M I A M
I
County -
Township - Town - River - Valley -
Burg
Just which one
is it that you are looking for?
Stupid question? Not at all!
THE ONLY MIAMI SERVED
BY THIS WEB SITE
IS Miami
COUNTY,
Ohio
You
would not believe just how many queries are
received here in Miami
COUNTY, Ohio
from persons looking for some ancestor who was
married in
Miamisburg
or Miami
TOWNSHIP, etc.
Frankly, neither of those are in
Miami
COUNTY, Ohio.
Miami
is a very common name in southwest Ohio because of
the Miami
INDIANS who
once inhabited the area.
REMEMBER, THE ONLY
MIAMI SERVED BY THIS WEB SITE
IS Miami
COUNTY,
Ohio
And guess what,
Miami
COUNTY, Ohio is
partly located between the two
Miami
RIVERS. Several
miles southeast of
Miami
COUNTY, Ohio is
The Little Miami
RIVER. It does not
make contact with
Miami
COUNTY Ohio.
And then there is
The Great Miami
RIVER (two
separate rivers) whose waters flow from north to
south right through
Miami
COUNTY. Just
because a family settled on the
Miami
RIVER does not
mean that they settled in on near
Miami
COUNTY Ohio.
The Great Miami
RIVER flows
through several Ohio counties, including
Miami COUNTY
!
There is a Miami
VALLEY
Genealogy Index that you can link to from the
Miami
COUNTY
Genealogical Researchers web site. It is another
(and separate) project of The Computerized
Heritage Association .
Miami
COUNTY, Ohio is
in Ohio's Miami
VALLEY but then
so are fifteen other counties of western Ohio. The
Miami VALLEY
is the drainage
area that feeds the two
Miami
RIVERS as they
flow southward toward the Ohio River. All of the
counties that have tributaries feeding the two
Miami
RIVERS are
considered to be a part of the
Miami
VALLEY. The
mouth of the Great
Miami RIVER
empties into the Ohio River at the exact spot where
the border line between Ohio and Indiana starts its
northern trek. That place is west of Cincinnati.
The Little Miami
RIVER flows into
the Ohio River east (upstream) of Cincinnati.
Another place name that
sometimes leads researchers astray is the City of
*Piqua* in
Miami
COUNTY Ohio.
Sometimes researchers look in
Miami COUNTY
's Piqua,
Ohio for their ancestors who lived in
*Pickaway* County, Ohio. Both sound very
much alike when pronounced. Pickaway County
is the third county east-south-east of
Miami
COUNTY, Ohio
and, in early times, there was very little
interface between the two locations as far as early
population/families were concerned.
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