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 Egeria (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 Egeria. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Egeria is primarily located in Mercer County . A portion of Egeria extends into Raleigh 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 Egeria. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Egeria:
Mercer County (The home county of Egeria)
The following are listed by their distance from Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Lashmeet (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Lashmeet is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lashmeet Matoaka (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Matoaka is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matoaka Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
Weyanoke (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Weyanoke is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weyanoke Johnston Town (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Johnston Town is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnston Town Athens (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Oak Grove (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Oak Grove is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove Flipping (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Flipping is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flipping Montcalm (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Montcalm is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcalm Princeton (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Littlesburg (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Littlesburg is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littlesburg Coaldale (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Coaldale is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaldale Bramwell (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
El Centro ‑ Historic(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
El Centro was located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Centro Fayette County
The following are listed by their distance from Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Prince (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Quinnimont (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Quinnimont is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinnimont Kilsyth (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Kilsyth is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilsyth Mount Hope (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
McKendree (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
McKendree is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKendree Pax (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Pax is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pax Population from the 2020 Census: 150 people
White Oak Junction (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
White Oak Junction is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Oak Junction Alaska ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Alaska was located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alaska Harvey (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Harvey is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvey Redstar (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Redstar is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redstar Roseville ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Roseville was located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roseville Sewell Knob ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Sewell Knob was located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sewell Knob Sewell Knob has also been known as:
Swell Knob Newlyn ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Newlyn was located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newlyn Logan County
Rich Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
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 Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Northfork (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Elkhorn (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Elkhorn is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Keystone (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Kyle (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Kyle is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyle Kimball (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Anawalt (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Anawalt is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anawalt Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people
Big Four (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Big Four is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Four Thorpe (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Thorpe is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorpe Gary (22 miles [35.4 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 (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Davy (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Davy is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davy Population from the 2020 Census: 324 people
Big Sandy (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Big Sandy is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Sandy Roderfield (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Roderfield is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roderfield Monroe County
The following are listed by their distance from Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Ballard (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Ballard is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballard Peterstown (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Wayside (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Wayside is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayside Assurance (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Assurance is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Assurance Creamery (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Creamery is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creamery Wikel (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Wikel is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wikel Raleigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Rhodell (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Rhodell is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhodell Population from the 2020 Census: 159 people
Princewick (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Princewick is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Princewick Eastgulf (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Eastgulf is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastgulf Coal City (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Coal City is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal City Helen (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Helen is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helen Ury (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Ury is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ury Sophia (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Sullivan (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Sullivan is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivan Stotesbury (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Stotesbury is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stotesbury Pemberton (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Pemberton is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pemberton Shady Spring (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Slab Fork (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Slab Fork is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Fork Tilden (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Tilden is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tilden Summers County
The following are listed by their distance from Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Pipestem (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
True (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
True is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for True Jumping Branch (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Jumping Branch is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jumping Branch Nimitz (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Nimitz is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nimitz Packs Ferry (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Packs Ferry is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packs Ferry Mercers Saltworks ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Mercers Saltworks was located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercers Saltworks Bellepoint (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Bellepoint is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellepoint Brooklin (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Brooklin is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklin Hinton (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Buck (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Buck is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Forest Hill (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Hilldale (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Hilldale is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilldale New Richmond ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
New Richmond was located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Richmond Wyoming County
The following are listed by their distance from Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Bud (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Bud is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bud Mullens (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Keyrock (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Keyrock is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keyrock Pineville (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Mullensville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Mullensville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullensville Rock View (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Rock View is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock View Turkey (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Turkey is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Woosley (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Woosley is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woosley Wyoming (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Wyoming is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming Fanny (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Fanny is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fanny Kopperston (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Kopperston is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kopperston Stoneville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Stoneville is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville Oceana (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Bland County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Rocky Gap (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Rocky Gap is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Gap Round Bottom (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Round Bottom is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Bottom Hicksville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Hicksville is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicksville Bastian (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Bland (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Mechanicsburg (30 miles [48.3 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 Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Glen Lyn (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
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 southeast)
Lurich is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lurich Rich Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
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 southeast)
Bluff City (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Bluff City is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff City Pearisburg (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Thessalia (30 miles [48.3 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 Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Pocahontas (17 miles [27.4 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
Yards (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Yards is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yards Falls Mills (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Falls Mills is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls Mills Bluefield (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Boissevain (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Boissevain is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boissevain Saint Clair (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Saint Clair is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair Abbs Valley (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Abbs Valley is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbs Valley Springville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Springville is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springville Shawver Mill (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Shawver Mill is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawver Mill Wittens Mills (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Wittens Mills is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wittens Mills Little Town (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Little Town is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Town Bishop (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Bishop is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Shraders (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Shraders is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shraders
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Egeria, see our County-by-County Page for Egeria .
Cemeteries Near Egeria ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Egeria.
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 Egeria - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Egeria covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Mt. Pisgah Church Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Brammer Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Camp Creek Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Lilly Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Meador Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Hatcher Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Matoaka Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Dunns Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Hatcher Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Milam Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Bailey Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Mt. Olive Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Continue List (456 more) ...
Bud Mtn. Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
St. Peters Lutheran Cemetery (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Ross Cemetery (10 miles [16.1 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.<3>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Egeria had a population of 9 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Egeria, with the one closest to Egeria listed first.
Odd (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Odd is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odd Pinoak (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Pinoak is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinoak Flat Top (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Spanishburg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Lashmeet (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Lashmeet is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lashmeet Dunns (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Dunns is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunns Ellison (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Ellison is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellison Shady Spring (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Pemberton (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Pemberton is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pemberton Flipping (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Flipping is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flipping Duhring (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Duhring is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duhring New Hope (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
New Hope is also located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope Continue List (19 more) ...
Princeton (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Pipestem (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Algoma (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Algoma is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Algoma
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Egeria. See our List of 1890's Communities around Egeria .
Newspapers Published in Egeria ...
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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Egeria.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Egeria, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Egeria.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Egeria:
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 Egeria. 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 Egeria, 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- Egeria) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.