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 Madisonville (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 Madisonville. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Madisonville is located in Monroe County and is the County Seat.
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 Monroe County : Cherokee (NC) , Graham (NC) , Blount , Loudon , McMinn & Polk .
Below are the counties that are near Madisonville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Madisonville:
Monroe County (The home county of Madisonville)
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Vonore (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Sweetwater (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Acorn (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Acorn is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acorn Toqua ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Toqua is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toqua Ballplay (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Ballplay is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballplay Belltown (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Belltown is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belltown Tuskeegee ‑ Historic(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Tuskeegee is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuskeegee Estimated population in 2014: 2,663 people
Tellico Plains (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Jalapa (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Jalapa is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jalapa Jacktown (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Jacktown is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacktown Estimated population in 2014: 67,319 people
Rural Vale (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Rural Vale is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rural Vale Halfway Town ‑ Historic(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Halfway Town is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway Town Anderson County
Oak Ridge (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Blount County
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Brick Mill (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Brick Mill is located in Blount County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brick Mill Cloyd Creek ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Cloyd Creek is located in Blount County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloyd Creek McMullens (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
McMullens is located in Blount County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McMullens Estimated population in 2014: 13,620 people
Kiser (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Kiser is located in Blount County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiser Chilhowee (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Chilhowee is located in Blount County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chilhowee Big Springs (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Big Springs is located in Blount County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Springs Big Springs has also been known as:
Cliff Binfield (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Binfield is located in Blount County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Binfield Friendsville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Walnut Hill Estates (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Walnut Hill Estates is located in Blount County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Hill Estates Population from the 2010 Census: 2,394 people
Happy Valley (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Happy Valley is located in Blount County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Valley Fairway Estates (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Fairway Estates is located in Blount County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairway Estates Estimated population in 2014: 8,224 people
Sixmile (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Sixmile is located in Blount County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sixmile Bradley County
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Charleston (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Bellefounte (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Bellefounte is located in Bradley County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellefounte Knox County
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Boyd (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Boyd is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyd Virtue (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Virtue is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virtue Estimated population in 2014: 131 people
Farragut (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Belle Aire (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Belle Aire is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Aire Estimated population in 2014: 512 people
Concord (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Concord is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concord Ebenezer (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Ebenezer is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ebenezer Loudon County
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Philadelphia (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Morganton (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Morganton is located in Loudon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morganton Trigonia (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Trigonia is located in Loudon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trigonia Luttrell (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Loudon City Park (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Loudon City Park is located in Loudon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loudon City Park Alleghany ‑ Historic(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Alleghany is located in Loudon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alleghany Estimated population in 2014: 630 people
Loudon (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Greenback (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Jena (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Jena is located in Loudon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jena Estimated population in 2014: 2,279 people
Centersville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Centersville is located in Loudon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centersville Lenoir City (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Sharp Estates (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Sharp Estates is located in Loudon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharp Estates Estimated population in 2014: 919 people
McMinn County
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Manila (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Manila is located in McMinn County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manila Bell Spring (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Bell Spring is located in McMinn County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Spring Englewood (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Nonaburg (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Nonaburg is located in McMinn County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nonaburg Niota (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Mecca (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Mecca is located in McMinn County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecca Prigmore (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Prigmore is located in McMinn County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prigmore Grady (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Grady is located in McMinn County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady Athens (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Etowah (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Goodsprings (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Goodsprings is located in McMinn County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodsprings Riceville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Meigs County
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Surprise (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Surprise is located in Meigs County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Surprise Estimated population in 2014: 1,799 people
Sewee (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Sewee is located in Meigs County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sewee Cute ‑ Historic(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Cute is located in Meigs County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cute Akeman Crossroad (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Akeman Crossroad is located in Meigs County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akeman Crossroad Decatur (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Calico (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Calico is located in Meigs County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calico Estimated population in 2014: 495 people
Goodfield (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Goodfield is located in Meigs County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodfield Beta (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Beta is located in Meigs County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beta Morgan County
Harriman (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Polk County
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Servilla (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Servilla is located in Polk County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Servilla Delano (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Chestuee (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Chestuee is located in Polk County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestuee Rymers ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Rymers is located in Polk County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rymers Archville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Archville is located in Polk County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Archville Benton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Rhea County
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Lakewood Village (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Lakewood Village is located in Rhea County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakewood Village Population from the 2010 Census: 990 people
Roddy (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Roddy is located in Rhea County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roddy Spring City (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Roane County
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Morrisgap ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Morrisgap is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrisgap Cave Creek (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Cave Creek is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave Creek Iron Divide ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Iron Divide is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Divide Population from the 2010 Census: 328 people
Bradbury (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Bradbury is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradbury Laddie Village (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Laddie Village is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laddie Village Kingston (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Selkirk ‑ Historic(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Selkirk is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selkirk Midtown Heights (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Midtown Heights is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midtown Heights Population from the 2010 Census: 1,360 people
Pioneer Village (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Pioneer Village is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Village Midtown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Midtown is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midtown Kries (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Kries is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kries Glen Alice (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Glen Alice is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Alice Cherokee County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Unaka (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Unaka is located in Cherokee County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unaka Pleasant Hill (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Pleasant Hill is located in Cherokee County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill Liberty (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Liberty is located in Cherokee County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Vests (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Vests is located in Cherokee County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vests Hiwassee Village (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Hiwassee Village is located in Cherokee County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hiwassee Village Ogreeta (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Ogreeta is located in Cherokee County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogreeta Boiling Springs (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Boiling Springs is located in Cherokee County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boiling Springs Graham County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Fontana Dam (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Fontana Dam is located in Graham County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fontana Dam Population from the 2020 Census: 6 people
Fontana Dam has also been known as:
Fontana Village Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fontana Dam <1>
Lake Santeetlah (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Lake Santeetlah is located in Graham County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Santeetlah Population from the 2020 Census: 43 people
Lake Santeetlah has also been known as:
Santeetla Santeetlah Santultah Thunderbird Mountain Thunderbird Yellow Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Yellow Creek is located in Graham County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Creek
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Madisonville, see our County-by-County Page for Madisonville .
Cemeteries Near Madisonville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Madisonville.
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 Madisonville - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Madisonville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Madisonville Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Rocky Spring Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Old Prospect Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Webb Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Kimbrough Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Henderson Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Hiwassee Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Notchey Creek Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
St. Marys Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Chestua Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Big Creek Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Stephens Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Continue List (732 more) ...
Forkners Chapel Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Greenbriar Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Roy 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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Madisonville had a population of 419 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Madisonville had a population of 5,024 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Madisonville, with the one closest to Madisonville listed first.
Hiwassee College (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Hiwassee College is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hiwassee College Tevis (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Tevis is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tevis Gudger (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Gudger is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gudger Ho ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Ho is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ho Hopewell Springs (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Hopewell Springs is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell Springs Kincaid (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Kincaid is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kincaid Mount Vernon (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Mount Vernon is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Vernon Brakebill ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Brakebill is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brakebill Sink ‑ Historic(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Sink is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sink Acorn (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Acorn is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acorn Sweetwater (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Reagan (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Reagan is located in McMinn County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reagan Continue List (15 more) ...
Nonaburg (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Nonaburg is located in McMinn County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nonaburg Belltown (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Belltown is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belltown Ballplay (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Ballplay is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballplay
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Madisonville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Madisonville .
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Madisonville ...
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 71 newspapers that have been published in the area around Madisonville.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Madisonville. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Madisonville and those printed in the larger area surrounding Madisonville.
An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<3> 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 Madisonville:
Websites specific to Tennessee Pages specific to Monroe County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Anderson County Blount County Bradley County Knox County Loudon County McMinn County Meigs County Morgan County Polk County Rhea County Roane County Cherokee County Graham County Cemetery Information and Directories for Tennessee Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Madisonville. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Monroe County: https://monroetn.gov/
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 Madisonville, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Madisonville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.