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 Acup (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 Acup. 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 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.
Acup is located in Kanawha County .
To see how the shape of West 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 Kanawha County : Boone , Clay , Fayette , Jackson , Lincoln , Nicholas , Putnam , Raleigh & Roane .
Below are the counties that are near Acup. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Acup:
Kanawha County (The home county of Acup)
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Apgah ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Apgah is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apgah Coco (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Three Mile (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Three Mile is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Mile Clendenin (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Reamer (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Reamer is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reamer Falling Rock (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Falling Rock is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Rock Youngs Bottom (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Youngs Bottom is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs Bottom Pinch (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Pinch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinch Elkview (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Jarretts Ford (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Jarretts Ford is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarretts Ford Cedar Grove (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Cedar Grove is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove Population from the 2020 Census: 897 people
Big Chimney (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Big Chimney is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Chimney Coal Fork (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Coal Fork is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Fork Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Bloomingrose (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Bloomingrose is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomingrose Comfort (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Joes Creek (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Joes Creek is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joes Creek Eden (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Eden is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Racine (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Racine is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Racine Rumble (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Rumble is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumble Seth (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Sharlow (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Sharlow is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharlow Ashford (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Coopertown (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Coopertown is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopertown Dartmont (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Dartmont is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dartmont Fosterville (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Fosterville is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fosterville Kirbyton (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Kirbyton is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirbyton Braxton County
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Elmira (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Elmira is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmira Strange Creek (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Strange Creek is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strange Creek Clem (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Clem is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clem Sleith ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Sleith is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sleith Calhoun County
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Mudfork (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Mudfork is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mudfork Oka (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Oka is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oka Stinson (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Stinson is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinson Losie ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Losie is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Losie Walnut (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Walnut is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Beech (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Beech is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Pink (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Pink is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pink Gomez ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Gomez is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gomez Orma (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Orma is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orma Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Bomont (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Bomont is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomont Porter (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Porter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Elkhurst (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Elkhurst is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst Procious (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Procious is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Procious Hartland (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Hartland is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland Clay (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Valley Fork (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Valley Fork is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Fork Spread (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Spread is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spread Gould (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Gould is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gould Dink (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Dink is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dink Harrison (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Harrison is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison Ira (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Ira is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ira Lydia (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Lydia is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lydia Fayette County
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Cannelton (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Cannelton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannelton Montgomery (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Smithers (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Crescent (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Crescent is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Kimberly (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Kimberly is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberly Mount Carbon (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Mount Carbon is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carbon Gauley Bridge (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Falls View (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Falls View is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls View Romont (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Romont is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romont Powellton (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Powellton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powellton Elkridge (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Elkridge is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkridge Ansted (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Beckwith (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Romance (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Romance is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romance Fletcher (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Fletcher is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Kentuck (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Kentuck is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck Kenna (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Aplin ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Aplin is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aplin Statts Mills (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Statts Mills is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Statts Mills Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Alum Creek (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Priestley (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Priestley is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Priestley Sod (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Sod is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sod Nicholas County
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Dixie (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Dixie is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Beech Glen (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Beech Glen is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Glen Tipton (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Tipton is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tipton Albion ‑ Historic(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Albion is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albion Zela (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Zela is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zela Keslers Cross Lanes (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Keslers Cross Lanes is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keslers Cross Lanes Morrison ‑ Historic(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Morrison is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrison Summersville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Muddlety (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Muddlety is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muddlety Runa (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Runa is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Runa Putnam County
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Liberty (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Liberty is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Poca (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Sigman (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Sigman is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sigman Raymond City (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Raymond City is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymond City Bancroft (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Bancroft is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft Population from the 2020 Census: 596 people
Morgans Landing (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Morgans Landing is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgans Landing Paradise (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Paradise is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Raleigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Dorothy (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Dorothy is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorothy Packsville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Packsville is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packsville Roane County
The following are listed by their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Pigeon (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Pigeon is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon Kester ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Kester is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kester Mattie ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Mattie is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattie Walton (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Cicerone (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Cicerone is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicerone Looneyville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Woodyard ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Woodyard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodyard Roxalana (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Roxalana is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxalana Rushville (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Rushville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville Zona (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Zona is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zona Graux (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Graux is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graux Flint Town (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Flint Town is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Town Spencer (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Acup, see our County-by-County Page for Acup .
Cemeteries Near Acup ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Acup.
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 Acup - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Acup covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
O Dell Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Odell Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Kennedy Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Ryder Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryder Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Ryder Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<2> Pinch . Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #79780 <3>
Murdock Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Hinkle Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Blakley Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Proctor Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Hayes Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Perry Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Vickers Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Reamer Hill Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
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Woody Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Morris Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Koontz Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] 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.<4>
While we didn't find Acup in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Acup.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Acup, with the one closest to Acup listed first.
Gazil ‑ Historic(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Gazil is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gazil Kendalia (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Kendalia is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendalia Odell (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Odell is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odell Apgah ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Apgah is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apgah Coco (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Spangler (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Spangler is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spangler Pond Gap (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Pond Gap is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pond Gap Clendenin (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Lizemores (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Lizemores is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lizemores Jarrett (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Jarrett is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarrett Cedar Grove (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Cedar Grove is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove Population from the 2020 Census: 897 people
East Bank (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
East Bank is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Bank Population from the 2020 Census: 857 people
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Crown Hill (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Crown Hill is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crown Hill Dixie (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Dixie is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Procious (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Procious is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Procious
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Acup. See our List of 1890's Communities around Acup .
Newspapers Published in Acup ...
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 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Acup.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Acup, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Acup.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Acup:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Kanawha County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone County Braxton County Calhoun County Clay County Fayette County Jackson County Lincoln County Nicholas County Putnam County Raleigh County Roane County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Acup. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Kanawha County: https://kanawha.us/
The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Acup) 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 Acup, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.