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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 Kuhns (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 Kuhns. 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 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.

Kuhns is located in Carteret County.

To see how the shape of North Carolina's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Carteret County: Craven, Hyde, Jones, Onslow & Pamlico.

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

  • Carteret County     (The home county of Kuhns)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kuhns, with the one closest to Kuhns listed first.
    • Stella
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Peletier
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Peletier is located in Carteret County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peletier
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 721 people
    • Cape Carteret
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Cedar Point
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Bogue
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Bogue is located in Carteret County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogue
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 706 people
    • Emerald Isle
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Broad Creek
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Holly Springs
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Holly Springs is located in Carteret County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Springs
    • Conner Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Conner Village is located in Carteret County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conner Village
    • Newport
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Indian Beach
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Salter Path
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Craven County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kuhns, with the one closest to Kuhns listed first.
    • Havelock
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Manteo
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Manteo is located in Craven County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manteo
    • Slocum Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Slocum Village is located in Craven County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slocum Village
    • Hancock Village
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Hancock Village is located in Craven County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock Village
    • Neuse Forest
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Neuse Forest is located in Craven County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neuse Forest
    • Riverdale
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cherry Point ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Brices Creek
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Brices Creek is located in Craven County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brices Creek
    • River Bend
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • River Bend is located in Craven County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Bend
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,006 people
    • Snug Harbor
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Snug Harbor is located in Craven County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snug Harbor
    • Trent Woods
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Trent Woods is located in Craven County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trent Woods
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,991 people
    • James City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • James City is located in Craven County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James City
  • Duplin County
    • Fountain
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Fountain is located in Duplin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain
  • Jones County
  • Onslow County
  • Pamlico County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kuhns, with the one closest to Kuhns listed first.
    • Minnesott Beach
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Minnesott Beach is located in Pamlico County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnesott Beach
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 423 people
    • Arapahoe
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Reelsboro
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Grantsboro
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Alliance
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Oriental
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Kuhns ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kuhns.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kuhns, with the one closest to Kuhns 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.<4>

While we didn't find Kuhns in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kuhns.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Kuhns ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kuhns.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kuhns, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kuhns.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Kuhns:

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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Kuhns) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Kuhns, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.