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 Fairview (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 Fairview. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
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 south 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.
Fairview 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 Fairview. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Fairview:
Hardin County (The home county of Fairview)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Rosiclare (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Mineral City ‑ Historic(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Mineral City is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral City Elizabethtown (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Shetlerville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Shetlerville is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shetlerville Rock Creek (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Rock Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek Cave-In-Rock (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
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 Karbers Ridge (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Lamb (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Lamb is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamb Saline Landing (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Saline Landing is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saline Landing Gallatin County
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Bowlesville ‑ Historic(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Bowlesville is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowlesville Equality (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Junction (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Lawler (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Lawler is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawler Old Shawneetown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Old Shawneetown is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Shawneetown Population from the 2020 Census: 164 people
Shawneetown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Ridgway (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Elba (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Elba is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elba Johnson County
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Reevesville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Reevesville is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reevesville Grantsburg (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Simpson (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Ozark (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Reynoldsburg (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Reynoldsburg is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynoldsburg Wartrace (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Wartrace is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wartrace New Burnside (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Bender ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Bender is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bender Vienna (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Massac County
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Big Bay (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Big Bay is located in Massac County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bay Unionville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Unionville is located in Massac County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionville Shady Grove (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Shady Grove is located in Massac County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove Brookport (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
New Columbia (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
New Columbia is located in Massac County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Columbia Massac City (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Massac City is located in Massac County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Massac City Metropolis (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Joppa (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Pope County
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Leisure City (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Leisure City is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leisure City Lusk (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Lusk is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk Golconda (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Hartsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Hartsville is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartsville Herod (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Eddyville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Oak (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Oak is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Bay City (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Bay City is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay City Rock (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Rock is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Dixon Springs (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Dixon Springs is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixon Springs Glendale (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Glendale is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale McCormick (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
McCormick is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCormick Hamletsburg (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Saline County
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Mitchellsville (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Mitchellsville is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchellsville Cottage Grove (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Cottage Grove is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottage Grove Gaskins City (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Gaskins City is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaskins City Ledford (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Ledford is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ledford Stonefort (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Red Bud ‑ Historic(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Red Bud is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bud Carrier Mills (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Carrier Mills is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrier Mills Population from the 2020 Census: 1,527 people
Former names for Carrier Mills:
Carriers Mills Morrilsville Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carrier Mills <1>
Harrisburg (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Liberty (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Liberty is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Muddy (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Buena Vista (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Buena Vista is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista Wasson (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Wasson is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasson Eldorado (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Williamson County
Creal Springs (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Caldwell County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Fredonia (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Creswell (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Creswell is located in Caldwell County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creswell Crider (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Crider is located in Caldwell County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crider Dulaney (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Dulaney is located in Caldwell County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dulaney Crittenden County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Tolu (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Tolu is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolu Sheridan (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Sheridan is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Marion (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
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 (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Crayne is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crayne Dycusburg (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Dycusburg is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dycusburg Population from the 2010 Census: 26 people
Piney Fork (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Piney Fork is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Fork Livingston County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Carrsville (Less than 2 miles 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 (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Lola is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lola Hampton (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Hampton is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton Burna (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Burna is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burna Salem (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
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>
Tiline (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Tiline is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiline Pinckneyville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Pinckneyville is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinckneyville Smithland (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Ledbetter (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Lake City (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Lake City is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake City Grand Rivers (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Lyon County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Eddyville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Fairview (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Fairview is located in Lyon County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Kuttawa (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Carmack (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Carmack is located in Lyon County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carmack Marshall County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Calvert City (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Calvert City is located in Marshall County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvert City Population from the 2020 Census: 2,509 people
Calvert City has also been known as:
Calvert Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Calvert City <1>
Gilbertsville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
McCracken County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Paducah (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Oakdale (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Oakdale is located in McCracken County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakdale Reidland (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Reidland is located in McCracken County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reidland Hendron (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Hendron is located in McCracken County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendron Union County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Dekoven (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Dekoven is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dekoven Grangertown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Grangertown is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grangertown Sturgis (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Sullivan (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Sullivan is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivan Raleigh (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Raleigh is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raleigh Morganfield (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Webster County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Blackford (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Blackford is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackford West Wheatcroft (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
West Wheatcroft is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Wheatcroft Wheatcroft (27 miles [43.5 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 (29 miles [46.7 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>
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Fairview, see our County-by-County Page for Fairview .
Cemeteries Near Fairview ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fairview.
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 Fairview - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Fairview covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Critchlow Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Shephard Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Hardin Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Cowsert Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Stone Church Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Troutman Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Cowsert Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Twitchell Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Price Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Elizabethtown Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Dixon Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Soward Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Continue List (494 more) ...
Parkinson Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Loves Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Empire Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
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.<2>
While we didn't find Fairview in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fairview.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Rosiclare (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Carrsville (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Carrsville is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrsville Population from the 2020 Census: 44 people
Elizabethtown (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Shetlerville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Shetlerville is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shetlerville Irma (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Irma is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irma Tolu (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Tolu is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolu Lola (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Lola is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lola Golconda (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Peters Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Peters Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peters Creek Lusk (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Lusk is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk Hicks (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Hicks is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicks Hampton (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Hampton is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton Continue List (14 more) ...
Sheridan (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Sheridan is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Raum (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Raum is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raum Rock Creek (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Rock Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fairview. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fairview .
Newspapers Published in Fairview ...
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 54 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fairview.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fairview, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Fairview.
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 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 Fairview:
Websites specific to Illinois Pages specific to Hardin County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Gallatin County Johnson County Massac County Pope County Saline County Williamson County Caldwell County Crittenden County Livingston County Lyon County Marshall County McCracken County Union County Webster County Cemetery Information and Directories for Illinois Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Fairview. 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. 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 Fairview, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. 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 from Point A (ie- Fairview) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.