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 Cave in Rock Ferry (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 Cave in Rock Ferry. 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.
Cave in Rock Ferry is located in Hardin County .
To see how the shape of Illinois' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hardin County : Gallatin , Pope , Saline , Crittenden (KY) , Livingston (KY) & Union (KY) .
Below are the counties that are near Cave in Rock Ferry. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cave in Rock Ferry:
Hardin County (The home county of Cave in Rock Ferry)
The following are listed by their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Cave-In-Rock (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Cave-In-Rock is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave-In-Rock Population from the 2020 Census: 278 people
Cave-In-Rock has also been known as:
Cave-In-Rock village Lamb (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Lamb is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamb Rock Creek (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Rock Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek Saline Landing (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Saline Landing is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saline Landing Elizabethtown (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Mineral City ‑ Historic(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Mineral City is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral City Rosiclare (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Karbers Ridge (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Shetlerville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Shetlerville is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shetlerville Gallatin County
The following are listed by their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Bowlesville ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Bowlesville is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowlesville Old Shawneetown (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Old Shawneetown is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Shawneetown Population from the 2020 Census: 164 people
Shawneetown (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Junction (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Lawler (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Lawler is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawler Equality (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Ridgway (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Elba (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Elba is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elba Inman (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Inman is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inman New Haven (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Omaha (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Pope County
The following are listed by their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Leisure City (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Leisure City is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leisure City Herod (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Lusk (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Lusk is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk Golconda (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Hartsville (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Hartsville is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartsville Oak (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Oak is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Bay City (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Bay City is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay City Eddyville (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Rock (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Rock is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Hamletsburg (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Dixon Springs (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Dixon Springs is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixon Springs Glendale (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Glendale is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale Saline County
The following are listed by their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Cottage Grove (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Cottage Grove is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottage Grove Mitchellsville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Mitchellsville is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchellsville Red Bud ‑ Historic(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Red Bud is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bud Gaskins City (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Gaskins City is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaskins City Harrisburg (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Eldorado (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Ledford (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Ledford is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ledford Liberty (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Liberty is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Muddy (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Saline City (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Saline City is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saline City Wasson (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Wasson is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasson Buena Vista (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Buena Vista is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista Caldwell County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Fredonia (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Creswell (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Creswell is located in Caldwell County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creswell Crider (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Crider is located in Caldwell County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crider Dulaney (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Dulaney is located in Caldwell County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dulaney Lewistown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Lewistown is located in Caldwell County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewistown Princeton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Crittenden County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Tolu (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Tolu is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolu Sheridan (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Sheridan is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Marion (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Marion is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion Population from the 2020 Census: 2,850 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marion <1>
Crayne (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Crayne is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crayne Piney Fork (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Piney Fork is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Fork Dycusburg (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Dycusburg is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dycusburg Population from the 2010 Census: 26 people
Henderson County (KY)
Dixie (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Dixie is located in Henderson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Hopkins County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Dalton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Dalton is located in Hopkins County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalton Nebo (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Nebo is located in Hopkins County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nebo Population from the 2020 Census: 225 people
Fiddle Bow (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Fiddle Bow is located in Hopkins County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fiddle Bow Livingston County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Carrsville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Carrsville is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrsville Population from the 2020 Census: 44 people
Lola (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Lola is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lola Salem (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Salem is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem Population from the 2020 Census: 717 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Salem <1>
Hampton (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Hampton is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton Burna (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Burna is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burna Pinckneyville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Pinckneyville is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinckneyville Tiline (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Tiline is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiline Smithland (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Lake City (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Lake City is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake City Lyon County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Eddyville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Fairview (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Fairview is located in Lyon County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Kuttawa (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Carmack (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Carmack is located in Lyon County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carmack Union County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Dekoven (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Dekoven is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dekoven Grangertown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Grangertown is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grangertown Sturgis (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Sullivan (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Sullivan is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivan Raleigh (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Raleigh is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raleigh Morganfield (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Breckinridge Center (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Breckinridge Center is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breckinridge Center Chapman (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Chapman is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapman Flournoy (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Flournoy is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flournoy Uniontown (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Uniontown is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown Population from the 2020 Census: 930 people
Waverly (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Hitesville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Hitesville is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitesville Webster County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Blackford (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Blackford is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackford West Wheatcroft (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
West Wheatcroft is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Wheatcroft Wheatcroft (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Wheatcroft is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatcroft Population from the 2020 Census: 152 people
Clay (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Clay is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clay Population from the 2020 Census: 1,091 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clay <1>
Free Union (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Free Union is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Free Union Lisman (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Lisman is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lisman Providence (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Dixon (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Dixon is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixon Population from the 2020 Census: 877 people
Vanderburg (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Vanderburg is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanderburg
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cave in Rock Ferry, see our County-by-County Page for Cave in Rock Ferry .
Cemeteries Near Cave in Rock Ferry ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cave in Rock Ferry.
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 Cave in Rock Ferry - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cave in Rock Ferry covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Cave in Rock Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Dunn Spring Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Beaver Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Smyrna Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Hale Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Underdown Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Hurricane Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Peters Creek Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Shewmaker Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Wallace Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Adams Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Hobbs Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Continue List (467 more) ...
Calvary Church Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvary Church Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Calvary Church Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> Tolu (KY) . Green Chapel Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Fellows Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
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 Cave in Rock Ferry in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cave in Rock Ferry.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cave in Rock Ferry, with the one closest to Cave in Rock Ferry listed first.
Cave-In-Rock (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Cave-In-Rock is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave-In-Rock Population from the 2020 Census: 278 people
Cave-In-Rock has also been known as:
Cave-In-Rock village Tolu (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Tolu is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolu Peters Creek (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Peters Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peters Creek Weston (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Weston is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weston Lamb (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Lamb is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamb Irma (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Irma is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irma Rock Creek (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Rock Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek Sheridan (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Sheridan is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Caseyville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Caseyville is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caseyville Elizabethtown (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Mattoon (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Mattoon is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattoon Repton (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Repton is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Repton Continue List (14 more) ...
Dekoven (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Dekoven is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dekoven Rosiclare (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Levias (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Levias is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Levias
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cave in Rock Ferry. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cave in Rock Ferry .
Newspapers Published in Cave in Rock Ferry ...
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 55 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cave in Rock Ferry.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cave in Rock Ferry, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Cave in Rock Ferry.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Cave in Rock Ferry:
Websites specific to Illinois Pages specific to Hardin County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Gallatin County Pope County Saline County Caldwell County Crittenden County Henderson County Hopkins County Livingston County Lyon County Union County Webster County Cemetery Information and Directories for Illinois Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Cave in Rock Ferry. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Illinois: https://www.illinois.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cave in Rock Ferry) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. 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 Cave in Rock Ferry, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.