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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 Valley Hi (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 Valley Hi. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 east contained birth and death records; the county to the north 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.

Valley Hi is located in Logan 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 Logan County: Auglaize, Champaign, Hardin, Shelby & Union.

Below are the counties that are near Valley Hi. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Valley Hi:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Valley Hi, see our County-by-County Page for Valley Hi.

Cemeteries Near Valley Hi ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Valley Hi.

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 Valley Hi - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Valley Hi covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Valley Hi, with the one closest to Valley Hi listed first.

  • Tharps Run Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Pickrelltown Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Pickrell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Goshen Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Zanesfield Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Macochee Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Westland Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Marmon Valley Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Mt. Zion Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Yoder Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Pisgy Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Cooper Farm Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
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    • Highland Memorial Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Hanger Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Easton Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)

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 Valley Hi in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Valley Hi.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Valley Hi, with the one closest to Valley Hi listed first.

  • Zanesfield
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • New Jerusalem
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • New Jerusalem is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Jerusalem
  • West Liberty
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • East Liberty
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • East Liberty is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Liberty
  • Bellefontaine
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • North Greenfield
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • North Greenfield is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Greenfield
  • Mingo
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Harper
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Harper is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harper
  • Kennard
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Kennard is located in Champaign County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennard
  • Walnut Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Walnut Grove is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
  • Lippincott
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Lippincott is located in Champaign County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lippincott
  • North Lewisburg
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
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    • West Mansfield
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • West Mansfield is located in Logan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Mansfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 678 people
    • Gretna
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Gretna is located in Logan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gretna
    • Kingscreek
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Valley Hi. See our List of 1890's Communities around Valley Hi.

Newspapers Published in Valley Hi ...

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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Valley Hi.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Valley Hi, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Valley Hi.

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 Valley Hi:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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 Valley Hi, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Valley Hi) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.