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 Covington (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 Covington. 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.
Cemeteries Near Covington ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Covington.
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 Covington - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Covington covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Covington, with the one closest to Covington listed first.
- Cedar Hill Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Mallow Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Alleghany Memorial Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Smith Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Helmintoller Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Hooks Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Mt. Carmel Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Sunrise Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Humphries Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Rose Hill Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Oakland Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Simmons Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Continue List (132 more) ...
- Deisher Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Hoke Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Haden Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
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 Covington in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Covington.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Covington, with the one closest to Covington listed first.
- Mallow
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Mallow is located in Alleghany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mallow
- Callaghan
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Callaghan is located in Alleghany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Callaghan
- Moss Run
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Moss Run is located in Alleghany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moss Run
- Rich Patch
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Rich Patch is located in Alleghany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rich Patch
- Low Moor
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Selma
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Selma is located in Alleghany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selma
- Backbone
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Backbone is located in Alleghany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Backbone
- Strom
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Strom is located in Botetourt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strom
- Haden
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Haden is located in Botetourt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haden
- Glen Wilton
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Glen Wilton is located in Botetourt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Wilton
- Clifton Forge
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Iron Gate
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Iron Gate is located in Alleghany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Gate
- Population from the 2020 Census: 352 people
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Gala
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Gala is located in Botetourt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gala
- Longdale
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Longdale is located in Alleghany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longdale
- Alleghany
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Alleghany is located in Alleghany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alleghany
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Covington. See our List of 1890's Communities around Covington.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Covington ...
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 49 newspapers that have been published in the area around Covington.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Covington. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Covington and those printed in the larger area surrounding Covington.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<4> of Covington.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Covington:
- Websites specific to Virginia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Virginia
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <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 Covington, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Covington) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |