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| | MIAMI COUNTY, Ohio |
 | | Miami County was formed from Montgomery, January 16, 1807, and Staunton made a temporary seat of justice. |
 | | Population of Miami in 1820, 8,851; 1830, 12,807; 1840, 19,804; 1860, 29,959; 1880, 36,158, of whom 28,832 were born in Ohio; 1,882, Pennsylvania; 599, Virginia; 570, Indiana; 321, New York; 243, Kentucky; 1376, German Empire; 413, Ireland; 159, England and Wales; 93, France; 48, British America; and 14, Scotland. |
 | | The line of the Miami Canal, from Cincinnati, passes through the town from south to north; on it are six large and commodious warehouses, for receiving and forwarding produce and merchandise, and three more, still larger, are in progress of erection, and four smaller, for supplying boats with provisions and other necessaries. |
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