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 Langnau (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 Langnau. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Langnau is located in Laurel 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 Laurel County : Clay , Jackson , Knox , McCreary , Pulaski , Rockcastle & Whitley .
Below are the counties that are near Langnau. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Langnau:
Laurel County (The home county of Langnau)
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Maplesville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Maplesville is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplesville Greenmount (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Greenmount is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenmount Marydell (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Marydell is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marydell Lake (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Lake is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake London (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Pittsburg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Pittsburg is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg Bush (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Bush is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush Sublimity City (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Sublimity City is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublimity City East Bernstadt (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Lily (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Lily is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily Bernstadt (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Bernstadt is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernstadt Dorthae (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Dorthae is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorthae Hopewell (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Hopewell is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell Bell County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Beverly (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Beverly is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly Fourmile (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Fourmile is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile Rella (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Rella is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rella Sims Fork (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Sims Fork is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims Fork Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Larue (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Larue is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larue Benge (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Benge is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benge Fogertown (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Fogertown is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fogertown Urban (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Urban is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urban Sidell (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Sidell is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidell Burning Springs (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Burning Springs is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burning Springs Fall Rock (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Fall Rock is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fall Rock Hima (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Hima is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hima Manchester (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Garrard (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Garrard is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrard Laurel Creek (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Laurel Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel Creek Sextons Creek (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Sextons Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sextons Creek Goose Rock (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Goose Rock is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goose Rock Estill County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Locust Branch (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Locust Branch is located in Estill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Branch Lynch Town (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Lynch Town is located in Estill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynch Town Wagersville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Wagersville is located in Estill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagersville Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Peoples (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Peoples is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peoples Annville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Dabolt (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Dabolt is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dabolt Tyner (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Tyner is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyner Gray Hawk (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Gray Hawk is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Hawk McKee (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Waneta (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Waneta is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waneta Foxtown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Foxtown is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxtown Sandgap (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Sandgap is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandgap Kerby Knob (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Kerby Knob is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerby Knob Knox County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Crane Nest (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Crane Nest is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crane Nest Woollum (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Woollum is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woollum Gray (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
North Corbin (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
North Corbin is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Corbin Girdler (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Girdler is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girdler Cannon (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Cannon is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannon Hinkle (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Hinkle is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinkle Barbourville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Heidrick (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Heidrick is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heidrick Bimble (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Scalf (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Scalf is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scalf Artemus (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Artemus is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artemus Dewitt (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Dewitt is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewitt Lee County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Idamay (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Idamay is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idamay Heidelberg (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Heidelberg is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heidelberg Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Bear Branch (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Bear Branch is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Branch Sizerock (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Sizerock is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sizerock Roark (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Roark is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roark Essie (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Essie is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essie Thousandsticks (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Thousandsticks is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thousandsticks Madison County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Duluth (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Duluth is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duluth Bighill (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Bighill is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bighill Owsley County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Island City (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Island City is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City Travellers Rest (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Travellers Rest is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Travellers Rest Mistletoe (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Mistletoe is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mistletoe Sebastian (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Sebastian is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sebastian Vincent (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Vincent is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent Ricetown (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Ricetown is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ricetown Southfork (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Southfork is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southfork Booneville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Pebworth (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Pebworth is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pebworth Lerose (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Lerose is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lerose Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Saul (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Saul is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saul Buckhorn (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Pulaski County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Acorn (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Acorn is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acorn Whetstone (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Whetstone is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whetstone Mount Victory (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Mount Victory is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Victory Dykes (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Dykes is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dykes Walnut Grove (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Walnut Grove is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove Shopville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Shopville is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shopville Coin (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Coin is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coin Piney Grove (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Piney Grove is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Grove Grundy (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Grundy is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grundy Woodstock (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Woodstock is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock Rockcastle County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Livingston (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Mullins (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Mullins is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullins Orlando (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Orlando is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orlando Mount Vernon (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Hansford (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Hansford is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hansford Climax (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Climax is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Climax Renfro Valley (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Wildie (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Wildie is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildie Disputanta (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Disputanta is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Disputanta Conway (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Conway is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conway Brodhead (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Ottawa (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Ottawa is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottawa Whitley County
The following are listed by their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Corbin (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Woodbine (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Woodbine is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodbine Rockholds (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Rockholds is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockholds Louden (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Louden is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louden
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Langnau, see our County-by-County Page for Langnau .
Cemeteries Near Langnau ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Langnau.
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 Langnau - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Langnau covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Baker Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Allen Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Linck Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Old Salem Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Mosley Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Moren Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Southard Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Morris Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Little Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Farris Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Williams Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Gregory Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Continue List (519 more) ...
Cheek Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Cupp Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Fields Family Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Langnau had a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Langnau, with the one closest to Langnau listed first.
Crawford (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Crawford is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crawford Larue (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Larue is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larue Maplesville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Maplesville is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplesville McWhorter (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
McWhorter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McWhorter Benge (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Benge is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benge Marydell (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Marydell is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marydell Greenmount (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Greenmount is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenmount Pittsburg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Pittsburg is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg London (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Moores Creek (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Moores Creek is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moores Creek Sidell (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Sidell is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidell Cane Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Cane Creek is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cane Creek Continue List (16 more) ...
Peoples (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Peoples is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peoples Oakley (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Oakley is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakley East Bernstadt (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Langnau. See our List of 1890's Communities around Langnau .
Newspapers Published in Langnau ...
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 Langnau.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Langnau, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Langnau.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Langnau:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Laurel County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bell County Clay County Estill County Jackson County Knox County Lee County Leslie County Madison County Owsley County Perry County Pulaski County Rockcastle County Whitley County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Langnau. 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 Langnau, 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- Langnau) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.