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 Novum (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 Novum. 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 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.
Novum 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 Novum. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Novum:
Madison County (The home county of Novum)
The following are listed by their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Tryme (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Tryme is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tryme Peola Mills (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Peola Mills is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peola Mills Syria (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Madison (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Ruth (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Ruth is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruth Aroda (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Aroda is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aroda Radiant (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Radiant is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radiant Burnt Tree (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Burnt Tree is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Tree Wolftown (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Hood (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Madison Mills (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Madison Mills is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Mills Albemarle County
The following are listed by their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Burnley (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Burnley is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnley Advance Mills Village (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Advance Mills Village is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance Mills Village Advance Mills (24 miles [38.6 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 (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Gilbert is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilbert Rosena (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Rosena is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosena Cedarmere (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Cedarmere is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarmere Boonesville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Boonesville is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boonesville Earlysville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Jefferson Village (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Jefferson Village is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Village Hollymead (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Hollymead is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollymead Cobham (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Cobham is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobham Free Union (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Monacan Town ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Monacan Town is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monacan Town Culpeper County
The following are listed by their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Griffinsburg (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Griffinsburg is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griffinsburg Salem (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Salem is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem Norman (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Norman is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norman Waylands Mill (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Waylands Mill is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waylands Mill Eggbornsville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Eggbornsville is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eggbornsville Culpeper (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Homeland (12 miles [19.3 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 (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Jeffersonton (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Jeffersonton is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffersonton Lignum (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Lignum is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lignum Kellys Ford (21 miles [33.8 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 Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Remington (20 miles [32.2 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 Orlean (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Bealeton (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Opal (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Opal is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal Midland (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Warrenton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Blackwell Town (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Blackwell Town is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwell Town Frytown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Frytown is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frytown Ada (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Ada is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ada Markham (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Petersburg (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Petersburg is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Kinderhook (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Kinderhook is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinderhook Dawsonville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Dawsonville is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawsonville 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(26 miles [41.8 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 Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Meltons (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Meltons is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meltons Green Springs (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Green Springs is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Springs Trevilians (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Trevilians is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trevilians Orange County
The following are listed by their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
True Blue (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
True Blue is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for True Blue Montpelier Station (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Orange (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Grassland (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Grassland is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassland Madison Run (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Madison Run is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Run Burr Hill (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Burr Hill is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burr Hill Rhoadesville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Indian Town (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Indian Town is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Town Barboursville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Locust Grove (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Vulcan (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Vulcan is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulcan Gordonsville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Danton (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Danton is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danton Page County
The following are listed by their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Marksville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Marksville is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marksville Kimball (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Kimball is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball Stanley (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Luray (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Leaksville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Leaksville is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leaksville Rileyville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Verbena (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Verbena is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verbena Shenandoah (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Rappahannock County
The following are listed by their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Slate Mills (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Slate Mills is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Mills Scrabble (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Scrabble is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scrabble Woodville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Woodville is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville Sperryville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Rediviva (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Rediviva is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rediviva Washington (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Amissville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Chester Gap (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Chester Gap is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester Gap Reager (25 miles [40.2 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 Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Swift Run (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Swift Run is located in Rockingham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swift Run Elkton (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Berrytown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Berrytown is located in Rockingham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berrytown Massanutten (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
McGaheysville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Plains Mill (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Plains Mill is located in Rockingham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plains Mill Shenandoah County
The following are listed by their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
New Market (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Seven Fountains (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Seven Fountains is located in Shenandoah County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Fountains Dilbeck (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Dilbeck is located in Shenandoah County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dilbeck Edinburg (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Mount Jackson (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Spotsylvania County
The following are listed by their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Paytes (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Paytes is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paytes Parker (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Parker is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker Belmont (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Belmont is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont Dunavant (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Dunavant is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunavant Logan (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Logan is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan Childs Cove (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Childs Cove is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childs Cove Holladay (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Holladay is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holladay Warren County
The following are listed by their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Overall (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Overall is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overall Bentonville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Limeton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Limeton is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limeton Happy Creek (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Happy Creek is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Creek Viscose City (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Viscose City is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viscose City Applewood (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Applewood is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Applewood Front Royal (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Novum, see our County-by-County Page for Novum .
Cemeteries Near Novum ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Novum.
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 Novum - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Novum covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Beethsaida UMC Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beethsaida UMC Cemetery The Beethsaida UMC Cemetery has also been known as:
Bethsaida Cemetery Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
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]<3> Salem . The Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
Canaan Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #49676 <2>
Robinson River Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Bethel Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Etlan Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Second Robertson Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Aylor Family Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Criglersville Shiloh Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Criglersville Shiloh Cemetery The Criglersville Shiloh Cemetery has also been known as:
Criglersville Cemetery Shiloh Cemetery Church Of The Brethren Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
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 Thorofare Community Chapel Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Brown Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Continue List (246 more) ...
Mt. Zion Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Berry Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 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>
While we didn't find Novum in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Novum.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Novum, with the one closest to Novum listed first.
Haywood (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Haywood is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haywood Slate Mills (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Slate Mills is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Mills Leon (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Clarkson (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Clarkson is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarkson Boston (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Peola Mills (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Peola Mills is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peola Mills Criglersville (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Criglersville is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Criglersville Norman (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Norman is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norman Nethers (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Nethers is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nethers Hawlin (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Hawlin is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawlin Woodville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Woodville is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville Eggbornsville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Eggbornsville is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eggbornsville Continue List (16 more) ...
Castleton (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Graves Mill (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Pratts (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Novum. See our List of 1890's Communities around Novum .
Newspapers Published in Novum ...
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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Novum.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Novum, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Novum.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Novum:
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 Shenandoah County Spotsylvania County Warren County Cemetery Information and Directories for Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Novum. 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. 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 . 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- Novum) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. 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 Novum, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.