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 Crawford (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 Crawford. 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 hospitals and doctors 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.
Crawford 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 Crawford. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Crawford:
Laurel County (The home county of Crawford)
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Greenmount (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Greenmount is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenmount Maplesville (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Maplesville is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplesville Marydell (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Marydell is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marydell Bush (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Bush is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush Lake (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Lake is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake London (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Pittsburg (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Pittsburg is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg East Bernstadt (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Sublimity City (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Sublimity City is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublimity City Lily (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Lily is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily Bernstadt (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Bernstadt is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernstadt Dorthae (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Dorthae is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorthae Hopewell (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Hopewell is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell Bell County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Beverly (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Beverly is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly Fourmile (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Fourmile is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile Rella (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Rella is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rella Sims Fork (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Sims Fork is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims Fork Breathitt County
Jetts Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Jetts Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jetts Creek Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Larue (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Larue is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larue Benge (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Benge is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benge Fogertown (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Fogertown is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fogertown Urban (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Urban is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urban Sidell (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Sidell is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidell Burning Springs (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Burning Springs is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burning Springs Fall Rock (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Fall Rock is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fall Rock Manchester (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Hima (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Hima is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hima Laurel Creek (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Laurel Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel Creek Sextons Creek (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Sextons Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sextons Creek Garrard (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Garrard is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrard Goose Rock (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Goose Rock is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goose Rock Estill County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Locust Branch (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Locust Branch is located in Estill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Branch Lynch Town (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Lynch Town is located in Estill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynch Town Wagersville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Wagersville is located in Estill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagersville Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Annville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Peoples (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Peoples is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peoples Tyner (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Tyner is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyner Dabolt (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Dabolt is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dabolt Gray Hawk (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Gray Hawk is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Hawk McKee (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Waneta (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Waneta is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waneta Foxtown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Foxtown is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxtown Sandgap (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Sandgap is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandgap Kerby Knob (24 miles [38.6 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 Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Crane Nest (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Crane Nest is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crane Nest Woollum (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Woollum is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woollum Gray (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
North Corbin (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
North Corbin is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Corbin Girdler (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Girdler is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girdler Cannon (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Cannon is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannon Hinkle (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Hinkle is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinkle Heidrick (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Heidrick is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heidrick Barbourville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Bimble (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Scalf (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Scalf is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scalf Dewitt (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Dewitt is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewitt Artemus (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Artemus is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artemus Lee County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Idamay (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Idamay is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idamay Heidelberg (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Heidelberg is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heidelberg Lone (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Lone is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Beattyville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Bear Branch (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Bear Branch is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Branch Sizerock (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Sizerock is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sizerock Roark (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Roark is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roark Thousandsticks (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Thousandsticks is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thousandsticks Essie (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Essie is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essie Madison County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Bighill (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Bighill is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bighill Duluth (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Duluth is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duluth Owsley County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Island City (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Island City is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City Travellers Rest (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Travellers Rest is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Travellers Rest Mistletoe (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Mistletoe is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mistletoe Sebastian (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Sebastian is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sebastian Southfork (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Southfork is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southfork Vincent (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Vincent is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent Ricetown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Ricetown is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ricetown Booneville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Pebworth (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Pebworth is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pebworth Lerose (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Lerose is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lerose Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Saul (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Saul is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saul Buckhorn (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Gays Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Gays Creek is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gays Creek Pulaski County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Acorn (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Acorn is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acorn Whetstone (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Whetstone is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whetstone Mount Victory (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Mount Victory is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Victory Dykes (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Dykes is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dykes Walnut Grove (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Walnut Grove is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove Shopville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Shopville is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shopville Coin (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Coin is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coin Piney Grove (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Piney Grove is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Grove Rockcastle County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Livingston (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Mullins (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Mullins is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullins Orlando (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Orlando is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orlando Hansford (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Hansford is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hansford Climax (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Climax is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Climax Mount Vernon (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Renfro Valley (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Wildie (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Wildie is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildie Disputanta (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Disputanta is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Disputanta Conway (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Conway is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conway Brodhead (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Ottawa (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Ottawa is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottawa Whitley County
The following are listed by their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Corbin (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Woodbine (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Woodbine is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodbine Rockholds (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Rockholds is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockholds Louden (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Louden is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louden
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Crawford, see our County-by-County Page for Crawford .
Cemeteries Near Crawford ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crawford.
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 Crawford - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Crawford covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Allen Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Baker Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Linck Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Old Salem Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Little Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Fields Family Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Farris Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Walnut Hill Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Moren Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Mosley Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Cheek Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Morris Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Continue List (522 more) ...
Cupp Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Lewis Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Southard Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Crawford had a population of 22 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Crawford, with the one closest to Crawford listed first.
Langnau (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Langnau is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langnau Larue (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Larue is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larue Benge (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Benge is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benge McWhorter (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
McWhorter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McWhorter Maplesville (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Maplesville is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplesville Greenmount (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Greenmount is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenmount Marydell (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Marydell is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marydell Moores Creek (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Moores Creek is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moores Creek Sidell (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Sidell is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidell Pittsburg (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Pittsburg is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg London (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Burning Springs (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Burning Springs is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burning Springs Continue List (15 more) ...
Welchburg (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Welchburg is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welchburg Peoples (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Peoples is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peoples Oakley (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Oakley is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakley
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Crawford. See our List of 1890's Communities around Crawford .
Newspapers Published in Crawford ...
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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Crawford.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Crawford, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Crawford.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Crawford:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Laurel County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bell County Breathitt County Clay County Estill County Jackson County Knox County Lee County Leslie County Madison 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 Crawford. 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' (or 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- Crawford) 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 Crawford, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.