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 Hollybush (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 Hollybush. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Hollybush 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 Hollybush. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hollybush:
Knott County (The home county of Hollybush)
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Pippa Passes (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Pippa Passes is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pippa Passes Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
Kite (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Kite is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kite Pine Top (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Garner (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Garner is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garner Mousie (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Mousie is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mousie Raven (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Raven is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Leburn (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Hindman (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Littcarr (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Littcarr is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littcarr Vest (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Redfox (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Redfox is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redfox Carrie (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Carrie is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrie Tina (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Tina is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tina Breathitt County
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Hardshell (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Hardshell is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardshell Clayhole (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Clayhole is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayhole Flintville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Flintville is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flintville Rousseau (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Rousseau is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau Lost Creek (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Lost Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek Kragon (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Kragon is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kragon Whick (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Whick is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whick Bays (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Bays is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bays Quicksand (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Quicksand is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quicksand Floyd County
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Dema (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Dema is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dema Bypro (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Wheelwright Junction (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Wheelwright (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Wheelwright is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelwright Population from the 2020 Census: 487 people
Hi Hat (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Melvin (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Melvin is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melvin Wayland (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Wayland is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland Population from the 2020 Census: 373 people
Weeksbury (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Weeksbury is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weeksbury Garrett (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Garrett is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrett Lackey (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Lackey is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackey Hueysville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
McDowell (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Minnie (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Minnie is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnie Harlan County
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Cumberland (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Lynch (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Benham (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Chad (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Chad is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chad Totz (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Johnson County
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
East Point (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Asa (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Asa is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asa Nero (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Nero is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nero Collista (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Collista is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collista Denver (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Denver is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denver Van Lear (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Cutshin (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Cutshin is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshin Smilax (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Smilax is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smilax Wooton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Wooton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooton Yeaddiss (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Yeaddiss is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeaddiss Confluence (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Confluence is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Confluence Letcher County
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Colson (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Colson is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colson Deane (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Deane is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deane Isom (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Isom is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isom Hemphill (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Hemphill is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemphill Hemphill has also been known as:
Jackhorn Farraday (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Farraday is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farraday Jeremiah (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Thornton (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Thornton is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornton Fleming - Neon (12 miles [19.3 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
Millstone (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Millstone is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millstone Neon (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Bellcraft (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Bellcraft is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellcraft Cromona (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Cromona is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cromona McRoberts (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
McRoberts is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McRoberts Magoffin County
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Gunlock (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Gunlock is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunlock Gapville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Gapville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gapville Gypsy (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Gypsy is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsy Marshallville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Marshallville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshallville Royalton (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Royalton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royalton Sublett (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Sublett is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublett Ivyton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Ivyton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivyton Hendricks (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Hendricks is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendricks Lakeville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Lakeville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeville Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Vicco (14 miles [22.5 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 (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Acup is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acup Scuddy (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Dwarf (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Dwarf is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwarf Hardburly (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Hardburly is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardburly Happy (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Happy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Ary (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Tribbey (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Tribbey is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tribbey Bulan (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Bulan is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulan Cornettsville (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Cornettsville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornettsville Jeff (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Viper (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Viper is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viper Hazard (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Pike County
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Jonancy (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Jonancy is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonancy Myra (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Myra is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myra Virgie (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Virgie is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgie Dorton (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Robinson Creek (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Robinson Creek is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Creek Yeager (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Yeager is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeager Owsley (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Owsley is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owsley Fords Branch (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Fords Branch is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fords Branch Mayo Village (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Mayo Village is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo Village Shelbiana (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Shelbiana is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelbiana Blair Town (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Blair Town is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair Town Coal Run Village (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
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
Pikeville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Dickenson County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Clintwood (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Darwin (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Darwin is located in Dickenson County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darwin Omaha (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Omaha is located in Dickenson County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omaha Tarpon (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Tarpon is located in Dickenson County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarpon Clinchco (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Norton City (VA)
Norton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Wise County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Almira (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Almira is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almira Haddonfield (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Haddonfield is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haddonfield Pound (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Osaka (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Osaka is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osaka Wise (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Blackwood (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Blackwood is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwood Kent Junction (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Kent Junction is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Junction Esserville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Esserville is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esserville Hamilton town (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Hamilton town is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton town Appalachia (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Hollybush, see our County-by-County Page for Hollybush .
Cemeteries Near Hollybush ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hollybush.
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 Hollybush - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hollybush covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Bald Hill Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Reynolds Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Hall Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Gibson Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Click Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Carr Fork Memorial Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Hicks Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicks Cemetery The Hicks Cemetery has also been known as:
William Hicks Cemetery Martin Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Dave Gibson Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Estill Smith Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Hall Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Cook Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Continue List (580 more) ...
Burke Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
W.R. Hall Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Turner Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 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.<2>
While we didn't find Hollybush in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Hollybush.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Hollybush, with the one closest to Hollybush listed first.
Pine Top (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Hall (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Hall is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall Raven (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Raven is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Hindman (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Deane (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Deane is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deane Lackey (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Lackey is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackey Vest (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
McDowell (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Minnie (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Minnie is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnie Hueysville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Smoot Creek (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Smoot Creek is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoot Creek Beaver (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Beaver is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Continue List (13 more) ...
Jeremiah (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Millstone (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Millstone is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millstone Craftsville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Craftsville is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craftsville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Hollybush. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hollybush .
Newspapers Published in Hollybush ...
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 Hollybush.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hollybush, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Hollybush.
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 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 Hollybush:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Knott County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Breathitt County Floyd County Harlan County Johnson County Leslie County Letcher County Magoffin County Perry County Pike County Dickenson County Norton City Wise County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Hollybush. 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 Hollybush, 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- Hollybush) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.