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 Hatcher (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 Hatcher. 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.
Hatcher 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 Hatcher. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hatcher:
Mercer County (The home county of Hatcher)
The following are listed by their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Oakvale (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Oakvale is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakvale Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
Elgood (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Elgood is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgood Athens (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
East River ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
East River is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East River Oak Grove (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Oak Grove is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove Willowton (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Willowton is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willowton Blake ‑ Historic(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Blake is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blake Princeton (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Johnston Town (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Johnston Town is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnston Town El Centro ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
El Centro is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Centro Edison (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Edison is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edison Bethel ‑ Historic(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Bethel is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel Lashmeet (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Lashmeet is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lashmeet Logan County
Rich Creek (8 miles [12.9 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 Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Elkhorn (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Elkhorn is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Kyle (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Kyle is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyle Northfork (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Anawalt (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Anawalt is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anawalt Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people
Keystone (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Big Four (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Big Four is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Four Kimball (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Thorpe (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Thorpe is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorpe Monroe County
The following are listed by their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Peterstown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Ballard (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Ballard is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballard Assurance (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Assurance is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Assurance Wikel (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Wikel is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wikel Wayside (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Wayside is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayside Creamery (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Creamery is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creamery Union (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Union is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Population from the 2020 Census: 539 people
Wolfcreek (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Wolfcreek is located in Monroe County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolfcreek Raleigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Shady Spring (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Princewick (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Princewick is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Princewick Rhodell (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Rhodell is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhodell Population from the 2020 Census: 159 people
Coal City (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Coal City is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal City Eastgulf (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Eastgulf is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastgulf Helen (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Helen is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helen Sullivan (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Sullivan is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivan Beaver (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Daniels (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Pemberton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Pemberton is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pemberton Sophia (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Stotesbury (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Stotesbury is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stotesbury Tilden (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Tilden is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tilden Summers County
The following are listed by their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Mercers Saltworks ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Mercers Saltworks is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercers Saltworks Pipestem (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
True (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
True is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for True Forest Hill (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Packs Ferry (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Packs Ferry is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packs Ferry Buck (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Buck is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Nimitz (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Nimitz is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nimitz Bellepoint (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Bellepoint is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellepoint Jumping Branch (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Jumping Branch is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jumping Branch Bargers Springs (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Bargers Springs is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bargers Springs Brooklin (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Brooklin is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklin Hinton (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Hilldale (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Hilldale is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilldale Wyoming County
The following are listed by their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Bud (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Bud is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bud Mullens (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Bland County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Round Bottom (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Round Bottom is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Bottom Rocky Gap (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Rocky Gap is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Gap Hicksville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Hicksville is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicksville Mechanicsburg (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Mechanicsburg is located in Bland County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mechanicsburg Bastian (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Bland (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Craig County (VA)
Captain (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Captain is located in Craig County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Captain Giles County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Glen Lyn (6 miles [9.7 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 (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Lurich is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lurich Shumate (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Shumate is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shumate Rich Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Narrows (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Bluff City (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Bluff City is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff City Pearisburg (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Thessalia (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Thessalia is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thessalia Poplar Hill (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Poplar Hill is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Hill Pembroke (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Eggleston (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Goodwins Ferry (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Goodwins Ferry is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwins Ferry Mountain Lake (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Mountain Lake is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Lake Montgomery County (VA)
Prices Fork (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Prices Fork is located in Montgomery County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prices Fork Pulaski County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Sassin ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Sassin is located in Pulaski County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sassin Hilton Village (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Hilton Village is located in Pulaski County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilton Village Parrott (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Parrott is located in Pulaski County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parrott Dublin (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Pulaski (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Wurno (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Wurno is located in Pulaski County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wurno Cowan (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Cowan is located in Pulaski County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowan Newbern (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Fairlawn (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Fairlawn is located in Pulaski County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairlawn Draper (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Mack Creek Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Mack Creek Village is located in Pulaski County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mack Creek Village Radford City (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
New Town (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
New Town is located in Radford City (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Town Radford (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Sunset Village (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Sunset Village is located in Radford City (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Village Mill Village (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Mill Village is located in Radford City (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village Radford Village (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Radford Village is located in Radford City (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radford Village Simpkins Village (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Simpkins Village is located in Radford City (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simpkins Village Tazewell County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Bluefield (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Yards (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Yards is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yards Falls Mills (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Falls Mills is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls Mills Saint Clair (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Saint Clair is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair Pocahontas (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Pocahontas is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pocahontas Population from the 2020 Census: 348 people
Boissevain (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Boissevain is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boissevain Shawver Mill (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Shawver Mill is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawver Mill Little Town (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Little Town is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Town Springville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Springville is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springville Abbs Valley (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Abbs Valley is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbs Valley Wittens Mills (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Wittens Mills is located in Tazewell County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wittens Mills Wythe County (VA)
The following are listed by their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Max Meadows (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Kent (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Kent is located in Wythe County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Locust Hill (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Locust Hill is located in Wythe County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Hill Fort Chiswell (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Fort Chiswell is located in Wythe County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Chiswell Wytheville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Hatcher, see our County-by-County Page for Hatcher .
Cemeteries Near Hatcher ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hatcher.
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 Hatcher - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hatcher covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Hall Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Oakvale Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Hearn Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
McCue Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Crawford Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Miller Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Brown Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Reed Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Blake Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Barberie Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Elmore Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Parmer Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (382 more) ...
Bray Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Tiller Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Brown 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.<2>
While we didn't find Hatcher in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Hatcher.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Hatcher, with the one closest to Hatcher listed first.
Oakvale (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Oakvale is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakvale Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
Elgood (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Elgood is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgood East River ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
East River is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East River Ingleside (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Ingleside is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingleside Willowton (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Willowton is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willowton Glen Lyn (6 miles [9.7 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
Princeton (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Shumate (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Shumate is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shumate Lurich (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Lurich is located in Giles County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lurich Rich Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Rich Creek is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rich Creek Narrows (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Mercers Saltworks ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Mercers Saltworks is located in Summers County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercers Saltworks Continue List (17 more) ...
Spanishburg (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
New Hope (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
New Hope is located in Mercer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope Ada (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
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 Hatcher. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hatcher .
Newspapers Published in Hatcher ...
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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hatcher.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hatcher, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Hatcher.
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 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 Hatcher:
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 Craig County Giles County Montgomery County Pulaski County Radford City Tazewell County Wythe County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Hatcher. 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 Hatcher, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hatcher) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.