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 Finney Patch (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 Finney Patch. 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 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.
Finney Patch 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 Finney Patch. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Finney Patch:
Cocke County (The home county of Finney Patch)
The following are listed by their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Edwina (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Edwina is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwina Hartford (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Naillon ‑ Historic(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Naillon is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naillon Wilton Springs (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Wilton Springs is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilton Springs West Myers (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
West Myers is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Myers Estimated population in 2014: 2,282 people
Tom Town (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Tom Town is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tom Town Bridgeport (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Bridgeport is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport Jimtown (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Jimtown is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jimtown Del Rio (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Jaybird (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Jaybird is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jaybird Estimated population in 2014: 3,299 people
Newport (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Cosby (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Birdsville ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Birdsville is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birdsville Grainger County
The following are listed by their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Dyers Ferry (29 miles [46.7 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 (29 miles [46.7 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 (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Wa-Ni Village is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wa-Ni Village Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Sirenburg ‑ Historic(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Sirenburg is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sirenburg Cedar Creek (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Cedar Creek is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek Warrensburg (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Warrensburg is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrensburg Bright Hope (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Bright Hope is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bright Hope Little Chucky ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Little Chucky is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Chucky Beulah (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Beulah is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beulah Midway (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Mosheim (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Camp Creek (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Camp Creek is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Creek Greeneville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Marvin (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Marvin is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marvin Water Fork Mill (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Water Fork Mill is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water Fork Mill Estimated population in 2014: 445 people
Albany (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Albany is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany Hamblen County
The following are listed by their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Monte Vista Estates (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Monte Vista Estates is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monte Vista Estates Estimated population in 2014: 2,860 people
Silver City (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Silver City is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City East Village (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
East Village is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Village Morristown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Casablanca (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Casablanca is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casablanca Estimated population in 2014: 2,223 people
Whitesburg (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Bright ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Bright is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bright Estimated population in 2014: 2,942 people
Collons Ferry (29 miles [46.7 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
Bulls Gap (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Jefferson County
The following are listed by their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Baneberry (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Leadvale (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Leadvale is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leadvale White Pine (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Dandridge (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Edna (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Edna is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edna Flat Gap (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Flat Gap is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Gap Piedmont (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Piedmont is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piedmont Alena ‑ Historic(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Alena is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alena Rock Town (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Rock Town is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Town Talbott (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Cook Mill (25 miles [40.2 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
Dumplin (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Dumplin is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dumplin Jefferson City (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Sevier County
The following are listed by their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Pittman Center (15 miles [24.1 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
East Fork (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
East Fork is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Fork Harrisburg (19 miles [30.6 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 (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Millican Grove is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millican Grove Middle Creek (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Middle Creek is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Creek Gatlinburg (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Sevierville (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Pigeon Forge (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Chalet Village (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Chalet Village is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalet Village Catlettsburg (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Catlettsburg is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catlettsburg Henry Crossroads (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Henry Crossroads is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry Crossroads Starkeytown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Starkeytown is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Starkeytown Estimated population in 2014: 431 people
Waldens Creek (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Waldens Creek is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldens Creek Buncombe County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Sandymush (22 miles [35.4 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 Leicester (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Newfound (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Newfound is located in Buncombe County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newfound Alexander (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Haywood County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Mount Sterling (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Mount Sterling is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Sterling Teague ‑ Historic(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Teague is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague Maggie Valley (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Lake Junaluska (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Clyde (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Clyde is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde Population from the 2020 Census: 1,308 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clyde <1>
Waynesville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
West Canton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
West Canton is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Canton Hazelwood (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Hazelwood is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazelwood Canton (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Bethel (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Bethel is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel Morning Star (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Morning Star is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morning Star Sonoma ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Sonoma is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonoma Jackson County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Paint Town (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Paint Town is located in Jackson County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paint Town Balsam (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Madison County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Lynch ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Lynch is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynch Bluff (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Bluff is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Spring Creek (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Spring Creek is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek Trust (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Trust is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trust Hot Springs (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Stackhouse (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Stackhouse is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stackhouse Hurricane (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Hurricane is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurricane Allenstand (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Allenstand is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allenstand Walnut (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Walnut is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Chapel Hill (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Chapel Hill is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill Cutshalltown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Cutshalltown is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshalltown Marshall (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
White Rock (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
White Rock is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock Swain County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Cherokee (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Oconaluftee Indian Village (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Finney Patch, see our County-by-County Page for Finney Patch .
Cemeteries Near Finney Patch ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Finney Patch.
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 Finney Patch - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Finney Patch covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Hall Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
McMillan Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Mantooth Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Ball Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Hall Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Fox Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Mack Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Johnson Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Woods Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Davis Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Inman Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Continue List (644 more) ...
Smith Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Williams Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Shultz Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
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 Finney Patch in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Finney Patch.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Finney Patch, with the one closest to Finney Patch listed first.
Naillon ‑ Historic(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Naillon is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naillon Edwina (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Edwina is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwina Wilton Springs (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Wilton Springs is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilton Springs Bridgeport (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Bridgeport is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport Mount Sterling (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Mount Sterling is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Sterling Nough (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Nough is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nough Newport (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Del Rio (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Birdsville ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Birdsville is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birdsville Oldtown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Oldtown is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oldtown Carson Springs (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Carson Springs is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson Springs Jonestown ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Jonestown is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonestown Continue List (13 more) ...
Jones Cove (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Jones Cove is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Cove Parrottsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Wolf Creek (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Wolf Creek is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Creek
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Finney Patch. See our List of 1890's Communities around Finney Patch .
Newspapers Published in Finney Patch ...
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 Finney Patch.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Finney Patch, there are papers which were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Finney Patch.
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 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 Finney Patch:
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 Buncombe County Haywood County Jackson County Madison County Swain County Cemetery Information and Directories for Tennessee Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Finney Patch. 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 Finney Patch, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Finney Patch) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.