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 Crooked Oak (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 Crooked Oak. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.
Crooked Oak is located in Carroll 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 Carroll County: Floyd, Grayson, Patrick, Pulaski, Surry & Wythe.
Below are the counties that are near Crooked Oak. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Crooked Oak:
- Carroll County (The home county of Crooked Oak)
- The following are listed by their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Gladesboro
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Gladesboro is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladesboro
- Nester
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Nester is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nester
- Fancy Gap
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Pike City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Pike City is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pike City
- Dugspur
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Hillsville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Star
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Star is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star
- Cana
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Drenn
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Drenn is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drenn
- Woodlawn
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Sylvatus
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Sylvatus is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvatus
- Lambsburg
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Floyd County
- The following are listed by their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Indian Valley
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Duncan
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Duncan is located in Floyd County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duncan
- Floyd
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Haycock
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Haycock is located in Floyd County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haycock
- Poff
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Poff is located in Floyd County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poff
- Sowers
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Sowers is located in Floyd County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sowers
- Pizarro
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Pizarro is located in Floyd County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pizarro
- Terrys Fork
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Terrys Fork is located in Floyd County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terrys Fork
- Galax City
- Galax
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Grayson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Low Gap
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Low Gap is located in Grayson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Low Gap
- Fries
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Baywood
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Baywood is located in Grayson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baywood
- Independence
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Montgomery County
- The following are listed by their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Childress
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Childress is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childress
- Riner
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Pilot
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Rogers
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Rogers is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogers
- Oak Grove
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Oak Grove is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
- Christiansburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Patrick County
- The following are listed by their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Ararat
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Carters Mill
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Carters Mill is located in Patrick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Mill
- Meadows of Dan
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Woolwine
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Peters Creek
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Peters Creek is located in Patrick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peters Creek
- Stuart
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Charity
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Charity is located in Patrick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charity
- Elamsville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Elamsville is located in Patrick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elamsville
- Patrick Springs
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Critz
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Nettleridge
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Nettleridge is located in Patrick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nettleridge
- Dodson
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Dodson is located in Patrick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodson
- Pulaski County
- The following are listed by their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Mack Creek Village
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Mack Creek Village is located in Pulaski County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mack Creek Village
- Draper
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Snowville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Snowville is located in Pulaski County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snowville
- Newbern
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Wurno
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Wurno is located in Pulaski County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wurno
- Pulaski
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Dublin
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Hilton Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Hilton Village is located in Pulaski County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilton Village
- Fairlawn
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Fairlawn is located in Pulaski County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairlawn
- Radford City
- The following are listed by their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- New Town
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- New Town is located in Radford City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Town
- Radford Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Radford Village is located in Radford City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radford Village
- Simpkins Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Simpkins Village is located in Radford City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simpkins Village
- Sunset Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Sunset Village is located in Radford City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Village
- Mill Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Mill Village is located in Radford City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village
- Radford
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Wythe County
- The following are listed by their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Austinville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Ivanhoe
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Locust Hill
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Locust Hill is located in Wythe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Hill
- Siloam
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Siloam is located in Wythe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siloam
- Fort Chiswell
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Fort Chiswell is located in Wythe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Chiswell
- Max Meadows
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Kent
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Kent is located in Wythe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent
- Wytheville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Alleghany County (NC)
- The following are listed by their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Edmonds
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Edmonds is located in Alleghany County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edmonds
- Ennice
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Hooker
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Hooker is located in Alleghany County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooker
- Glade Valley
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Roaring Gap
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Stokes County (NC)
- The following are listed by their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Aarons Corner
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Aarons Corner is located in Stokes County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aarons Corner
- Campbell
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Campbell is located in Stokes County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campbell
- Flat Rock
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Flat Rock is located in Stokes County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Rock
- Lawsonville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Lawsonville is located in Stokes County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawsonville
- Vade Mecum
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Vade Mecum is located in Stokes County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vade Mecum
- Snow Hill
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Snow Hill is located in Stokes County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snow Hill
- Pinnacle
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Capella
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Capella is located in Stokes County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capella
- Danbury
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Olive
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Olive is located in Stokes County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Olive
- Oak Ridge
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Oak Ridge is located in Stokes County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Ridge
- Quaker Gap
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Quaker Gap is located in Stokes County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker Gap
- Surry County (NC)
- The following are listed by their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Flat Rock
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Flat Rock is located in Surry County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Rock
- Mount Airy
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Sheltontown
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Sheltontown is located in Surry County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheltontown
- Toast
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Toast is located in Surry County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toast
- Mount Herman
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Herman is located in Surry County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Herman
- Albion
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Albion is located in Surry County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albion
- Holly Springs
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Holly Springs is located in Surry County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Springs
- Red Brush
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Red Brush is located in Surry County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Brush
- Round Peak
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Round Peak is located in Surry County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Peak
- White Plains
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- White Plains is located in Surry County (NC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Plains
- Westfield
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Low Gap
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Crooked Oak, see our County-by-County Page for Crooked Oak.
Cemeteries Near Crooked Oak ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crooked Oak.
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 Crooked Oak - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Crooked Oak covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Largen Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Webb Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- John Finney Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Henry F Vass Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Crooked Oak Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- McGrady Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- James F Goad Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Shadrick Worrell Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Goad Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Banks Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Combs Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Barnes Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Continue List (639 more) ...
- John Cassell Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- McGrady - Thomas Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Victor Webb Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
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.<3>
While we didn't find Crooked Oak in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Crooked Oak.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Crooked Oak, with the one closest to Crooked Oak listed first.
- Gladesboro
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Gladesboro is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladesboro
- Nester
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Nester is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nester
- Laurel Fork
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Fancy Gap
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Dugspur
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Hillsville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Star
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Star is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star
- Cana
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Carters Mill
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Carters Mill is located in Patrick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Mill
- Drenn
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Drenn is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drenn
- Meadows of Dan
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Woodlawn
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Lambsburg
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Sylvatus
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Sylvatus is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvatus
- Pipers Gap
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Pipers Gap is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pipers Gap
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Crooked Oak. See our List of 1890's Communities around Crooked Oak.
Newspapers Published in Crooked Oak ...
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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Crooked Oak.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Crooked Oak, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Crooked Oak.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Crooked Oak:
- Websites specific to Virginia
- Pages specific to Carroll County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Floyd County
- Galax City
- Grayson County
- Montgomery County
- Patrick County
- Pulaski County
- Radford City
- Wythe County
- Alleghany County
- Stokes County
- Surry County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Virginia
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> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Crooked Oak, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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- Crooked Oak) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |