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 Putney (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 Putney. 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 and hospitals 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.
Putney 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 Putney. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Putney:
Kanawha County (The home county of Putney)
The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Hugheston (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Hugheston is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hugheston Pratt (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Pratt is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pratt Population from the 2020 Census: 552 people
Cedar Grove (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Cedar Grove is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove Population from the 2020 Census: 897 people
East Bank (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
East Bank is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Bank Population from the 2020 Census: 857 people
Glasgow (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Coco (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Handley (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Handley is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Handley Population from the 2020 Census: 309 people
Hollygrove (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Hollygrove is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollygrove Hollygrove has also been known as:
Hollygrove Station Hudnall Cabin Creek (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Cabin Creek is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabin Creek Coal Fork (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Coal Fork is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Fork Apgah ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Apgah is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apgah Belle (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Bloomingrose (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Bloomingrose is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomingrose Comfort (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Joes Creek (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Joes Creek is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joes Creek Eden (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Eden is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Fosterville (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Fosterville is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fosterville Kirbyton (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Kirbyton is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirbyton Racine (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Racine is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Racine Seth (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Sharlow (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Sharlow is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharlow Coopertown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Coopertown is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopertown Orgas (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Orgas is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orgas Rumble (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Rumble is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumble Calhoun County
The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Oka (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Oka is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oka Mudfork (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Mudfork is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mudfork Stinson (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Stinson is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinson Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Bomont (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Bomont is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomont Porter (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Porter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Elkhurst (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Elkhurst is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst Procious (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Procious is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Procious Hartland (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Hartland is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland Clay (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Spread (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Spread is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spread Valley Fork (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Valley Fork is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Fork Gould (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Gould is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gould Dink (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Dink is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dink Harrison (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Harrison is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison Ira (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Ira is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ira Fayette County
The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Montgomery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Cannelton (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Cannelton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannelton Crescent (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Crescent is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Smithers (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Kimberly (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Kimberly is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberly Mount Carbon (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Mount Carbon is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carbon Gauley Bridge (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Powellton (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Powellton is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powellton Falls View (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Falls View is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls View Elkridge (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Elkridge is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkridge McDunn (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
McDunn is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDunn Romont (16 miles [25.7 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 Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Romance (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Romance is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romance Fletcher (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Fletcher is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Kentuck (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Kentuck is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck Kenna (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Alum Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Priestley (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Priestley is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Priestley Sod (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Sod is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sod Garretts Bend (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Garretts Bend is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garretts Bend East ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
East is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Tango (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Tango is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tango Nicholas County
The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Dixie (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Dixie is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Beech Glen (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Beech Glen is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Glen Albion ‑ Historic(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Albion is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albion Tipton (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Tipton is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tipton Zela (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Zela is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zela Keslers Cross Lanes (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Keslers Cross Lanes is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keslers Cross Lanes Morrison ‑ Historic(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Morrison is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrison Summersville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Muddlety (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Muddlety is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muddlety Runa (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Runa is located in Nicholas County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Runa Putnam County
The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Poca (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Raymond City (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Raymond City is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymond City Liberty (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Liberty is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Morgans Landing (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Morgans Landing is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgans Landing Sigman (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Sigman is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sigman Bancroft (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Bancroft is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft Population from the 2020 Census: 596 people
Paradise (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Paradise is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Scott Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Scott Village is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Village Raleigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Dorothy (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Dorothy is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorothy Packsville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Packsville is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packsville Montcoal (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Montcoal is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcoal Stickney (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Stickney is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stickney Naoma (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Naoma is located in Raleigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naoma Roane County
The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Pigeon (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Pigeon is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon Kester ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Kester is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kester Mattie ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Mattie is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattie Cicerone (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Cicerone is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicerone Walton (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Looneyville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Woodyard ‑ Historic(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Woodyard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodyard Rushville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Rushville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville Roxalana (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Roxalana is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxalana Zona (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Zona is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zona
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Putney, see our County-by-County Page for Putney .
Cemeteries Near Putney ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Putney.
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 Putney - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Putney covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Blakley Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Ward Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Mt. Lewis Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Proctor Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Goodwin Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Kennedy Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
IOOF Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Virginias Chapel Slave Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Woodland Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Kanawha Valley Memorial Gardens (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Montgomery Memorial Park (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montgomery Memorial Park The Montgomery Memorial Park has also been known as:
Montgomery Memorial Cemetery Montgomery Memorial Gardens O Dell Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Continue List (627 more) ...
Odell Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Patterson Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Lacie - Gray - Morris Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 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 Putney in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Putney.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
Spangler (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Spangler is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spangler Kendalia (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Kendalia is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendalia Pond Gap (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Pond Gap is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pond Gap Cedar Grove (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Cedar Grove is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove Population from the 2020 Census: 897 people
East Bank (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
East Bank is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Bank Population from the 2020 Census: 857 people
Gazil ‑ Historic(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Gazil is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gazil Odell (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Odell is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odell Coalburg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Coalburg is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalburg Crown Hill (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Crown Hill is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crown Hill Handley (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Handley is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Handley Population from the 2020 Census: 309 people
Coco (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Coco is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coco Shrewsbury (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Shrewsbury is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shrewsbury Continue List (13 more) ...
Montgomery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Dry Branch (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Dry Branch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Branch Crescent (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Crescent is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Putney. See our List of 1890's Communities around Putney .
Newspapers Published in Putney ...
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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Putney.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Putney, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Putney.
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 Putney:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Kanawha County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone County Calhoun County Clay County Fayette County Jackson County Lincoln County Nicholas County Putnam County Raleigh County Roane County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Putney. 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 Putney, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Putney) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.