Place:Bokes Creek, Logan, Ohio, United States

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NameBokes Creek
Alt namesBokes Creeksource: WeRelate abbreviation
Bokescreek
TypeTownship
Located inLogan, Ohio, United States
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Bokescreek Township or Bokes Creek Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,338.[1]

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Bokescreek Township was formed in 1837 from Perry Township, and named after Bokes Creek. It is the only Bokescreek Township statewide.

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Article states that the creek and the township was named for Lieutenant Bokes in 1823. His first name is not given in this article.

source: The Delaware Gazette [Delaware, Delaware, Ohio] 27 Dec 1985, Fri · Page 4 "Bokes Creek Named in 1823 Yule Drama".

Alternate answer to name origin of place: "It receives its name from Bokes Creek, a stream that has already been described. As to how this creek received its name reports differ. Some persons claim that there was a white man lost near it of the name of Bogy. Others say that an Indian was lost in the channel, and his friends, after searching in vain for him, gave the name Bogy to the creek, from the Indian word bogue , meaning lost".

source: History of Logan County and Ohio : containing a history of the state of Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time ... a history of Logan County, giving an account of its aboriginal inhabitants...biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, etc", page 507. Available through Google Books.


"Bokescreek Township. Simpson Hariman came here at an early day from Pennsylvania, and taught school twenty years (or eighty terms). The following are early settlers: Alexander McCrary, Archibald Wilson, Charles Thornton, Andrew Roberts, Seraston Bates, Ebenezer Hathaway, Lewis Bates, Gardner Bates, Bliss Danforth, Jacob Keller, James R. Curl, Levi Lowering, Saul Smith, Henry Bell, Moses Bell, Jacob Early".

source: The history of Champaign and Logan counties: from their first settlement by Antrim, Joshua, 1872, Bellefontaine, Ohio, Press Printing Company, page 144.

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