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 Smithsboro (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 Smithsboro. 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 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.
Smithsboro 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 Smithsboro. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Smithsboro:
Knott County (The home county of Smithsboro)
The following are listed by their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Littcarr (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Littcarr is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littcarr Redfox (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Redfox is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redfox Sassafras (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Pine Top (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Carrie (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Carrie is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrie Hindman (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Leburn (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Emmalena (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Emmalena is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmalena Tina (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Tina is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tina Garner (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Garner is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garner Pippa Passes (9 miles [14.5 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
Fisty (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Fisty is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisty Vest (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Breathitt County
The following are listed by their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Hardshell (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Hardshell is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardshell Clayhole (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Clayhole is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayhole Flintville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Flintville is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flintville Lost Creek (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Lost Creek is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek Whick (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Whick is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whick Kragon (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Kragon is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kragon Quicksand (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Quicksand is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quicksand Rousseau (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Rousseau is located in Breathitt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau Jackson (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Floyd County
The following are listed by their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Dema (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Dema is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dema Wheelwright (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Wheelwright is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelwright Population from the 2020 Census: 487 people
Bypro (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Wheelwright Junction (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Hi Hat (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Lackey (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Lackey is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackey Melvin (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Melvin is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melvin Wayland (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Wayland is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland Population from the 2020 Census: 373 people
Weeksbury (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Weeksbury is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weeksbury Garrett (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Garrett is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrett Hueysville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Beaver (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Beaver is located in Floyd County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Drift (21 miles [33.8 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 Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro 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)
Lynch (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Totz (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Big Laurel (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Big Laurel is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Laurel Closplint (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Closplint is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Closplint Louellen (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Louellen is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louellen 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 (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Short Town is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Short Town Putney (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Darkmont (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Darkmont is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darkmont Bailey Creek (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Bailey Creek is located in Harlan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Creek Leslie County
The following are listed by their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Yeaddiss (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Yeaddiss is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeaddiss Cutshin (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Cutshin is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshin Smilax (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Smilax is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smilax Wooton (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Wooton is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooton Confluence (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Confluence is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Confluence Hyden (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Wendover (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Chappell (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Chappell is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappell Hoskinston (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Hoskinston is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoskinston Stinnett (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Stinnett is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinnett Thousandsticks (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Thousandsticks is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thousandsticks Asher (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Asher is located in Leslie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asher Essie (27 miles [43.5 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 Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Isom (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Isom is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isom Jeremiah (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Blackey (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Blackey is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackey Population from the 2020 Census: 141 people
Letcher (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Letcher is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letcher Colson (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Colson is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colson Hallie (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Roxana (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Roxana is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxana Hot Spot (8 miles [12.9 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 (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Uz is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uz Bellcraft (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Bellcraft is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellcraft West Whitesburg (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
West Whitesburg is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Whitesburg Deane (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Deane is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deane Flint (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Flint is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Magoffin County
The following are listed by their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Gunlock (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Gunlock is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunlock Gapville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Gapville is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gapville Gypsy (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Gypsy is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsy Royalton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Royalton is located in Magoffin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royalton Perry County
The following are listed by their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Vicco (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Vicco is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicco Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
Acup (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Acup is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acup Happy (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Happy is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Scuddy (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Jeff (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Hardburly (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Hardburly is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardburly Cornettsville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Cornettsville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornettsville Tribbey (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Tribbey is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tribbey Viper (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Viper is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viper Bulan (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Bulan is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulan Dwarf (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Dwarf is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwarf Hazard (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Ary (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Pike County
The following are listed by their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Myra (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Myra is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myra Dorton (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Jonancy (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Jonancy is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonancy Virgie (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Virgie is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgie Robinson Creek (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Robinson Creek is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Creek Yeager (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Yeager is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeager Hellier (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Hellier is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hellier Lookout (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Lookout is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout Owsley (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Owsley is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owsley Ashcamp (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Ashcamp is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashcamp Coal Run Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Coal Run Village is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Run Village Population from the 2020 Census: 1,494 people
Fords Branch (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Fords Branch is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fords Branch Mayo Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Mayo Village is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo Village Dickenson County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Darwin (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Darwin is located in Dickenson County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darwin Clintwood (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Lee County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Darnell Town (25 miles [40.2 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 (29 miles [46.7 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 (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Wise County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Almira (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Almira is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almira Osaka (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Osaka is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osaka Haddonfield (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Haddonfield is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haddonfield Pound (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Exeter (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Exeter is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeter Appalachia (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Kent Junction (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Kent Junction is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Junction Blackwood (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Blackwood is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwood Big Stone Gap (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
East Stone Gap (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
East Stone Gap is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Stone Gap Esserville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Esserville is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esserville Hamilton town (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Hamilton town is located in Wise County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton town Wise (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Smithsboro, see our County-by-County Page for Smithsboro .
Cemeteries Near Smithsboro ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Smithsboro.
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 Smithsboro - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Smithsboro covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Franklin Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Madden Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Cornett Hill Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Roark Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Solomon Whitaker Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
James D Caudill Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Upper Kelly Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Dixon Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Christon Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Cody Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Young Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Lotts Creek United Baptist Church Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Continue List (506 more) ...
Dixon Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Horse Mill Point Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Carr Fork Memorial Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
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 Smithsboro in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Smithsboro.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Smithsboro, with the one closest to Smithsboro listed first.
Sassafras (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Jeremiah (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Indian Bottom (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Indian Bottom is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Bottom Pine Top (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Pine Top is located in Knott County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Top Hindman (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Roxana (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Roxana is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxana Smoot Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Smoot Creek is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoot Creek Viper (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Viper is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viper Dwarf (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Dwarf is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwarf Vest (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Hazard (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Whitesburg (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Continue List (13 more) ...
Deane (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Deane is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deane Kings Creek (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Kings Creek is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Creek Sergent (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Sergent is located in Letcher County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sergent
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Smithsboro. See our List of 1890's Communities around Smithsboro .
Newspapers Published in Smithsboro ...
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 Smithsboro.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Smithsboro, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Smithsboro.
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 Smithsboro:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Knott County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Breathitt County Floyd County Harlan County Leslie County Letcher County Magoffin County Perry County Pike County Dickenson 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 Smithsboro. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Kentucky: https://www.kentucky.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com . Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Smithsboro) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Smithsboro, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.