Lorain County, OH 1830 Federal Census PARTIAL STATUS of the files on-line for this census in the following directory: http://www.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/oh/lorain/1830/ ABOUT LORAIN COUNTY: Lorain County was established in 1822 from portions of several of its adjacent counties. It became judicially-independent in 1824. The original proposed name for the county was "Colerain". The final name "Lorain" was chosen by Heman Ely, who had previously founded and named the city of Elyria. The county's name is based on the former German and now French province of Lorraine. Microfilm Roll# M19-135 ======================================================================================= TOWNSHIP STAMPED STATUS DESCRIPTION PAGE#-RANGE TRANSCRIBER PROOFREADER ======================================================================================= On-Line Ridgeville Twp 2-5 Linda Talbott Rachel Fuller On-Line Avon Twp 5-9 Linda Talbott Rachel Fuller On-Line Amherst Twp 9-12 Linda Talbott Rachel Fuller On-Line Brownhelm Twp. 13-15 Linda Talbott Rachel Fuller On-Line Columbia Twp. 15-18 Linda Talbott Rachel Fuller On-Line Grafton Twp. 18-20 Linda Talbott Rachel Fuller On-Line Elyria Twp. 20-24 Linda Talbott Rachel Fuller On-Line Carlisle Twp. 24-26 Linda Talbott Rachel Fuller On-Line Lagrange Twp. 27-28 Linda Talbott Rachel Fuller . Wellington Twp. 28- . . . Sullivan Twp. 31- . . . Russia Twp. 32- . . . Sheffield Twp. 34- . . . Eaton Twp. 35- . . . Black River Twp. 36- . . . Brighton Twp. 37- . . . Huntington Twp. 38- . . . Henrietta Twp. 39- . . . Penfield Twp. 40- . . ======================================================================================= Additional townships are being transcribed. ======================================================================================= This Census is being transcribed by Linda Talbott and proofread by Rachel Fuller for The USGenWeb Census Project®, http://www.us-census.org/ =======================================================================================