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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 Inman (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 Inman. 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.

Inman is located in Gallatin 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 Gallatin County: Hamilton, Hardin, Saline, White, Posey (IN) & Union (KY).

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

  • Gallatin County     (The home county of Inman)
  • Hamilton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Inman, with the one closest to Inman listed first.
    • Broughton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Dale
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Walpole
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Bungay
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Diamond City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Diamond City is located in Hamilton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond City
    • Jefferson City ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jefferson City is located in Hamilton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson City
    • McLeansboro
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Flint
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Hardin County
  • Pope County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Inman, with the one closest to Inman listed first.
    • Herod
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Oak
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Hartsville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Leisure City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Leisure City is located in Pope County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leisure City
    • Lusk
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Saline County
  • White County
  • Williamson County
    • Hartford
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Hartford is located in Williamson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford
  • Posey County (IN)
  • Vanderburgh County (IN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Inman, with the one closest to Inman listed first.
    • Vaughan
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Vaughan is located in Vanderburgh County (IN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vaughan
    • Cypress
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Cypress is located in Vanderburgh County (IN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress
  • Crittenden County (KY)
  • Henderson County (KY)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Inman, with the one closest to Inman listed first.
    • Smith Mills
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Smith Mills is located in Henderson County (KY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Mills
    • Corydon
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Corydon is located in Henderson County (KY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corydon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 685 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Corydon <1>
    • Dixie
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Union County (KY)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Inman, with the one closest to Inman listed first.
    • Raleigh
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Uniontown
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Uniontown is located in Union County (KY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 930 people
    • Chapman
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Morganfield
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Hitesville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Dekoven
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Flournoy
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Breckinridge Center
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Breckinridge Center is located in Union County (KY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breckinridge Center
    • Waverly
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Grangertown
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Sturgis
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Sturgis is located in Union County (KY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sturgis
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,792 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sturgis <1>
    • Sullivan
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Sullivan is located in Union County (KY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivan
  • Webster County (KY)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Inman, with the one closest to Inman listed first.
    • West Wheatcroft
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Wheatcroft
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Wheatcroft is located in Webster County (KY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatcroft
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 152 people
    • Blackford
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Blackford is located in Webster County (KY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackford

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

Cemeteries Near Inman ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Inman.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Inman, with the one closest to Inman 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.<2>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Inman ...

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 102 newspapers that have been published in the area around Inman.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Inman, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Inman.

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 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 Inman:

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>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 Inman, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Inman) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.