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 Liggett (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 Liggett. 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 doctors and 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.
Liggett is located in Harlan 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 Harlan County : Bell , Leslie , Letcher , Perry , Lee (VA) & Wise (VA) .
Below are the counties that are near Liggett. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Liggett:
Harlan County (The home county of Liggett)
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Mary Alice (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Mary Alice is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mary Alice Twila (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Twila is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twila South Wallins (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
South Wallins is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Wallins Cawood (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Cawood is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cawood Harlan (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Loyall (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Loyall is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyall Population from the 2020 Census: 585 people
Bobs Creek (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Bobs Creek is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bobs Creek Wallins Creek (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Wallins Creek is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallins Creek Estimated population in 2016: 146 people
Pathfork (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Pathfork is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pathfork Baxter (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Coldiron (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Coxton (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Coxton is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coxton Bell County
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Stoney Fork (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Stoney Fork is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoney Fork Callaway (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Callaway is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Callaway Miracle (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Miracle is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miracle Kettle Island (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Kettle Island is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kettle Island Varilla (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Varilla is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Varilla Calvin (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Calvin is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvin Jenson (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Jenson is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenson Beverly (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Beverly is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly Arjay (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Arjay is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arjay Rella (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Rella is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rella Sims Fork (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Sims Fork is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims Fork Straight Creek (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Straight Creek is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Straight Creek Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Ashers Fork (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Ashers Fork is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashers Fork Brightshade (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Brightshade is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brightshade Big Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Big Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Creek Goose Rock (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Goose Rock is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goose Rock Knox County
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Scalf (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Scalf is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scalf Walker (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Walker is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker Dewitt (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Dewitt is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewitt Flat Lick (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Flat Lick is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Lick Trosper (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Trosper is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trosper Artemus (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Artemus is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artemus Warren (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Warren is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren Wheeler (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Wheeler is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Hinkle (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Hinkle is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinkle Bimble (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Barbourville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Cannon (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Cannon is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannon Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Helton (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Helton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helton Warbranch (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Warbranch is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warbranch Chappell (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Chappell is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappell Mozelle (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Mozelle is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mozelle Asher (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Asher is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asher Roark (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Roark is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roark Essie (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Essie is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essie Hoskinston (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Hoskinston is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoskinston Cutshin (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Cutshin is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshin Stinnett (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Stinnett is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinnett Yeaddiss (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Yeaddiss is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeaddiss Wendover (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Letcher County
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Gordon (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Gordon is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon Linefork (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Linefork is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linefork Flint (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Flint is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Hallie (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Partridge (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Partridge is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Partridge Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Delphia (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Delphia is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delphia Slemp (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Slemp is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slemp Cornettsville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Cornettsville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornettsville Claiborne County (TN)
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Cumberland Gap (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Harrogate (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Shawanee (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Shawanee is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawanee Caney Valley (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Caney Valley is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney Valley Tazewell (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Minton Mill (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Minton Mill is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minton Mill Estimated population in 2014: 527 people
Springdale (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Springdale is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springdale Evans Ferry (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Evans Ferry is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans Ferry Population from the 2010 Census: 293 people
Raven Hill (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Raven Hill is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Hill New Tazewell (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Head of Barren (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Head of Barren is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Head of Barren Lone Mountain (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Lone Mountain is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Mountain Grainger County (TN)
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Thorn Hill (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Thorn Hill is located in Grainger County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorn Hill Bean Station (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Beans (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Beans is located in Grainger County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beans Estimated population in 2014: 3,084 people
Wyatt Village (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Wyatt Village is located in Grainger County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyatt Village Bowen (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Bowen is located in Grainger County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowen Hancock County (TN)
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Alanthus Hill (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Alanthus Hill is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus Hill Estimated population in 2014: 2,498 people
Sneedville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Xenophon (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Xenophon is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Xenophon Duck Creek (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Duck Creek is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duck Creek Trent Valley (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Trent Valley is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trent Valley Estimated population in 2014: 4,157 people
Kyles Ford (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Willis (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Willis is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willis Estimated population in 2014: 387 people
Yount Town (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Yount Town is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yount Town Hawkins County (TN)
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Eidson (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Eidson is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eidson Mooresburg Springs (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Mooresburg Springs is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mooresburg Springs Population from the 2010 Census: 941 people
Galbraith Springs (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Galbraith Springs is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galbraith Springs Mooresburg (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Red Bridge Ferry (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Red Bridge Ferry is located in Hawkins County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bridge Ferry Estimated population in 2014: 1,135 people
Rogersville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Lee County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Rose Hill (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Hubbard Springs (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Hubbard Springs is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hubbard Springs Ewing (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Fleenortown (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Fleenortown is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleenortown Jonesville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Van (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Van is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Wheeler (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Wheeler is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Saint Charles (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Saint Charles is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Charles Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
Pennington Gap (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Pennington Gap is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington Gap Population from the 2020 Census: 1,708 people
Blackwater (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Blackwater is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwater Ely (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Ely is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ely Dryden (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Dryden is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryden Scott County (VA)
Duffield (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Wise County (VA)
Exeter (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Exeter is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeter
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Liggett, see our County-by-County Page for Liggett .
Cemeteries Near Liggett ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Liggett.
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 Liggett - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Liggett covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Old Mose Middleton Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Fee Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Beech Grove Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
King Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Lee Family Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Crockett Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Whisman Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Thomas Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Ingle Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Gross Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
McLin Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Pace Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Continue List (882 more) ...
Barker Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barker Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Barker Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> Rose Hill (VA) . The Barker Cemetery has also been known as:
Barker - Garrett Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #49347 <2>
Silver Leaf Baptist Church Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Wyrick Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
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 Liggett in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Liggett.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Liggett, with the one closest to Liggett listed first.
Creech (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Creech is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creech Hagan (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Hagan is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagan Rose Hill (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Boons Path (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Boons Path is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boons Path Harlan (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Wallins Creek (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Wallins Creek is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallins Creek Estimated population in 2016: 146 people
Hubbard Springs (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Hubbard Springs is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hubbard Springs Baxter (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Ewing (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Cubage (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Cubage is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cubage Evarts (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Callaway (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Callaway is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Callaway Continue List (17 more) ...
Alanthus Hill (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Alanthus Hill is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus Hill Estimated population in 2014: 2,498 people
Jonesville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Wheeler (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Wheeler is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Liggett. See our List of 1890's Communities around Liggett .
Newspapers Published in Liggett ...
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 Liggett.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Liggett, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Liggett.
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 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 Liggett:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Harlan County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bell County Clay County Knox County Leslie County Letcher County Perry County Claiborne County Grainger County Hancock County Hawkins County Lee County Scott County Wise County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Liggett. 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Liggett) 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 Liggett, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.