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 Ducktown (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 Ducktown. 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.
Ducktown is located in Washington 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 Washington County : Carter , Greene , Hawkins , Sullivan & Unicoi .
Below are the counties that are near Ducktown. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Ducktown:
Washington County (The home county of Ducktown)
The following are listed by their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Locust Mount (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Locust Mount is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Mount Big Sandy (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Big Sandy is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Sandy Estimated population in 2014: 542 people
Bowmantown (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Bowmantown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowmantown Population from the 2010 Census: 302 people
Mill Brook (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Mill Brook is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Brook Oakland (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Oakland is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland Fall Branch (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Harmony (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Harmony is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Leesburg (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Leesburg is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leesburg Wheelocktown ‑ Historic(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Wheelocktown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelocktown Limestone (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Telford (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Green Hill (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Green Hill is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hill Carter County
The following are listed by their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Pine Crest (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Pine Crest is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Crest Central (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Central is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Watauga (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Watauga is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watauga Population from the 2020 Census: 373 people
Biltmore (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Biltmore is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biltmore Gap Run (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Gap Run is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gap Run Elizabethton (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Woodby Hill (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Woodby Hill is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodby Hill Estimated population in 2014: 2,730 people
Tolley Town (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Tolley Town is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolley Town Hampton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Hunter (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Hunter is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter Siam (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Siam is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siam Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Milburnton (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Milburnton is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milburnton Jearoldstown (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Jearoldstown is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jearoldstown Centersville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Centersville is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centersville Rheatown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Rheatown is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rheatown Fairview (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Fairview is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Afton (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Baileyton (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Horse Creek (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Horse Creek is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horse Creek Estimated population in 2014: 284 people
Tusculum (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Tusculum is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tusculum Population from the 2020 Census: 2,669 people
Bolton Estates (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Bolton Estates is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolton Estates Estimated population in 2014: 5,152 people
Pleasant View (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Pleasant View is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View Estimated population in 2014: 4,251 people
Forest Hills (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
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 Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Whitesburg (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Silver City (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Silver City is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City Hancock County
The following are listed by their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Willis (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Willis is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willis Estimated population in 2014: 387 people
Kyles Ford (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Hawkins County
The following are listed by their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Chimneytop ‑ Historic(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Chimneytop is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chimneytop Blossom (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Blossom is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blossom Church Hill (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Block City (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Block City is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Block City Green Village (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Green Village is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Village Mount Carmel (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Rotherwood (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Rotherwood is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rotherwood Solitude ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Solitude is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solitude Greenland (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Greenland is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenland New Canton (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
New Canton is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Canton Surgoinsville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Kepler (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Kepler is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kepler Sullivan County
The following are listed by their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Blair Gap (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Blair Gap is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair Gap Estimated population in 2014: 1,870 people
Fordtown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Fordtown is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fordtown Kendrick Creek ‑ Historic(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Kendrick Creek is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendrick Creek Colonial Heights (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Beechwood Village (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Beechwood Village is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beechwood Village Wahoo ‑ Historic(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Wahoo is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahoo Borden Village (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Borden Village is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borden Village Kingsport (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Cherokee Village (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Cherokee Village is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Village Horace ‑ Historic(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Horace is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horace Colby ‑ Historic(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Colby is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colby Beartown (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Beartown is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beartown Unicoi County
The following are listed by their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Bumpus Cove (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Bumpus Cove is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bumpus Cove Estimated population in 2014: 729 people
Erwin (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Banner Hill (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Banner Hill is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banner Hill Population from the 2010 Census: 1,497 people
Indian Creek ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Indian Creek is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Creek Unicoi (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Whispering Pines (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Whispering Pines is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whispering Pines Ernestville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Ernestville is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ernestville Estimated population in 2014: 1,311 people
Clear Branch (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Clear Branch is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Branch Former name for Clear Branch:
Kittyton Loganton ‑ Historic(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Loganton is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loganton Flag Pond (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Flag Pond is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flag Pond Limestone Cove (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Limestone Cove is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone Cove Madison County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Allegheny (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Allegheny is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allegheny Allenstand (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Allenstand is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allenstand Cutshalltown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Cutshalltown is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshalltown White Rock (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
White Rock is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock Chapel Hill (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Chapel Hill is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill Foster Creek (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Foster Creek is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster Creek Hurricane (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Hurricane is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurricane Mitchell County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Richlands (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Richlands is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richlands Bailey (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Bailey is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Huntdale (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Huntdale is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntdale Relief (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Relief is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Relief Buladean (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Buladean is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buladean Tipton Hill (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Tipton Hill is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tipton Hill Herrell ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Herrell is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herrell Red Hill (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Red Hill is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Hill Yancey County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Sioux (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Sioux is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux Ramseytown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Ramseytown is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramseytown Higgins (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Higgins is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higgins Day Book (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Day Book is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Day Book
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Ducktown, see our County-by-County Page for Ducktown .
Cemeteries Near Ducktown ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ducktown.
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 Ducktown - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Ducktown covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Cherry Hill Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Phillips Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Bailey Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Brown Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Providence Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Houston Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Providence Presbyterian Churchyard (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Pleasant Grove Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Oak Hill Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Allegheny Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Hale Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Bowmantown - Philadelphia Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Continue List (993 more) ...
Mitchell Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Kincheloe Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Haws Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
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 Ducktown in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Ducktown.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Ducktown, with the one closest to Ducktown listed first.
Christie ‑ Historic(Less than 2 miles to the east)
Christie is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christie Milburnton (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Milburnton is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milburnton Locust Mount (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Locust Mount is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Mount Cedar Lane (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Cedar Lane is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Lane Bowmantown (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Bowmantown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowmantown Population from the 2010 Census: 302 people
Swanay ‑ Historic(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Swanay is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swanay Maltsberger ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Maltsberger is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maltsberger Mill Brook (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Mill Brook is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Brook Jearoldstown (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Jearoldstown is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jearoldstown Lovelace (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Lovelace is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovelace Matuta ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Matuta is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matuta Leesburg (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Leesburg is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leesburg Continue List (14 more) ...
Harmony (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Harmony is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Fall Branch (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Meadowbrook (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Meadowbrook is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowbrook
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Ducktown. See our List of 1890's Communities around Ducktown .
Newspapers Published in Ducktown ...
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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ducktown.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ducktown, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Ducktown.
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 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 Ducktown:
Websites specific to Tennessee Pages specific to Washington County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Carter County Greene County Hamblen County Hancock County Hawkins County Sullivan County Unicoi County Madison County Mitchell County Yancey County Cemetery Information and Directories for Tennessee Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Ducktown. 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 Ducktown, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Ducktown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.