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 Northfield (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 Northfield. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Northfield is located in Jefferson 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 Jefferson County : Clark (IN) , Floyd (IN) , Harrison (IN) , Bullitt , Hardin , Oldham , Shelby & Spencer .
Below are the counties that are near Northfield. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Northfield:
Jefferson County (The home county of Northfield)
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Thornhill (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Thornhill is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornhill Population from the 2020 Census: 186 people
Glenview Hills (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Glenview Hills is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenview Hills Population from the 2020 Census: 330 people
Glenview Manor (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Glenview Manor is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenview Manor Population from the 2020 Census: 195 people
Crossgate (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Crossgate is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crossgate Population from the 2020 Census: 232 people
Indian Hills Cherokee Section (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Winding Falls (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Winding Falls is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winding Falls Robinswood (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Robinswood is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinswood Bancroft (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Bancroft is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft Population from the 2020 Census: 511 people
Glenview (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Glenview is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenview Population from the 2020 Census: 544 people
Graymoor - Devondale (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Graymoor - Devondale is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graymoor - Devondale Population from the 2020 Census: 3,090 people
Cherrywood Village (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Cherrywood Village is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherrywood Village Druid Hills (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Druid Hills is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Druid Hills Population from the 2020 Census: 314 people
Bullitt County
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Hunters Hollow (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Hunters Hollow is located in Bullitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Hollow Population from the 2020 Census: 362 people
Pioneer Village (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Pioneer Village is located in Bullitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Village Population from the 2020 Census: 2,978 people
Whitfield (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Whitfield is located in Bullitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitfield Brooks (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Fox Chase (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Fox Chase is located in Bullitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Chase Population from the 2020 Census: 490 people
Hebron Estates (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Hebron Estates is located in Bullitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron Estates Population from the 2020 Census: 1,185 people
Hillview (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Hillview is located in Bullitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillview Population from the 2020 Census: 9,192 people
Mount Washington (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Shepherdsville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Solitude (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Solitude is located in Bullitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solitude Cupio (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Cupio is located in Bullitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cupio Bardstown Junction (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Bardstown Junction is located in Bullitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bardstown Junction Hardin County
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
West Point (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Howard (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Howard is located in Hardin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard Henry County
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Jericho (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Jericho is located in Henry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jericho Smithfield (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Pendleton (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Sulphur (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Eminence (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
New Castle (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Pleasureville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Campbellsburg (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Meade County
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Pilcher Landing (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Pilcher Landing is located in Meade County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilcher Landing Hughes Landing (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Hughes Landing is located in Meade County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hughes Landing Muldraugh (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Nelson County
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Highgrove (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Highgrove is located in Nelson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highgrove Lenore (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Lenore is located in Nelson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lenore Deatsville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Deatsville is located in Nelson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deatsville Fairfield (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Fairfield is located in Nelson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield Population from the 2020 Census: 113 people
Coxs Creek (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Samuels (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Samuels is located in Nelson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Samuels Hunters (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Hunters is located in Nelson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Oldham County
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
River Bluff (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
River Bluff is located in Oldham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Bluff Population from the 2020 Census: 442 people
Orchard Grass Hills (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Orchard Grass Hills is located in Oldham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard Grass Hills Population from the 2020 Census: 1,786 people
Pewee Valley (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Goshen (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Goshen is located in Oldham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen Population from the 2020 Census: 1,016 people
Harmony Village (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Harmony Village is located in Oldham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Village Crestwood (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Park Lake (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Park Lake is located in Oldham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Lake Buckner (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Westport (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Ballardsville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Ballardsville is located in Oldham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballardsville La Grange (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Russell Corner (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Russell Corner is located in Oldham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell Corner Shelby County
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Lincoln Ridge (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Lincoln Ridge is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Ridge Simpsonville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Finchville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Finchville is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finchville Chestnut Grove (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Chestnut Grove is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Grove Shelbyville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Figgs (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Figgs is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Figgs Southville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Southville is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southville Cropper (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Cropper is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cropper Christianburg (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Christianburg is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christianburg Clay Village (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Clay Village is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clay Village Spencer County
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Normandy (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Normandy is located in Spencer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Normandy Yoder (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Yoder is located in Spencer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yoder Taylorsville (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Little Mount (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Little Mount is located in Spencer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Mount Wakefield (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Wakefield is located in Spencer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wakefield Mount Eden (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Mount Eden is located in Spencer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Eden Trimble County
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Mount Pleasant (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Mount Pleasant is located in Trimble County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant Bedford (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Trout (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Trout is located in Trimble County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trout Clark County (IN)
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Utica (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Utica is located in Clark County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utica Population from the 2020 Census: 996 people
Arctic Springs (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Arctic Springs is located in Clark County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arctic Springs Oak Park (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Oak Park is located in Clark County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Park Watson (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Watson is located in Clark County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watson Jeffersonville (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Prather (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Prather is located in Clark County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prather Clarksville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Sellersburg (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Blackiston Village (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Blackiston Village is located in Clark County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackiston Village Speed (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Speed is located in Clark County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speed Charlestown (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Bennettsville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Bennettsville is located in Clark County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennettsville Floyd County (IN)
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
New Albany (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Floyds Knobs (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Galena (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Galena is located in Floyd County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena Georgetown (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Greenville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Harrison County (IN)
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Locust Point (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Locust Point is located in Harrison County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Point Lanesville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Elizabeth (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Bradford (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Bradford is located in Harrison County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradford Crandall (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Crandall is located in Harrison County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandall Population from the 2020 Census: 149 people
New Middletown (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
New Salisbury (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Corydon Junction (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Corydon Junction is located in Harrison County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corydon Junction Corydon (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Palmyra (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Dogwood (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Dogwood is located in Harrison County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dogwood Ramsey (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Ramsey is located in Harrison County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramsey Jefferson County (IN)
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Chelsea (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Chelsea is located in Jefferson County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea Hanover (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Scott County (IN)
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Lexington (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Goshen (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Goshen is located in Scott County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen Scottsburg (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Blocher (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Blocher is located in Scott County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blocher Marshfield (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Marshfield is located in Scott County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshfield Washington County (IN)
The following are listed by their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Bartle (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Bartle is located in Washington County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bartle New Pekin (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
New Pekin is located in Washington County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Pekin Population from the 2020 Census: 1,392 people
South Boston (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
South Boston is located in Washington County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Boston Harristown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Harristown is located in Washington County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harristown
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Northfield, see our County-by-County Page for Northfield .
Cemeteries Near Northfield ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Northfield.
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 Northfield - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Northfield covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Breckinridge Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Worthington Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Eastern Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Cave Hill National Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Cave Hill Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
St. Louis Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Middletown Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Ewing Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
St. Anthony Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Anthony Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Anthony Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Jeffersonville (IN) . The St. Anthony Cemetery has also been known as:
St. Anthonys Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #86660 <2>
Eastern Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastern Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Eastern Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Jeffersonville (IN) . The Eastern Cemetery has also been known as:
Chestnut Grove Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84894 <2>
St. Michael Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (403 more) ...
Louisville Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Calvary Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Prather Family Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
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.<3>
While we didn't find Northfield in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Northfield.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Northfield, with the one closest to Northfield listed first.
Glenview (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Glenview is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenview Population from the 2020 Census: 544 people
Woodside (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Woodside is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodside Longview (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Longview is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longview Saint Matthews (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Beechwood Village (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Beechwood Village is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beechwood Village Population from the 2020 Census: 1,351 people
Lyndon (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Goose Creek (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Goose Creek is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goose Creek Population from the 2020 Census: 304 people
Harrods Creek (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Utica (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Utica is located in Clark County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utica Population from the 2020 Census: 996 people
Clifton (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Clifton is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton Lakeland (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Lakeland is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeland Worthington (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Worthington is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worthington Continue List (16 more) ...
Prospect (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Anchorage (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Watson (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Watson is located in Clark County (IN) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watson
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Northfield. See our List of 1890's Communities around Northfield .
Newspapers Published in Northfield ...
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 296 newspapers that have been published in the area around Northfield.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Northfield, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Northfield.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Northfield:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Jefferson County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bullitt County Hardin County Henry County Meade County Nelson County Oldham County Shelby County Spencer County Trimble County Clark County Floyd County Harrison County Jefferson County Scott County Washington County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Northfield. 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 . 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 Northfield, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Northfield) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.