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 Dial (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 Dial. 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 and hospitals 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.
Dial 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 Dial. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dial:
Kanawha County (The home county of Dial)
The following are listed by their distance from Dial, with the one closest to Dial listed first.
Jarretts Ford (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Jarretts Ford is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarretts Ford Pinch (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Pinch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinch Elkview (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Wills (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Wills is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wills Big Chimney (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Big Chimney is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Chimney Coco (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Three Mile (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Three Mile is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Mile Youngs Bottom (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Youngs Bottom is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs Bottom Falling Rock (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Falling Rock is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Rock Aarons (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Aarons is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aarons Airport Village (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Airport Village is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airport Village Airport Village has also been known as:
Airport Reamer (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Reamer is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reamer Coal Fork (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Coal Fork is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Fork Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Dial, with the one closest to Dial listed first.
Rumble (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Rumble is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumble Bloomingrose (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Bloomingrose is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomingrose Ashford (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Dartmont (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Dartmont is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dartmont Emmons (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Emmons is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmons Grippe (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Grippe is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grippe Comfort (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Eden (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Eden is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Sharlow (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Sharlow is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharlow Brushton (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Brushton is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brushton Peytona (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Peytona is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peytona Racine (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Racine is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Racine Easly (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Easly is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easly 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 Dial, with the one closest to Dial 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 (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Mudfork is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mudfork Stinson (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Stinson is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinson Beech (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Beech is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Pink (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Pink is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pink Walnut (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Walnut is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Losie ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Losie is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Losie 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 Dial, with the one closest to Dial listed first.
Bomont (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Bomont is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomont Porter (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Porter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Procious (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Procious is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Procious Elkhurst (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Elkhurst is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst Hartland (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Hartland is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland Clay (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
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 Spread (23 miles [37 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 Dink (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Dink is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dink Swandale (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Swandale is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swandale Harrison (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Harrison is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison Lydia (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Lydia is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lydia Fayette County
The following are listed by their distance from Dial, with the one closest to Dial listed first.
Cannelton (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Cannelton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannelton Montgomery (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Crescent (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Crescent is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Smithers (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Kimberly (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Kimberly is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberly Mount Carbon (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Mount Carbon is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carbon Powellton (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Powellton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powellton Gauley Bridge (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Elkridge (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Elkridge is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkridge Falls View (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Falls View is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls View McDunn (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
McDunn is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDunn Romont (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Romont is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romont Ansted (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Dial, with the one closest to Dial listed first.
Romance (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Romance is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romance Fletcher (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Fletcher is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Kentuck (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Kentuck is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck Kenna (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Aplin ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Aplin is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aplin Statts Mills (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Statts Mills is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Statts Mills Fairplain (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Fairplain is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairplain Hereford (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Hereford is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hereford Ripley (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Dial, with the one closest to Dial listed first.
Alum Creek (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Priestley (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Priestley is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Priestley Sod (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Sod is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sod Garretts Bend (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Garretts Bend is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garretts Bend Tango (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Tango is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tango East ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
East is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Alkol (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Alkol is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alkol Yawkey (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Yawkey is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yawkey Mason County
Grimms Landing (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Grimms Landing is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimms Landing Nicholas County
The following are listed by their distance from Dial, with the one closest to Dial listed first.
Dixie (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Dixie is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Beech Glen (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Beech Glen is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Glen Tipton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Tipton is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tipton Albion ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Albion is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albion Zela (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Zela is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zela Putnam County
The following are listed by their distance from Dial, with the one closest to Dial listed first.
Liberty (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Liberty is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Sigman (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Sigman is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sigman Poca (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Raymond City (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Raymond City is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymond City Morgans Landing (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Morgans Landing is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgans Landing Paradise (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Paradise is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Bancroft (20 miles [32.2 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 (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Scott Village is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Village Red House (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Winfield (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Teays Valley (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Teays Village (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Teays Village is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teays Village Eleanor (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Roane County
The following are listed by their distance from Dial, with the one closest to Dial listed first.
Cicerone (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Cicerone is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicerone Mattie ‑ Historic(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Mattie is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattie Walton (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Kester ‑ Historic(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Kester is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kester Woodyard ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Woodyard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodyard Pigeon (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Pigeon is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon Looneyville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Rushville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Rushville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville Zona (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Zona is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zona Flint Town (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Flint Town is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Town Roxalana (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Roxalana is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxalana Graux (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Graux is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graux Spencer (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dial, see our County-by-County Page for Dial .
Cemeteries Near Dial ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dial.
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 Dial - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dial covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dial, with the one closest to Dial listed first.
Rummell Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Morris Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Woody Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Deer Run - Keaton - Myers Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Jarretts Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Reynolds Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Rock Memorial Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Elk Hills Memorial Park (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Hills Memorial Park To give a relative sense of its location, the Elk Hills Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located in Big Chimney . The Elk Hills Memorial Park has also been known as:
Copen Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #175397 <2>
Vickers Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Given Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Martin Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Lucas Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (660 more) ...
Hunter Cemetery 2 (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Perry Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Westfall Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 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 Dial in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dial.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Dial, with the one closest to Dial listed first.
Jarrett (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Jarrett is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarrett Coco (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Mink ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Mink is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mink Aarons (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Aarons is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aarons Odell (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Odell is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odell Blundon (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Blundon is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blundon Kanawha City (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Kanawha City is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawha City Clendenin (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Legg (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Legg is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legg Charleston (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
South Ruffner (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
South Ruffner is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Ruffner Malden (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (18 more) ...
Gazil ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Gazil is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gazil Apgah ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Apgah is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apgah Pocatalico (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Pocatalico is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pocatalico
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dial. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dial .
Newspapers Published in Dial ...
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 100 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dial.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dial, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Dial.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Dial:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Kanawha County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone County Cabell County Calhoun County Clay County Fayette County Jackson County Lincoln County Mason County Nicholas County Putnam County Roane County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Dial. 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. 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 Dial, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Dial) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.