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There is eighty-eight counties in the state of Ohio. The Ohio Constitution allows counties to set up a charter government as many cities and villages do, but only Summit County has done so.

Scioto County, Ohio

Scioto County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Portsmouth
Year Organized: 1803
Square Miles: 612

Court House:

602 Seventh Street, Room 1
County Courthouse
Portsmouth, OH 45662-3950

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Residents took the county's name from a Native American word referring to the deer that were plentiful in the area.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

On March 24, 1803, the State of Ohio authorized the creation of Scioto County. Residents took the county's name from a Native American word referring to the deer that were plentiful in the area. Located at the intersection of the Ohio River and the Scioto River, the county grew quickly because of increasing river traffic. Scioto County continued to prosper with the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal during the 1820s and the 1830s.

Scioto County is located in southern Ohio and its southern border lies on the Ohio River. In 2000, there were 79, 195 people living in the county. Scioto County is part of Appalachia and is predominantly rural, with 1.6 percent of the county's 612 square miles consisting of urban areas. The county seat is Portsmouth. Scioto County experienced a 1.4 per cent decrease in population between 1990 and 2000. The county averages almost 129 people per square mile.

Service industries and retail businesses are the largest employers in Scioto County. Many county residents are employed in government, farming, and manufacturing. One of the county's larger employers is Shawnee State University in Portsmouth. The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is also located in Scioto County. In 1999, the per capita income in the county was 18,978 dollars, with twenty-one percent of the people living in poverty.

Most voters in Scioto County claim to be independents.

Among other prominent people, cowboy actor Roy Rogers lived in Scioto County for several years

Sources
Scioto County, Ohio History Central, July 24, 2008,
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2010&nm=Scioto-County

Neighboring Counties:

Pike County (north)
Jackson County (northeast)
Lawrence County (east)
Greenup County, Kentucky (south)
Lewis County, Kentucky (southwest)
Adams County (west)

Cities and Towns:

- Bloom	township
- Brush Creek	township
- Clay	township
- Morgan	township
- New Boston	village	Incorporated Area
- Nile	township
- Otway	village	Incorporated Area
- Porter	township
- Portsmouth (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Rarden	village	Incorporated Area
- South Webster	village	Incorporated Area
- Valley	township

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."