Tuscarawas

Formed March 15, 1808 (32^nd county)

Tuscarawas County (93,265), New Philadelphia (17,686)

The dome stands out on the 1882 stone Classical Revival courthouse.  This facility is on High Street at Broadway.  High Street is Ohio State Highway 416.  The building was renovated in 1995.  Thomas S. Boyd provided the courthouse designs.  A County Administration building was added in 1990.  The courthouse dome has a working clock.  The grounds feature canons and veteran memorials.  Tuscarawas County was founded on March 15, 1808 from Muskingum County as the 32^nd county with New Philadelphia as the only county seat.  Its name is a Native American word meaning “old town.”  The county seat is named for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Tuscarawas County is the birthplace of 1 Ohio Governor, A. Victor Donahey. 

The area of the county is 567.6 square miles.  It is 12 out of 88 in the state.  It ranks 30 out of 88 in population in the state.  It has a density of 164.3 persons per square mile making it 30 out of 88 in the state.  Tuscarawas County has 58.6% of its population in its incorporated areas.  Interstate Highway 77 passes through the county from north to south from Stark County to Guernsey County.  United States Highway 36 originates and travels southwest into Coshocton County.  United States Highway 250 crosses northwest to southeast from Stark County to Harrison County.  The county resembles a fat fire hydrant.  New Philadelphia is located slightly east of center in the county.  New Philadelphia is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 19.0% of the county population. 

Tuscarawas County government consists of an auditor, a sheriff, an attorney, and a coroner (executive).  It has 3 Commissioners (legislative.)  Five Common Pleas Court Judges and a court clerk serve Tuscarawas County (judicial.)  The county is in eastern Ohio.  Youngstown, Ohio is northeast and Columbus, Ohio is southwest of the county.  The county center is 5 miles Southwest of New Philadelphia nearer Yorktown.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Stark, Carroll, Harrison, Guernsey, Coshocton, and Holmes counties.  The county is pronounced TUS-KAER-A-WAS.  This county is in the New Philadelphia-Dover Micropolitan Statistical Area.

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