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 Bass (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 Bass. 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 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.
Bass is located in Casey County .
To see how the shape of Kentucky's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Casey County : Adair , Boyle , Lincoln , Marion , Pulaski , Russell & Taylor .
Below are the counties that are near Bass. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bass:
Casey County (The home county of Bass)
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Atterson (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Atterson is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atterson Creston (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Creston is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston Rheber (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Rheber is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rheber Liberty (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Evans Ford (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Evans Ford is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans Ford Dunnville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Dunnville is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunnville Rubert Ford (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Rubert Ford is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rubert Ford Cantown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Cantown is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantown Phil (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Phil is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phil Labascus (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Labascus is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Labascus Gilpin (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Gilpin is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilpin Teddy (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Teddy is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teddy Adair County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Feathersburg (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Feathersburg is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Feathersburg Speck (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Speck is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speck Casey Creek (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Casey Creek is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casey Creek Knifley (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Knifley is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knifley Barnett Springs (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Barnett Springs is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnett Springs Dunbar Hill (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Dunbar Hill is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunbar Hill Neatsville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Neatsville is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neatsville Pellyton (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Pellyton is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pellyton Eunice (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Eunice is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eunice Holmes (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Holmes is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmes Ella (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Absher (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Absher is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Absher Boyle County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Forkland (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Forkland is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forkland Aliceton (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Aliceton is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aliceton Brumfield (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Brumfield is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brumfield Mitchellsburg (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Mitchellsburg is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchellsburg Craintown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Craintown is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craintown Parksville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Perryville (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Wilsonville (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Wilsonville is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsonville Alum Springs (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Alum Springs is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alum Springs Junction City (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Atoka (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Atoka is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atoka Needmore (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Needmore is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Needmore Green County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Roachville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Roachville is located in Green County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roachville Greensburg (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Summersville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Summersville is located in Green County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summersville Gabe (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Gabe is located in Green County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gabe Exie (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Exie is located in Green County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exie Allendale (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Allendale is located in Green County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allendale Liletown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Liletown is located in Green County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liletown Larue County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Gleanings (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Gleanings is located in Larue County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gleanings Mount Sherman (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Mount Sherman is located in Larue County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Sherman Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Mount Salem (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Mount Salem is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Salem Hustonville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
New Salem (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
New Salem is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Salem Moreland (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Moreland is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moreland Geneva (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Geneva is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva McKinney (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
South Fork (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
South Fork is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork Chicken Bristle (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Chicken Bristle is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chicken Bristle Milledgeville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Milledgeville is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milledgeville Turnersville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Turnersville is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnersville Kings Mountain (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Kings Mountain is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Mountain Blue Lick (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Blue Lick is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Lick Marion County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Salleetown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Salleetown is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salleetown Bradfordsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Phillipsburg (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Phillipsburg is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillipsburg Peck Ford (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Peck Ford is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peck Ford Greenbriar (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Greenbriar is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenbriar Calvary (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Calvary is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvary Jessietown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Jessietown is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessietown New Market (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
New Market is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Market Penick (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Penick is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penick Riley (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Riley is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riley Belltown (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Belltown is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belltown Gravel Switch (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Gravel Switch is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravel Switch Mercer County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Stewart (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Stewart is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stewart Dixville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Dixville is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixville Nevada (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Nevada is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevada Nelson County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Stiles (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Stiles is located in Nelson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stiles New Hope (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
New Hope is located in Nelson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope Howardstown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Howardstown is located in Nelson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howardstown Gethsemane (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Gethsemane is located in Nelson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gethsemane Pulaski County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Ansel (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Ansel is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ansel Faubush (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Faubush is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faubush Eubank (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Vinnie (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Vinnie is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinnie Nancy (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Science Hill (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Russell County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Russell Springs (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Salem (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Salem is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem Middletown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Middletown is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown Esto (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Esto is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esto Jamestown (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Freedom (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Freedom is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom Stokes ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Stokes is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokes Lula ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Lula is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lula Taylor County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Mannsville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Mannsville is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mannsville Acton (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Acton is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acton Elk Horn (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Campbellsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Saloma (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Saloma is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saloma Wright's (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Wright's is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright's Bengal (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Bengal is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengal Mac (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Mac is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mac Maple (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Maple is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Washington County
The following are listed by their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Springfield (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Saint Catharine (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Saint Catharine is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Catharine Jenkinsville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Jenkinsville is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenkinsville Mackville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Mackville is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mackville Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
Thompsonville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Thompsonville is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompsonville Litsey (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Litsey is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Litsey Manton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Manton is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manton Fredericktown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Fredericktown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fredericktown
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bass, see our County-by-County Page for Bass .
Cemeteries Near Bass ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bass.
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 Bass - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bass covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Jones Chapel Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Callahan Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Callahan Cemetery The Callahan Cemetery has also been known as:
Feathersburg Cemetery Feathersburg Church of God Cemetery Goode Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Simpson Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Stayton Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Elliott Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Eastridge Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Belton Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Gilpin Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Gaddis Ridge Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Mann Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Christie Chapel Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (452 more) ...
Tallow Creek Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Roley Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Tedder Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
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 Bass in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bass.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bass, with the one closest to Bass listed first.
Atterson (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Atterson is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atterson Mannsville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Mannsville is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mannsville Casey Creek (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Casey Creek is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casey Creek Clementsville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Clementsville is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clementsville Elk Horn (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Knifley (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Knifley is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knifley Spurlington (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Spurlington is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spurlington Pellyton (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Pellyton is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pellyton Bradfordsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Phillipsburg (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Phillipsburg is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillipsburg Campbellsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Liberty (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Continue List (16 more) ...
Dunnville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Dunnville is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunnville Burdick (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Burdick is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdick Absher (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Absher is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Absher
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bass. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bass .
Newspapers Published in Bass ...
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 47 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bass.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bass, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Bass.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Bass:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Casey County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Adair County Boyle County Green County Larue County Lincoln County Marion County Mercer County Nelson County Pulaski County Russell County Taylor County Washington County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Bass. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Kentucky: https://www.kentucky.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 Bass, 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 from Point A (ie- Bass) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.