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 Brock (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 Brock. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.
Brock is located in Laurel 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 Laurel County : Clay , Jackson , Knox , McCreary , Pulaski , Rockcastle & Whitley .
Below are the counties that are near Brock. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Brock:
Laurel County (The home county of Brock)
The following are listed by their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Maplesville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Maplesville is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplesville London (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Sublimity City (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Sublimity City is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublimity City Marydell (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Marydell is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marydell Lake (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Lake is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Pittsburg (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Pittsburg is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg Bush (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Bush is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush Lily (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Lily is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily East Bernstadt (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Greenmount (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Greenmount is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenmount Dorthae (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Dorthae is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorthae Hopewell (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Hopewell is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell Bernstadt (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Bernstadt is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernstadt Bell County
The following are listed by their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Fourmile (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Fourmile is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile Rella (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Rella is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rella Arjay (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Arjay is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arjay Beverly (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Beverly is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly Ingram (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Ingram is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram Sims Fork (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Sims Fork is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims Fork Dorton Branch (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Dorton Branch is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorton Branch Pineville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Straight Creek (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Straight Creek is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Straight Creek Jenson (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Jenson is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenson Kettle Island (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Kettle Island is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kettle Island Wasioto (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Wasioto is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasioto Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Larue (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Larue is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larue Urban (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Urban is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urban Benge (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Benge is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benge Fogertown (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Fogertown is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fogertown Sidell (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Sidell is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidell Hima (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Hima is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hima Garrard (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Garrard is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrard Manchester (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Burning Springs (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Burning Springs is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burning Springs Fall Rock (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Fall Rock is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fall Rock Goose Rock (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Goose Rock is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goose Rock Laurel Creek (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Laurel Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel Creek Sextons Creek (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Sextons Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sextons Creek Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Peoples (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Peoples is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peoples Annville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Dabolt (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Dabolt is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dabolt Tyner (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Tyner is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyner Gray Hawk (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Gray Hawk is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Hawk McKee (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Waneta (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Waneta is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waneta Sandgap (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Sandgap is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandgap Foxtown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Foxtown is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxtown Kerby Knob (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Kerby Knob is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerby Knob Knox County
The following are listed by their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Crane Nest (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Crane Nest is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crane Nest Gray (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Woollum (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Woollum is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woollum North Corbin (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
North Corbin is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Corbin Girdler (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Girdler is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girdler Cannon (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Cannon is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannon Hinkle (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Hinkle is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinkle Barbourville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Heidrick (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Heidrick is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heidrick Bimble (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Artemus (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Artemus is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artemus Dewitt (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Dewitt is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewitt Scalf (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Scalf is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scalf Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Bear Branch (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Bear Branch is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Branch Roark (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Roark is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roark Sizerock (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Sizerock is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sizerock Essie (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Essie is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essie Owsley County
The following are listed by their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Island City (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Island City is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City Mistletoe (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Mistletoe is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mistletoe Sebastian (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Sebastian is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sebastian Travellers Rest (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Travellers Rest is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Travellers Rest Southfork (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Southfork is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southfork Vincent (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Vincent is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent Ricetown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Ricetown is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ricetown Booneville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Perry County
Saul (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Saul is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saul Pulaski County
The following are listed by their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Acorn (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Acorn is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acorn Mount Victory (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Mount Victory is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Victory Whetstone (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Whetstone is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whetstone Dykes (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Dykes is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dykes Piney Grove (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Piney Grove is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Grove Shopville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Shopville is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shopville Walnut Grove (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Walnut Grove is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove Coin (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Coin is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coin Grundy (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Grundy is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grundy Northfield (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Northfield is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northfield Dabney (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Dabney is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dabney Woodstock (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Woodstock is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock Rockcastle County
The following are listed by their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Livingston (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Mullins (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Mullins is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullins Hansford (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Hansford is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hansford Orlando (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Orlando is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orlando Mount Vernon (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Renfro Valley (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Climax (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Climax is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Climax Wildie (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Wildie is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildie Disputanta (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Disputanta is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Disputanta Brodhead (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Ottawa (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Ottawa is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottawa Whitley County
The following are listed by their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Corbin (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Woodbine (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Woodbine is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodbine Rockholds (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Rockholds is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockholds Louden (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Louden is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louden Williamsburg (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Liberty (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Liberty is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Verne (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Verne is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verne Siler (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Siler is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siler Emlyn (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Emlyn is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emlyn Nevisdale (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Nevisdale is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevisdale Packard (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Packard is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packard Pleasant View (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Pleasant View is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Brock, see our County-by-County Page for Brock .
Cemeteries Near Brock ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brock.
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 Brock - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Brock covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Levi Jackson Family Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Freeman Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Whittaker Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Old Salem Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Phelps Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Joe Jones Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Williams Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Sherman Benge Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Benge Cemetery The Sherman Benge Cemetery has also been known as:
Benge Cemetery Brown Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Providence Baptist Church Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Providence Baptist Church Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Providence Baptist Church Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> London . The Providence Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
Providence Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1444998 <3>
Hoskins Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Mosley Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Continue List (499 more) ...
Southard Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Lovelace - Dees Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Dyche Memorial Park (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
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 Brock in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Brock.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Brock, with the one closest to Brock listed first.
Maplesville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Maplesville is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplesville Fariston (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Fariston is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fariston London (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Cane Creek (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Cane Creek is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cane Creek Marydell (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Marydell is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marydell Langnau (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Langnau is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langnau Crawford (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Crawford is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crawford Pittsburg (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Pittsburg is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg Lily (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Lily is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily Fletcher (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Fletcher is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Tuttle (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Tuttle is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuttle Larue (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Larue is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larue Continue List (14 more) ...
McWhorter (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
McWhorter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McWhorter East Bernstadt (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Greenmount (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Greenmount is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenmount
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Brock. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brock .
Newspapers Published in Brock ...
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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Brock.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Brock, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Brock.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Brock:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Laurel County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bell County Clay County Jackson County Knox County Leslie County Owsley County Perry County Pulaski County Rockcastle County Whitley County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Brock. 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. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Brock) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. 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 . 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 Brock, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.