Pike County, established in 1815, was named after Zebulon Pike and has a total area of 443.98 sq mi. The County seat and the largest city is Waverly. The total population of the county is over 28.7K with an excellent admixture of White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others with more than 10.4K housing units and 7.6K families. The County is situated in the Appalachian region of the State of Ohio.

The Pike County data repository is a valuable resource in the context of getting genealogical clues so much so that, one can access information from the vital and public records archive like ancestral SSN, war specifics, property deeds, death news, probates and liens, birth, marriage particulars, civil lawsuit information, naturalization facts, separation decree information, census, military service with many other niceties which are the essential components of diverse statistics of life!