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| Licking County, Ohio | ||
 Licking County Courthouse
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 Location in the state of Ohio | ||
 Ohio's location in the U.S. | ||
| Founded | March 1, 1808[1] | |
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| Seat | Newark | |
| Largest city | Newark | |
| Area - Total - Land - Water |
687 sq mi (1,779 km²) 683 sq mi (1,769 km²) 5.0 sq mi (13 km²), 0.7% | |
| Population - (2020) - Density |
178,519 auto/sq mi (Expression error: Unrecognized word "auto"./km²) | |
| Congressional district | 12th | |
| Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 | |
| Website | www.lcounty.com | |
Licking County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 178,519.[2] Its county seat is Newark.[3] The county was formed on January 30, 1808, from portions of Fairfield County.
It is named after the Licking River, which is thought to be named for the salt licks that were in the area.[4] However, one account explains it as an English pronunciation of the river's indigenous Delaware name W'li/'ik'/nk, which means "where the flood waters recede".[5]
Licking County is part of the Columbus, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography[]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 687 square miles (1,780 km2), of which 683 square miles (1,770 km2) is land and 5.0 square miles (13 km2) (0.7%) is water.[6] It is the third-largest county in Ohio by land area.
Adjacent counties[]
- Knox County (north)
- Coshocton County (northeast)
- Muskingum County (east)
- Perry County (southeast)
- Fairfield County (southwest)
- Franklin County (west)
- Delaware County (northwest)
Major highways[]
I-70- US 40
- US 62
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Demographics[]
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1810 | 3,852 | ||
| 1820 | 11,861 | 207.9% | |
| 1830 | 20,869 | 75.9% | |
| 1840 | 35,096 | 68.2% | |
| 1850 | 38,846 | 10.7% | |
| 1860 | 37,011 | −4.7% | |
| 1870 | 35,756 | −3.4% | |
| 1880 | 40,450 | 13.1% | |
| 1890 | 43,279 | 7.0% | |
| 1900 | 47,070 | 8.8% | |
| 1910 | 55,590 | 18.1% | |
| 1920 | 56,426 | 1.5% | |
| 1930 | 59,962 | 6.3% | |
| 1940 | 62,279 | 3.9% | |
| 1950 | 70,645 | 13.4% | |
| 1960 | 90,242 | 27.7% | |
| 1970 | 107,799 | 19.5% | |
| 1980 | 120,981 | 12.2% | |
| 1990 | 128,300 | 6.0% | |
| 2000 | 145,491 | 13.4% | |
| 2010 | 166,492 | 14.4% | |
| U.S. Decennial Census[7] 1790-1960[8] 1900-1990[9] 1990-2000[10] 2020 [11] | |||
2000 census[]
At the 2000 census there were 146,491 people, 55,609 households, and 40,149 families living in the county. The population density was 212 people per square mile (82/km2). There were 58,760 housing units at an average density of 86 per square mile (33/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 95.64% White, 2.06% Black or African American, 0.30% Native American, 0.58% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other races, and 1.10% from two or more races. 0.76% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.[12] Of the 55,609 households 34.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.50% were married couples living together, 10.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.80% were non-families. 23.10% of households were one person and 9.10% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 3.01.
The age distribution was 26.00% under the age of 18, 8.80% from 18 to 24, 29.40% from 25 to 44, 23.90% from 45 to 64, and 11.90% 65 or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 94.80 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.00 males.
The median household income was $44,124 and the median family income was $51,969. Males had a median income of $37,957 versus $26,884 for females. The per capita income for the county was $20,581. About 5.50% of families and 7.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.10% of those under age 18 and 7.50% of those age 65 or over.
2010 census[]
At the 2010 census, there were 166,492 people, 63,989 households, and 45,162 families living in the county.[13] The population density was 243.9 inhabitants per square mile (94.2 /km2). There were 69,291 housing units at an average density of 101.5 per square mile (39.2 /km2).[14] The racial makeup of the county was 93.2% white, 3.4% black or African American, 0.7% Asian, 0.3% American Indian, 0.4% from other races, and 1.9% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 1.4% of the population.[13] In terms of ancestry, 29.5% were German, 16.0% were Irish, 13.0% were English, 10.8% were American, and 5.5% were Italian.[15]
Of the 63,989 households, 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.5% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 29.4% were non-families, and 23.8% of households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.00. The median age was 39.1 years.[13]
The median household income was $53,291 and the median family income was $64,386. Males had a median income of $47,391 versus $37,054 for females. The per capita income for the county was $25,534. About 8.2% of families and 11.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.7% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over.[16]
Politics[]
Prior to 1944, Licking County primarily supported Democratic Party candidates in presidential elections, only voting for Republican candidates five times from 1856 to 1940 in five national landslides for the party. From 1944 on, the county has become a Republican stronghold presidentially, with the only Democratic presidential candidate to win the county since then being Lyndon B. Johnson in the midst of his 1964 national landslide.
| Year | Republican | Democratic | Third party | |||
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| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
| 2020 | 59,514 | 63.05% | 33,055 | 35.02% | 1,827 | 1.94% |
| 2016 | 51,241 | 61.28% | 27,376 | 32.74% | 5,007 | 5.99% |
| 2012 | 45,503 | 55.80% | 34,201 | 41.94% | 1,846 | 2.26% |
| 2008 | 46,918 | 56.82% | 33,932 | 41.09% | 1,720 | 2.08% |
| 2004 | 49,016 | 61.72% | 30,053 | 37.84% | 351 | 0.44% |
| 2000 | 37,180 | 59.52% | 23,196 | 37.13% | 2,090 | 3.35% |
| 1996 | 28,276 | 48.78% | 22,624 | 39.03% | 7,067 | 12.19% |
| 1992 | 26,918 | 44.54% | 18,898 | 31.27% | 14,618 | 24.19% |
| 1988 | 34,540 | 66.72% | 16,793 | 32.44% | 434 | 0.84% |
| 1984 | 37,560 | 72.26% | 13,995 | 26.93% | 421 | 0.81% |
| 1980 | 28,425 | 58.28% | 17,208 | 35.28% | 3,136 | 6.43% |
| 1976 | 23,518 | 53.78% | 19,247 | 44.01% | 968 | 2.21% |
| 1972 | 28,070 | 66.47% | 12,460 | 29.50% | 1,702 | 4.03% |
| 1968 | 19,542 | 48.89% | 15,021 | 37.58% | 5,407 | 13.53% |
| 1964 | 15,096 | 39.25% | 23,364 | 60.75% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1960 | 23,653 | 63.95% | 13,335 | 36.05% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1956 | 21,912 | 67.44% | 10,581 | 32.56% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1952 | 20,385 | 63.50% | 11,718 | 36.50% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1948 | 15,164 | 54.62% | 12,511 | 45.07% | 87 | 0.31% |
| 1944 | 16,815 | 56.74% | 12,819 | 43.26% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1940 | 16,288 | 49.86% | 16,379 | 50.14% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1936 | 11,958 | 39.37% | 17,785 | 58.56% | 629 | 2.07% |
| 1932 | 13,355 | 48.01% | 13,904 | 49.99% | 556 | 2.00% |
| 1928 | 19,130 | 72.14% | 7,244 | 27.32% | 143 | 0.54% |
| 1924 | 13,914 | 58.49% | 7,428 | 31.23% | 2,446 | 10.28% |
| 1920 | 11,924 | 51.89% | 10,679 | 46.47% | 378 | 1.64% |
| 1916 | 5,935 | 40.93% | 8,183 | 56.43% | 382 | 2.63% |
| 1912 | 4,487 | 33.73% | 6,120 | 46.01% | 2,694 | 20.25% |
| 1908 | 6,756 | 44.55% | 7,685 | 50.67% | 725 | 4.78% |
| 1904 | 6,798 | 51.04% | 6,019 | 45.19% | 503 | 3.78% |
| 1900 | 5,854 | 46.09% | 6,716 | 52.88% | 130 | 1.02% |
| 1896 | 5,560 | 45.32% | 6,611 | 53.89% | 96 | 0.78% |
| 1892 | 4,619 | 41.97% | 6,038 | 54.87% | 348 | 3.16% |
| 1888 | 4,867 | 43.04% | 6,199 | 54.82% | 241 | 2.13% |
| 1884 | 4,599 | 42.97% | 5,958 | 55.67% | 145 | 1.35% |
| 1880 | 4,210 | 42.62% | 5,575 | 56.44% | 93 | 0.94% |
| 1876 | 3,962 | 41.84% | 5,473 | 57.79% | 35 | 0.37% |
| 1872 | 3,493 | 43.01% | 4,562 | 56.17% | 67 | 0.82% |
| 1868 | 3,487 | 44.03% | 4,432 | 55.97% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1864 | 3,312 | 46.22% | 3,853 | 53.78% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1860 | 3,502 | 47.06% | 3,154 | 42.38% | 786 | 10.56% |
| 1856 | 3,027 | 44.42% | 3,371 | 49.46% | 417 | 6.12% |
Places of interest[]
View from a section of the Great Circle Earthworks, part of the Newark Earthworks.
- Newark Earthworks
- Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve
- Flint Ridge State Memorial
- Dawes Arboretum
- Ye Olde Mill in Utica, where Velvet ice cream is produced.[18]
- Heisey Glass Museum[19]
- Longaberger former basket facility (Main office building was a 7-story replica basket, the largest in the world)
- National Trail Raceway - NHRA Dragstrip[20]
- Denison University
- Home Building Association Bank
Sports[]
Longaberger former headquarters in Newark, Ohio, a giant Longaberger medium market basket.
Licking County high school athletic programs include Granville High School, Heath High School, Johnstown-Monroe High School, Lakewood High School, Licking Valley High School, Licking Heights High School, Newark Catholic High School, Newark High School, Northridge High School, Utica High School, and Watkins Memorial High School. In baseball, a state title has been won by a Licking County high school team every year since to 2002, when three Licking County teams won state titles. Newark Catholic High School and Heath High School have combined for nine state titles in a six-year span.
Licking County schools won at least one state title in four straight sport seasons: Heath in both baseball and boys track and field (2007), Newark Catholic in football (2007), Newark in boys basketball (2008) and Lakewood in softball (2008).
Communities[]
Map of Licking County, Ohio with Municipal and Township Labels
Cities[]
- Heath
- New Albany
- Newark (county seat)
- Pataskala
- Reynoldsburg
Villages[]
- Alexandria
- Buckeye Lake
- Granville
- Gratiot
- Hanover
- Hartford
- Hebron
- Johnstown
- Kirkersville
- St. Louisville
- Utica
Townships[]
- Bennington
- Bowling Green
- Burlington
- Eden
- Etna
- Fallsbury
- Franklin
- Granville
- Hanover
- Harrison
- Hartford
- Hopewell
- Jersey
- Liberty
- Licking
- Lima (defunct - merged in 1996 with Pataskala)
- Madison
- Mary Ann
- McKean
- Monroe
- Newark
- Newton
- Perry
- St. Albans
- Union
- Washington
Census-designated places[]
- Beechwood Trails
- Brownsville
- Etna
- Granville South
- Harbor Hills
- Marne
Unincorporated communities[]
- Amsterdam
- Appleton
- Ben
- Boston
- Chatham
- Columbia Center
- Fleatown
- Fredonia
- Homer
- Jacksontown
- Jersey
- Linnville
- Lloyd Corners
- Locust Grove
- Luray
- New Way
- Outville
- Perryton
- Rain Rock
- Toboso
- Union Station
- Wagram
- Welsh Hills
- Wilkins Run
See also[]
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Licking County, Ohio
References[]
- ^ "Ohio County Profiles: Licking County" (PDF). Ohio Department of Development. http://www.odod.state.oh.us/research/FILES/S0/Licking.pdf.
- ^ 2020 census
- ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx.
- ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 186. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ.
- ^ (April 1957) "Indian River and Place Names in Ohio". Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 66 (2): 146–148.
- ^ "2010 Census Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. August 22, 2012. https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_39.txt.
- ^ "U.S. Decennial Census". United States Census Bureau. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html.
- ^ "Historical Census Browser". University of Virginia Library. http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu.
- ^ Forstall, Richard L., ed (March 27, 1995). "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990". United States Census Bureau. https://www.census.gov/population/cencounts/oh190090.txt.
- ^ "Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000". United States Census Bureau. April 2, 2001. https://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf.
- ^ 2020 census
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. https://www.census.gov.
- ^ a b c "DP-1 Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/0500000US39089.
- ^ "Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/GCTPH1.CY07/0500000US39089.
- ^ "DP02 SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES – 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/10_5YR/DP02/0500000US39089.
- ^ "DP03 SELECTED ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS – 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/10_5YR/DP03/0500000US39089.
- ^ Leip, David. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS.
- ^ "The Velvet Ice Cream Company in Utica, Ohio". http://www.velveticecream.com/olde_mill.asp.
- ^ "Heisey Collectors of America". Heiseymuseum.org. http://www.heiseymuseum.org/.
- ^ "National Trail Raceway". http://www.nationaltrailraceway.com.
- ^ Ohio Townships
Further reading[]
- Thomas William Lewis, History of Southeastern Ohio and the Muskingum Valley, 1788-1928. In Three Volumes. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1928.
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