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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.

Tuscarawas County, Ohio

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

County Seat: New Philadelphia
Year Organized: 1808
Square Miles: 568

Court House:

125 E High Avenue
County Courthouse Annex
New Philadelphia, OH 44663-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Residents named the county after an Indian word meaning “open mouth.”

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

On February 13, 1808, the Ohio government authorized the creation of Tuscarawas County. Residents named the county after an Indian word meaning “open mouth.” Among the first white residents of the county were Moravian missionaries, who sought to convert members of the Delaware Indians. The missionaries established the villages of Schoenbrunn and Gnadenhutten to carry out their work in the 1770s. In the early 1800s, German Separatists established the village of Zoar in Tuscarawas County. For numerous years these people lived as a communal society. The Ohio Historical Society now operates Schoenbrunn and Zoar as historic sites.

Tuscarawas County is located in northeastern Ohio and covers 568 square miles. The county’s population increased by 8.1 percent between 1990 and 2000, as residents of Canton, in nearby Stark County, sought to escape the larger city’s congestion. Tuscarawas County had a total of 90,914 residents in 2000. New Philadelphia is the county seat and the largest city in the county, with 17,056 residents in 2000. Tuscarawas County averages 160 residents per square mile.

Tuscarawas County is overwhelmingly rural, with only 1.6 percent of the county deemed to be urban, but most residents earn their livings by working in sales, manufacturing, or service positions. Farming ranks a distant fourth. Tuscarawas County’s average income was 21,708 dollars per person in 1999, with 10.2 percent of the population living in poverty.

Most voters in Tuscarawas County claim to be independents, yet in recent years, they have supported Republican Party candidates at the national level.

Baseball great Denton “Cy” Young was born in Tuscarawas County

Sources

Tuscarawas County, Ohio History Central, July 24, 2008,

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2020&nm=Tuscarawas-County

Neighboring Counties:

Stark County (north)
Carroll County (northeast)
Harrison County (southeast)
Guernsey County (south)
Coshocton County (southwest)
Holmes County (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Auburn	township
- Baltic	village	Incorporated Area
- Barnhill	village	Incorporated Area
- Bolivar	village	Incorporated Area
- Bucks	township
- Clay	township
- Columbia	township
- Dennison	village	Incorporated Area
- Dover	city	Incorporated Area
- Gnadenhutten	village	Incorporated Area
- Mechanic	township
- Midvale	village	Incorporated Area
- Mill	township
- Mineral City	village	Incorporated Area
- New Philadelphia (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Newcomerstown	village	Incorporated Area
- Parral	village	Incorporated Area
- Port Washington	village	Incorporated Area
- Roswell	village	Incorporated Area
- Rush	township
- Sandy	township
- Stone Creek	village	Incorporated Area
- Strasburg	village	Incorporated Area
- Sugar Creek	township
- Sugarcreek	village	Incorporated Area
- Tuscarawas	village	Incorporated Area
- Uhrichsville	city	Incorporated Area
- Warwick	township
- York	township
- Zoar	village	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our 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."

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