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 Handshoe (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 Handshoe. 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.
Handshoe 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 Handshoe. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Handshoe:
Knott County (The home county of Handshoe)
The following are listed by their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Mousie (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Mousie is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mousie Garner (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Garner is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garner Raven (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Raven is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Vest (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Leburn (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Pippa Passes (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Pippa Passes is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pippa Passes Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
Tina (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Tina is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tina Hindman (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Kite (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Kite is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kite Carrie (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Carrie is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrie Pine Top (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Emmalena (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Emmalena is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmalena Fisty (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Fisty is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisty Breathitt County
The following are listed by their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Hardshell (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Hardshell is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardshell Rousseau (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Rousseau is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau Clayhole (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Clayhole is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayhole Flintville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Flintville is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flintville Bays (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Bays is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bays Lost Creek (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Lost Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek Kragon (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Kragon is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kragon Quicksand (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Quicksand is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quicksand Rock Lick (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Rock Lick is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Lick Whick (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Whick is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whick Taulbee (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Taulbee is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taulbee Jackson (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Wolverine (28 miles [45.1 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 Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Hueysville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Garrett (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Garrett is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrett Lackey (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Lackey is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackey Wayland (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Wayland is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland Population from the 2020 Census: 373 people
Eastern (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Eastern is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastern Dema (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Dema is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dema Langley (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Langley is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langley Maytown (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Maytown is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maytown Drift (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Drift is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drift Minnie (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Minnie is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnie David (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
David is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for David Manton ‑ Historic(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Manton is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manton Warco (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Warco is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warco Johnson County
The following are listed by their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
East Point (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Asa (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Asa is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asa Denver (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Denver is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denver Nero (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Nero is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nero Collista (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Collista is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collista Hagerhill (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Hagerhill is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagerhill Van Lear (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
West Van Lear (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
West Van Lear is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Van Lear Oil Springs (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Oil Springs is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Springs Barnetts Creek (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Barnetts Creek is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnetts Creek Meally (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Meally is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meally Paintsville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Butcher Hollow (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Butcher Hollow is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butcher Hollow Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Confluence (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Confluence is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Confluence Wooton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Wooton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooton Smilax (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Smilax is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smilax Letcher County
The following are listed by their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Colson (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Colson is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colson Deane (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Deane is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deane 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)
Hemphill (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Hemphill is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemphill Hemphill has also been known as:
Jackhorn Thornton (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Thornton is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornton Neon (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Farraday (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Farraday is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farraday Letcher (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Letcher is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letcher Cromona (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Cromona is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cromona Fleming - Neon (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Fleming - Neon is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleming - Neon Population from the 2020 Census: 610 people
McRoberts (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
McRoberts is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McRoberts Millstone (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Millstone is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millstone Magoffin County
The following are listed by their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Gunlock (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Gunlock is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunlock Gapville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Gapville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gapville Gypsy (13 miles [20.9 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 northwest)
Royalton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royalton Ivyton (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Ivyton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivyton Sublett (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Sublett is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublett Lakeville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Lakeville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeville Hendricks (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Hendricks is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendricks Salyersville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Falcon (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Falcon is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falcon Painters Lick (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Painters Lick is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Painters Lick Ova (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Ova is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ova Morgan County
The following are listed by their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Cannel City (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Cannel City is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannel City Ophir (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Ophir is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ophir Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Ary (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Dwarf (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Dwarf is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwarf Hardburly (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Hardburly is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardburly Tribbey (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Tribbey is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tribbey Stacy (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Stacy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacy Bulan (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Bulan is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulan Dice (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Dice is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dice Vicco (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Vicco is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicco Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
Acup (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Acup is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acup Scuddy (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Bonnyman (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Bonnyman is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnyman Combs (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Combs is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Combs Happy (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Happy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Pike County
The following are listed by their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Owsley (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Owsley is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owsley Blair Town (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Blair Town is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair Town Coal Run Village (19 miles [30.6 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
Jonancy (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Jonancy is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonancy Myra (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Myra is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myra Virgie (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Virgie is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgie Fords Branch (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Fords Branch is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fords Branch Mayo Village (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Mayo Village is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo Village Pikeville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Robinson Creek (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Robinson Creek is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Creek Yeager (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Yeager is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeager Gulnare (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Gulnare is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gulnare Dorton (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Wolfe County
The following are listed by their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Belknap (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Belknap is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belknap Lee City (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Lee City is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee City Wise County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Almira (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Almira is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almira Haddonfield (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Haddonfield is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haddonfield Pound (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Handshoe, see our County-by-County Page for Handshoe .
Cemeteries Near Handshoe ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Handshoe.
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 Handshoe - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Handshoe covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Shepherd Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shepherd Cemetery The Shepherd Cemetery has also been known as:
Sutton Cemetery Bolen Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Chafins Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Wicker - Triplett Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Conley Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Bailey Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
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]<3> Salyersville . Joseph Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Jim Buck Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Albert Shepherd Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Raleigh Shepherd Sr. Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Hicks Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicks Cemetery The Hicks Cemetery has also been known as:
William Hicks Cemetery Hale Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Continue List (547 more) ...
Willburn Shepherd Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Jimmie Shepherd Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Bolen Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
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 Handshoe in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Handshoe.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Handshoe, with the one closest to Handshoe listed first.
Hueysville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Lackey (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Lackey is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackey Vest (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Raven (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Raven is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Langley (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Langley is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langley Minnie (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Minnie is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnie McDowell (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Goodloe (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Goodloe is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodloe Hindman (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Alphoretta (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Alphoretta is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alphoretta Gapville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Gapville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gapville Dotson (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Dotson is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dotson Continue List (13 more) ...
Gypsy (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Gypsy is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsy Pine Top (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Hall (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Hall is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Handshoe. See our List of 1890's Communities around Handshoe .
Newspapers Published in Handshoe ...
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 Handshoe.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Handshoe, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Handshoe.
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 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 Handshoe:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Knott County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Breathitt County Floyd County Johnson 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 Handshoe. 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. 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 . 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 from Point A (ie- Handshoe) 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 Handshoe, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.