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 Blount (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 Blount. 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 hospitals 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.
Blount 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 Blount. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Blount:
Kanawha County (The home county of Blount)
The following are listed by their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Coco (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Coal Fork (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Coal Fork is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Fork Pinch (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Pinch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinch Cedar Grove (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Cedar Grove is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove Population from the 2020 Census: 897 people
Three Mile (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Three Mile is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Mile East Bank (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
East Bank is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Bank Population from the 2020 Census: 857 people
Glasgow (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Malden (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Elkview (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Big Chimney (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Big Chimney is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Chimney Belle (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Dupont City (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Dupont City is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dupont City Airport Village (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Airport Village is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airport Village Airport Village has also been known as:
Airport Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Bloomingrose (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Bloomingrose is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomingrose Comfort (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Eden (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Eden is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Joes Creek (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Joes Creek is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joes Creek Racine (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Racine is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Racine Rumble (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Rumble is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumble Seth (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Sharlow (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Sharlow is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharlow Ashford (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Brushton (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Brushton is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brushton Dartmont (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Dartmont is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dartmont Fosterville (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Fosterville is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fosterville Grippe (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Grippe is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grippe Calhoun County
The following are listed by their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Oka (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Oka is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oka Mudfork (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Mudfork is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mudfork Stinson (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Stinson is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinson Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Bomont (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Bomont is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomont Porter (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Porter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Procious (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Procious is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Procious Elkhurst (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Elkhurst is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst Hartland (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Hartland is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland Clay (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Valley Fork (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Valley Fork is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Fork Spread (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Spread is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spread Gould (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Gould is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gould Dink (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Dink is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dink Swandale (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Swandale is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swandale Harrison (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Harrison is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison Ira (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Ira is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ira Fayette County
The following are listed by their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Cannelton (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Cannelton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannelton Crescent (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Crescent is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Montgomery (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Smithers (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Kimberly (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Kimberly is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberly Mount Carbon (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Mount Carbon is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carbon Powellton (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Powellton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powellton Falls View (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Falls View is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls View Gauley Bridge (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Elkridge (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Elkridge is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkridge McDunn (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
McDunn is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDunn Romont (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Romont is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romont Cotton Hill (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Cotton Hill is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Hill Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount 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 (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Fletcher is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Kentuck (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Kentuck is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck Kenna (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Aplin ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Aplin is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aplin Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Alum Creek (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Priestley (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Priestley is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Priestley Sod (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Sod is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sod Garretts Bend (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Garretts Bend is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garretts Bend Tango (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Tango is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tango East ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
East is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Alkol (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Alkol is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alkol Yawkey (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Yawkey is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yawkey Nicholas County
The following are listed by their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Dixie (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Dixie is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Beech Glen (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Beech Glen is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Glen Albion ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Albion is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albion Tipton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Tipton is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tipton Zela (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Zela is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zela Keslers Cross Lanes (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Keslers Cross Lanes is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keslers Cross Lanes Morrison ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Morrison is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrison Putnam County
The following are listed by their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Poca (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Raymond City (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Raymond City is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymond City Morgans Landing (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Morgans Landing is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgans Landing Bancroft (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Bancroft is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft Population from the 2020 Census: 596 people
Liberty (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Liberty is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Sigman (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Sigman is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sigman Paradise (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Paradise is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Scott Village (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Scott Village is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Village Teays Valley (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Red House (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Winfield (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Teays Village (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Teays Village is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teays Village Eleanor (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Raleigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Dorothy (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Dorothy is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorothy Packsville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Packsville is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packsville Montcoal (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Montcoal is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcoal Stickney (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Stickney is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stickney Roane County
The following are listed by their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Pigeon (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Pigeon is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon Mattie ‑ Historic(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Mattie is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattie Cicerone (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Cicerone is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicerone Kester ‑ Historic(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Kester is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kester Walton (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Looneyville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Woodyard ‑ Historic(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Woodyard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodyard Rushville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Rushville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville Roxalana (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Roxalana is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxalana Zona (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Zona is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zona Flint Town (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Flint Town is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Town Graux (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Graux is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graux
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Blount, see our County-by-County Page for Blount .
Cemeteries Near Blount ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Blount.
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 Blount - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Blount covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Patterson Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Kennedy Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Hunter Cemetery 2 (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Hunter Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Cline Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Morris Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Odell Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Perry Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Younger Branch Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Vickers Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Woody Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Ward Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Continue List (649 more) ...
Mt. Lewis Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Blakley Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
O Dell Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 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.<2>
While we didn't find Blount in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Blount.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Blount, with the one closest to Blount listed first.
Odell (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Odell is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odell Coco (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Cedar Grove (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Cedar Grove is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove Population from the 2020 Census: 897 people
Kendalia (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Kendalia is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendalia Malden (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
East Bank (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
East Bank is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Bank Population from the 2020 Census: 857 people
Spangler (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Spangler is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spangler Gazil ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Gazil is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gazil Shrewsbury (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Shrewsbury is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shrewsbury Coalburg (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Coalburg is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalburg Crown Hill (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Crown Hill is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crown Hill Jarrett (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Jarrett is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarrett Continue List (13 more) ...
Pond Gap (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Pond Gap is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pond Gap Kanawha City (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Kanawha City is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawha City Winifrede Junction (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Winifrede Junction is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winifrede Junction
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Blount. See our List of 1890's Communities around Blount .
Newspapers Published in Blount ...
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 97 newspapers that have been published in the area around Blount.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Blount, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Blount.
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 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 Blount:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Kanawha County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone 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 Blount. 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. 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 Blount, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Blount) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.