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 Coalridge (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 Coalridge. 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 doctors and 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.
Coalridge 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 Coalridge. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Coalridge:
Kanawha County (The home county of Coalridge)
The following are listed by their distance from Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Coco (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Three Mile (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Three Mile is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Mile Pinch (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Pinch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinch Falling Rock (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Falling Rock is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Rock Youngs Bottom (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Youngs Bottom is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs Bottom Apgah ‑ Historic(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Apgah is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apgah Elkview (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Jarretts Ford (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Jarretts Ford is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarretts Ford Reamer (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Reamer is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reamer Coal Fork (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Coal Fork is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Fork Clendenin (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Wills (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Wills is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wills Big Chimney (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Big Chimney is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Chimney Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Bloomingrose (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Bloomingrose is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomingrose Comfort (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Ashford (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Dartmont (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Dartmont is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dartmont Eden (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Eden is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden 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 Racine (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Racine is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Racine Rumble (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Rumble is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumble Seth (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Sharlow (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Sharlow is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharlow Brushton (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Brushton is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brushton Emmons (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Emmons is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmons Fosterville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Fosterville is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fosterville Braxton County
The following are listed by their distance from Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Elmira (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Elmira is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmira Strange Creek (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Strange Creek is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strange Creek Calhoun County
The following are listed by their distance from Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Oka (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Oka is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oka Mudfork (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Mudfork is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mudfork Stinson (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Stinson is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinson Losie ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Losie is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Losie Walnut (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Walnut is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Pink (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Pink is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pink Beech (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Beech is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Gomez ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Gomez is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gomez Orma (30 miles [48.3 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 Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Bomont (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Bomont is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomont Porter (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Porter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Procious (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Procious is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Procious Elkhurst (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Elkhurst is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst Hartland (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Hartland is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland Clay (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Valley Fork (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Valley Fork is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Fork Spread (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Spread is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spread Gould (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Gould is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gould Dink (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Dink is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dink Swandale (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Swandale is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swandale Harrison (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Harrison is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison Ira (26 miles [41.8 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 Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Montgomery (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Cannelton (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Cannelton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannelton Crescent (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Crescent is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Smithers (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Kimberly (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Kimberly is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberly Mount Carbon (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Mount Carbon is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carbon Gauley Bridge (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Falls View (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Falls View is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls View Powellton (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Powellton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powellton Elkridge (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Elkridge is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkridge Romont (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Romont is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romont Ansted (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Beckwith (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Romance (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Romance is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romance Fletcher (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Fletcher is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Kentuck (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Kentuck is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck Kenna (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Aplin ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Aplin is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aplin Statts Mills (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Statts Mills is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Statts Mills Fairplain (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Fairplain is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairplain Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Alum Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Priestley (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Priestley is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Priestley Sod (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Sod is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sod Garretts Bend (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Garretts Bend is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garretts Bend Tango (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Tango is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tango Nicholas County
The following are listed by their distance from Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Dixie (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
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 Tipton (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Tipton is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tipton Albion ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Albion is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albion Zela (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Zela is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zela Keslers Cross Lanes (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Keslers Cross Lanes is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keslers Cross Lanes Morrison ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Morrison is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrison Summersville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Muddlety (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Muddlety is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muddlety Putnam County
The following are listed by their distance from Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Poca (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Liberty (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Liberty is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Sigman (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Sigman is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sigman Raymond City (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Raymond City is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymond City Morgans Landing (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Morgans Landing is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgans Landing Paradise (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Paradise is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Bancroft (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Bancroft is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft Population from the 2020 Census: 596 people
Scott Village (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Scott Village is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Village Red House (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Teays Valley (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Winfield (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Eleanor (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Teays Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Teays Village is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teays Village Raleigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge 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 (29 miles [46.7 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 Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Pigeon (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Pigeon is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon Mattie ‑ Historic(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Mattie is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattie Kester ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Kester is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kester Cicerone (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Cicerone is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicerone Walton (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Looneyville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Woodyard ‑ Historic(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Woodyard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodyard Rushville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Rushville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville Roxalana (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Roxalana is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxalana Zona (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Zona is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zona Flint Town (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Flint Town is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Town Graux (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Graux is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graux Spencer (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Coalridge, see our County-by-County Page for Coalridge .
Cemeteries Near Coalridge ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Coalridge.
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 Coalridge - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Coalridge covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Kennedy Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Odell Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
O Dell Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Perry Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Ryder Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
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 northeast)
Hayes Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Woody Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Vickers Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Morris Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Hunter Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Patterson Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (638 more) ...
Deer Run - Keaton - Myers Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Rummell Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Hunter Cemetery 2 (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
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 Coalridge in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Coalridge.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Coalridge, with the one closest to Coalridge listed first.
Odell (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Odell is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odell Coco (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Kendalia (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Kendalia is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendalia Gazil ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Gazil is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gazil Apgah ‑ Historic(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Apgah is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apgah Jarrett (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Jarrett is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarrett Spangler (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Spangler is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spangler Pond Gap (8 miles [12.9 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)
Kanawha City (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Kanawha City is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawha City Malden (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Cedar Grove (10 miles [16.1 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
Continue List (18 more) ...
Mink ‑ Historic(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Mink is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mink Coalburg (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Coalburg is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalburg East Bank (11 miles [17.7 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
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Coalridge. See our List of 1890's Communities around Coalridge .
Newspapers Published in Coalridge ...
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 Coalridge.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Coalridge, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Coalridge.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Coalridge:
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 Coalridge. 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Coalridge) 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 Coalridge, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.