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 Blundon (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 Blundon. 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 southeast 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 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 east 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.
Blundon 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 Blundon. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Blundon:
Kanawha County (The home county of Blundon)
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Island Branch (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Island Branch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Branch Aarons (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Aarons is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aarons Wills (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Wills is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wills Legg (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Legg is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legg Sissonville (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Elkview (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Jarretts Ford (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Jarretts Ford is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarretts Ford Youngs Bottom (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Youngs Bottom is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs Bottom Falling Rock (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Falling Rock is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Rock Clendenin (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Big Chimney (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Big Chimney is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Chimney Pinch (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Pinch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinch Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Ashford (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Rumble (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Rumble is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumble Dartmont (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Dartmont is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dartmont Emmons (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Emmons is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmons Grippe (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Grippe is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grippe Brushton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Brushton is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brushton Bloomingrose (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Bloomingrose is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomingrose Comfort (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Eden (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Eden is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Johns (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Johns is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johns Peytona (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Peytona is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peytona Racine (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Racine is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Racine Braxton County
Elmira (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Elmira is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmira Cabell County
Culloden (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Culloden is located in Cabell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Culloden Calhoun County
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Oka (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Oka is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oka Pink (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Pink is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pink Beech (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Beech is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Mudfork (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Mudfork is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mudfork Stinson (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Stinson is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinson Orma (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Orma is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orma Rocksdale (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Rocksdale is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocksdale Losie ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Losie is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Losie Arnoldsburg (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Arnoldsburg is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnoldsburg Gomez ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Gomez is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gomez Walnut (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Walnut is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Hur (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Hur is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hur Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Porter (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Porter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Bomont (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Bomont is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomont Procious (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Procious is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Procious Elkhurst (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Elkhurst is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst Valley Fork (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Valley Fork is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Fork Hartland (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Hartland is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland Clay (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Dink (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Dink is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dink Spread (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Spread is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spread Gould (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Gould is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gould Lydia (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Lydia is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lydia Harrison (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Harrison is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison Fayette County
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Cannelton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Cannelton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannelton Montgomery (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Crescent (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Crescent is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Smithers (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Gauley Bridge (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Kimberly (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Kimberly is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberly Mount Carbon (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Mount Carbon is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carbon Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Romance (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Romance is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romance Fletcher (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Fletcher is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Kentuck (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Kentuck is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck Kenna (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Aplin ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Aplin is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aplin Statts Mills (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Statts Mills is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Statts Mills Fairplain (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Fairplain is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairplain Hereford (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Hereford is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hereford Ripley (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Liverpool (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Liverpool is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liverpool Meadowdale (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Meadowdale is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowdale Angerona (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Angerona is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angerona Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Alum Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Priestley (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Priestley is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Priestley Garretts Bend (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Garretts Bend is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garretts Bend Sod (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Sod is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sod Tango (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Tango is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tango Mason County
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Grimms Landing (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Grimms Landing is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimms Landing Arbuckle (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Arbuckle is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arbuckle Baden (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Baden is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baden Leon (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Leon is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leon Population from the 2020 Census: 145 people
Southside (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Southside is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southside Upland (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Upland is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upland Nicholas County
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Dixie (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Dixie is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Beech Glen (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Beech Glen is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Glen Putnam County
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Liberty (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Liberty is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Sigman (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Sigman is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sigman Paradise (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Paradise is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Poca (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Raymond City (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Raymond City is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymond City Bancroft (17 miles [27.4 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 (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Morgans Landing is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgans Landing Red House (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Winfield (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Eleanor (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Scott Village (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Scott Village is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Village Teays Valley (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Roane County
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Cicerone (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Cicerone is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicerone Mattie ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Mattie is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattie Woodyard ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Woodyard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodyard Walton (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Zona (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Zona is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zona Kester ‑ Historic(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Kester is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kester Flint Town (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Flint Town is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Town Looneyville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Rushville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Rushville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville Pigeon (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Pigeon is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon Roxalana (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Roxalana is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxalana Graux (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Graux is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graux Wirt County
The following are listed by their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Lucile (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Lucile is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucile Peewee (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Peewee is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peewee
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Blundon, see our County-by-County Page for Blundon .
Cemeteries Near Blundon ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Blundon.
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 Blundon - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Blundon covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Fields Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fields Cemetery The Fields Cemetery has also been known as:
Taylor Cemetery Baxter Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Fougharty Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Jones Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Vickers Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Withrow Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Clendenin Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Hunt Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Milam Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Walker Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Sheets Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Pauley Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Continue List (678 more) ...
Hunt Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Thompson Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Paxton 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.<2>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Blundon had a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Blundon, with the one closest to Blundon listed first.
Island Branch (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Island Branch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Branch Kettle (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Kettle is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kettle Aarons (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Aarons is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aarons Carney ‑ Historic(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Carney is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carney Legg (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Legg is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legg Mattie ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Mattie is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattie Cicerone (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Cicerone is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicerone Sissonville (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Pocatalico (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Pocatalico is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pocatalico Mink ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Mink is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mink Jarrett (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Jarrett is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarrett Ryan (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Ryan is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan Continue List (19 more) ...
Kentuck (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Kentuck is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck Goldtown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Goldtown is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldtown Clendenin (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Blundon. See our List of 1890's Communities around Blundon .
Newspapers Published in Blundon ...
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 93 newspapers that have been published in the area around Blundon.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Blundon, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Blundon.
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 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 Blundon:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Kanawha County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone County Braxton County Cabell County Calhoun County Clay County Fayette County Jackson County Lincoln County Mason County Nicholas County Putnam County Roane County Wirt County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Blundon. 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 Blundon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Blundon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.