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 Dott (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 Dott. 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 and doctors 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.
Dott is located in Mercer 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 Mercer County : Bland (VA) , Giles (VA) , Tazewell (VA) , McDowell , Raleigh , Summers & Wyoming .
Below are the counties that are near Dott. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dott:
Mercer County (The home county of Dott)
The following are listed by their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Matoaka (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Matoaka is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matoaka Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
Weyanoke (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Weyanoke is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weyanoke Lashmeet (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Lashmeet is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lashmeet Montcalm (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Montcalm is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcalm Flipping (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Flipping is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flipping Coaldale (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Coaldale is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaldale Johnston Town (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Johnston Town is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnston Town Bramwell (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Freeman (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Freeman is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman Littlesburg (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Littlesburg is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littlesburg Princeton (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
El Centro ‑ Historic(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
El Centro is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Centro Coopers (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Coopers is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopers Fayette County
The following are listed by their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Prince (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Quinnimont (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Quinnimont is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinnimont Kilsyth (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Kilsyth is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilsyth Mount Hope (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
McKendree (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
McKendree is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKendree Pax (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Pax is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pax Population from the 2020 Census: 150 people
Logan County
Rich Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Rich Creek is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rich Creek McDowell County
The following are listed by their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Elkhorn (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Elkhorn is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Kyle (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Kyle is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyle Northfork (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Keystone (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Anawalt (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Anawalt is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anawalt Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people
Kimball (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Big Four (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Big Four is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Four Thorpe (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Thorpe is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorpe Gary (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Gary is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gary Population from the 2020 Census: 759 people
Welch (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Davy (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Davy is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davy Population from the 2020 Census: 324 people
Bishop (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Bishop is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Big Sandy (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Big Sandy is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Sandy Monroe County
The following are listed by their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Peterstown (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Ballard (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Ballard is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballard Raleigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Rhodell (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Rhodell is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhodell Population from the 2020 Census: 159 people
Eastgulf (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Eastgulf is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastgulf Helen (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Helen is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helen Princewick (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Princewick is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Princewick Ury (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Ury is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ury Coal City (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Coal City is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal City Stotesbury (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Stotesbury is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stotesbury Slab Fork (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Slab Fork is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Fork Sophia (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Sullivan (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Sullivan is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivan Pemberton (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Pemberton is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pemberton Crab Orchard (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Glen White (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Glen White is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen White Summers County
The following are listed by their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Pipestem (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
True (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
True is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for True Jumping Branch (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Jumping Branch is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jumping Branch Nimitz (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Nimitz is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nimitz Mercers Saltworks ‑ Historic(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Mercers Saltworks is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercers Saltworks Packs Ferry (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Packs Ferry is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packs Ferry Bellepoint (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Bellepoint is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellepoint Brooklin (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Brooklin is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklin Buck (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Buck is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Hinton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Forest Hill (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Hilldale (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Hilldale is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilldale Bargers Springs (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Bargers Springs is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bargers Springs Wyoming County
The following are listed by their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Bud (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Bud is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bud Mullens (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Pineville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Keyrock (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Keyrock is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keyrock Mullensville (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Mullensville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullensville Rock View (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Rock View is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock View Woosley (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Woosley is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woosley Turkey (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Turkey is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Wyoming (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Wyoming is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming Fanny (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Fanny is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fanny Stoneville (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Stoneville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville Baileysville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Baileysville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baileysville Clear Fork (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Clear Fork is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Fork Bland County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Rocky Gap (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Rocky Gap is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Gap Round Bottom (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Round Bottom is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Bottom Hicksville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Hicksville is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicksville Bastian (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Bland (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Mechanicsburg (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Mechanicsburg is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mechanicsburg Giles County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Glen Lyn (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Glen Lyn is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Lyn Population from the 2020 Census: 97 people
Lurich (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Lurich is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lurich Rich Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Shumate (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Shumate is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shumate Narrows (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Bluff City (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Bluff City is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff City Pearisburg (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Thessalia (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Thessalia is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thessalia Tazewell County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Yards (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Yards is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yards Pocahontas (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Pocahontas is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pocahontas Population from the 2020 Census: 348 people
Falls Mills (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Falls Mills is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls Mills Bluefield (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Boissevain (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Boissevain is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boissevain Saint Clair (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Saint Clair is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair Abbs Valley (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Abbs Valley is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbs Valley Springville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Springville is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springville Shawver Mill (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Shawver Mill is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawver Mill Bishop (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Bishop is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Wittens Mills (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Wittens Mills is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wittens Mills Little Town (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Little Town is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Town Five Oaks (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Five Oaks is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Oaks
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dott, see our County-by-County Page for Dott .
Cemeteries Near Dott ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dott.
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 Dott - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dott covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Matoaka Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Mt. Pisgah Church Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Prosperity Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Mt. Olive Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Bailey Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Harless Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
St. Peters Lutheran Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Coffee Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Taylor Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Hall Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Neal Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Wright Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Continue List (441 more) ...
Robinett Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Johnson Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Patterson Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
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 Dott in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dott.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Dott, with the one closest to Dott listed first.
Pinoak (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Pinoak is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinoak Lashmeet (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Lashmeet is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lashmeet Egeria (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Egeria is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egeria Spanishburg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Coaldale (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Coaldale is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaldale Flipping (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Flipping is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flipping Duhring (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Duhring is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duhring Maybeury (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
New Hope (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
New Hope is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope Odd (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Odd is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odd Algoma (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Algoma is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Algoma Kyle (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Kyle is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyle Continue List (15 more) ...
Powhatan (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Powhatan is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powhatan Elkhorn (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Elkhorn is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Ennis (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Ennis is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ennis
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dott. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dott .
Newspapers Published in Dott ...
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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dott.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dott, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Dott.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Dott:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Mercer County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Fayette County Logan County McDowell County Monroe County Raleigh County Summers County Wyoming County Bland County Giles County Tazewell County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Dott. 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. 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 Dott, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Dott) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.