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 Lanes Well Fork (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 Lanes Well Fork. 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.
Name Variations for Lanes Well Fork ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Lanes Well Fork: Lanes Well Frk.
- While the name of this community is Lanes Well Fork, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Lanes Well Fork may originally have been Lane's Well Fork.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Lanes Well Fork might be written as Lane Well Fork.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Lanes Well Fork is located in Campbell 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 Campbell County: Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Charlotte, Halifax & Pittsylvania.
Below are the counties that are near Lanes Well Fork. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lanes Well Fork:
- Campbell County (The home county of Lanes Well Fork)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Lawyers
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Lawyers is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawyers
- Yellow Branch
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Yellow Branch is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Branch
- Rustburg
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Powhatan
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Powhatan is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powhatan
- Timberlake
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Timberlake is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timberlake
- Bedford Springs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Bedford Springs is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bedford Springs
- Mount Athos ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Mount Athos is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Athos
- Mount Zion
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Zion is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Zion
- Concord
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Gladys
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Lynch Station
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Lynch Station is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynch Station
- Altavista
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Amherst County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Madison Heights
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Joshua Falls
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Joshua Falls is located in Amherst County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joshua Falls
- Winesap
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Winesap is located in Amherst County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winesap
- Coolwell
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Coolwell is located in Amherst County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coolwell
- Pedlar Mills
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Pedlar Mills is located in Amherst County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedlar Mills
- Sweet Briar Station
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Sweet Briar Station is located in Amherst County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Briar Station
- Walkers Ford
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Walkers Ford is located in Amherst County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walkers Ford
- Amherst
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Pleasant View
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Pleasant View is located in Amherst County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View
- Monitor
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Monitor is located in Amherst County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monitor
- Allwood
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Allwood is located in Amherst County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allwood
- New Glasgow
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- New Glasgow is located in Amherst County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Glasgow
- Appomattox County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Spring Mills
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Spring Mills is located in Appomattox County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Mills
- Spout Spring
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Spout Spring is located in Appomattox County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spout Spring
- Appomattox
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Chap
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Chap is located in Appomattox County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chap
- Beckham
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Beckham is located in Appomattox County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beckham
- Mineral ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Mineral is located in Appomattox County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral
- Evergreen
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Evergreen is located in Appomattox County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen
- Bent Creek
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Bent Creek is located in Appomattox County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bent Creek
- Pamplin City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Hurtsville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Hurtsville is located in Appomattox County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurtsville
- Bedford City
- Bedford
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Bedford County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Forest
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Boonsboro
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Boonsboro is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boonsboro
- Bellevue
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Bellevue is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellevue
- Abert
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Abert is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abert
- Goode
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Cifax
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Cifax is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cifax
- Coleman Falls
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Coleman Falls is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleman Falls
- Lowry
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Lowry is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowry
- Waugh
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Waugh is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waugh
- Huddleston
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Peaksville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Peaksville is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peaksville
- Joppa Mill
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Joppa Mill is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa Mill
- Buckingham County
- Forbes ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Forbes is located in Buckingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forbes
- Charlotte County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Abell ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Abell is located in Charlotte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abell
- Rough Creek
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Rough Creek is located in Charlotte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rough Creek
- Aspenwall
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Aspenwall is located in Charlotte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aspenwall
- Phenix
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Phenix is located in Charlotte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phenix
- Population from the 2020 Census: 211 people
- Cullen
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Cullen is located in Charlotte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cullen
- Halifax County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Cody
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Cody is located in Halifax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cody
- Rabat
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Rabat is located in Halifax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rabat
- Leda
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Leda is located in Halifax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leda
- Nathalie
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Loftis
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Loftis is located in Halifax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loftis
- Lynchburg City
- The following are listed by their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Lynchburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Woodbine Village
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Woodbine Village is located in Lynchburg City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodbine Village
- Lavino Village
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Lavino Village is located in Lynchburg City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavino Village
- Nelson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Gladstone
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Buffalo Springs
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Buffalo Springs is located in Nelson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Springs
- Arrington
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Colleen
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Colleen is located in Nelson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colleen
- Norwood
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Norwood is located in Nelson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norwood
- Pittsylvania County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Hurt
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hurt is located in Pittsylvania County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurt
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,211 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hurt <2>
- Brutus
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Brutus is located in Pittsylvania County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brutus
- Renan
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Renan is located in Pittsylvania County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Renan
- Gretna
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Chalk Level
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Chalk Level is located in Pittsylvania County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalk Level
- Pittsville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Pittsville is located in Pittsylvania County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsville
- Riceville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Riceville is located in Pittsylvania County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riceville
- Markham
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Markham is located in Pittsylvania County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Markham
- Sonans
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Sonans is located in Pittsylvania County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonans
- Rockbridge County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Glasgow
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Greenlee
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Greenlee is located in Rockbridge County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenlee
- Buffalo Forge
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Buffalo Forge is located in Rockbridge County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Forge
- Natural Bridge
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lanes Well Fork, see our County-by-County Page for Lanes Well Fork.
Cemeteries Near Lanes Well Fork ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lanes Well Fork.
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 Lanes Well Fork - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lanes Well Fork covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Merryman Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Reynolds Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Gilliam Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Perrow Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Dodson Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Candler Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Beulah Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Silver Grove Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Prebble Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Ft. Hill Memorial Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Burford Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Falwell Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (168 more) ...
- Falwell Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Spring Hill Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Mt. Moriah Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 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.<4>
While we didn't find Lanes Well Fork in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lanes Well Fork.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Lanes Well Fork, with the one closest to Lanes Well Fork listed first.
- Lawyers
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Lawyers is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawyers
- Yellow Branch
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Yellow Branch is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Branch
- Rustburg
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Bocock
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Bocock is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bocock
- Winfall
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Winfall is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winfall
- Bedford Springs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Bedford Springs is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bedford Springs
- Evington
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Evington is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evington
- Mount Zion
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Zion is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Zion
- Mount Athos ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Mount Athos is located in Campbell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Athos
- Forest
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Gladys
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Concord
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Joshua Falls
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Joshua Falls is located in Amherst County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joshua Falls
- Boonsboro
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Boonsboro is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boonsboro
- Coffee
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Coffee is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coffee
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Lanes Well Fork. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lanes Well Fork.
Newspapers Published in Lanes Well Fork ...
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 95 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lanes Well Fork.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lanes Well Fork, there are papers which were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lanes Well Fork.
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 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 Lanes Well Fork:
- Websites specific to Virginia
- Pages specific to Campbell County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Amherst County
- Appomattox County
- Bedford City
- Bedford County
- Buckingham County
- Charlotte County
- Halifax County
- Lynchburg City
- Nelson County
- Pittsylvania County
- Rockbridge County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Virginia
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 Lanes Well Fork, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <5> | 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- Lanes Well Fork) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |