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 Hicks (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 Hicks. 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 doctors and 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.
Hicks 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 Hicks. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hicks:
Hardin County (The home county of Hicks)
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Karbers Ridge (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Elizabethtown (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Rock Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Rock Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek Rosiclare (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Shetlerville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Shetlerville is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shetlerville Mineral City ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Mineral City is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral City Cave-In-Rock (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
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 (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Lamb is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamb Saline Landing (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
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 Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Bowlesville ‑ Historic(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Bowlesville is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowlesville Equality (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Lawler (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Lawler is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawler Junction (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Shawneetown (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Old Shawneetown (16 miles [25.7 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
Ridgway (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Elba (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Elba is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elba Inman (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Inman is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inman Omaha (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
New Haven (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Hamilton County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Broughton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Walpole (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Walpole is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walpole Johnson County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
New Burnside (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Ozark (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Reynoldsburg (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Reynoldsburg is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynoldsburg Simpson (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Grantsburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Reevesville (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Reevesville is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reevesville Wartrace (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Wartrace is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wartrace Egyptian Hills (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Egyptian Hills is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egyptian Hills Vienna (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Bender ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Bender is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bender Deer Ridge (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Deer Ridge is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Ridge Eagle Point Bay (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Eagle Point Bay is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Point Bay Massac County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Big Bay (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Big Bay is located in Massac County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bay New Columbia (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
New Columbia is located in Massac County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Columbia Shady Grove (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Shady Grove is located in Massac County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove Unionville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Unionville is located in Massac County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionville Pope County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Herod (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Leisure City (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Leisure City is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leisure City Hartsville (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Hartsville is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartsville Lusk (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Lusk is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk Oak (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Oak is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Eddyville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Golconda (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Rock (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Rock is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock McCormick (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
McCormick is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCormick Glendale (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Glendale is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale Dixon Springs (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Dixon Springs is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixon Springs Bay City (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Bay City is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay City Hamletsburg (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Saline County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Mitchellsville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Mitchellsville is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchellsville Cottage Grove (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Cottage Grove is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottage Grove Gaskins City (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Gaskins City is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaskins City Ledford (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Ledford is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ledford Red Bud ‑ Historic(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Red Bud is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bud Harrisburg (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Liberty (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Liberty is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Wasson (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Wasson is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasson Buena Vista (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Buena Vista is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista Carrier Mills (17 miles [27.4 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>
Muddy (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Eldorado (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Stonefort (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
White County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Roland (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Roland is located in White County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roland Norris City (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Williamson County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Hartford (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Hartford is located in Williamson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford Creal Springs (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Corinth (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Corinth is located in Williamson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corinth Pittsburg (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Lake Crest (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Lake Crest is located in Williamson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Crest Caldwell County (KY)
Fredonia (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Crittenden County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Tolu (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Tolu is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolu Sheridan (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Sheridan is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Marion (21 miles [33.8 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 (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Crayne is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crayne Piney Fork (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Piney Fork is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Fork Dycusburg (28 miles [45.1 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
Livingston County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Carrsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Carrsville is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrsville Population from the 2020 Census: 44 people
Lola (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Lola is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lola Hampton (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Hampton is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton Burna (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Burna is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burna Salem (20 miles [32.2 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>
Pinckneyville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Pinckneyville is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinckneyville Tiline (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Tiline is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiline Smithland (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Union County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Dekoven (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Dekoven is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dekoven Grangertown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Grangertown is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grangertown Sturgis (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Raleigh (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Raleigh is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raleigh Sullivan (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Sullivan is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivan Morganfield (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Chapman (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Chapman is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapman Uniontown (28 miles [45.1 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
Breckinridge Center (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Breckinridge Center is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breckinridge Center Flournoy (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Flournoy is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flournoy Webster County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Blackford (25 miles [40.2 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 (28 miles [45.1 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 (30 miles [48.3 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 Hicks, see our County-by-County Page for Hicks .
Cemeteries Near Hicks ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hicks.
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 Hicks - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hicks covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Reiner Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Schutt Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Lavender Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Paris Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Rose Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Sheldon Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Rose Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Rose Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Hubbs Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Joyce Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Pleasant Hill Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Sneed Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Continue List (479 more) ...
Karber Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Good Hope Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Stuby Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 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.<2>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Hicks had a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Hicks, with the one closest to Hicks listed first.
Karbers Ridge (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Sparks Hill (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Sparks Hill is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparks Hill Hartsville (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Hartsville is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartsville Lusk (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Lusk is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk Elizabethtown (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Leamington (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Leamington is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leamington Oak (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Oak is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Shetlerville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Shetlerville is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shetlerville Rosiclare (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Peters Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Peters Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peters Creek Rock Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Rock Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek Somerset (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Somerset is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset Continue List (14 more) ...
Kedron (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Kedron is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kedron Raum (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Raum is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raum Carrsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Carrsville is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrsville Population from the 2020 Census: 44 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Hicks. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hicks .
Newspapers Published in Hicks ...
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 68 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hicks.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hicks, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Hicks.
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 helpful 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 Hicks:
Websites specific to Illinois Pages specific to Hardin County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Gallatin County Hamilton County Johnson County Massac County Pope County Saline County White County Williamson County Caldwell County Crittenden County Livingston County Union County Webster County Cemetery Information and Directories for Illinois Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Hicks. 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 Hicks, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hicks) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.