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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 Fulton (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 Fulton. 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 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 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.

Fulton is located in Fulton 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 Fulton County: Hickman, Mississippi (MO), New Madrid (MO), Lake (TN) & Obion (TN).

Below are the counties that are near Fulton. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Fulton:

  • Fulton County     (The home county of Fulton)
  • Ballard County
    • Blandville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Blandville is located in Ballard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blandville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 84 people
  • Calloway County
  • Carlisle County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fulton, with the one closest to Fulton listed first.
    • Milburn
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Arlington
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Arlington is located in Carlisle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 296 people
    • Kirbyton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Bardwell
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Cunningham
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Graves County
  • Hickman County
  • Dyer County (TN)
    • Trimble
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Trimble is located in Dyer County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trimble
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 602 people
  • Gibson County (TN)
  • Henry County (TN)
  • Lake County (TN)
    • New Markham
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • New Markham is located in Lake County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Markham
      • Estimated population in 2014: 1,354 people
  • Obion County (TN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fulton, with the one closest to Fulton listed first.
    • South Fulton
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Pierce Station
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • McConnell
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Union City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Woodland Mills
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Woodland Mills is located in Obion County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland Mills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 358 people
    • Rives
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Englewood
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Englewood is located in Obion County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englewood
      • Estimated population in 2014: 1,532 people
    • Troy
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Troy is located in Obion County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,328 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Troy <1>
    • Kenton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Obion
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Obion is located in Obion County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Obion
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,043 people
    • Hornbeak
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Samburg
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Weakley County (TN)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Fulton, see our County-by-County Page for Fulton.

Cemeteries Near Fulton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fulton.

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 Fulton - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Fulton covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fulton, with the one closest to Fulton listed first.

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 Fulton had a population of 1,818 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Fulton had a population of 2,108 people.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Fulton, with the one closest to Fulton listed first.

  • Pierce Station
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Harris
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Harris is located in Obion County (TN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
  • McConnell
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Water Valley
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Crutchfield
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Crutchfield is located in Fulton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crutchfield
  • Beelerton
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Beelerton is located in Hickman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beelerton
  • Dukedom
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Dukedom is located in Weakley County (TN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dukedom
  • Pilot Oak
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Pilot Oak is located in Graves County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilot Oak
  • Terrell
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Cayce
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Jordan
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Gardner
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Gardner is located in Weakley County (TN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardner
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fulton. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fulton.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Fulton ...

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 83 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fulton.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Fulton. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Fulton and those printed in the larger area surrounding Fulton.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3> of Fulton.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites 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 Fulton:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fulton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Fulton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.