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 Duhring (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 Duhring. 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 doctors and 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.
Duhring 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 Duhring. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Duhring:
Mercer County (The home county of Duhring)
The following are listed by their distance from Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Montcalm (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Montcalm is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcalm Flipping (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Flipping is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flipping Freeman (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Freeman is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman Littlesburg (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Littlesburg is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littlesburg Bramwell (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Coopers (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Coopers is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopers Nemours (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Weyanoke (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Weyanoke is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weyanoke Yards (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Yards is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yards Coaldale (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Coaldale is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaldale Matoaka (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Matoaka is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matoaka Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
Bluefield (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Edison (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Edison is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edison Logan County
Rich Creek (24 miles [38.6 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 Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Elkhorn (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Elkhorn is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Kyle (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Kyle is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyle Anawalt (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Anawalt is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anawalt Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people
Northfork (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Keystone (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Thorpe (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Thorpe is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorpe Big Four (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Big Four is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Four Kimball (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Gary (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Gary is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gary Population from the 2020 Census: 759 people
Bishop (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Bishop is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Welch (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Newhall (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Newhall is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newhall 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
Monroe County
The following are listed by their distance from Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Peterstown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Ballard (28 miles [45.1 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 Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Rhodell (18 miles [29 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 (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Eastgulf is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastgulf Helen (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Helen is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helen Princewick (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Princewick is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Princewick Ury (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Ury is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ury Coal City (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Coal City is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal City Slab Fork (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Slab Fork is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Fork Stotesbury (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Stotesbury is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stotesbury Sophia (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Sullivan (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Sullivan is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivan Pemberton (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Pemberton is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pemberton Glen White (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Glen White is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen White Lester (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Lester is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lester Population from the 2020 Census: 312 people
Summers County
The following are listed by their distance from Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Pipestem (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Mercers Saltworks ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Mercers Saltworks is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercers Saltworks True (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
True is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for True Jumping Branch (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Jumping Branch is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jumping Branch Nimitz (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Nimitz is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nimitz Packs Ferry (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Packs Ferry is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packs Ferry Bellepoint (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Bellepoint is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellepoint Buck (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Buck is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Brooklin (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Brooklin is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklin Forest Hill (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Hinton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Wyoming County
The following are listed by their distance from Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Bud (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Bud is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bud Mullens (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Woosley (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Woosley is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woosley Mullensville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Mullensville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullensville Pineville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Keyrock (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Keyrock is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keyrock Rock View (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Rock View is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock View Wyoming (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Wyoming is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming Fanny (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Fanny is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fanny Stoneville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Stoneville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville Turkey (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Turkey is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Baileysville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Baileysville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baileysville Clear Fork (30 miles [48.3 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 Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Rocky Gap (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Rocky Gap is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Gap Hicksville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Hicksville is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicksville Round Bottom (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Round Bottom is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Bottom Bastian (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Bland (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Mechanicsburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Mechanicsburg is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mechanicsburg Buchanan County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Bearwallow (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Bearwallow is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bearwallow Peapatch (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Peapatch is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peapatch Height (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Height is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Height Giles County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring 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
Shumate (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Shumate is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shumate Lurich (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Lurich is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lurich Rich Creek (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Narrows (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Thessalia (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Thessalia is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thessalia Bluff City (27 miles [43.5 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)
Poplar Hill (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Poplar Hill is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Hill Pulaski County (VA)
Sassin ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Sassin is located in Pulaski County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sassin Tazewell County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Yards (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Yards is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yards Falls Mills (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Falls Mills is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls Mills Pocahontas (5 miles [8 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
Bluefield (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Boissevain (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Boissevain is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boissevain Saint Clair (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Saint Clair is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair Abbs Valley (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Abbs Valley is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbs Valley Springville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Springville is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springville Shawver Mill (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Shawver Mill is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawver Mill Little Town (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Little Town is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Town Wittens Mills (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Wittens Mills is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wittens Mills Bishop (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Bishop is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Five Oaks (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Five Oaks is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Oaks Wythe County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Wytheville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Kent (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Kent is located in Wythe County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Duhring, see our County-by-County Page for Duhring .
Cemeteries Near Duhring ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Duhring.
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 Duhring - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Duhring covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Bailey Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
King Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Herndon Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Belcher Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Shrader Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Wall Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Wall Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Taylor Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Neal Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Hall Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Harless Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Coffee Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Continue List (390 more) ...
Owens Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Johnson Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Barnett Cemetery (Less than 2 miles 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.<2>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Duhring had a population of 62 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Duhring, with the one closest to Duhring listed first.
Flipping (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Flipping is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flipping Freeman (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Freeman is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman Coopers (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Coopers is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopers Bramwell (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Abbs Valley ‑ Historic(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Abbs Valley is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbs Valley Coaldale (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Coaldale is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaldale Pocahontas (5 miles [8 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 (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Falls Mills is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls Mills New Hope (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
New Hope is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope Maybeury (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Bluefield (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Lashmeet (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Lashmeet is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lashmeet Continue List (17 more) ...
Switchback (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Switchback is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Switchback Bethel ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Bethel is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel Ada (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Ada is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ada
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Duhring. See our List of 1890's Communities around Duhring .
Newspapers Published in Duhring ...
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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Duhring.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Duhring, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Duhring.
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 websites either 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 Duhring:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Mercer County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Logan County McDowell County Monroe County Raleigh County Summers County Wyoming County Bland County Buchanan County Giles County Pulaski County Tazewell County Wythe County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Duhring. 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 Duhring, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Duhring) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.