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 Crummies (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 Crummies. 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.
Crummies is located in Harlan 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 Harlan County : Bell , Leslie , Letcher , Perry , Lee (VA) & Wise (VA) .
Below are the counties that are near Crummies. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Crummies:
Harlan County (The home county of Crummies)
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Cawood (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Cawood is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cawood Cranks (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Cranks is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cranks Bobs Creek (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Bobs Creek is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bobs Creek Verda (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Verda is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verda Darkmont (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Darkmont is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darkmont Draper (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Draper is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Draper Evarts (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Redbud (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Redbud is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redbud Kenvir (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Kenvir is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenvir Ages (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Ages is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ages Coxton (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Coxton is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coxton Bailey Creek (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Bailey Creek is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Creek Bell County
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Stoney Fork (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Stoney Fork is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoney Fork Callaway (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Callaway is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Callaway Beverly (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Beverly is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly Miracle (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Miracle is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miracle Kettle Island (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Kettle Island is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kettle Island Varilla (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Varilla is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Varilla Calvin (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Calvin is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvin Jenson (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Jenson is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenson Sims Fork (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Sims Fork is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims Fork Arjay (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Arjay is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arjay Rella (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Rella is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rella Straight Creek (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Straight Creek is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Straight Creek Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Ashers Fork (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Ashers Fork is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashers Fork Brightshade (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Brightshade is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brightshade Knox County
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Scalf (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Scalf is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scalf Walker (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Walker is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker Dewitt (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Dewitt is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewitt Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Helton (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Helton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helton Chappell (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Chappell is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappell Warbranch (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Warbranch is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warbranch Mozelle (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Mozelle is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mozelle Yeaddiss (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Yeaddiss is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeaddiss Asher (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Asher is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asher Cutshin (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Cutshin is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshin Hoskinston (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Hoskinston is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoskinston Essie (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Essie is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essie Roark (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Roark is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roark Stinnett (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Stinnett is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinnett Smilax (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Smilax is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smilax Letcher County
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Gordon (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Gordon is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon Linefork (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Linefork is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linefork Flint (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Flint is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Partridge (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Partridge is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Partridge Hallie (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Kings Creek (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Kings Creek is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Creek Roxana (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Roxana is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxana Blackey (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Blackey is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackey Population from the 2020 Census: 141 people
Hot Spot (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Hot Spot is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Spot Hot Spot has also been known as:
Hotspot Letcher (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Letcher is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letcher Eolia (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Eolia is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eolia Oven Fork (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Oven Fork is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oven Fork Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Delphia (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Delphia is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delphia Slemp (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Slemp is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slemp Cornettsville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Cornettsville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornettsville Viper (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Viper is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viper Jeff (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Happy (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Happy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Scuddy (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Claiborne County (TN)
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Caney Valley (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Caney Valley is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney Valley Shawanee (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Shawanee is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawanee Cumberland Gap (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Harrogate (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Evans Ferry (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Evans Ferry is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans Ferry Population from the 2010 Census: 293 people
Raven Hill (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Raven Hill is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Hill Tazewell (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Springdale (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Springdale is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springdale Grainger County (TN)
Bean Station (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Hancock County (TN)
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Sneedville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Kyles Ford (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Willis (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Willis is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willis Estimated population in 2014: 387 people
Alanthus Hill (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Alanthus Hill is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus Hill Estimated population in 2014: 2,498 people
Duck Creek (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Duck Creek is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duck Creek Trent Valley (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Trent Valley is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trent Valley Estimated population in 2014: 4,157 people
Xenophon (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Xenophon is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Xenophon Yount Town (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Yount Town is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yount Town Hawkins County (TN)
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Eidson (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Eidson is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eidson Mooresburg Springs (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Mooresburg Springs is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mooresburg Springs Population from the 2010 Census: 941 people
Rogersville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Galbraith Springs (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Galbraith Springs is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galbraith Springs Amis (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Amis is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amis Surgoinsville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Mooresburg (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Red Bridge Ferry (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Red Bridge Ferry is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bridge Ferry Estimated population in 2014: 1,135 people
Greenland (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Greenland is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenland Kepler (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Kepler is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kepler New Canton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
New Canton is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Canton Lee County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Hubbard Springs (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Hubbard Springs is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hubbard Springs Fleenortown (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Fleenortown is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleenortown Jonesville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Saint Charles (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Saint Charles is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Charles Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
Pennington Gap (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Pennington Gap is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington Gap Population from the 2020 Census: 1,708 people
Ely (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Ely is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ely Van (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Van is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Rose Hill (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Blackwater (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Blackwater is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwater Dryden (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Dryden is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryden Ewing (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Darnell Town (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Darnell Town is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darnell Town Scott County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Duffield (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Clinchport (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Clinchport is located in Scott County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinchport Population from the 2020 Census: 65 people
Kermit (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Kermit is located in Scott County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kermit Wise County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Exeter (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Exeter is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeter Big Stone Gap (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Osaka (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Osaka is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osaka Appalachia (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
East Stone Gap (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
East Stone Gap is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Stone Gap Kent Junction (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Kent Junction is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Junction Blackwood (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Blackwood is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwood
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Crummies, see our County-by-County Page for Crummies .
Cemeteries Near Crummies ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crummies.
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 Crummies - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Crummies covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Slack Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Pope Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Howard Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Wash Smith Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Cawood Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Field Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Lucas Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Woodward Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Noe Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Napier Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Burkhart Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Rainbow Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Continue List (849 more) ...
Fee Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Turner Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Gabes Branch 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.<2>
While we didn't find Crummies in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Crummies.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Crummies, with the one closest to Crummies listed first.
Hubbard Springs (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Hubbard Springs is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hubbard Springs Hagan (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Hagan is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagan Evarts (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Jonesville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Harlan (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Baxter (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Boons Path (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Boons Path is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boons Path Creech (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Creech is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creech Rose Hill (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Van (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Van is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Ely (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Ely is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ely Wallins Creek (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Wallins Creek is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallins Creek Estimated population in 2016: 146 people
Continue List (15 more) ...
Blackwater (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Blackwater is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwater Dryden (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Dryden is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryden Ewing (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Crummies. See our List of 1890's Communities around Crummies .
Newspapers Published in Crummies ...
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 Crummies.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Crummies, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Crummies.
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 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 Crummies:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Harlan County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bell County Clay County Knox County Leslie County Letcher County Perry County Claiborne County Grainger County Hancock County Hawkins County Lee County Scott County Wise County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Crummies. 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 Crummies, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Crummies) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.