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 Elmrock (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 Elmrock. 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.
Elmrock 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 Elmrock. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Elmrock:
Knott County (The home county of Elmrock)
The following are listed by their distance from Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Vest (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Tina (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Tina is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tina Mousie (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Mousie is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mousie Carrie (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Carrie is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrie Emmalena (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Emmalena is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmalena Hindman (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Garner (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Garner is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garner Leburn (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Fisty (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Fisty is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisty Pippa Passes (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Pippa Passes is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pippa Passes Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
Raven (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Raven is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Pine Top (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Kite (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Kite is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kite Breathitt County
The following are listed by their distance from Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Hardshell (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Hardshell is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardshell Rousseau (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Rousseau is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau Clayhole (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Clayhole is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayhole Flintville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Flintville is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flintville Lost Creek (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Lost Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek Kragon (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Kragon is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kragon Bays (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Bays is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bays Quicksand (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Quicksand is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quicksand Whick (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Whick is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whick Rock Lick (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Rock Lick is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Lick Jackson (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Taulbee (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Taulbee is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taulbee Wolverine (22 miles [35.4 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 Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Garrett (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Garrett is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrett Hueysville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Lackey (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Lackey is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackey Dema (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Dema is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dema Eastern (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Eastern is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastern Wayland (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Wayland is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland Population from the 2020 Census: 373 people
David (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
David is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for David Goodloe (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Goodloe is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodloe Langley (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Langley is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langley Maytown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Maytown is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maytown Minnie (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Minnie is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnie Manton ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Manton is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manton Blue River (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Blue River is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue River Johnson County
The following are listed by their distance from Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Asa (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Asa is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asa East Point (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Denver (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Denver is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denver 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 Collista (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Collista is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collista Nero (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Nero is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nero Hagerhill (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Hagerhill is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagerhill Van Lear (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
West Van Lear (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
West Van Lear is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Van Lear Barnetts Creek (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Barnetts Creek is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnetts Creek Staffordsville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Paintsville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Butcher Hollow (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Butcher Hollow is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butcher Hollow Lee County
Athol (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Athol is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athol Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Confluence (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Confluence is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Confluence Wooton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Wooton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooton Smilax (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Smilax is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smilax Cutshin (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Cutshin is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshin Hyden (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Yeaddiss (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Yeaddiss is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeaddiss Thousandsticks (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Thousandsticks is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thousandsticks Wendover (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Sizerock (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Sizerock is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sizerock Letcher County
The following are listed by their distance from Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Colson (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Colson is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colson Isom (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Isom is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isom Jeremiah (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Deane (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Deane is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deane Blackey (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Blackey is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackey Population from the 2020 Census: 141 people
Letcher (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Letcher is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letcher Hot Spot (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Hot Spot is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Spot Hot Spot has also been known as:
Hotspot Roxana (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Roxana is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxana Thornton (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Thornton is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornton Hallie (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Bellcraft (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Bellcraft is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellcraft Farraday (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Farraday is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farraday Hemphill (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Hemphill is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemphill Hemphill has also been known as:
Jackhorn Magoffin County
The following are listed by their distance from Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Gunlock (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Gunlock is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunlock Gapville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Gapville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gapville Gypsy (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Gypsy is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsy Marshallville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Marshallville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshallville Royalton (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Royalton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royalton Sublett (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Sublett is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublett Ivyton (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Ivyton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivyton Hendricks (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Hendricks is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendricks Lakeville (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Lakeville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeville Salyersville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Ova (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Ova is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ova Elsie (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Elsie is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elsie Falcon (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Falcon is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falcon Morgan County
Cannel City (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Cannel City is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannel City Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Ary (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Dwarf (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Dwarf is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwarf Stacy (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Stacy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacy Hardburly (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Hardburly is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardburly Bulan (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Bulan is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulan Dice (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Dice is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dice Tribbey (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Tribbey is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tribbey Acup (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Acup is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acup Vicco (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Vicco is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicco Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
Bonnyman (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Bonnyman is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnyman Combs (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Combs is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Combs Hazard (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Butterfly (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Butterfly is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butterfly Pike County
The following are listed by their distance from Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Owsley (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Owsley is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owsley Blair Town (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Blair Town is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair Town Coal Run Village (25 miles [40.2 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 (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Virgie is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgie Myra (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Myra is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myra Jonancy (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Jonancy is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonancy Mayo Village (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Mayo Village is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo Village Pikeville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Robinson Creek (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Robinson Creek is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Creek Yeager (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Yeager is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeager Dorton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Fords Branch (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Fords Branch is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fords Branch Gulnare (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Gulnare is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gulnare Wolfe County
The following are listed by their distance from Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Belknap (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Belknap is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belknap Lee City (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Lee City is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee City Helechawa (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Helechawa is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helechawa Bethany (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Bethany is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethany Lexie (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Lexie is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lexie Wise County (VA)
Almira (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Almira is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almira
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Elmrock, see our County-by-County Page for Elmrock .
Cemeteries Near Elmrock ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Elmrock.
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 Elmrock - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Elmrock covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Compton Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Whitt Howard Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Dobson Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Bolen Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
John Joy Howard Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Bradey Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Adam Terry Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Combs Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Estill Smith Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Bolen Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Bailey Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
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]<2> Salyersville . Chestnut Gap Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (557 more) ...
Click Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Shepherd Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shepherd Cemetery The Shepherd Cemetery has also been known as:
Sutton Cemetery Jim Buck Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
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.<3>
While we didn't find Elmrock in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Elmrock.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Elmrock, with the one closest to Elmrock listed first.
Vest (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Hindman (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Dwarf (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Dwarf is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwarf Stacy (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Stacy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacy Lackey (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Lackey is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackey Hueysville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Raven (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Raven is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Gapville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Gapville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gapville Ned (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Ned is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ned Langley (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Langley is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langley Goodloe (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Goodloe is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodloe Pine Top (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Continue List (15 more) ...
Minnie (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Minnie is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnie Gypsy (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Gypsy is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsy Swampton (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Swampton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swampton
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Elmrock. See our List of 1890's Communities around Elmrock .
Newspapers Published in Elmrock ...
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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Elmrock.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Elmrock, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Elmrock.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Elmrock:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Knott County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Breathitt County Floyd County Johnson County Lee County Leslie County Letcher County Magoffin County Morgan 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 Elmrock. 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Elmrock) 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 Elmrock, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.