Ohio Counties Declared Ag Disasters

WASHINGTON - Sep 3/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated 47 counties in Ohio as primary disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by various disasters that occurred in 2004. Those disasters and the counties are:

For excess rain, lightning, high winds, flooding, hail, and a tornado that occurred from May 1, 2004, and continuing:

Allen                 Cuyahoga       Hocking        Noble
Athens                Fayette        Holmes         Perry
Carroll               Greene         Jackson        Tuscarawas
Columbiana            Guernsey       Logan          Union
Coshocton             Hancock        Mahoning       Wayne
Crawford              Henry          Medina

For excess moisture that occurred from May 1, 2004, and continuing:

Ashtabula             Lake           Morgan         Scioto
Defiance              Licking        Muskingum      Seneca
Delaware              Logan          Ottawa         Summit
Erie                  Lorain         Paulding       Van Wert
Fairfield             Lucas          Portage        Wood
Geauga                Marion         Sandusky       Wyandot

Also eligible because they are contiguous are the following counties; for excess rain, lightning, high winds, flooding, hail, and a tornado that occurred from May 1, 2004, and continuing:

Ashland               Hardin         Meigs          Seneca
Auglaize              Harrison       Monroe         Shelby
Belmont               Highland       Montgomery     Stark
Champaign             Huron          Morgan         Summit
Clark                 Jefferson      Morrow         Trumbull
Clinton               Knox           Muskingum      Van Wert
Defiance              Lake           Pickaway       Vinton
Delaware              Lawrence       Pike           Warren
Fairfield             Licking        Portage        Washington
Franklin              Lorain         Putnam         Williams
Fulton                Lucas          Richland       Wood
Gallia                Madison        Ross           Wyandot
Geauga                Marion         Scioto

For excess moisture that occurred from May 1, 2004, and continuing:

Adams                 Franklin       Knox           Pike
Allen                 Fulton         Lawrence       Putnam
Ashland               Guernsey       Mahoning       Shelby
Athens                Hancock        Medina         Stark
Auglaize              Hardin         Mercer         Trumbull
Champaign             Henry          Morrow         Union
Coshocton             Hocking        Noble          Washington
Crawford              Huron          Perry          Wayne
Cuyahoga              Jackson        Pickaway       Williams