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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Bishop (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Bishop. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Bishop is located in Colbert County.

To see how the shape of Alabama's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Colbert County: Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence & Tishomingo (MS).

Below are the counties that are near Bishop. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bishop:

  • Colbert County     (The home county of Bishop)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bishop, with the one closest to Bishop listed first.
    • Good Springs ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Good Springs is located in Colbert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Springs
    • Cherokee
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Ingleton ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Ingleton is located in Colbert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingleton
    • Denton ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Denton is located in Colbert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denton
    • Caryton ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Caryton is located in Colbert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caryton
    • Red Rock
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Doubleheads Village ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Doubleheads Village is located in Colbert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doubleheads Village
    • Gatesville ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Gatesville is located in Colbert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gatesville
    • Chickasaw ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Chickasaw is located in Colbert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chickasaw
    • Riverton
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Crows Camp ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Crows Camp is located in Colbert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crows Camp
    • Tuscumbia
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Franklin County
  • Lauderdale County
  • Alcorn County (MS)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bishop, with the one closest to Bishop listed first.
    • Jacinto
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Glen
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Glen is located in Alcorn County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 406 people
    • Glens
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Searcy Town
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Searcy Town is located in Alcorn County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searcy Town
    • Rienzi
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Farmington
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Farmington is located in Alcorn County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,160 people
    • Biggersville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Corinth
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Allentown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Itawamba County (MS)
  • Prentiss County (MS)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bishop, with the one closest to Bishop listed first.
    • Burton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • New Site
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Altitude
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Marietta
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Marietta is located in Prentiss County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marietta
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 253 people
    • Lake City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Lake City is located in Prentiss County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake City
    • Booneville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Wheeler
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Pisgah
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Tishomingo County (MS)
  • Hardin County (TN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bishop, with the one closest to Bishop listed first.
    • Walnut Grove ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Walnut Grove is located in Hardin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
    • Gibbs ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Gibbs is located in Hardin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibbs
    • Slab Town ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Slab Town is located in Hardin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Town
    • White Sulphur ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • White Sulphur is located in Hardin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Sulphur
    • Bruton Branch
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Nash Landing
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Lowryville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Pyburn
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Wayne County (TN)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bishop, see our County-by-County Page for Bishop.

Cemeteries Near Bishop ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bishop.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Bishop - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bishop covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bishop, with the one closest to Bishop listed first.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Bishop had a post office and no railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Bishop, with the one closest to Bishop listed first.

  • Maud
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Maud is located in Colbert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maud
  • Good Springs ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Good Springs is located in Colbert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Springs
  • Margerum
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Margerum is located in Colbert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margerum
  • Pleasant Site
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Denton ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Denton is located in Colbert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denton
  • Cherokee
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Ingleton ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Ingleton is located in Colbert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingleton
  • Belmont
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Iuka
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Rock Creek
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Rock Creek is located in Colbert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek
  • Mountain Mills ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Mountain Mills is located in Colbert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Mills
  • Barton
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Barton is located in Colbert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bishop. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bishop.

Newspapers Published in Bishop ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bishop.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bishop, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bishop.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Bishop:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bishop) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bishop, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.