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 Coalwood (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 Coalwood. 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 northwest 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 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 west 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.
Coalwood 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 Coalwood. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Coalwood:
McDowell County (The home county of Coalwood)
The following are listed by their distance from Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood listed first.
Welch (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Welch is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welch Population from the 2020 Census: 1,575 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Welch <1>
Gary (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Gary is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gary Population from the 2020 Census: 759 people
Big Sandy (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Big Sandy is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Sandy Roderfield (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Roderfield is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roderfield War (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
War is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for War Population from the 2020 Census: 659 people
Yukon (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Yukon is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yukon Davy (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Davy is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davy Population from the 2020 Census: 324 people
Big Four (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Big Four is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Four Thorpe (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Thorpe is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorpe Wilmore (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Wilmore is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmore Avondale (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Avondale is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avondale Kimball (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Bradshaw (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Logan County
The following are listed by their distance from Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood listed first.
Wylo (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Wylo is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wylo Mineral City (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Mineral City is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral City Mallory (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Mallory is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mallory Kistler (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Kistler is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kistler Man (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Accoville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Accoville is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Accoville Braeholm (28 miles [45.1 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 Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood listed first.
Coaldale (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Coaldale is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaldale Coopers (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Coopers is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopers Bramwell (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Freeman (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Freeman is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman Nemours (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Yards (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Yards is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yards Flipping (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Flipping is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flipping Weyanoke (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Weyanoke is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weyanoke Matoaka (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Matoaka is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matoaka Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
Montcalm (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Montcalm is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcalm Littlesburg (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Littlesburg is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littlesburg Bluefield (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Lashmeet (25 miles [40.2 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 Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood 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)
Gilbert (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Wharncliffe (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Pie (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Pie is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pie Musick (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Musick is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Musick Thacker (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Thacker is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thacker Raleigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood listed first.
Rhodell (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Rhodell is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhodell Population from the 2020 Census: 159 people
Eastgulf (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Eastgulf is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastgulf Helen (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Helen is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helen Ury (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Ury is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ury Slab Fork (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Slab Fork is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Fork Stotesbury (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Stotesbury is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stotesbury Bolt (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Bolt is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolt Redbird (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Redbird is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redbird Lester (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Lester is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lester Population from the 2020 Census: 312 people
Princewick (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Princewick is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Princewick Wyoming County
The following are listed by their distance from Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood listed first.
Woosley (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Woosley is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woosley Stoneville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Stoneville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville Fanny (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Fanny is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fanny Wyoming (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Wyoming is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming Baileysville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Baileysville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baileysville Mullensville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Mullensville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullensville Pineville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Clear Fork (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Clear Fork is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Fork Sun Hill (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Sun Hill is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Hill Rock View (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Rock View is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock View Turkey (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Turkey is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Uno (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Uno is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uno Cub City (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Cub City is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cub City Pike County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood listed first.
Paw Paw (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Paw Paw is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paw Paw Stopover (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Stopover is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stopover Majestic (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Majestic is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Majestic Phelps (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Freeburn (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Freeburn is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeburn Coleman (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Coleman is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleman Calloway Branch (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Calloway Branch is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calloway Branch Buchanan County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood listed first.
Peapatch (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Peapatch is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peapatch Bearwallow (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Bearwallow is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bearwallow Height (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Height is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Height Jackson Flats (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Jackson Flats is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson Flats Paynesville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Paynesville is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paynesville Matney (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Matney is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matney Janey (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Janey is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Janey Mavisdale (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Mavisdale is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mavisdale Kelsa (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Kelsa is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelsa Grundy (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Vansant (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Royal City (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Royal City is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal City Rowe (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Rowe is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowe Russell County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood listed first.
Dye (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Dye is located in Russell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dye Russell (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Russell is located in Russell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell Honaker (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Tazewell County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood listed first.
Bishop (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Bishop is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Dunford Village (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Dunford Village is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunford Village Sayersville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Sayersville is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sayersville Abbs Valley (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Abbs Valley is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbs Valley Shraders (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Shraders is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shraders Harman (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Harman is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harman Adria (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Adria is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adria Boissevain (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Boissevain is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boissevain Wittens Mills (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Wittens Mills is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wittens Mills Pocahontas (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Pocahontas is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pocahontas Population from the 2020 Census: 348 people
Pisgah (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Pisgah is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pisgah Five Oaks (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Five Oaks is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Oaks Maxwell (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Maxwell is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxwell
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Coalwood, see our County-by-County Page for Coalwood .
Cemeteries Near Coalwood ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Coalwood.
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 Coalwood - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Coalwood covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood listed first.
Deskins Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Lomax Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Iaeger Memorial Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iaeger Memorial Cemetery The Iaeger Memorial Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Roderfield . The Iaeger Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
Roderfield Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #151357 <2>
Blevins Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Thorpe Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Atwell Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Riffe Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Old Belcher Mtn. Community Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
New Belcher Mtn. Community Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Puckett Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Rose Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Hagerman Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (521 more) ...
Bowles Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Woods Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Oak Grove Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 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.<3>
While we didn't find Coalwood in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Coalwood.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Coalwood, with the one closest to Coalwood listed first.
Bradshaw (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Iaeger (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Iaeger is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iaeger Population from the 2020 Census: 232 people
Bearwallow (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Bearwallow is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bearwallow Powhatan (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Powhatan is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powhatan Kyle (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Kyle is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyle Algoma (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Algoma is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Algoma Elkhorn (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Elkhorn is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Pleasant Hill (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Pleasant Hill is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill Sayersville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
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 Lincoln (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Lincoln is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Switchback (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Switchback is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Switchback Continue List (13 more) ...
Ennis (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Ennis is also located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ennis Pineville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Baileysville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Baileysville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baileysville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Coalwood. See our List of 1890's Communities around Coalwood .
Newspapers Published in Coalwood ...
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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Coalwood.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Coalwood, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Coalwood.
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 helpful 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 Coalwood:
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 Tazewell County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Coalwood. 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 . 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 Coalwood, 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 from Point A (ie- Coalwood) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.