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 Hicumbottom (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 Hicumbottom. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Hicumbottom 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 Hicumbottom. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hicumbottom:
Kanawha County (The home county of Hicumbottom)
The following are listed by their distance from Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Island Branch (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Island Branch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Branch Sissonville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Aarons (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Aarons is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aarons Legg (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Legg is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legg Wills (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Wills is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wills Elkview (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Jarretts Ford (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Jarretts Ford is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarretts Ford Falling Rock (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Falling Rock is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Rock Youngs Bottom (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Youngs Bottom is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs Bottom Big Chimney (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Big Chimney is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Chimney Pinch (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Pinch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinch Reamer (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Reamer is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reamer Three Mile (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Three Mile is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Mile Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Emmons (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Emmons is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmons Grippe (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Grippe is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grippe Ashford (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Dartmont (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Dartmont is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dartmont Rumble (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Rumble is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumble Brushton (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Brushton is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brushton Bloomingrose (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Bloomingrose is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomingrose Comfort (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Easly (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Easly is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easly Johns (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Johns is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johns Peytona (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Peytona is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peytona Racine (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Racine is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Racine Sharlow (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Sharlow is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharlow Cabell County
Culloden (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Culloden is located in Cabell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Culloden Calhoun County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Oka (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Oka is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oka 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 Mudfork (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Mudfork is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mudfork Rocksdale (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Rocksdale is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocksdale Stinson (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Stinson is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinson Orma (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Orma is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orma Walnut (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Walnut is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Arnoldsburg (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Arnoldsburg is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnoldsburg Gomez ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Gomez is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gomez Losie ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Losie is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Losie 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 Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Porter (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Porter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Procious (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Procious is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Procious Bomont (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Bomont is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomont Elkhurst (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Elkhurst is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst Valley Fork (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Valley Fork is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Fork Clay (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Hartland (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Hartland is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland Spread (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Spread is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spread Dink (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Dink is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dink Gould (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Gould is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gould Lydia (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Lydia is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lydia Fayette County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Cannelton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Cannelton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannelton Montgomery (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Crescent (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Crescent is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Smithers (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Romance (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Romance is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romance Fletcher (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Fletcher is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Kentuck (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Kentuck is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck Kenna (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Aplin ‑ Historic(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Aplin is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aplin Statts Mills (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Statts Mills is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Statts Mills Fairplain (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Fairplain is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairplain Hereford (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Hereford is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hereford Ripley (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Liverpool (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Liverpool is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liverpool Angerona (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Angerona is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angerona Meadowdale (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Meadowdale is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowdale Huntsville ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 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 Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom 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 (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Garretts Bend is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garretts Bend Sod (27 miles [43.5 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 Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Grimms Landing (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Grimms Landing is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimms Landing Arbuckle (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Arbuckle is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arbuckle Baden (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Baden is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baden Southside (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Southside is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southside Leon (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Leon is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leon Population from the 2020 Census: 145 people
Upland (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Upland is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upland Brighton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Brighton is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brighton Fivemile (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Fivemile is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile Letart (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Letart is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letart Nicholas County
Dixie (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Dixie is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Putnam County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Liberty (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Liberty is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Sigman (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Sigman is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sigman Paradise (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Paradise is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Poca (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Bancroft (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Bancroft is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft Population from the 2020 Census: 596 people
Raymond City (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Raymond City is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymond City Morgans Landing (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Morgans Landing is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgans Landing Red House (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Winfield (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Eleanor (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Scott Village (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Scott Village is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Village Midway (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Midway is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway Teays Valley (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Roane County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Cicerone (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Cicerone is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicerone Mattie ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Mattie is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattie Woodyard ‑ Historic(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Woodyard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodyard Walton (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Zona (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Zona is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zona Flint Town (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Flint Town is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Town Kester ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Kester is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kester Looneyville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Rushville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Rushville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville Roxalana (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Roxalana is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxalana Pigeon (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Pigeon is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon Graux (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Graux is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graux Spencer (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Wirt County
The following are listed by their distance from Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Lucile (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Lucile is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucile Peewee (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Peewee is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peewee Creston (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Creston is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston Meigs County (OH)
The following are listed by their distance from Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Letart Falls (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Letart Falls is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letart Falls Plants (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Plants is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plants
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Hicumbottom, see our County-by-County Page for Hicumbottom .
Cemeteries Near Hicumbottom ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hicumbottom.
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 Hicumbottom - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hicumbottom covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Milam Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Dawson Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Jones Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Clendenin Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Berry Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Fields Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fields Cemetery The Fields Cemetery has also been known as:
Taylor Cemetery Comer Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Covey Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Haynes Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Shafer Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Blackshire Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Wheatcraft Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Continue List (697 more) ...
Pleasant Grove Church Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Lanham Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Fields Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
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 Hicumbottom in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Hicumbottom.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Hicumbottom, with the one closest to Hicumbottom listed first.
Carney ‑ Historic(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Carney is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carney Island Branch (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Island Branch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Branch Blundon (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Blundon is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blundon Kettle (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Kettle is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kettle Sissonville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Cicerone (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Cicerone is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicerone Legg (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Legg is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legg Aarons (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Aarons is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aarons Mattie ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Mattie is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattie Goldtown (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Goldtown is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldtown Pocatalico (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Pocatalico is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pocatalico Kentuck (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Kentuck is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck Continue List (15 more) ...
Ryan (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Ryan is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan Mink ‑ Historic(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Mink is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mink Woodyard ‑ Historic(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Woodyard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodyard
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Hicumbottom. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hicumbottom .
Newspapers Published in Hicumbottom ...
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 94 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hicumbottom.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hicumbottom, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Hicumbottom.
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 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 Hicumbottom:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Kanawha County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone County Cabell County Calhoun County Clay County Fayette County Jackson County Lincoln County Mason County Nicholas County Putnam County Roane County Wirt County Meigs County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Hicumbottom. 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 Hicumbottom, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Hicumbottom) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.