The Village of Huntsville is a small community of about 450, located 40.44 degrees north of the equator and 83.80 degrees West of the prime meridian in north central Logan County, Ohio.

Huntsville was platted, on land previously owned by George Hover and Thomas Wishart, shortly after the survey of the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad was completed in the mid-1800s

Incorporation came in December 1865 and the first election of officers was conducted the following April, with voters selecting Sidney B. Foster as the first mayor and William W. Beatty, William T. Herron, J.H. Harrod, A. Bartholomew and Josiah Carr for council. David Carr was the recorder and Joseph Carr treasurer.

With the coming of the rail system, Huntsville began to see a surge of business and residential growth, while the Village of Cherokee on Cherokee Mans Run creek about a mile southeast of the village started to decline. The advantages of the rail system through Huntsville lead Cherokee business owners to relocate closer to the depot.

Thomas Wishart erected the first house in village in 1844. In 1847, Samuel Harrod built a hotel near the train depot. It was destroyed by fire in the summer of 1850 but was rebuilt. The first brick structure, built in 1848 by Messrs. Buell and Dodson, was also the first store.

The first post office, originally that of Cherokee, was established in 1830 and moved to Huntsville around 1850.

The Huntsville Special School District was formed about the same time the village was incorporated, with two school rooms and about 150 students, according to the Logan County Historical Society.

Huntsville's population in 1880 was 430 and is much the same today.