Champaign County real estate

Champaign County, Ohio. Champaign County derives its name from the French word meaning level or flat. Half its area being level, one quarter rolling, twenty percent hilly and five percent prairie flat. The population of Champaign County is around 36,000; approximately 20,000 live in the towns and villages, while approximately 16,000 live in the rural areas. The rural population is expanding at a greater rate than the villages and towns.

Champaign County is made up of 432 square miles. It is a county rich in many ways. Its people, soil, history and tradition are all proof. It is wealthy in heritage, culture and beauty. Residents of Champaign County can be proud of their agriculture production, schools, industry, churches, human and public services.

Champaign County became the 18th, of 88 Ohio counties on March 1, 1805. It was carved from Greene and Franklin counties by Legislative action. It stretched north to Lake Erie from the Greene County Line with it seat being in Springfield. It was March 1, 1817 when Champaign County took on its present boundaries when both Logan and Clark counties were formed.

Champaign County sent 3,235 men to fight for the Union in the Civil War. 578 men lost their lives and it is to these men that the statue that stands today in Urbana's town square is dedicated. The statue, referred to as, The Man on the Monument, is a bronze cavalryman, facing the north with head bowed for his fallen comrades.

Municipalities in Champaign County

• Cable
• Christiansburg 
• Mechanicsburg 
• North Lewisburg
• Rosewood
• Saint Paris
• Urbana 
• Westerville 
• Woodstock