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 Baltimore (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 Baltimore. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.
Baltimore is located in Cocke County .
To see how the shape of Tennessee's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cocke County : Haywood (NC) , Madison (NC) , Greene , Hamblen , Jefferson & Sevier .
Below are the counties that are near Baltimore. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Baltimore:
Cocke County (The home county of Baltimore)
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Parrottsville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
West Myers (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
West Myers is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Myers Estimated population in 2014: 2,282 people
Del Rio (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Bridgeport (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Bridgeport is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport Jimtown (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Jimtown is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jimtown Nough (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Nough is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nough Wolf Creek (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Wolf Creek is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Creek Newport (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Bybee (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Edwina (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Edwina is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwina Jaybird (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Jaybird is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jaybird Estimated population in 2014: 3,299 people
Tom Town (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Tom Town is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tom Town Wilsonville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Wilsonville is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsonville Grainger County
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Marshalls Ferry (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Marshalls Ferry is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshalls Ferry Wyatt Village (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Wyatt Village is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyatt Village Bean Station (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Dyers Ferry (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Dyers Ferry is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyers Ferry Estimated population in 2014: 16,839 people
Oakland (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Oakland is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland Estimated population in 2014: 7,316 people
Wa-Ni Village (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Wa-Ni Village is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wa-Ni Village Beans (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Beans is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beans Estimated population in 2014: 3,084 people
Bowen (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Bowen is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowen Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Sirenburg ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Sirenburg is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sirenburg Cedar Creek (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Cedar Creek is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek Bright Hope (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Bright Hope is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bright Hope Little Chucky ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Little Chucky is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Chucky Warrensburg (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Warrensburg is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrensburg Beulah (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Beulah is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beulah Midway (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Mosheim (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Camp Creek (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Camp Creek is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Creek Greeneville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Marvin (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Marvin is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marvin Albany (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Albany is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany Forest Hills (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Forest Hills is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Hills Estimated population in 2014: 5,027 people
Hamblen County
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Silver City (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Silver City is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City Monte Vista Estates (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Monte Vista Estates is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monte Vista Estates Estimated population in 2014: 2,860 people
East Village (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
East Village is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Village Whitesburg (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Morristown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Bright ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Bright is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bright Estimated population in 2014: 2,942 people
Casablanca (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Casablanca is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casablanca Estimated population in 2014: 2,223 people
Collons Ferry (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Collons Ferry is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collons Ferry Estimated population in 2014: 986 people
Hawkins County
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Bulls Gap (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Persia (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Persia is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Persia Red Bridge Ferry (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Red Bridge Ferry is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bridge Ferry Estimated population in 2014: 1,135 people
Mooresburg (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Strahl (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Strahl is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strahl Galbraith Springs (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Galbraith Springs is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galbraith Springs Mooresburg Springs (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Mooresburg Springs is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mooresburg Springs Population from the 2010 Census: 941 people
Rogersville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Amis (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Amis is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amis Kepler (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Kepler is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kepler Jefferson County
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Baneberry (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Leadvale (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Leadvale is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leadvale White Pine (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Edna (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Edna is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edna Dandridge (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Talbott (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Rock Town (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Rock Town is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Town Flat Gap (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Flat Gap is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Gap Alena ‑ Historic(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Alena is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alena Jefferson City (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Piedmont (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Piedmont is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piedmont Rocky Valley (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Rocky Valley is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Valley Estimated population in 2014: 1,771 people
Cook Mill (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Cook Mill is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cook Mill Estimated population in 2014: 31,335 people
Sevier County
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
East Fork (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
East Fork is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Fork Pittman Center (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Pittman Center is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittman Center Population from the 2020 Census: 545 people
Harrisburg (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Harrisburg is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisburg Estimated population in 2014: 6,219 people
Millican Grove (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Millican Grove is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millican Grove Middle Creek (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Middle Creek is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Creek Catlettsburg (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Catlettsburg is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catlettsburg Henry Crossroads (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Henry Crossroads is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry Crossroads Sevierville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Pigeon Forge (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Unicoi County
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Flag Pond (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Flag Pond is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flag Pond Loganton ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Loganton is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loganton Clear Branch (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Clear Branch is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Branch Former name for Clear Branch:
Kittyton Washington County
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Limestone (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Nolichucky ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Nolichucky is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolichucky Population from the 2010 Census: 5,861 people
Mill Brook (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Mill Brook is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Brook Buncombe County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Sandymush (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Sandymush is located in Buncombe County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandymush Sandymush has also been known as:
Sandy Mush Alexander (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Leicester (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Haywood County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Mount Sterling (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Mount Sterling is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Sterling Teague ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Teague is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague Madison County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Hot Springs (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Lynch ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Lynch is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynch Bluff (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Bluff is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Allenstand (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Allenstand is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allenstand Hurricane (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Hurricane is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurricane Spring Creek (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Spring Creek is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek Stackhouse (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Stackhouse is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stackhouse Chapel Hill (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Chapel Hill is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill Trust (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Trust is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trust Cutshalltown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Cutshalltown is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshalltown White Rock (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
White Rock is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock Walnut (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Walnut is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Allegheny (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Allegheny is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allegheny
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Baltimore, see our County-by-County Page for Baltimore .
Cemeteries Near Baltimore ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Baltimore.
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 Baltimore - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Baltimore covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Faubion Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Kilgore Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Susong Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Ottinger Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
O'Dell Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
McNabb Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Harneds Chapel Graveyard (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Inman Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Smith Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Fox Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Mooneyham Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Mooneyham Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Continue List (729 more) ...
Mt. Olive Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Union Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Gray Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
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 Baltimore in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Baltimore.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Baltimore, with the one closest to Baltimore listed first.
Salem (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Salem is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem Parrottsville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Bridgeport (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Bridgeport is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport Del Rio (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Sirenburg ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Sirenburg is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sirenburg Ottinger (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Ottinger is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottinger Oldtown (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Oldtown is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oldtown Caney Branch (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Caney Branch is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney Branch Newport (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Nough (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Nough is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nough Wolf Creek (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Wolf Creek is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Creek Pate Hill (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Pate Hill is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pate Hill Continue List (13 more) ...
Edwina (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Edwina is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwina Jonestown ‑ Historic(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Jonestown is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonestown Bybee (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Baltimore. See our List of 1890's Communities around Baltimore .
Newspapers Published in Baltimore ...
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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Baltimore.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Baltimore, there are papers which were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Baltimore.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Baltimore:
Websites specific to Tennessee Pages specific to Cocke County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Grainger County Greene County Hamblen County Hawkins County Jefferson County Sevier County Unicoi County Washington County Buncombe County Haywood County Madison County Cemetery Information and Directories for Tennessee Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Baltimore. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.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 Baltimore, 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- Baltimore) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.