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 Bartley (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 Bartley. 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 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.
Bartley is located in McDowell 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 McDowell County : Buchanan (VA) , Tazewell (VA) , Mercer , Mingo & Wyoming .
Below are the counties that are near Bartley. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bartley:
McDowell County (The home county of Bartley)
The following are listed by their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Yukon (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Yukon is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yukon Bradshaw (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
War (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
War is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for War Population from the 2020 Census: 659 people
Peapatch (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Peapatch is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peapatch Avondale (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Avondale is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avondale Height (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Height is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Height Roderfield (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Roderfield is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roderfield Union City (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Union City is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union City Jackson Flats (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Jackson Flats is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson Flats Big Sandy (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Big Sandy is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Sandy Wilmore (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Wilmore is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmore Newhall (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Newhall is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newhall Paynesville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Paynesville is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paynesville Logan County
The following are listed by their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Wylo (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Wylo is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wylo Mallory (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Mallory is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mallory Mineral City (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Mineral City is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral City Man (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Kistler (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Kistler is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kistler Accoville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Accoville is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Accoville Braeholm (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Braeholm is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braeholm Stirrat (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Stirrat is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stirrat Mercer County
The following are listed by their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Coaldale (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Coaldale is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaldale Coopers (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Coopers is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopers Bramwell (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Freeman (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Freeman is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman Nemours (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Yards (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Yards is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yards Flipping (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Flipping is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flipping Montcalm (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Montcalm is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcalm Weyanoke (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Weyanoke is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weyanoke Matoaka (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Matoaka is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matoaka Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
Bluefield (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Littlesburg (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Littlesburg is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littlesburg Lashmeet (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Lashmeet is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lashmeet Mingo County
The following are listed by their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Gilbert Creek (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Gilbert Creek is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilbert Creek Baisden (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Wharncliffe (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Gilbert (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Pie (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Pie is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pie Thacker (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Thacker is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thacker Musick (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Musick is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Musick Blackberry City (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Blackberry City is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackberry City Matewan (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Red Jacket (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Red Jacket is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Jacket Raleigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Helen (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Helen is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helen Rhodell (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Rhodell is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhodell Population from the 2020 Census: 159 people
Wyoming County
The following are listed by their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Woosley (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Woosley is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woosley Stoneville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Stoneville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville Fanny (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Fanny is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fanny Baileysville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Baileysville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baileysville Cub City (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Cub City is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cub City Wyoming (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Wyoming is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming Sun Hill (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Sun Hill is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Hill Uno (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Uno is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uno Mullensville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Mullensville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullensville Clear Fork (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Clear Fork is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Fork Pineville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Turkey (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Turkey is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Rock View (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Rock View is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock View Pike County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Paw Paw (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Paw Paw is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paw Paw Stopover (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Stopover is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stopover Majestic (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Majestic is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Majestic Phelps (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Freeburn (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Freeburn is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeburn Coleman (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Coleman is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleman Calloway Branch (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Calloway Branch is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calloway Branch Fedscreek (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Fedscreek is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fedscreek Mouthcard (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Mouthcard is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mouthcard Ransom (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Ransom is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ransom Buskirk (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Buskirk is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buskirk McCarr (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Lick Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Lick Creek is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lick Creek Buchanan County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Peapatch (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Peapatch is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peapatch Height (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Height is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Height Bearwallow (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Bearwallow is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bearwallow Jackson Flats (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Jackson Flats is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson Flats Paynesville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Paynesville is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paynesville Matney (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Matney is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matney Mavisdale (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Mavisdale is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mavisdale Janey (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Janey is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Janey Kelsa (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Kelsa is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelsa Grundy (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Royal City (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Royal City is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal City Rowe (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Rowe is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowe Vansant (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Russell County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Dye (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Dye is located in Russell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dye Russell (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Russell is located in Russell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell Honaker (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Smyth County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Broadford (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Broadford is located in Smyth County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadford Allison Gap (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Allison Gap is located in Smyth County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allison Gap Cardwell Town (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Cardwell Town is located in Smyth County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cardwell Town Ellendale (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Ellendale is located in Smyth County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellendale Tazewell County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Harman (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Harman is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harman Dunford Village (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Dunford Village is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunford Village Sayersville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Sayersville is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sayersville Bishop (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Bishop is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Shraders (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Shraders is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shraders Adria (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Adria is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adria Abbs Valley (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Abbs Valley is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbs Valley Cedar Bluff (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Maxwell (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Maxwell is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxwell Richlands (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Pisgah (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Pisgah is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pisgah Red Ash (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Red Ash is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Ash Pounding Mill (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bartley, see our County-by-County Page for Bartley .
Cemeteries Near Bartley ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bartley.
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 Bartley - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bartley covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Puckett Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Rose Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Hagerman Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Deskins Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Lomax Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Riffe Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Atwell Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Oak Grove Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Rowe Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Sparks Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Blevins Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Woods Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Continue List (606 more) ...
Mitchell Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Roe Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Buckeye Cemetery (5 miles [8 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.<2>
While we didn't find Bartley in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bartley.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bartley, with the one closest to Bartley listed first.
Bradshaw (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Bearwallow (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Bearwallow is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bearwallow Iaeger (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Iaeger is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iaeger Population from the 2020 Census: 232 people
Pleasant Hill (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Pleasant Hill is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill Harman (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Harman is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harman Sayersville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Sayersville is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sayersville Shraders (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Shraders is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shraders Shack Mills (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Shack Mills is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shack Mills Gap Store (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Gap Store is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gap Store Hanover (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Hanover is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanover North Spring (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
North Spring is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Spring Lincoln (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Lincoln is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Continue List (13 more) ...
Doran (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Richlands (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Cedar Bluff (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bartley. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bartley .
Newspapers Published in Bartley ...
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 Bartley.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bartley, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Bartley.
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 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 Bartley:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to McDowell County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Logan County Mercer County Mingo County Raleigh County Wyoming County Pike County Buchanan County Russell County Smyth County Tazewell County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Bartley. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
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. 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 Bartley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bartley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.