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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 Burnt Chimney (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 Burnt Chimney. 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 and hospitals 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.

Burnt Chimney is located in Franklin County.

To see how the shape of Virginia's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Franklin County: Bedford, Floyd, Henry, Patrick, Pittsylvania & Roanoke.

Below are the counties that are near Burnt Chimney. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Burnt Chimney:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Burnt Chimney, see our County-by-County Page for Burnt Chimney.

Cemeteries Near Burnt Chimney ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Burnt Chimney.

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 Burnt Chimney - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Burnt Chimney covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Burnt Chimney, with the one closest to Burnt Chimney listed first.

  • Turner Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Harper Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Old Liberty Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Crook Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Ozzie Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Poteet Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Perdue Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Kennett Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Thurman Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Wood Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Jefferson Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Chestnut Grove Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
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    • Oak Hill Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Piedmont Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Angle Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)

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 Burnt Chimney in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Burnt Chimney.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Burnt Chimney, with the one closest to Burnt Chimney listed first.

  • Dillons Mill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Dillons Mill is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dillons Mill
  • Wyatt ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Wyatt is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyatt
  • Villa ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Villa is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villa
  • Felicia ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Felicia is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Felicia
  • Redwood
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Hales Ford ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Hales Ford is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hales Ford
  • Gogginsville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Hardy Ford
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Hardy Ford is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardy Ford
  • Boones Mill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Rocky Mount
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Gladehill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Gladehill is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladehill
  • Scruggs
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Scruggs is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scruggs
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Burnt Chimney. See our List of 1890's Communities around Burnt Chimney.

Newspapers Published in Burnt Chimney ...

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 38 newspapers that have been published in the area around Burnt Chimney.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Burnt Chimney, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Burnt Chimney.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Burnt Chimney:

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>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 Burnt Chimney, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Burnt Chimney) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.