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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 Kimper (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 Kimper. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Kimper is located in Pike 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 Pike County: Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Martin, Buchanan (VA), Dickenson (VA), Wise (VA) & Mingo (WV).

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

  • Pike County     (The home county of Kimper)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kimper, with the one closest to Kimper listed first.
    • Phyllis
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Phyllis is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phyllis
    • Raccoon
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Raccoon is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raccoon
    • McVeigh
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • McVeigh is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McVeigh
    • McAndrews
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • McAndrews is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAndrews
    • Pinsonfork
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Pinsonfork is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinsonfork
    • Canada
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Huddy
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Huddy is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huddy
    • Stone
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Stone is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone
    • Calloway Branch
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Sidney
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Lick Creek
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Lick Creek is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lick Creek
    • Fedscreek
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Fedscreek is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fedscreek
    • Garden Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Garden Village is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Village
  • Floyd County
  • Johnson County
  • Knott County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kimper, with the one closest to Kimper listed first.
    • Raven
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Raven is located in Knott County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven
    • Kite
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Kite is located in Knott County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kite
    • Mousie
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Pippa Passes
      (30 miles [48.3 km] 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
  • Letcher County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kimper, with the one closest to Kimper listed first.
    • Burdine
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Burdine is located in Letcher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdine
    • McRoberts
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Hemphill
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jenkins
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Cromona
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Cromona is located in Letcher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cromona
    • Fleming - Neon
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Fleming - Neon is located in Letcher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleming - Neon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 610 people
    • Deane
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Deane is located in Letcher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deane
    • Neon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Tolliver Town
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Seco
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Seco is located in Letcher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seco
    • Whitaker
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Martin County
  • Buchanan County (VA)
  • Dickenson County (VA)
  • Wise County (VA)
  • Logan County (WV)
  • McDowell County (WV)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kimper, with the one closest to Kimper listed first.
    • Wyoming City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Wyoming City is located in McDowell County (WV)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming City
    • Panther
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Paynesville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Paynesville is located in McDowell County (WV)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paynesville
    • Jackson Flats
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Iaeger
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Iaeger is located in McDowell County (WV)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iaeger
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 232 people
    • Union City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Union City is located in McDowell County (WV)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union City
  • Mingo County (WV)
  • Wayne County (WV)

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

Cemeteries Near Kimper ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kimper.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kimper, with the one closest to Kimper 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 in 1895, Kimper had a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Kimper ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kimper.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kimper, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kimper.

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 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 Kimper:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Kimper) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Kimper, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.