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 Waylandsburg (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 Waylandsburg. 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 northwest 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 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 west 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.
Waylandsburg 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 Waylandsburg. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Waylandsburg:
Madison County (The home county of Waylandsburg)
The following are listed by their distance from Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Tryme (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Tryme is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tryme Madison Mills (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Madison Mills is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Mills Aroda (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Aroda is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aroda Burnt Tree (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Burnt Tree is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Tree Radiant (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Radiant is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radiant Madison (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Ruth (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Ruth is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruth Peola Mills (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Peola Mills is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peola Mills Syria (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Wolftown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Hood (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Albemarle County
The following are listed by their distance from Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Burnley (20 miles [32.2 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 (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Cobham is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobham Jefferson Village (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Jefferson Village is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Village Earlysville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Hollymead (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Hollymead is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollymead Cedarmere (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Cedarmere is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarmere Eastham (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Eastham is located in Albemarle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastham Monacan Town ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 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 Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Waylands Mill (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Waylands Mill is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waylands Mill Griffinsburg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Griffinsburg is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griffinsburg Norman (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Norman is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norman Salem (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Salem is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem Culpeper (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Eggbornsville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Eggbornsville is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eggbornsville Rixeyville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Rixeyville is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rixeyville Lignum (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Lignum is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lignum Homeland (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Homeland is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homeland Elkwood (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Kellys Ford (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Kellys Ford is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellys Ford Jeffersonton (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Jeffersonton is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffersonton Fauquier County
The following are listed by their distance from Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Remington (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Bealeton (21 miles [33.8 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 Turnbull (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Turnbull is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnbull Waterloo (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Waterloo is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo Blackwell Town (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Blackwell Town is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwell Town Midland (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Orlean (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
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 (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Brent Town is located in Fauquier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brent Town Catlett (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg 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 (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Kinderhook is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinderhook Quinque (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Quinque is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinque Stanardsville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Amicus (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Amicus is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amicus Cedarmere ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 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 Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Meltons (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Meltons is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meltons Green Springs (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Green Springs is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Springs Trevilians (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Trevilians is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trevilians Louisa (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Medlock (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Medlock is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlock Mineral (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Bells Crossroads (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Bells Crossroads is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bells Crossroads Pendleton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Pendleton is located in Louisa County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pendleton Orange County
The following are listed by their distance from Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
True Blue (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
True Blue is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for True Blue Orange (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Grassland (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Grassland is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassland Burr Hill (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Burr Hill is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burr Hill Montpelier Station (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Rhoadesville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Madison Run (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Madison Run is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Run Indian Town (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Indian Town is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Town Vulcan (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Vulcan is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulcan Locust Grove (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Danton (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Danton is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danton Barboursville (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Page County
The following are listed by their distance from Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Marksville (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Marksville is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marksville Stanley (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Kimball (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Kimball is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball Luray (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Leaksville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Leaksville is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leaksville Verbena (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Verbena is located in Page County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verbena Shenandoah (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Rileyville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Rappahannock County
The following are listed by their distance from Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Slate Mills (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Slate Mills is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Mills Scrabble (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Scrabble is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scrabble Woodville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Woodville is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville Sperryville (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Amissville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Rediviva (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Rediviva is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rediviva Washington (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Chester Gap (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Chester Gap is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester Gap Reager (30 miles [48.3 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 Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Swift Run (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Swift Run is located in Rockingham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swift Run Elkton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Berrytown (30 miles [48.3 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 Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Paytes (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Paytes is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paytes Parker (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Parker is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker Belmont (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Belmont is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont Logan (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Logan is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan Dunavant (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Dunavant is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunavant Childs Cove (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Childs Cove is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childs Cove Holladay (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Holladay is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holladay Brockroad (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Brockroad is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockroad Todds Tavern (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Todds Tavern is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Todds Tavern Margo (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Margo is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margo McHenry (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
McHenry is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McHenry Glenora (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Glenora is located in Spotsylvania County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenora Stafford County
The following are listed by their distance from Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Storck (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Storck is located in Stafford County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Storck Cropp (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Cropp is located in Stafford County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cropp Hartwood Village (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Hartwood Village is located in Stafford County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartwood Village Hartwood (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Stafford Lakes Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Warren County
Overall (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Overall is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overall
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Waylandsburg, see our County-by-County Page for Waylandsburg .
Cemeteries Near Waylandsburg ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Waylandsburg.
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 Waylandsburg - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Waylandsburg covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Thorofare Community Chapel Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Cedar Run Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Bethel Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
All Saints Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Mt. Zion UMC Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Bethel Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Pilgrim Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Beaver Creek Brethren Church Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Beethsaida UMC Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beethsaida UMC Cemetery The Beethsaida UMC Cemetery has also been known as:
Bethsaida Cemetery Church Of The Brethren Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
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 Robinson River Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Aylor Family Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Continue List (236 more) ...
Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 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]<3> Salem . The Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
Canaan Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #49676 <2>
Emmanuel Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Culpeper National Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
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 Waylandsburg in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Waylandsburg.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Waylandsburg, with the one closest to Waylandsburg listed first.
Leon (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Clarkson (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Clarkson is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarkson Locust Dale (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Winston (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Winston is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winston Rapidan (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Twymans Mill (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Twymans Mill is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twymans Mill Culpeper (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Norman (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Norman is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norman Madison Mills (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Madison Mills is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Mills Haywood (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Haywood is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haywood Pratts (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Raccoon Ford (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Raccoon Ford is located in Culpeper County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raccoon Ford Continue List (20 more) ...
Slate Mills (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Slate Mills is located in Rappahannock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Mills Boston (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
True Blue (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
True Blue is located in Orange County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for True Blue
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Waylandsburg. See our List of 1890's Communities around Waylandsburg .
Newspapers Published in Waylandsburg ...
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 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Waylandsburg.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Waylandsburg, there are papers which were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Waylandsburg.
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 websites either 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 Waylandsburg:
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 Waylandsburg. 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Waylandsburg) 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 Waylandsburg, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.