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 Reidtown (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 Reidtown. 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.
Reidtown 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 Reidtown. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Reidtown:
Cocke County (The home county of Reidtown)
The following are listed by their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Bailey Town (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Bailey Town is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Town Estimated population in 2014: 428 people
Clevenger (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Clevenger is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clevenger Estimated population in 2014: 43,182 people
Wilsonville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Wilsonville is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsonville Carson Springs (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Carson Springs is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson Springs Jaybird (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Jaybird is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jaybird Estimated population in 2014: 3,299 people
Newport (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Jimtown (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Jimtown is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jimtown Bybee (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Birdsville ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Birdsville is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birdsville Edwina (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Edwina is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwina Bridgeport (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Bridgeport is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport Wilton Springs (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Wilton Springs is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilton Springs Claiborne County
The following are listed by their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Evans Ferry (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Evans Ferry is located in Claiborne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans Ferry Population from the 2010 Census: 293 people
Raven Hill (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Raven Hill is located in Claiborne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Hill Grainger County
The following are listed by their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Dyers Ferry (17 miles [27.4 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 (18 miles [29 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 (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Wa-Ni Village is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wa-Ni Village Marshalls Ferry (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Marshalls Ferry is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshalls Ferry Massengill Mill (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Massengill Mill is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Massengill Mill Estimated population in 2014: 1,600 people
Wyatt Village (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Wyatt Village is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyatt Village Beans (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Beans is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beans Estimated population in 2014: 3,084 people
Bowen (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Bowen is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowen Rutledge (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Bean Station (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Joppa (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Joppa is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa Lulaville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Lulaville is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lulaville Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Beulah (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Beulah is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beulah Warrensburg (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Warrensburg is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrensburg Sirenburg ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Sirenburg is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sirenburg 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 Midway (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Cedar Creek (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Cedar Creek is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek Mosheim (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Marvin (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Marvin is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marvin Albany (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Albany is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany Greeneville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Romeo (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Romeo is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romeo Hamblen County
The following are listed by their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Monte Vista Estates (13 miles [20.9 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
Morristown (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Casablanca (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Casablanca is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casablanca Estimated population in 2014: 2,223 people
East Village (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
East Village is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Village Silver City (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Silver City is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City Collons Ferry (17 miles [27.4 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
Bright ‑ Historic(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Bright is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bright Estimated population in 2014: 2,942 people
Whitesburg (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Hawkins County
The following are listed by their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Bulls Gap (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Mooresburg (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Red Bridge Ferry (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Red Bridge Ferry is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bridge Ferry Estimated population in 2014: 1,135 people
Galbraith Springs (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Galbraith Springs is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galbraith Springs Mooresburg Springs (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Mooresburg Springs is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mooresburg Springs Population from the 2010 Census: 941 people
Persia (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Persia is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Persia Jefferson County
The following are listed by their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Baneberry (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Leadvale (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Leadvale is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leadvale White Pine (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Dandridge (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Edna (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Edna is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edna Flat Gap (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Flat Gap is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Gap Alena ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Alena is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alena Rock Town (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Rock Town is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Town Talbott (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Piedmont (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Piedmont is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piedmont Cook Mill (15 miles [24.1 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 (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Dumplin is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dumplin Knox County
The following are listed by their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Peters Mill (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Peters Mill is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peters Mill Thorn Grove (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Thorn Grove is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorn Grove Lyonton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Lyonton is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyonton Highpoint ‑ Historic(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Highpoint is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highpoint Kimberlin Heights (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Mascot (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Mascot is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mascot Population from the 2010 Census: 2,411 people
Wooddale (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Wooddale is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooddale Zacharytown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Zacharytown is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zacharytown Riverdale (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Riverdale is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale Skaggston (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Skaggston is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skaggston Mayo ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Mayo is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo Estimated population in 2014: 2,366 people
McMillan (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
McMillan is located in Knox County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McMillan Sevier County
The following are listed by their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
East Fork (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
East Fork is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Fork Harrisburg (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Harrisburg is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisburg Estimated population in 2014: 6,219 people
Millican Grove (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Millican Grove is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millican Grove Pittman Center (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Pittman Center is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittman Center Population from the 2020 Census: 545 people
Sevierville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Catlettsburg (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Catlettsburg is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catlettsburg Henry Crossroads (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Henry Crossroads is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry Crossroads Middle Creek (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Middle Creek is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Creek Kodak (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Pigeon Forge (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Boyds Creek (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Boyds Creek is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyds Creek Gatlinburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Union County
Luttrell (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Luttrell is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luttrell Population from the 2020 Census: 1,088 people
Haywood County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Mount Sterling (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Mount Sterling is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Sterling Teague ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Teague is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague Madison County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Lynch ‑ Historic(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Lynch is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynch Bluff (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Bluff is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Hot Springs (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Spring Creek (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Spring Creek is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek Trust (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Trust is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trust Allenstand (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Allenstand is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allenstand Hurricane (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Hurricane is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurricane Stackhouse (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Stackhouse is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stackhouse
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Reidtown, see our County-by-County Page for Reidtown .
Cemeteries Near Reidtown ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Reidtown.
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 Reidtown - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Reidtown covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Ball Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Resthaven Memorial Gardens (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Rinehart Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Garner Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Allen Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Frances Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Nazarene Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Lawson Chapel Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Taylor Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Old Turnley Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Old Griffin Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Ray Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (802 more) ...
Bridges Chapel Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Dunn Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Helm Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
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 Reidtown in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Reidtown.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Reidtown, with the one closest to Reidtown listed first.
Carson Springs (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Carson Springs is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson Springs Chestnut Hill (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Chestnut Hill is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Hill Newport (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Sandy Ridge (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Sandy Ridge is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Ridge Oak Grove (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Oak Grove is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove Oldtown (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Oldtown is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oldtown Rankin (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Rankin is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankin Birdsville ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Birdsville is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birdsville Edwina (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Edwina is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwina Bybee (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Leadvale (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Leadvale is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leadvale Fox ‑ Historic(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Fox is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Continue List (13 more) ...
Wilton Springs (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Wilton Springs is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilton Springs Bridgeport (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Bridgeport is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport White Pine (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Reidtown. See our List of 1890's Communities around Reidtown .
Newspapers Published in Reidtown ...
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 31 newspapers that have been published in the area around Reidtown.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Reidtown, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Reidtown.
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 Reidtown:
Websites specific to Tennessee Pages specific to Cocke County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Claiborne County Grainger County Greene County Hamblen County Hawkins County Jefferson County Knox County Sevier County Union County Haywood County Madison County Cemetery Information and Directories for Tennessee Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Reidtown. 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 Reidtown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Reidtown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.