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 Glendale (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 Glendale. 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 and hospitals 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.
Glendale 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 Glendale. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Glendale:
Washington County (The home county of Glendale)
The following are listed by their distance from Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Locust Mount (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Locust Mount is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Mount Ducktown (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Ducktown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ducktown Estimated population in 2014: 457 people
Big Sandy (Less than 2 miles 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 (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Bowmantown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowmantown Population from the 2010 Census: 302 people
Oakland (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Oakland is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland 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 Leesburg (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Leesburg is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leesburg Harmony (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Harmony is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Fall Branch (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Wheelocktown ‑ Historic(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Wheelocktown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelocktown Telford (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Jonesborough (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Limestone (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Carter County
The following are listed by their distance from Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Pine Crest (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Pine Crest is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Crest Central (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Central is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Watauga (17 miles [27.4 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 (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Biltmore is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biltmore Elizabethton (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Gap Run (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Gap Run is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gap Run Woodby Hill (22 miles [35.4 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 (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Tolley Town is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolley Town Hampton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Hunter (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Hunter is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter Siam (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Siam is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siam Fish Springs (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Fish Springs is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fish Springs Burbank (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Burbank is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burbank Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Milburnton (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Milburnton is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milburnton Jearoldstown (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Jearoldstown is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jearoldstown Centersville (5 miles [8 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 Horse Creek (11 miles [17.7 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
Afton (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Fairview (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Fairview is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Baileyton (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
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
Tusculum (13 miles [20.9 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
Henshaw ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Henshaw is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henshaw Estimated population in 2014: 470 people
Forest Hills (15 miles [24.1 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
Whitesburg (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Hancock County
The following are listed by their distance from Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Willis (28 miles [45.1 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 (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Hawkins County
The following are listed by their distance from Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Chimneytop ‑ Historic(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Chimneytop is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chimneytop Blossom (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Blossom is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blossom 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 Church Hill (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Block City (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Block City is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Block City Mount Carmel (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Rotherwood (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Rotherwood is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rotherwood Solitude ‑ Historic(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Solitude is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solitude New Canton (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
New Canton is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Canton Greenland (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Greenland is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenland Surgoinsville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Kepler (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Kepler is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kepler Frisco (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Frisco is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frisco Sullivan County
The following are listed by their distance from Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Blair Gap (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
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)
Wahoo ‑ Historic(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Wahoo is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahoo Beechwood Village (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Beechwood Village is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beechwood Village 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 Colby ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Colby is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colby 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 Kingsport (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Beartown (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Beartown is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beartown Horace ‑ Historic(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Horace is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horace Orebank (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Orebank is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orebank Unicoi County
The following are listed by their distance from Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Bumpus Cove (13 miles [20.9 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
Banner Hill (16 miles [25.7 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
Erwin (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Unicoi (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Indian Creek ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Indian Creek is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Creek Whispering Pines (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Whispering Pines is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whispering Pines Ernestville (18 miles [29 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 (19 miles [30.6 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(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Loganton is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loganton Flag Pond (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Flag Pond is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flag Pond Limestone Cove (21 miles [33.8 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 Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Allegheny (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Allegheny is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allegheny Allenstand (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Allenstand is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allenstand Cutshalltown (25 miles [40.2 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 (27 miles [43.5 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 Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Richlands (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Richlands is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richlands Bailey (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Bailey is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Huntdale (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Huntdale is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntdale Relief (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Relief is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Relief Buladean (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Buladean is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buladean Tipton Hill (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Tipton Hill is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tipton Hill Herrell ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Herrell is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herrell Red Hill (29 miles [46.7 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 Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Sioux (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Sioux is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux Ramseytown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Ramseytown is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramseytown Higgins (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Higgins is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higgins Day Book (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Day Book is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Day Book Green Mountain (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Glendale, see our County-by-County Page for Glendale .
Cemeteries Near Glendale ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Glendale.
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 Glendale - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Glendale covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Pleasant Grove Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Bailey Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Cherry Hill Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Providence Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Providence Presbyterian Churchyard (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Houston Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Allegheny Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Bowmantown - Philadelphia Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Oak Hill Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Brown Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Phillips Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Oakland Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Continue List (1002 more) ...
Hale Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Sulphur Springs Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Mitchell 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 Glendale in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Glendale.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Glendale, with the one closest to Glendale listed first.
Christie ‑ Historic(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Christie is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christie Locust Mount (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Locust Mount is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Mount Milburnton (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Milburnton is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milburnton Bowmantown (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Bowmantown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowmantown Population from the 2010 Census: 302 people
Cedar Lane (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Cedar Lane is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Lane 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 Matuta ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Matuta is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matuta Leesburg (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Leesburg is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leesburg February (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
February is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for February Harmony (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Harmony is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Jearoldstown (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Jearoldstown is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jearoldstown Swanay ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Swanay is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swanay Continue List (17 more) ...
Telford (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Lovelace (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Lovelace is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovelace Meadowbrook (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
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 Glendale. See our List of 1890's Communities around Glendale .
Newspapers Published in Glendale ...
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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Glendale.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Glendale, there are papers which were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Glendale.
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 Glendale:
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 Glendale. 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 Glendale, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Glendale) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.