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 Sassafras (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 Sassafras. 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 and doctors 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.
Sassafras is located in Knott County .
To see how the shape of Kentucky's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Knott County : Breathitt , Floyd , Letcher , Magoffin , Perry & Pike .
Below are the counties that are near Sassafras. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sassafras:
Knott County (The home county of Sassafras)
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Littcarr (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Littcarr is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littcarr Redfox (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Redfox is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redfox Carrie (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Carrie is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrie Emmalena (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Emmalena is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmalena Fisty (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Fisty is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisty Hindman (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Tina (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Tina is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tina Pine Top (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Leburn (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Garner (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Garner is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garner Vest (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Pippa Passes (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Pippa Passes is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pippa Passes Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
Kite (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Kite is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kite Breathitt County
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Hardshell (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Hardshell is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardshell Clayhole (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Clayhole is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayhole Flintville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Flintville is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flintville Whick (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Whick is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whick Lost Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Lost Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek Kragon (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Kragon is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kragon Quicksand (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Quicksand is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quicksand Rousseau (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Rousseau is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau Jackson (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Big Creek (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Big Creek is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Creek Eriline (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Eriline is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eriline Floyd County
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Dema (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Dema is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dema Bypro (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Wheelwright Junction (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Wheelwright (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Wheelwright is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelwright Population from the 2020 Census: 487 people
Weeksbury (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Weeksbury is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weeksbury Garrett (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Garrett is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrett Hi Hat (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Lackey (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Lackey is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackey Melvin (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Melvin is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melvin Wayland (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Wayland is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland Population from the 2020 Census: 373 people
Hueysville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
McDowell (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Drift (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Drift is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drift Harlan County
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Cumberland (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Chad (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Chad is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chad Benham (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Big Laurel (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Big Laurel is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Laurel Totz (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Lynch (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Closplint (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Closplint is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Closplint Louellen (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Louellen is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louellen Putney (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Bailey Creek (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Bailey Creek is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Creek Darkmont (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Darkmont is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darkmont Holmes Mill (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Holmes Mill is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmes Mill Short Town (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Short Town is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Short Town Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Smilax (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Smilax is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smilax Yeaddiss (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Yeaddiss is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeaddiss Wooton (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Wooton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooton Cutshin (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Cutshin is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshin Hyden (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Confluence (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Confluence is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Confluence Wendover (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Hoskinston (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Hoskinston is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoskinston Stinnett (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Stinnett is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinnett Thousandsticks (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Thousandsticks is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thousandsticks Chappell (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Chappell is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappell Asher (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Asher is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asher Essie (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Essie is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essie Letcher County
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Blackey (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Blackey is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackey Population from the 2020 Census: 141 people
Jeremiah (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Letcher (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Letcher is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letcher Isom (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Isom is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isom Hallie (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Roxana (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Roxana is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxana Colson (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Colson is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colson Hot Spot (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Hot Spot is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Spot Hot Spot has also been known as:
Hotspot Uz (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Uz is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uz Bellcraft (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Bellcraft is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellcraft Flint (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Flint is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Kings Creek (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Kings Creek is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Creek West Whitesburg (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
West Whitesburg is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Whitesburg Magoffin County
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Gunlock (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Gunlock is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunlock Gapville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Gapville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gapville Gypsy (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Gypsy is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsy Owsley County
Mistletoe (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Mistletoe is located in Owsley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mistletoe Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Vicco (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Vicco is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicco Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
Scuddy (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Happy (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Happy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Acup (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Acup is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acup Jeff (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Viper (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Viper is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viper Hardburly (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Hardburly is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardburly Cornettsville (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Cornettsville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornettsville Tribbey (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Tribbey is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tribbey Hazard (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Bulan (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Bulan is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulan Dwarf (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Dwarf is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwarf Combs (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Combs is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Combs Pike County
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Myra (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Myra is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myra Dorton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Jonancy (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Jonancy is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonancy Virgie (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Virgie is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgie Robinson Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Robinson Creek is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Creek Lee County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Darnell Town (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Darnell Town is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darnell Town Keokee (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Keokee is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keokee Rawhide (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Rawhide is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rawhide Saint Charles (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Saint Charles is located in Lee County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Charles Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
Norton City (VA)
Norton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Wise County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Osaka (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Osaka is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osaka Almira (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Almira is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almira Haddonfield (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Haddonfield is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haddonfield Pound (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Appalachia (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Exeter (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Exeter is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeter Kent Junction (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Kent Junction is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Junction Big Stone Gap (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Blackwood (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Blackwood is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwood East Stone Gap (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
East Stone Gap is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Stone Gap Esserville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Esserville is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esserville Hamilton town (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Hamilton town is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton town
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Sassafras, see our County-by-County Page for Sassafras .
Cemeteries Near Sassafras ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sassafras.
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 Sassafras - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Sassafras covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Roark Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Cornett Hill Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Lotts Creek United Baptist Church Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Franklin Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Upper Kelly Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Hall Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Solomon Whitaker Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
James D Caudill Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Madden Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Young Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Turner Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Dixon Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Continue List (452 more) ...
Ulous Hurt Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulous Hurt Cemetery The Ulous Hurt Cemetery has also been known as:
Eulis Hurt Cemetery Hurt Family Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2523285 <2>
Owen Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Dickson Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickson Cemetery The Dickson Cemetery has also been known as:
Dixon Cemetery
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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Sassafras had a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Sassafras, with the one closest to Sassafras listed first.
Viper (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Viper is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viper Indian Bottom (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Indian Bottom is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Bottom Jeremiah (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Hazard (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Dwarf (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Dwarf is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwarf Hindman (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Roxana (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Roxana is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxana Pine Top (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Smoot Creek (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Smoot Creek is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoot Creek Vest (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Kings Creek (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Kings Creek is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Creek Cutshin (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Cutshin is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshin Continue List (16 more) ...
Linefork (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Linefork is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linefork Whitesburg (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Deane (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Deane is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deane
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sassafras. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sassafras .
Newspapers Published in Sassafras ...
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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sassafras.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sassafras, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Sassafras.
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 Sassafras:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Knott County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Breathitt County Clay County Floyd County Harlan County Leslie County Letcher County Magoffin County Owsley County Perry County Pike County Lee County Norton City Wise County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Sassafras. 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 Sassafras, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sassafras) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.