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Our Genealogy Helper

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 Nymph (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 Nymph. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Nymph is located in Conecuh 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 Conecuh County: Butler, Covington, Escambia & Monroe.

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

  • Conecuh County     (The home county of Nymph)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nymph, with the one closest to Nymph listed first.
    • Jay Villa ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Sparta ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Centerville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Centerville is located in Conecuh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
    • Johnsonville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Castleberry
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Evergreen
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Rabb
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Old Town
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Old Town is located in Conecuh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
    • Mount Union
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Paul
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Owassa
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Belleville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Belleville is located in Conecuh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belleville
    • Brooklyn
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Brooklyn is located in Conecuh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklyn
  • Butler County
  • Covington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nymph, with the one closest to Nymph listed first.
    • Red Level
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • River Falls
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Carolina
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Carolina is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carolina
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
    • Andalusia
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Gantt
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Gantt is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gantt
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 214 people
    • Heath
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Heath is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heath
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
    • Falco
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Wing
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Libertyville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Libertyville is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Libertyville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 110 people
  • Escambia County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nymph, with the one closest to Nymph listed first.
    • Roberts
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Roberts is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
    • Brewton
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • East Brewton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Riverview
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Riverview is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 181 people
    • Hammac
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Bradley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Bradley is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley
    • Pollard
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Pollard is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pollard
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
    • Flomaton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Monroe County
  • Santa Rosa County (FL)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nymph, with the one closest to Nymph listed first.
    • Belandville ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Jay
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Nymph ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Nymph.

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 Nymph - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Nymph, with the one closest to Nymph 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.<3>

While we didn't find Nymph in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Nymph.

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

  • Jay Villa ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Sparta ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Castleberry
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Evergreen
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Mount Union
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Kirkland
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Kirkland is located in Escambia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkland
  • Brooklyn
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Brooklyn is located in Conecuh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklyn
  • Belleville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Belleville is located in Conecuh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belleville
  • Wilcox
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Boykin
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Boykin is located in Escambia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boykin
  • Cohassett
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Cohassett is located in Conecuh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cohassett
  • Garland
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Bowles
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Bowles is located in Conecuh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowles
    • Brewton
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Roberts
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Roberts is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts

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

Newspapers Published in Nymph ...

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 57 newspapers that have been published in the area around Nymph.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Nymph, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Nymph.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites 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 Nymph:

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>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 Nymph, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Nymph) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.