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 Molus (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 Molus. 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 hospitals 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.
Molus 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 Molus. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Molus:
Harlan County (The home county of Molus)
The following are listed by their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Tacky Town (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Tacky Town is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tacky Town Coldiron (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
South Wallins (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
South Wallins is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Wallins Wallins Creek (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Wallins Creek is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallins Creek Estimated population in 2016: 146 people
Pathfork (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Pathfork is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pathfork Twila (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Twila is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twila Loyall (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Loyall is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyall Population from the 2020 Census: 585 people
Baxter (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Harlan (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Mary Alice (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Mary Alice is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mary Alice Bledsoe (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Bledsoe is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bledsoe Coxton (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Coxton is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coxton Rosspoint (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Rosspoint is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosspoint Bell County
The following are listed by their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Stoney Fork (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Stoney Fork is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoney Fork Callaway (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Callaway is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Callaway Miracle (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Miracle is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miracle Kettle Island (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Kettle Island is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kettle Island Varilla (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Varilla is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Varilla Sims Fork (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Sims Fork is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims Fork Beverly (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Beverly is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly Arjay (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Arjay is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arjay Jenson (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Jenson is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenson Rella (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Rella is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rella Calvin (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Calvin is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvin Dorton Branch (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Dorton Branch is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorton Branch Straight Creek (10 miles [16.1 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 Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Ashers Fork (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Ashers Fork is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashers Fork Brightshade (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Brightshade is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brightshade Goose Rock (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Goose Rock is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goose Rock Big Creek (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Big Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Creek Garrard (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Garrard is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrard Eriline (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Eriline is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eriline Hima (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Hima is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hima Manchester (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Barcreek (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Barcreek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barcreek Urban (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Urban is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urban Knox County
The following are listed by their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Scalf (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Scalf is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scalf Walker (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Walker is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker Dewitt (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Dewitt is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewitt Flat Lick (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Flat Lick is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Lick Trosper (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Trosper is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trosper Artemus (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Artemus is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artemus Bimble (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Hinkle (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Hinkle is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinkle Warren (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Warren is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren Wheeler (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Wheeler is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Girdler (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Girdler is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girdler Cannon (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Cannon is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannon Heidrick (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Heidrick is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heidrick Laurel County
The following are listed by their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Bush (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Bush is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush Lake (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Lake is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Marydell (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Marydell is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marydell Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Warbranch (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Warbranch is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warbranch Helton (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Helton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helton Mozelle (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Mozelle is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mozelle Roark (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Roark is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roark Chappell (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Chappell is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappell Asher (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Asher is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asher Essie (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Essie is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essie Hoskinston (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Hoskinston is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoskinston Stinnett (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Stinnett is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinnett Wendover (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Cutshin (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Cutshin is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshin Yeaddiss (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Yeaddiss is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeaddiss Bear Branch (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Bear Branch is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Branch Letcher County
Gordon (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Gordon is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Delphia (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Delphia is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delphia Slemp (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Slemp is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slemp Avawam (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Avawam is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avawam Whitley County
The following are listed by their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Siler (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Siler is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siler Louden (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Louden is located in Whitley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louden Claiborne County (TN)
The following are listed by their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Cumberland Gap (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Harrogate (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Shawanee (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Shawanee is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawanee Minton Mill (22 miles [35.4 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
Tazewell (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
New Tazewell (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Springdale (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Springdale is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springdale Caney Valley (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Caney Valley is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney Valley Head of Barren (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Head of Barren is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Head of Barren Pruden (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Pruden is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pruden Evans Ferry (28 miles [45.1 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 (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Raven Hill is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Hill Goin (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Goin is located in Claiborne County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goin Hancock County (TN)
The following are listed by their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Alanthus Hill (17 miles [27.4 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 (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Xenophon (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Xenophon is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Xenophon Duck Creek (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Duck Creek is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duck Creek Trent Valley (27 miles [43.5 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 (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Yount Town (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Yount Town is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yount Town Willis (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Willis is located in Hancock County (TN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willis Estimated population in 2014: 387 people
Lee County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Rose Hill (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Ewing (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Wheeler (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Wheeler is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Hubbard Springs (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Hubbard Springs is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hubbard Springs Fleenortown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Fleenortown is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleenortown Jonesville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Saint Charles (23 miles [37 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
Van (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Van is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Pennington Gap (25 miles [40.2 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
Ely (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Ely is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ely Blackwater (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Blackwater is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwater Dryden (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Dryden is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryden
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Molus, see our County-by-County Page for Molus .
Cemeteries Near Molus ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Molus.
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 Molus - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Molus covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Hall Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Tackett Hill Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Jesse Brock Family Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Coldiron Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
A.D. Johnson Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for A.D. Johnson Cemetery The A.D. Johnson Cemetery has also been known as:
Andrew Johnson Cemetery Stoney Fork Hollow Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2540097 <2>
Balkan Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Jackson Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Saylor Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Gross Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Kettle Island Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Taylors Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylors Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Taylors Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Callaway . Miracle Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (734 more) ...
Gross Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Honey Branch Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Saylor Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
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 Molus in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Molus.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Molus, with the one closest to Molus listed first.
Callaway (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Callaway is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Callaway Wallins Creek (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Wallins Creek is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallins Creek Estimated population in 2016: 146 people
Creech (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Creech is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creech Cubage (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Cubage is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cubage Harlan (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Baxter (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Pineville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Wasioto (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Wasioto is located in Bell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasioto Rose Hill (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Helton (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Helton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helton Ewing (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Boons Path (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Boons Path is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boons Path Continue List (15 more) ...
Wheeler (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Wheeler is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Hagan (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Hagan is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagan Walker (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Walker is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Molus. See our List of 1890's Communities around Molus .
Newspapers Published in Molus ...
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 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around Molus.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Molus, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Molus.
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 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 Molus:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Harlan County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bell County Clay County Knox County Laurel County Leslie County Letcher County Perry County Whitley County Claiborne County Hancock County Lee County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Molus. 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- Molus) 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 Molus, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.