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 Nauvoo (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 Nauvoo. 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 northwest 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 north.
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 north 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.
Nauvoo is located in Dyer 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 Dyer County: Mississippi (AR), Pemiscot (MO), Crockett, Gibson, Lake, Lauderdale & Obion.
Below are the counties that are near Nauvoo. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Nauvoo:
- Dyer County (The home county of Nauvoo)
- The following are listed by their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Meacham
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Meacham is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meacham
- Dyersburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Middle City
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Middle City is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle City
- Bogota
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Bogota is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogota
- Finley
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Finley is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finley
- Estimated population in 2014: 299 people
- Bishop
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Bishop is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop
- Mengelwood
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mengelwood is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mengelwood
- Estimated population in 2014: 656,861 people
- Richwoods
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Richwoods is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richwoods
- Newbern
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Fowlkes
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Fowlkes is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fowlkes
- Unionville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Unionville is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionville
- Boothspoint
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Boothspoint is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boothspoint
- Crockett County
- The following are listed by their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Elizabeth
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Elizabeth is located in Crockett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabeth
- Estimated population in 2014: 14,271 people
- Friendship
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Friendship is located in Crockett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
- Population from the 2020 Census: 660 people
- Chestnut Bluff
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Chestnut Bluff is located in Crockett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Bluff
- Maury Junction
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Maury Junction is located in Crockett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maury Junction
- Estimated population in 2014: 679 people
- Crockett Mills
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Crockett Mills is located in Crockett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crockett Mills
- Maury City
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Maury City is located in Crockett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maury City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 653 people
- Johnsons Grove
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Johnsons Grove is located in Crockett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsons Grove
- Alamo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Gibson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Yorkville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Yorkville is located in Gibson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorkville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
- Tilghman
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Tilghman is located in Gibson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tilghman
- Dyer
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Rutherford
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Brazil
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Brazil is located in Gibson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brazil
- Trenton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Haywood County
- The following are listed by their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Woodville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Woodville is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
- Toulon
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Toulon is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toulon
- Nutbush
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Nutbush is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nutbush
- Owl City
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Owl City is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owl City
- Lake County
- The following are listed by their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Ridgely
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Powells Ferry
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Powells Ferry is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powells Ferry
- Estimated population in 2014: 1,319 people
- Owl City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Owl City is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owl City
- Sunkist Beach
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Sunkist Beach is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunkist Beach
- Estimated population in 2014: 547 people
- Tiptonville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Proctor City
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Proctor City is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proctor City
- New Markham
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- New Markham is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Markham
- Estimated population in 2014: 1,354 people
- Lauderdale County
- The following are listed by their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Halls
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Gates
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Gates is located in Lauderdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gates
- Population from the 2020 Census: 598 people
- Edith
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Edith is located in Lauderdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edith
- Flippin
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Flippin is located in Lauderdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flippin
- Ripley
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Arp
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Arp is located in Lauderdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arp
- Durhamville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Durhamville is located in Lauderdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durhamville
- Luckett
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Luckett is located in Lauderdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luckett
- Henning
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Daniels Point Landing
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Daniels Point Landing is located in Lauderdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daniels Point Landing
- Estimated population in 2014: 2,874 people
- Glimp
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Glimp is located in Lauderdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glimp
- Obion County
- The following are listed by their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Obion
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Obion is located in Obion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Obion
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,043 people
- Hornbeak
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Samburg
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Troy
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Kenton
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Kenton is located in Obion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,190 people
- Englewood
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Englewood is located in Obion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englewood
- Estimated population in 2014: 1,532 people
- Rives
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Rives is located in Obion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rives
- Population from the 2020 Census: 310 people
- Union City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Weakley County
- Sidonia
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Sidonia is located in Weakley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidonia
- Mississippi County (AR)
- The following are listed by their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Barfield
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Barfield is located in Mississippi County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barfield
- Armorel
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Armorel is located in Mississippi County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armorel
- Blytheville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- New Madrid County (MO)
- The following are listed by their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Point Pleasant
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Point Pleasant is located in New Madrid County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Pleasant
- Portageville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Conran
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Conran is located in New Madrid County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conran
- Pemiscot County (MO)
- The following are listed by their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Caruthersville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Hayti
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Hayti is located in Pemiscot County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayti
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,467 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hayti <1>
- Hayti Heights
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Hayti Heights is located in Pemiscot County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayti Heights
- Population from the 2020 Census: 538 people
- Stewart
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Stewart is located in Pemiscot County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stewart
- Cooter
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Netherlands
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Netherlands is located in Pemiscot County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Netherlands
- Braggadocio
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Braggadocio is located in Pemiscot County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braggadocio
- Steele
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Hayward
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Hayward is located in Pemiscot County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
- Pascola
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Pascola is located in Pemiscot County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pascola
- Population from the 2020 Census: 93 people
- Holland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Holland is located in Pemiscot County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
- Deering
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Deering is located in Pemiscot County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deering
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Nauvoo, see our County-by-County Page for Nauvoo.
Cemeteries Near Nauvoo ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Nauvoo.
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 Nauvoo - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Nauvoo covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Oak Grove Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Bledsoe Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Jenkins Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Hurricane Hill Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Hopewell Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Neely Chapel Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Light Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Fairview Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Beech Grove Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Grove Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Beech Grove Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the west of Dyersburg.
- The Beech Grove Cemetery has also been known as:
- Beech Grove Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #9093 <3>
- New Bethel Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Clark Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Shaw Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (343 more) ...
- Dyer County Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Wright Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Peel Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 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.<4>
While we didn't find Nauvoo in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Nauvoo.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Nauvoo, with the one closest to Nauvoo listed first.
- Dyersburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Finley
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Finley is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finley
- Estimated population in 2014: 299 people
- Lane
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Lane is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lane
- Fowlkes
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Fowlkes is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fowlkes
- RoEllen
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- RoEllen is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for RoEllen
- Newbern
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Tennemo
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Tennemo is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tennemo
- Boothspoint
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Boothspoint is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boothspoint
- Ridgely
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Tatumville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Tatumville is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tatumville
- Elbridge
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Elbridge is located in Obion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbridge
- Ayers
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Ayers is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ayers
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Double Bridges
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Double Bridges is located in Lauderdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Bridges
- Halls
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Stokes
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Stokes is located in Dyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokes
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Nauvoo. See our List of 1890's Communities around Nauvoo.
Newspapers Published in Nauvoo ...
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 44 newspapers that have been published in the area around Nauvoo.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Nauvoo, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Nauvoo.
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 Nauvoo:
- Websites specific to Tennessee
- Pages specific to Dyer County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Crockett County
- Gibson County
- Haywood County
- Lake County
- Lauderdale County
- Obion County
- Weakley County
- Mississippi County
- New Madrid County
- Pemiscot County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Tennessee
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Nauvoo) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <4> | 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 Nauvoo, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |