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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 Vienna (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 Vienna. 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 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.

Vienna is located in Forsyth 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 Forsyth County: Davidson, Davie, Guilford, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry & Yadkin.

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

  • Forsyth County     (The home county of Vienna)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vienna, with the one closest to Vienna listed first.
    • Vienna Forest
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Vienna Forest is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vienna Forest
    • Robin Hood Trace
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Robin Hood Trace is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robin Hood Trace
    • Hunters Trace
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Hunters Trace is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Trace
    • Sherwood Forest
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Sherwood Forest is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood Forest
    • Dorchester
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Dorchester is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorchester
    • Mill Brook
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Mill Brook is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Brook
    • River Ridge Run
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • River Ridge Run is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Ridge Run
    • Cutters Creek
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Cutters Creek is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutters Creek
    • Robinhood Forest
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Robinhood Forest is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinhood Forest
    • Cinnamon Ridge
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Cinnamon Ridge is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cinnamon Ridge
    • Eaglewood
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Eaglewood is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eaglewood
    • Grapewood
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Grapewood is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grapewood
  • Davidson County
  • Davie County
  • Guilford County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vienna, with the one closest to Vienna listed first.
    • Colfax
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Oak Ridge
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Sandy Ridge
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Sandy Ridge is located in Guilford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Ridge
    • Stokesdale
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • High Point
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Sherwood Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Sherwood Village is located in Guilford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood Village
    • Jamestown
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Guilford College
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Summerfield
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Allen Jay
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Pomona
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Pomona is located in Guilford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomona
  • Iredell County
  • Randolph County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vienna, with the one closest to Vienna listed first.
    • Archdale
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Trinity
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Rockingham County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vienna, with the one closest to Vienna listed first.
    • Ellisboro
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Gold Hill
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Gold Hill is located in Rockingham County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Hill
    • Madison
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Rowan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vienna, with the one closest to Vienna listed first.
    • Needmore
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Needmore is located in Rowan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Needmore
    • Woodleaf
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Mount Vernon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Pittsburg
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Pittsburg is located in Rowan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg
    • Ellis Crossroads
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Ellis Crossroads is located in Rowan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellis Crossroads
    • Shannon Park
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Shannon Park is located in Rowan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shannon Park
    • Yadkin
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Yadkin is located in Rowan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yadkin
    • Franklin
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Mocksville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Mocksville is located in Rowan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mocksville
    • Spencer
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Trading Ford
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Stokes County
  • Surry County
  • Wilkes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vienna, with the one closest to Vienna listed first.
    • New Castle ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • New Castle is located in Wilkes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Castle
    • Pleasant Hill
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Pleasant Hill is located in Wilkes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
    • Clingman
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Ronda
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Yadkin County

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

Cemeteries Near Vienna ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Vienna.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Vienna, with the one closest to Vienna 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Vienna had a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Vienna ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Vienna.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Vienna, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Vienna.

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 Vienna:

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 Vienna, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Vienna) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.