Alger, Ohio
village in Hardin County, Ohio, United States
Alger ( AL-jər) is a village in Hardin County, Ohio, United States. The population was 837 at the 2020 census.
History
Alger was established along the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad and the Ada & Round Head Turnpike, present SR-235. After the draining of the Scioto marsh. Alger was first called Jagger, and under the latter name was laid out in 1882 by Elias Jagger, and named for him. The present name is for Russell A. Alger, 20th Governor of Michigan. The village was incorporated in 1896.
Geography
Alger is located on State Route 235 about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Ada.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.28 square miles (0.73 km2), all of it land.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 860 people, 347 households, and 232 families living in the village.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alger, Ohio” as village in Hardin County, Ohio, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Hardin County, Ohio, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1030204. VIAF identifies the subject as 135457831. Authority coordinates are 40.709, -83.844. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1882, 1896 and 2010.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alger, Ohio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.