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 Ricetown (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 Ricetown. 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.
Ricetown is located in Owsley 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 Owsley County : Breathitt , Clay , Jackson & Lee .
Below are the counties that are near Ricetown. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Ricetown:
Owsley County (The home county of Ricetown)
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Sebastian (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Sebastian is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sebastian Southfork (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Southfork is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southfork Mistletoe (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Mistletoe is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mistletoe Lerose (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Lerose is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lerose Booneville (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Island City (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Island City is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City Travellers Rest (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Travellers Rest is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Travellers Rest Vincent (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Vincent is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent Pebworth (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Pebworth is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pebworth Breathitt County
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Jetts Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Jetts Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jetts Creek Copebranch (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Copebranch is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copebranch Oakdale (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Oakdale is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakdale Whick (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Whick is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whick Chenowee (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Chenowee is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chenowee Lost Creek (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Lost Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek Frozen Creek (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Frozen Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frozen Creek Jackson (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Kragon (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Kragon is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kragon Quicksand (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Quicksand is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quicksand Wolverine (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Wolverine is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolverine Clayhole (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Clayhole is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayhole Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Teges (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Teges is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teges Oneida (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Oneida is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oneida Sextons Creek (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Sextons Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sextons Creek Barcreek (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Barcreek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barcreek Laurel Creek (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Laurel Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel Creek Eriline (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Eriline is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eriline Burning Springs (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Burning Springs is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burning Springs Fall Rock (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Fall Rock is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fall Rock Big Creek (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Big Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Creek Sidell (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Sidell is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidell Manchester (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Benge (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Benge is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benge Estill County
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Lynch Town (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Lynch Town is located in Estill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynch Town Miller's Creek (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Miller's Creek is located in Estill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller's Creek Wagersville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Wagersville is located in Estill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagersville Ravenna (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Furnace (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Furnace is located in Estill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furnace Irvine (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Locust Branch (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Locust Branch is located in Estill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Branch Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Tyner (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Tyner is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyner Gray Hawk (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Gray Hawk is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Hawk Annville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
McKee (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Foxtown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Foxtown is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxtown Dabolt (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Dabolt is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dabolt Waneta (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Waneta is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waneta Peoples (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Peoples is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peoples Sandgap (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Sandgap is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandgap Kerby Knob (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Kerby Knob is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerby Knob Knott County
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Fisty (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Fisty is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisty Emmalena (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Emmalena is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmalena Knox County
Woollum (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Woollum is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woollum Laurel County
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Bush (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Bush is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush Greenmount (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Greenmount is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenmount Marydell (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Marydell is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marydell Lake (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Lake is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Maplesville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Maplesville is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplesville East Bernstadt (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Pittsburg (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Pittsburg is located in Laurel County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg Lee County
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Lone (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Lone is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Athol (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Athol is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athol Tallega (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Tallega is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tallega Idamay (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Idamay is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idamay Saint Helens (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Beattyville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Primrose (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Primrose is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Primrose Heidelberg (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Heidelberg is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heidelberg Vada (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Vada is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vada Williba (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Williba is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williba Fincastle (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Fincastle is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fincastle Zoe (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Zoe is located in Lee County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zoe Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Sizerock (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Sizerock is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sizerock Confluence (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Confluence is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Confluence Bear Branch (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Bear Branch is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Branch Thousandsticks (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Thousandsticks is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thousandsticks Hyden (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Wooton (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Wooton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooton Wendover (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Essie (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Essie is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essie Stinnett (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Stinnett is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinnett Roark (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Roark is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roark Hoskinston (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Hoskinston is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoskinston Smilax (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Smilax is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smilax Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Buckhorn (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Saul (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Saul is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saul Gays Creek (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Gays Creek is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gays Creek Chavies (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Chavies is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chavies Krypton (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Krypton is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krypton Busy (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Busy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Busy Yerkes (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Yerkes is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yerkes Butterfly (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Butterfly is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butterfly Dice (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Dice is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dice Bonnyman (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Bonnyman is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnyman Stacy (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Stacy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacy Avawam (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Avawam is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avawam Powell County
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Barker Branch (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Barker Branch is located in Powell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barker Branch South Fork (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
South Fork is located in Powell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork Slade (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Knowlton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Knowlton is located in Powell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowlton Cat Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Cat Creek is located in Powell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cat Creek Wolfe County
The following are listed by their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Mary (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Mary is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mary Bethany (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Bethany is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethany Campton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Rogers (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Pine Ridge (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Lexie (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Lexie is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lexie Lee City (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Lee City is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee City Belknap (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Belknap is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belknap Hazel Green (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Hazel Green is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazel Green Toliver (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Toliver is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toliver Valeria (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Valeria is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valeria Helechawa (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Helechawa is located in Wolfe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helechawa
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Ricetown, see our County-by-County Page for Ricetown .
Cemeteries Near Ricetown ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ricetown.
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 Ricetown - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Ricetown covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Esau - Gabbard Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esau - Gabbard Cemetery The Esau - Gabbard Cemetery has also been known as:
Gabbard Branch Cemetery Henry Gabbard / James Cole Cemetery Indian Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery Wilson Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Horn Hill Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Callahan Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Cowcreek Church Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Griffith Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Bishop Bend Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Williams Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
King Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Bishop Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Noble Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Job Allen Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Job Allen Cemetery The Job Allen Cemetery has also been known as:
Allen Cemetery Continue List (543 more) ...
Cortland Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Morris Fork Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Turner 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.<3>
While we didn't find Ricetown in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Ricetown.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Ricetown, with the one closest to Ricetown listed first.
Sebastian (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Sebastian is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sebastian Southfork (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Southfork is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southfork Conkling (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Conkling is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conkling Eversole (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Eversole is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eversole Teges (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Teges is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teges Island City (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Island City is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City Crockettsville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Crockettsville is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crockettsville Jetts Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Jetts Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jetts Creek Ammie (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Ammie is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ammie Travellers Rest (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Travellers Rest is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Travellers Rest Sturgeon (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Sturgeon is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sturgeon Sextons Creek (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Sextons Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sextons Creek Continue List (15 more) ...
Copebranch (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Copebranch is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copebranch Gays Creek (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Gays Creek is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gays Creek Shoulderblade (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Shoulderblade is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoulderblade
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Ricetown. See our List of 1890's Communities around Ricetown .
Newspapers Published in Ricetown ...
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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ricetown.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ricetown, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Ricetown.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Ricetown:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Owsley County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Breathitt County Clay County Estill County Jackson County Knott County Knox County Laurel County Lee County Leslie County Perry County Powell County Wolfe County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Ricetown. 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 Ricetown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Ricetown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.