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 May (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 May. 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.
May 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 May. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to May:
Knott County (The home county of May)
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Pine Top (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Pippa Passes (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Pippa Passes is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pippa Passes Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
Kite (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Kite is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kite Littcarr (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Littcarr is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littcarr Redfox (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Redfox is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redfox Garner (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Garner is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garner Hindman (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Leburn (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Raven (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Raven is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Mousie (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Mousie is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mousie Carrie (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Carrie is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrie Tina (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Tina is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tina Sassafras (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Breathitt County
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Hardshell (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Hardshell is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardshell Clayhole (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Clayhole is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayhole Flintville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Flintville is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flintville Lost Creek (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Lost Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek Rousseau (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Rousseau is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau Whick (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Whick is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whick Kragon (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Kragon is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kragon Floyd County
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Bypro (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Wheelwright Junction (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Wheelwright (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Wheelwright is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelwright Population from the 2020 Census: 487 people
Dema (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Dema is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dema Melvin (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Melvin is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melvin Weeksbury (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Weeksbury is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weeksbury Hi Hat (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Wayland (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Wayland is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland Population from the 2020 Census: 373 people
Lackey (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Lackey is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackey Garrett (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Garrett is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrett Beaver (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Beaver is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver McDowell (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Drift (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Drift is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drift Harlan County
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Cumberland (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Benham (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Lynch (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Chad (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Chad is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chad Totz (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Closplint (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Closplint is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Closplint Louellen (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Louellen is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louellen Holmes Mill (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Holmes Mill is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmes Mill Big Laurel (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Big Laurel is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Laurel Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Yeaddiss (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Yeaddiss is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeaddiss Cutshin (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Cutshin is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshin Smilax (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Smilax is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smilax Wooton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Wooton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooton Confluence (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Confluence is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Confluence Hyden (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Wendover (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Letcher County
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Colson (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Colson is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colson Deane (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Deane is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deane Isom (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Isom is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isom Thornton (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Thornton is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornton Jeremiah (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Bellcraft (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Bellcraft is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellcraft Farraday (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Farraday is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farraday Hemphill (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Hemphill is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemphill Hemphill has also been known as:
Jackhorn Millstone (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Millstone is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millstone Neon (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Seco (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Seco is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seco Sergent (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Sergent is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sergent Cromona (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Cromona is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cromona Magoffin County
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Gunlock (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Gunlock is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunlock Gapville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Gapville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gapville Gypsy (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Gypsy is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsy Marshallville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Marshallville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshallville Royalton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Royalton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royalton Sublett (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Sublett is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublett Ivyton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Ivyton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivyton Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Vicco (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Vicco is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicco Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
Scuddy (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Acup (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Acup is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acup Happy (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Happy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Hardburly (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Hardburly is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardburly Cornettsville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Cornettsville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornettsville Dwarf (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Dwarf is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwarf Jeff (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Tribbey (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Tribbey is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tribbey Bulan (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Bulan is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulan Viper (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Viper is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viper Ary (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Hazard (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Pike County
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Myra (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Myra is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myra Dorton (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Jonancy (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Jonancy is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonancy Virgie (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Virgie is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgie Robinson Creek (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Robinson Creek is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Creek Yeager (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Yeager is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeager Hellier (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Hellier is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hellier Lookout (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Lookout is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout Owsley (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Owsley is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owsley Rockhouse (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Rockhouse is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockhouse Fords Branch (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Fords Branch is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fords Branch Mayo Village (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Mayo Village is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo Village Shelbiana (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Shelbiana is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelbiana Dickenson County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Clintwood (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Darwin (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Darwin is located in Dickenson County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darwin Omaha (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Omaha is located in Dickenson County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omaha Clinchco (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Tarpon (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Tarpon is located in Dickenson County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarpon Lee County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Darnell Town (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Darnell Town is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darnell Town Keokee (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Keokee is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keokee Rawhide (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Rawhide is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rawhide Norton City (VA)
Norton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Wise County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Almira (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Almira is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almira Haddonfield (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Haddonfield is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haddonfield Pound (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Osaka (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Osaka is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osaka Appalachia (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Blackwood (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Blackwood is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwood Kent Junction (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Kent Junction is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Junction Esserville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Esserville is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esserville Hamilton town (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Hamilton town is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton town Wise (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Exeter (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Exeter is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeter Big Stone Gap (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
East Stone Gap (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
East Stone Gap is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Stone Gap
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to May, see our County-by-County Page for May .
Cemeteries Near May ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of May.
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 May - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for May covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Cody Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Collins Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Reynolds Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Carr Fork Memorial Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Christon Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Cook Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Ison Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Gibson Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Stephen R. Adams Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Arthur Adams Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Hall Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Bald Hill Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Continue List (586 more) ...
Madden Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Horse Mill Point Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Collins Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
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 May in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of May.
These communities are listed based on their distance from May, with the one closest to May listed first.
Pine Top (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Deane (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Deane is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deane Hall (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Hall is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall Smoot Creek (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Smoot Creek is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoot Creek Hindman (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Jeremiah (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Craftsville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Craftsville is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craftsville Sergent (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Sergent is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sergent Millstone (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Millstone is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millstone Raven (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Raven is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Whitesburg (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Sassafras (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Continue List (13 more) ...
Indian Bottom (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Indian Bottom is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Bottom Vest (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Roxana (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Roxana is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxana
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around May. See our List of 1890's Communities around May .
Newspapers Published in May ...
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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around May.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of May, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for May.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 May:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Knott County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Breathitt County Floyd County Harlan County Leslie County Letcher County Magoffin County Perry County Pike County Dickenson County Lee County Norton City Wise County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for May. 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. 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- May) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. 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 . 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 May, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.