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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 Moore (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 Moore. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Moore is located in Casey 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 Casey County : Adair , Boyle , Lincoln , Marion , Pulaski , Russell & Taylor .
Below are the counties that are near Moore. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Moore:
Casey County (The home county of Moore)
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Liberty (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Middleburg (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Middleburg is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleburg Yosemite (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Cantown (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Cantown is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantown Gilpin (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Gilpin is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilpin Labascus (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Labascus is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Labascus Rubert Ford (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Rubert Ford is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rubert Ford Phil (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Phil is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phil Argyle (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Argyle is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle Evans Ford (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Evans Ford is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans Ford Rheber (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Rheber is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rheber Evona (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Evona is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evona Creston (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Creston is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston Adair County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Barnett Springs (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Barnett Springs is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnett Springs Pellyton (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Pellyton is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pellyton Casey Creek (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Casey Creek is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casey Creek Neatsville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Neatsville is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neatsville Feathersburg (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Feathersburg is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Feathersburg Eunice (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Eunice is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eunice Speck (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Speck is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speck Dunbar Hill (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Dunbar Hill is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunbar Hill Knifley (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Knifley is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knifley Ella (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Sano (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Sano is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sano Purdy (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Purdy is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purdy Christine (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Christine is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christine Boyle County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Forkland (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Forkland is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forkland Alum Springs (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Alum Springs is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alum Springs Junction City (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Mitchellsburg (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Mitchellsburg is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchellsburg Parksville (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Shelby City (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Shelby City is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelby City Wilsonville (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Wilsonville is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsonville Brumfield (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Brumfield is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brumfield Aliceton (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Aliceton is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aliceton Atoka (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Atoka is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atoka Craintown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Craintown is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craintown Davis Hill (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Davis Hill is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davis Hill Needmore (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Needmore is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Needmore Garrard County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Lancaster (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Hyattsville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Hyattsville is located in Garrard County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyattsville Bryantsville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Cartersville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Cartersville is located in Garrard County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartersville Green County
Roachville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Roachville is located in Green County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roachville Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Mount Salem (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Mount Salem is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Salem New Salem (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
New Salem is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Salem South Fork (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
South Fork is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork Geneva (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Geneva is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva Hustonville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Kings Mountain (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Kings Mountain is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Mountain McKinney (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Waynesburg (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Waynesburg is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waynesburg Moreland (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Moreland is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moreland Chicken Bristle (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Chicken Bristle is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chicken Bristle Milledgeville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Milledgeville is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milledgeville Turnersville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Turnersville is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnersville Blue Lick (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Blue Lick is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Lick Marion County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Bradfordsville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Gravel Switch (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Gravel Switch is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravel Switch Riley (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Riley is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riley Salleetown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Salleetown is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salleetown Greenbriar (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Greenbriar is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenbriar Peck Ford (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Peck Ford is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peck Ford Penick (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Penick is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penick Phillipsburg (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Phillipsburg is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillipsburg Calvary (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Calvary is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvary Poplar Corner (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Poplar Corner is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Corner Jessietown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Jessietown is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessietown Lebanon (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
New Market (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
New Market is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Market Mercer County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Nevada (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Nevada is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevada Dixville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Dixville is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixville Stewart (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Stewart is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stewart Burgin (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Harrodsburg (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Montgomery County
Hedgeville (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Hedgeville is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedgeville Hedgeville has also been known as:
Hedges Pulaski County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Eubank (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Ansel (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Ansel is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ansel Faubush (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Faubush is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faubush Science Hill (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Nancy (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Bee Lick (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Bee Lick is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bee Lick Woodstock (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Woodstock is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock Dabney (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Dabney is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dabney Vinnie (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Vinnie is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinnie Coin (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Coin is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coin Somerset (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Walnut Grove (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Walnut Grove is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove Ferguson (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Ferguson is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferguson Population from the 2020 Census: 943 people
Rockcastle County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Gum Sulphur (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Gum Sulphur is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gum Sulphur Ottawa (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Ottawa is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottawa Brodhead (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Hansford (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Hansford is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hansford Mount Vernon (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Russell County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Salem (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Salem is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem Russell Springs (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Middletown (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Middletown is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown Jamestown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Esto (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Esto is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esto Stokes ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Stokes is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokes Freedom (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Freedom is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom Taylor County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Mannsville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Mannsville is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mannsville Acton (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Acton is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acton Elk Horn (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Campbellsville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Saloma (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Saloma is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saloma Wright's (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Wright's is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright's Bengal (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Bengal is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengal Washington County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Jenkinsville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Jenkinsville is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenkinsville Mackville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Mackville is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mackville Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
Springfield (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Thompsonville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Thompsonville is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompsonville Wayne County
The following are listed by their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Frazer (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Frazer is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frazer Mill Springs (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Mill Springs is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Springs Rankin (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Rankin is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankin
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Moore, see our County-by-County Page for Moore .
Cemeteries Near Moore ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Moore.
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 Moore - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Moore covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Glenwood Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Poplar Springs Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Green River Church Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Stapp Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Poplar Grove Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Brush Creek Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Mason Creek Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Trace Fork Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Willow Springs Church Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Middleburg Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Walnut Hill Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Contown Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Continue List (440 more) ...
Old Willow Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Willow Cemetery The Old Willow Cemetery has also been known as:
Old Willow Springs Cemetery Hatter Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Calvary Ridge 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.<4>
While we didn't find Moore in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Moore.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Moore, with the one closest to Moore listed first.
Liberty (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Yosemite (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Middleburg (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Middleburg is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleburg Gilpin (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Gilpin is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilpin Labascus (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Labascus is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Labascus Mount Salem (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Mount Salem is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Salem Phil (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Phil is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phil Evona (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Evona is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evona Duncan (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Duncan is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duncan South Fork (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
South Fork is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork Ellisburg (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Ellisburg is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellisburg Bethelridge (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Bethelridge is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethelridge Continue List (15 more) ...
Hustonville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Atterson (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Atterson is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atterson Clementsville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Clementsville is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clementsville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Moore. See our List of 1890's Communities around Moore .
Newspapers Published in Moore ...
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 40 newspapers that have been published in the area around Moore.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Moore, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Moore.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Moore:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Casey County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Adair County Boyle County Garrard County Green County Lincoln County Marion County Mercer County Montgomery County Pulaski County Rockcastle County Russell County Taylor County Washington County Wayne County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Moore. 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Moore) 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 Moore, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.