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 Leon (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 Leon. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.
Leon is located in Madison 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 Madison County : Culpeper , Greene , Orange , Page & Rappahannock .
Below are the counties that are near Leon. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Leon:
Madison County (The home county of Leon)
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Tryme (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Tryme is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tryme Madison (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Peola Mills (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Peola Mills is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peola Mills Burnt Tree (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Burnt Tree is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Tree Radiant (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Radiant is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radiant Aroda (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Aroda is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aroda Ruth (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Ruth is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruth Madison Mills (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Madison Mills is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Mills Syria (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Wolftown (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Hood (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Albemarle County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Burnley (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Burnley is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnley Advance Mills Village (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Advance Mills Village is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance Mills Village Advance Mills (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Advance Mills is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance Mills Advance Mills has also been known as:
Fray's Mills Gilbert (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Gilbert is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilbert Rosena (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Rosena is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosena Cobham (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Cobham is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobham Earlysville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Jefferson Village (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Jefferson Village is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Village Cedarmere (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Cedarmere is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarmere Hollymead (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Hollymead is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollymead Boonesville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Boonesville is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boonesville Eastham (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Eastham is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastham Culpeper County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Waylands Mill (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Waylands Mill is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waylands Mill Griffinsburg (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Griffinsburg is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griffinsburg Norman (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Norman is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norman Salem (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Salem is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem Culpeper (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Eggbornsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Eggbornsville is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eggbornsville Homeland (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Homeland is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homeland Rixeyville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Rixeyville is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rixeyville Elkwood (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Lignum (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Lignum is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lignum Jeffersonton (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Jeffersonton is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffersonton Kellys Ford (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Kellys Ford is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellys Ford Fauquier County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Remington (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Turnbull (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Turnbull is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnbull Waterloo (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Waterloo is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo Bealeton (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Opal (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Opal is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal Orlean (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Midland (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Blackwell Town (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Blackwell Town is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwell Town Warrenton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Frytown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Frytown is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frytown Brent Town (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Brent Town is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brent Town Ada (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Ada is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ada Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Dawsonville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Dawsonville is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawsonville Kinderhook (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Kinderhook is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinderhook Stanardsville (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Quinque (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Quinque is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinque Amicus (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Amicus is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amicus Cedarmere ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Cedarmere is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarmere Louisa County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Meltons (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Meltons is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meltons Green Springs (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Green Springs is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Springs Trevilians (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Trevilians is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trevilians Louisa (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Medlock (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Medlock is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlock Orange County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
True Blue (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
True Blue is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for True Blue Orange (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Montpelier Station (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Grassland (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Grassland is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassland Madison Run (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Madison Run is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Run Burr Hill (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Burr Hill is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burr Hill Rhoadesville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Indian Town (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Indian Town is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Town Vulcan (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Vulcan is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulcan Locust Grove (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Barboursville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Gordonsville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Page County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Marksville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Marksville is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marksville Stanley (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Kimball (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Kimball is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball Luray (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Leaksville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Leaksville is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leaksville Verbena (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Verbena is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verbena Rileyville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Shenandoah (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Rappahannock County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Slate Mills (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Slate Mills is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Mills Scrabble (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Scrabble is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scrabble Woodville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Woodville is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville Sperryville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Rediviva (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Rediviva is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rediviva Amissville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Washington (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Chester Gap (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Chester Gap is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester Gap Reager (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Reager is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reager Rockingham County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Swift Run (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Swift Run is located in Rockingham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swift Run Elkton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Berrytown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Berrytown is located in Rockingham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berrytown Spotsylvania County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Paytes (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Paytes is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paytes Parker (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Parker is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker Belmont (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Belmont is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont Logan (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Logan is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan Dunavant (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Dunavant is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunavant Childs Cove (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Childs Cove is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childs Cove Holladay (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Holladay is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holladay Brockroad (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Brockroad is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockroad Todds Tavern (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Todds Tavern is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Todds Tavern Margo (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Margo is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margo McHenry (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
McHenry is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McHenry Screamerville ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Screamerville is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Screamerville Stafford County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Cropp (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Cropp is located in Stafford County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cropp Storck (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Storck is located in Stafford County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Storck Hartwood Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Hartwood Village is located in Stafford County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartwood Village Warren County
The following are listed by their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Overall (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Overall is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overall Bentonville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Limeton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Limeton is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limeton
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Leon, see our County-by-County Page for Leon .
Cemeteries Near Leon ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Leon.
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 Leon - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Leon covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Bethel Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Beethsaida UMC Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beethsaida UMC Cemetery The Beethsaida UMC Cemetery has also been known as:
Bethsaida Cemetery Thorofare Community Chapel Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Robinson River Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Aylor Family Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Church Of The Brethren Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Church Of The Brethren Cemetery The Church Of The Brethren Cemetery has also been known as:
Madison Church Of The Brethren Cemetery Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> Salem . The Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
Canaan Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #49676 <3>
Mt. Zion UMC Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
All Saints Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Cedar Run Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Pilgrim Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Beaver Creek Brethren Church Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
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Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Second Robertson Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Leon had a population of 27 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Leon, with the one closest to Leon listed first.
Clarkson (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Clarkson is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarkson Slate Mills (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Slate Mills is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Mills Norman (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Norman is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norman Haywood (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Haywood is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haywood Locust Dale (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Winston (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Winston is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winston Boston (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Twymans Mill (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Twymans Mill is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twymans Mill Culpeper (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Criglersville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Criglersville is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Criglersville Pratts (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Rapidan (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
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Peola Mills (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Peola Mills is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peola Mills Madison Mills (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Madison Mills is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Mills Eggbornsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Eggbornsville is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eggbornsville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Leon. See our List of 1890's Communities around Leon .
Newspapers Published in Leon ...
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 Leon.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Leon, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Leon.
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 Leon:
Websites specific to Virginia Pages specific to Madison County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Albemarle County Culpeper County Fauquier County Greene County Louisa County Orange County Page County Rappahannock County Rockingham County Spotsylvania County Stafford County Warren County Cemetery Information and Directories for Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Leon. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.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. 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Leon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. 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 . 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 Leon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.