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 Kirk (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 Kirk. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Kirk is located in Mingo 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 Mingo County : Martin (KY) , Pike (KY) , Buchanan (VA) , Lincoln , Logan , McDowell , Wayne & Wyoming .
Below are the counties that are near Kirk. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Kirk:
Mingo County (The home county of Kirk)
The following are listed by their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
Dingess (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Dingess is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dingess Myrtle (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Myrtle is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myrtle Greyeagle (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Greyeagle is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greyeagle Kermit (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Chattaroy (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Chattaroy is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chattaroy Delbarton (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Williamson (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Red Jacket (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Red Jacket is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Jacket Sprigg (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Sprigg is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprigg Musick (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Musick is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Musick Blackberry City (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Blackberry City is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackberry City Matewan (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Pie (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Pie is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pie Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
Manila (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Manila is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manila Havana (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Havana is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havana Hewett (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Hewett is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hewett Turtle Creek (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Turtle Creek is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle Creek Clothier (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Clothier is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clothier Jeffrey (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Jeffrey is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffrey Ottawa (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Ottawa is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottawa Ramage (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Ramage is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramage Layville (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Layville is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Layville Greenview (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Greenview is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenview Dodson Junction (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Dodson Junction is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodson Junction Low Gap (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Low Gap is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Low Gap Morrisvale (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Morrisvale is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrisvale Cabell County
The following are listed by their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
Salt Rock (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Sarah (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Sarah is located in Cabell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sarah Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
Harts (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Wewanta (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Wewanta is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wewanta Spears ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Spears is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spears Kinder ‑ Historic(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Kinder is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinder Palermo (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Palermo is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palermo Myra (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Myra is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myra Sheridan (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Sheridan is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Alkol (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Alkol is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alkol Hamlin (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
West Hamlin (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
West Hamlin is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Hamlin Population from the 2020 Census: 689 people
East ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
East is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Sweetland (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Sweetland is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetland Yawkey (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Yawkey is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yawkey Logan County
The following are listed by their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
Whirlwind (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Whirlwind is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whirlwind Troy Town (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Troy Town is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy Town Hedgeview (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Hedgeview is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedgeview Holden (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Holden is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holden Thompson Town (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Thompson Town is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson Town Logan (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
West Logan (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Big Creek (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Big Creek is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Creek Chapmanville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Whitman (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Mitchell Heights (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Mitchell Heights is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchell Heights Population from the 2020 Census: 274 people
Peach Creek (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Peach Creek is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Creek Banco (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Banco is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banco Wayne County
The following are listed by their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
Wilsondale (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Wilsondale is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsondale Doane (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Doane is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doane Stonecoal (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Stonecoal is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonecoal Cove Gap (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Cove Gap is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Gap Dunlow (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Dunlow is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlow Kiahsville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Kiahsville is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiahsville Nestlow (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Nestlow is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nestlow Effie (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Effie is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Effie East Lynn (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
East Lynn is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lynn Armilda (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Armilda is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armilda Echo (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Echo is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo Fort Gay (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Fort Gay is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Gay Population from the 2020 Census: 682 people
Mineral Springs (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Mineral Springs is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Springs Floyd County (KY)
Auxier (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Auxier is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auxier Johnson County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
Whitehouse (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Whitehouse is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitehouse Butcher Hollow (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Butcher Hollow is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butcher Hollow Lowmansville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Lowmansville is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowmansville Williamsport (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Williamsport is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsport Meally (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Meally is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meally Thelma (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Thelma is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thelma Tutor Key (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Tutor Key is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tutor Key Nero (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Nero is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nero Nippa (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Nippa is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nippa Van Lear (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Hagerhill (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Hagerhill is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagerhill West Van Lear (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
West Van Lear is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Van Lear Wittensville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Wittensville is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wittensville Lawrence County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
Clifford (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Clifford is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifford Maynard ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Maynard is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maynard Peach Orchard (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Peach Orchard is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Orchard Patrick (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Patrick is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patrick Torchlight ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Torchlight is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torchlight Ben Bow (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Ben Bow is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ben Bow Gallup ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Gallup is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup Richardson (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Richardson is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardson Walbridge ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Walbridge is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walbridge Bumblebee ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Bumblebee is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bumblebee Georges Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Georges Creek is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georges Creek Ulysses ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Ulysses is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulysses Louisa (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Martin County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
Lovely (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Lovely is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovely Hode (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Hode is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hode Warfield (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Pilgrim (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Pilgrim is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim Beauty (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Beauty is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beauty Inez (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Debord (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Tomahawk (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Tomahawk is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tomahawk Pike County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
South Williamson (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Forest Hills (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Forest Hills is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Hills Toler (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Toler is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toler Belfry (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Hardy (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Hardy is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardy Buskirk (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Buskirk is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buskirk McCarr (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Sidney (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Canada (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Huddy (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Huddy is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huddy Varney (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Varney is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Varney Stone (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Stone is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone McAndrews (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
McAndrews is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAndrews
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Kirk, see our County-by-County Page for Kirk .
Cemeteries Near Kirk ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kirk.
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 Kirk - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Kirk covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
Marcum Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Hanna Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanna Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Hanna Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> Dingess . Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #78577 <3>
Lackey Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Kirk Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Stafford Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Messer Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Meade Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Marcum Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Vance Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Wellman Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Damron Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
McCloud Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Continue List (908 more) ...
Kirk Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Phelps Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Perry Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>
While we didn't find Kirk in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kirk.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Kirk, with the one closest to Kirk listed first.
Stonecoal (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Stonecoal is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonecoal Warfield (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Pilgrim (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Pilgrim is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim Fourteen ‑ Historic(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Fourteen is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourteen Chapmanville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Cove Gap (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Cove Gap is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Gap Dunlow (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Dunlow is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlow Rural (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Rural is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rural Kiahsville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Kiahsville is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiahsville Oilville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Oilville is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oilville Ferguson (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Ferguson is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferguson Inez (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Continue List (16 more) ...
Clifford (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Clifford is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifford Lake (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Lake is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Maynard ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Maynard is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maynard
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Kirk. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kirk .
Newspapers Published in Kirk ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) .
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kirk.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kirk, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Kirk.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Kirk:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Mingo County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone County Cabell County Lincoln County Logan County Wayne County Floyd County Johnson County Lawrence County Martin County Pike County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Kirk. 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. 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- Kirk) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. 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 Kirk, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.