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 Walltown (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 Walltown. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Walltown is located in Casey County .
To see how the shape of Kentucky's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Casey County : Adair , Boyle , Lincoln , Marion , Pulaski , Russell & Taylor .
Below are the counties that are near Walltown. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Walltown:
Casey County (The home county of Walltown)
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Middleburg (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Middleburg is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleburg Yosemite (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Bethelridge (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Bethelridge is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethelridge Argyle (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Argyle is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle Ware (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Ware is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ware Gilpin (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Gilpin is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilpin Cantown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Cantown is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantown Mintonville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Mintonville is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mintonville Liberty (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Labascus (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Labascus is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Labascus Evona (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Evona is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evona Phil (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Phil is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phil Adair County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Barnett Springs (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Barnett Springs is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnett Springs Pellyton (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Pellyton is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pellyton Eunice (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Eunice is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eunice Casey Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Casey Creek is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casey Creek Neatsville (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Neatsville is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neatsville Feathersburg (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Feathersburg is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Feathersburg Ella (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Sano (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Sano is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sano Dunbar Hill (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Dunbar Hill is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunbar Hill Knifley (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Knifley is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knifley Speck (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Speck is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speck Purdy (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Purdy is located in Adair County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purdy Boyle County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Junction City (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Shelby City (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Shelby City is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelby City Alum Springs (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Alum Springs is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alum Springs Forkland (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Forkland is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forkland Parksville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Wilsonville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Wilsonville is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsonville Hedgeville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Hedgeville is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedgeville Clifton (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Clifton is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton Danville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
West Danville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
West Danville is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Danville Mitchellsburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Mitchellsburg is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchellsburg Atoka (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Atoka is located in Boyle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atoka Garrard County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Lancaster (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Hyattsville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Hyattsville is located in Garrard County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyattsville Cartersville (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Cartersville is located in Garrard County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartersville Lowell (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Lowell is located in Garrard County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell Paint Lick (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Bryantsville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Nina (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Nina is located in Garrard County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nina Stone (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Stone is located in Garrard County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Waynesburg (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Waynesburg is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waynesburg Kings Mountain (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Kings Mountain is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Mountain South Fork (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
South Fork is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork New Salem (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
New Salem is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Salem Mount Salem (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Mount Salem is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Salem Geneva (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Geneva is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva Highland (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Highland is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Jumbo (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Jumbo is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jumbo McKinney (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Miracle (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Miracle is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miracle Ottenheim (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Ottenheim is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottenheim Blue Lick (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Blue Lick is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Lick Madison County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Wallaceton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Wallaceton is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallaceton Slate Lick (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Slate Lick is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Lick Berea (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Buggytown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Buggytown is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buggytown Happy Landing (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Happy Landing is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Landing Kirksville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Kirksville is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirksville Middletown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Middletown is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown Round Hill (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Round Hill is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Hill Silver Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Silver Creek is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Creek Marion County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Gravel Switch (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Gravel Switch is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravel Switch Bradfordsville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Riley (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Riley is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riley Salleetown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Salleetown is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salleetown Penick (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Penick is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penick Greenbriar (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Greenbriar is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenbriar Peck Ford (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Peck Ford is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peck Ford Poplar Corner (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Poplar Corner is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Corner Phillipsburg (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Phillipsburg is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillipsburg Mercer County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Nevada (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Nevada is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevada Burgin (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Dixville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Dixville is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixville Stewart (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Stewart is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stewart Montgomery County
Hedgeville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Hedgeville is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedgeville Hedgeville has also been known as:
Hedges Pulaski County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Eubank (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Ansel (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Ansel is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ansel Science Hill (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Bee Lick (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Bee Lick is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bee Lick Woodstock (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Woodstock is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock Dabney (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Dabney is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dabney Walnut Grove (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Walnut Grove is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove Coin (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Coin is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coin Nancy (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Grundy (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Grundy is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grundy Shopville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Shopville is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shopville Somerset (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Rockcastle County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Ottawa (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Ottawa is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottawa Gum Sulphur (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Gum Sulphur is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gum Sulphur Brodhead (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Hansford (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Hansford is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hansford Mount Vernon (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Renfro Valley (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Wildie (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Wildie is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildie Conway (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Conway is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conway Orlando (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Orlando is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orlando Mullins (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Mullins is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullins Livingston (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Disputanta (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Disputanta is located in Rockcastle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Disputanta Russell County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Salem (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Salem is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem Russell Springs (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Middletown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Middletown is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown Jamestown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Esto (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Esto is located in Russell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esto Taylor County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Mannsville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Mannsville is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mannsville Acton (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Acton is located in Taylor County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acton Elk Horn (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Wayne County
The following are listed by their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Frazer (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Frazer is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frazer Mill Springs (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Mill Springs is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Springs Rankin (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Rankin is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankin
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Walltown, see our County-by-County Page for Walltown .
Cemeteries Near Walltown ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Walltown.
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 Walltown - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Walltown covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Dunham Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Falconbury Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Wall Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Salyer Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Benton Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Grove Ridge Church Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Calvary Ridge Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Hatter Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Statham Cemetery
The Statham Cemetery is located on private property - be sure to secure permission before visiting.
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Statham Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2234284 <2>
Durham Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Friendship Church Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Brown Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Continue List (450 more) ...
Singleton Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Double Spring Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Gooch Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 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.<3>
While we didn't find Walltown in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Walltown.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Walltown, with the one closest to Walltown listed first.
Duncan (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Duncan is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duncan Waynesburg (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Waynesburg is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waynesburg Kings Mountain (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Kings Mountain is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Mountain Eubank (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
South Fork (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
South Fork is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork Middleburg (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Middleburg is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleburg Yosemite (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Bethelridge (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Bethelridge is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethelridge Mount Salem (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Mount Salem is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Salem Ansel (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Ansel is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ansel Estesburg (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Estesburg is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estesburg Highland (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Highland is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Continue List (13 more) ...
Gilpin (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Gilpin is located in Casey County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilpin Pulaski (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Pulaski is located in Pulaski County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pulaski McKinney (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Walltown. See our List of 1890's Communities around Walltown .
Newspapers Published in Walltown ...
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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Walltown.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Walltown, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Walltown.
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 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 Walltown:
Websites specific to Kentucky Pages specific to Casey County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Adair County Boyle County Garrard County Lincoln County Madison County Marion County Mercer County Montgomery County Pulaski County Rockcastle County Russell County Taylor County Wayne County Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Walltown. 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 Walltown, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Walltown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.