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Run Junction Carbon Hill (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Carbon Hill is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbon Hill Sand Run (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Sand Run is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Run New Pittsburg (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
New Pittsburg is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Pittsburg New Town (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
New Town is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Town Candy Town (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Candy Town is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candy Town Jobs (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Jobs is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jobs Murray City (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Logan (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Logan is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan Population from the 2020 Census: 6,933 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Logan <1>
Orbiston (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Orbiston is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orbiston Union Furnace (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Union Furnace is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Furnace West Logan (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
West Logan is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Logan Rockbridge (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Athens County
The following are listed by their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
Hartleyville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Hartleyville is located in Athens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartleyville Nelsonville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Bessemer (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Bessemer is located in Athens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bessemer Buchtel (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Buchtel is located in Athens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buchtel Population from the 2020 Census: 568 people
Glouster (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Greens Run (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Greens Run is located in Athens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greens Run Jacksonville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Jacksonville is located in Athens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonville Population from the 2020 Census: 481 people
Trimble (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Truetown (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Truetown is located in Athens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truetown Carbondale (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Carbondale is located in Athens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbondale Chauncey (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Chauncey is located in Athens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chauncey Population from the 2020 Census: 1,038 people
Liars Corner ‑ Historic(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Liars Corner was located in Athens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liars Corner Mount Nebo ‑ Historic(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Mount Nebo was located in Athens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Nebo Fairfield County
The following are listed by their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
Rushville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
West Rushville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
West Rushville is located in Fairfield County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Rushville Population from the 2020 Census: 144 people
Sugar Grove (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Lancaster (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Tarhe Town ‑ Historic(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Tarhe Town was located in Fairfield County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarhe Town Pleasantville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Revenge ‑ Historic(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Revenge was located in Fairfield County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Revenge Delmont ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Delmont was located in Fairfield County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delmont Thurston (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Thurston is located in Fairfield County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thurston Population from the 2020 Census: 607 people
Baltimore (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Fairfield Beach (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Fairfield Beach is located in Fairfield County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield Beach Millersport (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Amanda (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Licking County
The following are listed by their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
Reservoir ‑ Historic(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Reservoir was located in Licking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reservoir Brownsville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Gratiot (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Gratiot is located in Licking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gratiot Population from the 2020 Census: 221 people
Harbor Hills (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Harbor Hills is located in Licking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor Hills Buckeye Lake (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Atherton ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Atherton was located in Licking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atherton Little Claylick ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Little Claylick was located in Licking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Claylick Hebron (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Moscow ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Moscow was located in Licking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moscow Kirkersville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Kirkersville is located in Licking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkersville Population from the 2020 Census: 557 people
Meigs County
Point Rock (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Point Rock is located in Meigs County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Rock Morgan County
The following are listed by their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
Deavertown (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Deavertown is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deavertown Elliott Crossroads (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Elliott Crossroads is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliott Crossroads Morganville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Morganville is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morganville Morganville has also been known as:
Morgan Wolf Creek Wrightstown (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Wrightstown is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wrightstown Westland (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Westland is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westland Joy (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Joy is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joy Eagleport (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Eagleport is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagleport Chesterhill (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Malta (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
McConnelsville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Todds (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Todds is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Todds Durant (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Durant is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durant Stockport (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Muskingum County
The following are listed by their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
Fultonham (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Fultonham is located in Muskingum County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fultonham Population from the 2020 Census: 160 people
Cannelville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Cannelville is located in Muskingum County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannelville Darlington (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Darlington is located in Muskingum County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darlington Blue Rock (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Buckeye (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Buckeye is located in Muskingum County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye South Zanesville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
South Zanesville is located in Muskingum County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Zanesville Population from the 2020 Census: 2,095 people
Philo (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
White Eyes Town ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
White Eyes Town was located in Muskingum County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Eyes Town Museville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Museville is located in Muskingum County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Museville Zanesville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
McDonald (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
McDonald is located in Muskingum County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDonald North Zanesville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
North Zanesville is located in Muskingum County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Zanesville Pleasant Grove (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Pleasant Grove is located in Muskingum County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
New Straitsville (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Shawnee (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Ludington (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Ludington is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludington Hemlock (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Hemlock is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemlock Population from the 2020 Census: 146 people
Drakes (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Drakes is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drakes Congo (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Congo is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Congo Corning (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Rendville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Rendville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rendville Population from the 2020 Census: 36 people
Junction City (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
New Lexington (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Chapel Hill ‑ Historic(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Chapel Hill was located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill Carthon (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Carthon is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carthon Rehoboth (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Rehoboth is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rehoboth Pickaway County
The following are listed by their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
Huntsville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Huntsville is located in Pickaway County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntsville Tarlton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Ross County
Adelphi (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Vinton County
The following are listed by their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
Hope ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Hope was located in Vinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope Moonville ‑ Historic(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Moonville was located in Vinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moonville Zaleski (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Stella (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Stella is located in Vinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stella Ural ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Ural was located in Vinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ural McArthur (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Arbaugh (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Arbaugh is located in Vinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arbaugh Vales Mills (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Vales Mills is located in Vinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vales Mills Dundas (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Dundas is located in Vinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundas Oreton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Oreton is located in Vinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oreton Washington County
The following are listed by their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
Luke Chute (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Luke Chute is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luke Chute Wolf Creek (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Wolf Creek is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Creek
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Oreville, see our County-by-County Page for Oreville .
Cemeteries Near Oreville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oreville.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know . If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Oreville - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Oreville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
Otterbein Chapel Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Payne Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
New Straitsville Joint Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
St. Augustine Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Gore Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Danison - Nixon Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Fellowship United Methodist Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Dawley Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Shawnee Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
St. Johns Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Ironpoint Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Webb's Chapel Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Continue List (692 more) ...
Hocking Hills Mennonite Church Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Ebenezer Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Salem Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>
While we didn't find Oreville in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Oreville.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Oreville, with the one closest to Oreville listed first.
Gore (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Gore is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gore New Straitsville (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Greendale (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Greendale is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greendale Shawnee (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
McCuneville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
McCuneville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCuneville Sand Run Junction (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Sand Run Junction is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Run Junction Dicksonton ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Dicksonton was located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dicksonton Maxville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Maxville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxville Webb Summit (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Webb Summit is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Summit Carbon Hill (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Carbon Hill is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbon Hill Sand Run (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Sand Run is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Run Ludington (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Ludington is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludington Continue List (17 more) ...
Carrington (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Carrington is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrington Longstreth (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Longstreth is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longstreth New Pittsburg (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
New Pittsburg is also located in Hocking County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Pittsburg
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Oreville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Oreville .
Newspapers Published in Oreville ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) .
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 87 newspapers that have been published in the area around Oreville.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Oreville, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Oreville.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Oreville:
Websites specific to Ohio Pages specific to Hocking County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Athens County Fairfield County Licking County Meigs County Morgan County Muskingum County Perry County Pickaway County Ross County Vinton County Washington County Cemetery Information and Directories for Ohio Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Oreville. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Ohio: https://ohio.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Oreville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oreville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.