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 Bias (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 Bias. 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 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.
Bias is located in Mingo 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 Mingo County : Martin (KY) , Pike (KY) , Buchanan (VA) , Lincoln , Logan , McDowell , Wayne & Wyoming .
Below are the counties that are near Bias. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bias:
Mingo County (The home county of Bias)
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Myrtle (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Myrtle is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myrtle Delbarton (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Chattaroy (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Chattaroy is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chattaroy Williamson (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Sprigg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Sprigg is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprigg Red Jacket (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Red Jacket is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Jacket Matewan (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Musick (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Musick is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Musick Dingess (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Dingess is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dingess Blackberry City (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Blackberry City is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackberry City Thacker (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Thacker is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thacker Pie (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Pie is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pie Kermit (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Manila (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Manila is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manila Havana (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Havana is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havana Hewett (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Hewett is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hewett Clothier (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Clothier is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clothier Jeffrey (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Jeffrey is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffrey Ottawa (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Ottawa is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottawa Ramage (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Ramage is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramage Secoal (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Secoal is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Secoal Greenview (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Greenview is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenview Low Gap (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Low Gap is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Low Gap Powell Creek (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Powell Creek is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell Creek Stark (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Stark is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stark Turtle Creek (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Turtle Creek is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle Creek Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Harts (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Wewanta (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Wewanta is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wewanta Spears ‑ Historic(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Spears is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spears Kinder ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Kinder is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinder Palermo (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Palermo is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palermo Logan County
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Holden (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Holden is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holden Omar (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Stirrat (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Stirrat is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stirrat Troy Town (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Troy Town is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy Town Whitman (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Switzer (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Switzer is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Switzer Hedgeview (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Hedgeview is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedgeview Thompson Town (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Thompson Town is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson Town Wilkinson (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Whirlwind (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Whirlwind is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whirlwind Logan (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Peach Creek (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Peach Creek is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Creek West Logan (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
McDowell County
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Wyoming City (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Wyoming City is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming City Panther (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Panther is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panther Iaeger (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Iaeger is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iaeger Population from the 2020 Census: 232 people
Union City (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Union City is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union City Wayne County
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Stonecoal (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Stonecoal is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonecoal Wilsondale (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Wilsondale is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsondale Doane (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Doane is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doane Dunlow (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Dunlow is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlow Cove Gap (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Cove Gap is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Gap Kiahsville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Kiahsville is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiahsville Effie (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Effie is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Effie Nestlow (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Nestlow is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nestlow Wyoming County
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Cub City (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Cub City is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cub City Uno (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Uno is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uno Clear Fork (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Clear Fork is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Fork Sun Hill (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Sun Hill is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Hill Baileysville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Baileysville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baileysville Floyd County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Betsy Layne (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Harold (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Harold is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harold Stanville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Tram (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Tram is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tram Ivel (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Osborn (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Osborn is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osborn Banner (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Dana (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Dana is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana Grethel (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Grethel is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grethel Allen (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Allen is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen Population from the 2020 Census: 168 people
Allen has also been known as:
Beaver Creek Junction Beaver Creek Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Allen <1>
Auxier (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Auxier is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auxier Dwale (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Dwale is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwale Johnson County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Butcher Hollow (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Butcher Hollow is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butcher Hollow Meally (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Meally is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meally Whitehouse (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Whitehouse is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitehouse Williamsport (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Williamsport is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsport Nero (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Nero is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nero Van Lear (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Lawrence County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Clifford (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Clifford is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifford Peach Orchard (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Peach Orchard is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Orchard Maynard ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Maynard is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maynard Patrick (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Patrick is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patrick Ben Bow (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Ben Bow is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ben Bow Richardson (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Richardson is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardson Gallup ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Gallup is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup Ulysses ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Ulysses is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulysses Georges Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Georges Creek is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georges Creek Martin County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Lovely (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Lovely is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovely Pilgrim (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Pilgrim is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim Beauty (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Beauty is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beauty Warfield (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Hode (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Hode is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hode Inez (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Debord (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Tomahawk (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Tomahawk is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tomahawk Pike County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
South Williamson (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Toler (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Toler is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toler Buskirk (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Buskirk is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buskirk Hardy (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Hardy is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardy Forest Hills (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Forest Hills is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Hills McCarr (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Belfry (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Stone (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Stone is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Canada (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Huddy (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Huddy is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huddy Freeburn (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Freeburn is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeburn McAndrews (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
McAndrews is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAndrews Ransom (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Ransom is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ransom Buchanan County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Kelsa (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Kelsa is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelsa Big Rock (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Big Rock is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Rock
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bias, see our County-by-County Page for Bias .
Cemeteries Near Bias ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bias.
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 Bias - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bias covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Adair Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Lower Curry Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Elk Creek Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Estep Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Marcum Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Farley Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Zornes Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zornes Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Zornes Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> Myrtle . Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80395 <2>
Farley Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Mounts Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Maynard Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Ooten Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Williams Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Continue List (774 more) ...
Varney Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Upper Curry Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Estep Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 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 Bias in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bias.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bias, with the one closest to Bias listed first.
Oilville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Oilville is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oilville Rural (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Rural is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rural Canada (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Pilgrim (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Pilgrim is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim Pinsonfork (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Pinsonfork is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinsonfork Warfield (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Phelps (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Stonecoal (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Stonecoal is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonecoal Coleman (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Coleman is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleman Jamboree (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Jamboree is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamboree Man (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Kimper (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Kimper is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimper Continue List (16 more) ...
Christian (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Christian is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christian Chapmanville (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Gulnare (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Gulnare is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gulnare
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bias. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bias .
Newspapers Published in Bias ...
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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bias.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bias, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Bias.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Bias:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Mingo County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone County Lincoln County Logan County McDowell County Wayne County Wyoming County Floyd County Johnson County Lawrence County Martin County Pike County Buchanan County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Bias. 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. 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bias) 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 Bias, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.