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 Saline Tip 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 Saline Tip 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Saline Tip 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 Saline Tip Ferry. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Saline Tip Ferry:
Hardin County (The home county of Saline Tip Ferry)
The following are listed by their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Saline Landing (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Saline Landing is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saline Landing Lamb (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Lamb is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamb Rock Creek (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Rock Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek Cave-In-Rock (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
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 (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Elizabethtown (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Rosiclare (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Mineral City ‑ Historic(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Mineral City is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral City Shetlerville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Shetlerville is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shetlerville Gallatin County
The following are listed by their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Bowlesville ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Bowlesville is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowlesville Old Shawneetown (7 miles [11.3 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 (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Junction (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Lawler (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Lawler is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawler Equality (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Ridgway (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Inman (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Inman is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inman Elba (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Elba is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elba New Haven (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Omaha (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Hamilton County
Broughton (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Pope County
The following are listed by their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Herod (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Leisure City (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Leisure City is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leisure City Hartsville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Hartsville is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartsville Lusk (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Lusk is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk Oak (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Oak is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Golconda (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Eddyville (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Rock (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Rock is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock McCormick (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
McCormick is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCormick Glendale (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Glendale is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale Bay City (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Bay City is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay City Dixon Springs (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Dixon Springs is located in Pope County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixon Springs Saline County
The following are listed by their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Cottage Grove (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Cottage Grove is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottage Grove Red Bud ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Red Bud is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bud Eldorado (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Mitchellsville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Mitchellsville is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchellsville Gaskins City (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Gaskins City is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaskins City Muddy (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Saline City (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Saline City is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saline City Wasson (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Wasson is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasson Harrisburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Texas City (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Texas City is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texas City Buena Vista (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Buena Vista is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista Ledford (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Ledford is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ledford Liberty (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Liberty is located in Saline County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty White County
The following are listed by their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Roland (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Roland is located in White County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roland Herald (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Emma (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Norris City (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Stokes (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Stokes is located in White County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokes Williamson County
Hartford (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Hartford is located in Williamson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford Posey County (IN)
The following are listed by their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Hovey (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Hovey is located in Posey County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hovey Mount Vernon (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Savah (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Savah is located in Posey County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Savah Caldwell County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Creswell (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Creswell is located in Caldwell County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creswell Fredonia (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Crittenden County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Tolu (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Tolu is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolu Sheridan (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Sheridan is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Marion (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
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 (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Crayne is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crayne Piney Fork (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Piney Fork is located in Crittenden County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Fork Dycusburg (30 miles [48.3 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)
The following are listed by their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Smith Mills (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Smith Mills is located in Henderson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Mills Corydon (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Dixie (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Dixie is located in Henderson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Hopkins County (KY)
Dalton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Dalton is located in Hopkins County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalton Livingston County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Carrsville (17 miles [27.4 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 (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Lola is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lola Salem (23 miles [37 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 (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Hampton is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton Burna (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Burna is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burna Pinckneyville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Pinckneyville is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinckneyville Tiline (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Tiline is located in Livingston County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiline Union County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Dekoven (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Dekoven is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dekoven Grangertown (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Grangertown is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grangertown Sturgis (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Raleigh (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Raleigh is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raleigh Sullivan (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Sullivan is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivan Morganfield (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Chapman (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Chapman is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapman Breckinridge Center (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Breckinridge Center is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breckinridge Center Flournoy (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Flournoy is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flournoy Uniontown (18 miles [29 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 (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Hitesville (21 miles [33.8 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 Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Blackford (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Blackford is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackford West Wheatcroft (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
West Wheatcroft is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Wheatcroft Wheatcroft (18 miles [29 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
Clay (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
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 (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Lisman is located in Webster County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lisman Providence (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Dixon (27 miles [43.5 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
Poole (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Vanderburg (30 miles [48.3 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 Saline Tip Ferry, see our County-by-County Page for Saline Tip Ferry .
Cemeteries Near Saline Tip Ferry ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Saline Tip 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 Saline Tip Ferry - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Saline Tip Ferry covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Dutton Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Stanley Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Rutherford Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Hall Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Angleton Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Mt. Zion Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Earnshaw Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Fellows Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Griffith Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Shewmaker Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Hobbs Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Mt. Olive Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Continue List (419 more) ...
Lane Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Coghill Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Adams Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
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 Saline Tip Ferry in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Saline Tip Ferry.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Saline Tip Ferry, with the one closest to Saline Tip Ferry listed first.
Rock Creek (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Rock Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek Lamb (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Lamb is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamb Bowlesville ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Bowlesville is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowlesville Dekoven (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Dekoven is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dekoven Henshaw (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Henshaw is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henshaw Sparks Hill (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Sparks Hill is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparks Hill Caseyville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Caseyville is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caseyville Blackburn (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Blackburn is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackburn Leamington (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Leamington is located in Gallatin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leamington Peters Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Peters Creek is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peters Creek Cave-In-Rock (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
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 Shawneetown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Continue List (13 more) ...
Karbers Ridge (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Grove Center (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Grove Center is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Center Spring Grove (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Spring Grove is located in Union County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Grove
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Saline Tip Ferry. See our List of 1890's Communities around Saline Tip Ferry .
Newspapers Published in Saline Tip 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 76 newspapers that have been published in the area around Saline Tip Ferry.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Saline Tip Ferry, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Saline Tip Ferry.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Saline Tip Ferry:
Websites specific to Illinois Pages specific to Hardin County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Gallatin County Hamilton County Pope County Saline County White County Williamson County Posey County Caldwell County Crittenden County Henderson County Hopkins 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 Saline Tip 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. 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 Saline Tip Ferry, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Saline Tip Ferry) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.