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 Frame (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 Frame. 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.
Frame 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 Frame. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Frame:
Kanawha County (The home county of Frame)
The following are listed by their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Wills (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Wills is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wills Youngs Bottom (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Youngs Bottom is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs Bottom Aarons (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Aarons is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aarons Elkview (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Falling Rock (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Falling Rock is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Rock Island Branch (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Island Branch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Branch Jarretts Ford (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Jarretts Ford is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarretts Ford Three Mile (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Three Mile is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Mile Clendenin (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Reamer (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Reamer is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reamer Pinch (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Pinch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinch Coco (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Big Chimney (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Big Chimney is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Chimney Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Ashford (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Dartmont (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Dartmont is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dartmont Emmons (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Emmons is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmons Grippe (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Grippe is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grippe Rumble (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Rumble is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumble Bloomingrose (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Bloomingrose is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomingrose Comfort (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Racine (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Racine is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Racine Sharlow (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Sharlow is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharlow Brushton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Brushton is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brushton Eden (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Eden is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Johns (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Johns is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johns Peytona (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Peytona is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peytona Braxton County
Elmira (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Elmira is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmira Calhoun County
The following are listed by their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Oka (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Oka is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oka Mudfork (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Mudfork is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mudfork Pink (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Pink is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pink Beech (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Beech is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Stinson (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Stinson is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinson Walnut (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Walnut is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Losie ‑ Historic(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Losie is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Losie Orma (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Orma is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orma Arnoldsburg (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Arnoldsburg is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnoldsburg Gomez ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Gomez is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gomez Rocksdale (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Rocksdale is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocksdale Hur (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Hur is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hur Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Porter (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Porter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Bomont (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Bomont is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomont Procious (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Procious is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Procious Elkhurst (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Elkhurst is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst Valley Fork (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Valley Fork is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Fork 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)
Spread (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Spread is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spread Dink (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Dink is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dink Gould (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Gould is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gould Lydia (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Lydia is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lydia Harrison (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Harrison is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison Ira (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Ira is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ira Fayette County
The following are listed by their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Montgomery (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Cannelton (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Cannelton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannelton Crescent (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Crescent is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Smithers (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Kimberly (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Kimberly is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberly Mount Carbon (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Mount Carbon is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carbon Gauley Bridge (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Falls View (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Falls View is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls View Powellton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Powellton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powellton Elkridge (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Elkridge is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkridge Romont (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Romont is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romont Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Romance (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Romance is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romance Fletcher (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Fletcher is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Kentuck (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Kentuck is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck Kenna (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Aplin ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Aplin is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aplin Statts Mills (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Statts Mills is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Statts Mills Fairplain (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Fairplain is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairplain Hereford (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Hereford is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hereford Ripley (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Liverpool (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Liverpool is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liverpool Meadowdale (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Meadowdale is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowdale Angerona (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Angerona is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angerona Huntsville ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Huntsville is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntsville Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Alum Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Priestley (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Priestley is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Priestley Garretts Bend (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Garretts Bend is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garretts Bend Sod (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Sod is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sod Tango (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Tango is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tango Mason County
The following are listed by their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Grimms Landing (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Grimms Landing is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimms Landing Arbuckle (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Arbuckle is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arbuckle Baden (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Baden is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baden Southside (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Southside is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southside Nicholas County
The following are listed by their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Dixie (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Dixie is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Beech Glen (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Beech Glen is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Glen Putnam County
The following are listed by their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Liberty (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Liberty is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Sigman (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Sigman is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sigman Paradise (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Paradise is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise 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 Bancroft (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Bancroft is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft Population from the 2020 Census: 596 people
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 Red House (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Winfield (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Scott Village (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Scott Village is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Village Eleanor (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Teays Valley (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Teays Village (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Teays Village is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teays Village Roane County
The following are listed by their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Mattie ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Mattie is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattie Cicerone (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Cicerone is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicerone Walton (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Woodyard ‑ Historic(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Woodyard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodyard Kester ‑ Historic(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Kester is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kester Pigeon (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Pigeon is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon Looneyville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Zona (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Zona is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zona Rushville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Rushville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville Flint Town (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Flint Town is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Town Roxalana (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Roxalana is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxalana Graux (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Graux is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graux Spencer (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Wirt County
Lucile (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Lucile is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucile
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Frame, see our County-by-County Page for Frame .
Cemeteries Near Frame ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Frame.
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 Frame - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Frame covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Withrow Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Walker Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Chandler Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Sheets Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Pauley Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Vickers Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Fougharty Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Rucker Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Fields Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fields Cemetery The Fields Cemetery has also been known as:
Taylor Cemetery Donahue Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Hunt Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Thompson Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Continue List (659 more) ...
Baxter Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Given Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Jarretts Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 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 Frame in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Frame.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Frame, with the one closest to Frame listed first.
Aarons (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Aarons is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aarons Blundon (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Blundon is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blundon Jarrett (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Jarrett is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarrett Kettle (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Kettle is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kettle Island Branch (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Island Branch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Branch Mink ‑ Historic(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Mink is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mink Clendenin (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Carney ‑ Historic(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Carney is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carney Coco (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Wellford (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Wellford is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellford Mattie ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Mattie is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattie Legg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Legg is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legg Continue List (16 more) ...
Cicerone (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Cicerone is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicerone Sissonville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Odell (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Odell is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odell
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Frame. See our List of 1890's Communities around Frame .
Newspapers Published in Frame ...
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 93 newspapers that have been published in the area around Frame.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Frame, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Frame.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Frame:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Kanawha County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone County Braxton County Calhoun County Clay County Fayette County Jackson County Lincoln County Mason County Nicholas County Putnam County Roane County Wirt County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Frame. 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. 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 Frame, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Frame) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.