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 Bolyn (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 Bolyn. 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.
Bolyn is located in Knott 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 Knott County : Breathitt , Floyd , Letcher , Magoffin , Perry & Pike .
Below are the counties that are near Bolyn. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bolyn:
Knott County (The home county of Bolyn)
The following are listed by their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
Mousie (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Mousie is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mousie Garner (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Garner is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garner Raven (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Raven is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Vest (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Leburn (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Pippa Passes (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Pippa Passes is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pippa Passes Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
Hindman (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Tina (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Tina is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tina Kite (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Kite is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kite Carrie (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Carrie is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrie Pine Top (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Pine Top is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Emmalena (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Emmalena is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmalena Fisty (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Fisty is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisty Breathitt County
The following are listed by their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
Hardshell (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Hardshell is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardshell Rousseau (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Rousseau is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau Clayhole (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Clayhole is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayhole Flintville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Flintville is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flintville Lost Creek (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Lost Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek Bays (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Bays is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bays Kragon (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Kragon is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kragon Quicksand (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Quicksand is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quicksand Whick (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Whick is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whick Rock Lick (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Rock Lick is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Lick Taulbee (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Taulbee is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taulbee Jackson (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Wolverine (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Wolverine is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolverine Floyd County
The following are listed by their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
Lackey (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Lackey is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackey Garrett (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Garrett is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrett Hueysville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Dema (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Dema is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dema Wayland (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Wayland is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland Population from the 2020 Census: 373 people
Eastern (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Eastern is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastern Minnie (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Minnie is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnie Langley (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Langley is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langley Maytown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Maytown is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maytown Drift (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Drift is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drift McDowell (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Manton ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Manton was located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manton David (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
David is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for David Johnson County
The following are listed by their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
East Point (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Asa (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Asa is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asa Nero (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Nero is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nero Collista (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Collista is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collista Denver (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Denver is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denver Van Lear (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Hagerhill (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Hagerhill is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagerhill West Van Lear (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
West Van Lear is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Van Lear Oil Springs (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Oil Springs is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Springs Butcher Hollow (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Butcher Hollow is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butcher Hollow Barnetts Creek (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Barnetts Creek is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnetts Creek Meally (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Meally is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meally Paintsville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
Confluence (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Confluence is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Confluence Wooton (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Wooton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooton Smilax (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Smilax is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smilax Letcher County
The following are listed by their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
Colson (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Colson is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colson Deane (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Deane is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deane Isom (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Isom is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isom Jeremiah (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Thornton (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Thornton is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornton Hemphill (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Hemphill is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemphill Hemphill has also been known as:
Jackhorn Farraday (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Farraday is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farraday Letcher (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Letcher is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letcher Fleming - Neon (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Fleming - Neon is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleming - Neon Population from the 2020 Census: 610 people
McRoberts (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
McRoberts is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McRoberts Millstone (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Millstone is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millstone Neon (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Bellcraft (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Bellcraft is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellcraft Magoffin County
The following are listed by their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
Gunlock (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Gunlock is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunlock Gapville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Gapville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gapville Gypsy (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Gypsy is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsy Marshallville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Marshallville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshallville Royalton (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Royalton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royalton Sublett (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Sublett is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublett Ivyton (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Ivyton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivyton Hendricks (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Hendricks is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendricks Lakeville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Lakeville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeville Salyersville (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Falcon (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Falcon is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falcon Painters Lick (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Painters Lick is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Painters Lick Ova (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Ova is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ova Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
Dwarf (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Dwarf is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwarf Ary (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Hardburly (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Hardburly is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardburly Tribbey (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Tribbey is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tribbey Stacy (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Stacy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacy Bulan (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Bulan is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulan Vicco (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Vicco is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicco Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
Acup (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Acup is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acup Dice (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Dice is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dice Happy (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Happy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Scuddy (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Combs (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Combs is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Combs Hazard (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Pike County
The following are listed by their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
Owsley (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Owsley is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owsley Blair Town (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Blair Town is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair Town Coal Run Village (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Coal Run Village is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Run Village Population from the 2020 Census: 1,494 people
Virgie (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Virgie is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgie Jonancy (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Jonancy is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonancy Myra (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Myra is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myra Mayo Village (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Mayo Village is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo Village Robinson Creek (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Robinson Creek is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Creek Fords Branch (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Fords Branch is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fords Branch Pikeville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Yeager (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Yeager is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeager Dorton (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Shelbiana (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Shelbiana is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelbiana Wolfe County
Belknap (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Belknap is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belknap Wise County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
Almira (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Almira is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almira Haddonfield (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Haddonfield is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haddonfield Pound (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bolyn, see our County-by-County Page for Bolyn .
Cemeteries Near Bolyn ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bolyn.
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 Bolyn - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bolyn covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
Bolen Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Hicks Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicks Cemetery The Hicks Cemetery has also been known as:
William Hicks Cemetery Wicker - Triplett Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Chafins Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Shepherd Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shepherd Cemetery The Shepherd Cemetery has also been known as:
Sutton Cemetery Conley Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Bolen Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Estill Smith Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Click Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Bailey Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Bailey Cemetery is located 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> Salyersville . Gibson Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Bradley Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Continue List (556 more) ...
Collins Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Joseph Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Jim Buck Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
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.<4>
While we didn't find Bolyn in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bolyn.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bolyn, with the one closest to Bolyn listed first.
Lackey (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Lackey is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackey Hueysville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Vest (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Raven (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Raven is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Hindman (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Minnie (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Minnie is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnie Langley (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Langley is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langley McDowell (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Pine Top (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Pine Top is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Alphoretta (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Alphoretta is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alphoretta Goodloe (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Goodloe is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodloe Hall (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Hall is also located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall Continue List (13 more) ...
Gapville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Gapville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gapville Dwarf (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Dwarf is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwarf Beaver (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Beaver is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bolyn. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bolyn .
Newspapers Published in Bolyn ...
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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bolyn.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bolyn, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Bolyn.
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 Bolyn:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Knott County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Breathitt County Floyd County Johnson County Leslie County Letcher County Magoffin County Perry County Pike County Wolfe County Wise County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Bolyn. 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. The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com . 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- Bolyn) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. 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 Bolyn, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.