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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 Miracle Run (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 Miracle Run. 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 doctors 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.

Miracle Run is located in Monongalia 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 Monongalia County: Fayette (PA), Greene (PA), Marion, Preston, Taylor & Wetzel.

Below are the counties that are near Miracle Run. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Miracle Run:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Miracle Run, see our County-by-County Page for Miracle Run.

Cemeteries Near Miracle Run ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Miracle Run.

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 Miracle Run - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Miracle Run covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Miracle Run, with the one closest to Miracle Run listed first.

  • Miracle Run Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Tennant Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Wilson Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Core Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Cumberledge Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Piles Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Conner Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Chisler Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Wiley Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Lemley Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Wilson Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Thomas Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
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    • Morris Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Cross Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Handgardner Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Miracle Run had a population of 80 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Miracle Run, with the one closest to Miracle Run listed first.

  • Bula
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Bula is located in Monongalia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bula
  • Crossroads
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Crossroads is located in Monongalia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crossroads
  • Blacksville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Blacksville is located in Monongalia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blacksville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 183 people
  • Brave
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Brave is located in Greene County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brave
  • Wadestown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Jollytown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Fairview
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Pine Bank
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Pine Bank is located in Greene County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Bank
  • Jakes Run
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jakes Run is located in Monongalia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jakes Run
  • Maple
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Mooresville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Mooresville is located in Monongalia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mooresville
  • Worley
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Worley is located in Monongalia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worley
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    • Pentress
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Brock
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Brock is located in Greene County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brock
    • Spraggs
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Miracle Run. See our List of 1890's Communities around Miracle Run.

Newspapers Published in Miracle Run ...

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 36 newspapers that have been published in the area around Miracle Run.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Miracle Run, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Miracle Run.

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 Miracle Run:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>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 Miracle Run, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Miracle Run) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.