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 Cockrell Run (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 Cockrell Run. 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 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.
Cockrell Run is primarily located in Pike County . A portion of Cockrell Run extends into Scioto County .
To see how the shape of Ohio's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pike County : Adams , Highland , Jackson , Ross & Scioto .
Below are the counties that are near Cockrell Run. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cockrell Run:
Pike County (The home county of Cockrell Run)
The following are listed by their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Wakefield (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Wakefield is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wakefield Wetmore (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Wetmore is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wetmore Shyville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Shyville is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shyville Coopersville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Coopersville is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopersville Sargents (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Sargents is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sargents Riverdale (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Riverdale is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale Zahn's Corners (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Zahn's Corners is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zahn's Corners Zahn's Corners has also been known as:
Zann's Corners Robbins ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Robbins is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robbins Jasper (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Jasper is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jasper Camp (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Camp is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Greggs (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Greggs is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greggs Piketon (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Beaver (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Adams County
The following are listed by their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Jaybird (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Jaybird is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jaybird Mineral Springs (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Mineral Springs is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Springs Locust Grove (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Locust Grove is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove Blue Creek (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Peebles (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Louden (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Louden is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louden Lynx (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Lynx is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynx Moore ‑ Historic(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Moore is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moore Squirrel Town (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Squirrel Town is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squirrel Town Dunkinsville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Dunkinsville is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunkinsville May Hill (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
May Hill is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May Hill Wheat Ridge (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Wheat Ridge is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheat Ridge Rome (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Rome is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rome Population from the 2020 Census: 95 people
Gallia County
The following are listed by their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Centerville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Centerville is located in Gallia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville Population from the 2020 Census: 98 people
Edna ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Edna is located in Gallia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edna Highland County
The following are listed by their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Sinking Spring (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Sinking Spring is located in Highland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sinking Spring Population from the 2020 Census: 131 people
Elmville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Elmville is located in Highland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmville Barretts Mills (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Barretts Mills is located in Highland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barretts Mills Turkey (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Turkey is located in Highland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey North Uniontown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
North Uniontown is located in Highland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Uniontown Marshall (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Marshall is located in Highland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshall Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Glade (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Glade is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glade Limerick (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Limerick is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limerick Jackson (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Monroe (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Monroe is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monroe Banner ‑ Historic(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Banner is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banner Blackfork Junction (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Blackfork Junction is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackfork Junction Petrea (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Petrea is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petrea Oak Hill (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Coalton (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Coalton is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalton Population from the 2020 Census: 473 people
Altoona (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Altoona is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altoona Ray (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Ray is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ray Former names for Ray:
Rays Raysville Rempel (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Rempel is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rempel Glen Roy (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Glen Roy is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Roy Lawrence County
The following are listed by their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Vernon (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Vernon is located in Lawrence County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernon Pedro (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Pedro is located in Lawrence County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedro Johns Creek ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Johns Creek is located in Lawrence County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johns Creek Vesuvius ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Vesuvius is located in Lawrence County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesuvius Rome (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Rome is located in Lawrence County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rome Hanging Rock (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Hanging Rock is located in Lawrence County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanging Rock Population from the 2020 Census: 214 people
Sherritts (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Sherritts is located in Lawrence County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherritts Ross County
The following are listed by their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Alma (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Alma is located in Ross County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma Nipgen (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Nipgen is located in Ross County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nipgen Summithill (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Summithill is located in Ross County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summithill Richmond Dale (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Richmond Dale is located in Ross County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond Dale Massieville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Massieville is located in Ross County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Massieville Deadman Crossing (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Deadman Crossing is located in Ross County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadman Crossing Knockemstiff ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Knockemstiff is located in Ross County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knockemstiff Schooley (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Schooley is located in Ross County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schooley Schooley has also been known as:
Schooley Station Dills (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Dills is located in Ross County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dills Bainbridge (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Bourneville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Bourneville is located in Ross County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bourneville Chillicothe (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
North Fork Village (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
North Fork Village is located in Ross County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fork Village Scioto County
The following are listed by their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Bear Creek (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Bear Creek is located in Scioto County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Creek Lucasville (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Purdy Corners (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Purdy Corners is located in Scioto County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purdy Corners Minford (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Arion (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Arion is located in Scioto County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arion Rosemount (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Rosemount is located in Scioto County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosemount Harrison Mills (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Harrison Mills is located in Scioto County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison Mills Lombardsville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Lombardsville is located in Scioto County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lombardsville Otway (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Youngs (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Youngs is located in Scioto County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs West Portsmouth (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
West Portsmouth is located in Scioto County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Portsmouth New Boston (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Rarden (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Vinton County
The following are listed by their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Richland (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Richland is located in Vinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland Hamden (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Greenup County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Frost (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Frost is located in Greenup County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost South Portsmouth (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
South Portsmouth is located in Greenup County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Portsmouth South Shore (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Grays Branch (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Grays Branch is located in Greenup County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grays Branch Lloyd (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Lloyd is located in Greenup County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lloyd Lynn (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Lynn is located in Greenup County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynn Greenup (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
York (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
York is located in Greenup County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for York Wurtland (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Wurtland is located in Greenup County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wurtland Population from the 2020 Census: 1,013 people
Worthington (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Worthington is located in Greenup County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worthington Population from the 2020 Census: 1,488 people
Lewis County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Firebrick (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Firebrick is located in Lewis County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Firebrick Quincy (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Quincy is located in Lewis County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quincy Garrison (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Garrison is located in Lewis County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrison Buena Vista (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Buena Vista is located in Lewis County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista Vanceburg (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cockrell Run, see our County-by-County Page for Cockrell Run .
Cemeteries Near Cockrell Run ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cockrell Run.
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 Cockrell Run - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cockrell Run covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
New Scioto Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Scioto Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Bailey Chapel Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Luckett Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Howard Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Jacobs Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Haskind Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Miller Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Harger Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Hall Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Owl Creek Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Hawk Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Continue List (691 more) ...
Lauman Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Big Run Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Pyle Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
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.<2>
While we didn't find Cockrell Run in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cockrell Run.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cockrell Run, with the one closest to Cockrell Run listed first.
Clifford (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Clifford is located in Scioto County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifford Wakefield (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Wakefield is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wakefield Wetmore (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Wetmore is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wetmore Shyville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Shyville is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shyville Coopersville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Coopersville is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopersville Bear Creek (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Bear Creek is located in Scioto County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Creek Sargents (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Sargents is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sargents Lucasville (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Germany (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Germany is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germany Riverdale (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Riverdale is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale Crabtree (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Crabtree is located in Scioto County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crabtree Robbins ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Robbins is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robbins Continue List (17 more) ...
Jasper (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Jasper is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jasper Givens (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Givens is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Givens Camp (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Camp is located in Pike County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cockrell Run. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cockrell Run .
Newspapers Published in Cockrell Run ...
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 63 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cockrell Run.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cockrell Run, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Cockrell Run.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Cockrell Run:
Websites specific to Ohio Pages specific to Pike County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Adams County Gallia County Highland County Jackson County Lawrence County Ross County Scioto County Vinton County Greenup County Lewis County Cemetery Information and Directories for Ohio Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Cockrell Run. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Ohio: https://ohio.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. 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 Cockrell Run, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. 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- Cockrell Run) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.