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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 Zoe (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 Zoe. 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 and doctors 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.

Zoe is located in Lee 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 Lee County: Breathitt, Estill, Jackson, Owsley & Wolfe.

Below are the counties that are near Zoe. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Zoe:

  • Lee County     (The home county of Zoe)
  • Bath County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zoe, with the one closest to Zoe listed first.
    • Little Slate Creek
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Little Slate Creek is located in Bath County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Slate Creek
    • Mill Creek
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Mill Creek is located in Bath County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Creek
    • Suddith
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Pine Grove
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Black Sulpher Spring
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Peeled Oak
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Olympia
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Olympia is located in Bath County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olympia
    • Preston
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Salt Lick
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Breathitt County
  • Clark County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zoe, with the one closest to Zoe listed first.
    • Log Lick
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Rabbit Town
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Rabbit Town is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rabbit Town
    • Rightangle
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Kiddville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Clay County
  • Estill County
  • Jackson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zoe, with the one closest to Zoe listed first.
    • Foxtown
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Gray Hawk
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • McKee
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Waneta
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Waneta is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waneta
    • Kerby Knob
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Sandgap
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Sandgap is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandgap
    • Tyner
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Tyner is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyner
    • Annville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Dabolt
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Dabolt is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dabolt
  • Madison County
  • Magoffin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zoe, with the one closest to Zoe listed first.
    • Netty
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Ova
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Edna
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Edna is located in Magoffin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edna
    • Elsie
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Elsie is located in Magoffin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elsie
  • Menifee County
  • Montgomery County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zoe, with the one closest to Zoe listed first.
    • Jeffersonville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Hope
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Camargo
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Camargo is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camargo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,151 people
    • Levee
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Spencer Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Spencer Village is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer Village
    • Prewitt
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Mount Sterling
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Reid Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Reid Village is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reid Village
  • Morgan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zoe, with the one closest to Zoe listed first.
    • Maytown
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Ezel
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Mize
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Mize is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mize
    • Grassy Creek
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Cannel City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Cannel City is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannel City
    • Ebon
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Malone
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Malone is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malone
    • West Liberty
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Yocum
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Owsley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zoe, with the one closest to Zoe listed first.
    • Pebworth
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Booneville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Lerose
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Lerose is located in Owsley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lerose
    • Vincent
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Vincent is located in Owsley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
    • Travellers Rest
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Southfork
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Ricetown
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Ricetown is located in Owsley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ricetown
    • Island City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Island City is located in Owsley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
    • Sebastian
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Mistletoe
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Mistletoe is located in Owsley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mistletoe
  • Perry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zoe, with the one closest to Zoe listed first.
    • Buckhorn
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Gays Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Gays Creek is located in Perry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gays Creek
    • Saul
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Saul is located in Perry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saul
    • Chavies
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Powell County
  • Rowan County
  • Wolfe County

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Zoe, see our County-by-County Page for Zoe.

Cemeteries Near Zoe ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Zoe.

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 Zoe - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Zoe covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Zoe, with the one closest to Zoe listed first.

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 Zoe in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Zoe.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Zoe, with the one closest to Zoe listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Zoe. See our List of 1890's Communities around Zoe.

Newspapers Published in Zoe ...

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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Zoe.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Zoe, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Zoe.

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 Zoe:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>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 Zoe, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Zoe) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.