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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 Kraft (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 Kraft. 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 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.

Kraft is located in Hardin 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 Hardin County: Harrison (IN), Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hart, Jefferson, Larue, Meade & Nelson.

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

  • Hardin County     (The home county of Kraft)
  • Breckinridge County
  • Bullitt County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kraft, with the one closest to Kraft listed first.
    • Lebanon Junction
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Pitt's Point
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Pitt's Point is located in Bullitt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitt's Point
    • Belmont
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Cupio
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Bardstown Junction
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Clermont
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Shepherdsville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Lotus
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Brooks
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Fox Chase
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Fox Chase is located in Bullitt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Chase
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 490 people
    • Hillview
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Hillview is located in Bullitt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillview
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,192 people
    • Hebron Estates
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Hebron Estates is located in Bullitt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron Estates
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,185 people
  • Grayson County
  • Hart County
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kraft, with the one closest to Kraft listed first.
    • Kosmosdale
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Valley Station
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Prairie Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Prairie Village is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Village
    • Hollyvilla
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Hollyvilla is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollyvilla
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 554 people
    • Fairdale
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • South Park
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • South Park is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Park
    • Pleasure Ridge Park
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Pleasure Ridge Park is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasure Ridge Park
    • South Park View
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • South Park View is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Park View
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7 people
  • Larue County
  • Marion County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kraft, with the one closest to Kraft listed first.
    • Dant
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Holy Cross
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Holy Cross is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holy Cross
    • Saint Francis
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Saint Francis is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Francis
  • Meade County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kraft, with the one closest to Kraft listed first.
    • Flaherty
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Big Spring
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Maples Corner
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Grahamton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Grahamton is located in Meade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grahamton
    • Van Voorhis Manor
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Van Voorhis Manor is located in Meade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Voorhis Manor
    • Garrett
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Garrett is located in Meade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrett
    • Lickskillet
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Lickskillet is located in Meade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lickskillet
    • Muldraugh
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Hillgrove
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Hillgrove is located in Meade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillgrove
    • Rock Haven
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Rock Haven is located in Meade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Haven
    • Buck Grove
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hughes Landing
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Hughes Landing is located in Meade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hughes Landing
  • Nelson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kraft, with the one closest to Kraft listed first.
    • Boston
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Nelsonville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • New Haven
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Blue Gap
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Howardstown
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Howardstown is located in Nelson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howardstown
    • Bellwood
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Culvertown
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Culvertown is located in Nelson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Culvertown
    • Gethsemane
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Gethsemane is located in Nelson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gethsemane
    • Cravens
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Cravens is located in Nelson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cravens
    • Stiles
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Balltown
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Balltown is located in Nelson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balltown
    • Deatsville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Deatsville is located in Nelson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deatsville
  • Harrison County (IN)

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

Cemeteries Near Kraft ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kraft.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kraft, with the one closest to Kraft 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.<2>

While we didn't find Kraft in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kraft.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Kraft ...

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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kraft.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kraft, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kraft.

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 Kraft:

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