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 Selwyn (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 Selwyn. 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 hospitals and doctors 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.
Selwyn 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 Selwyn. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Selwyn:
Mingo County (The home county of Selwyn)
The following are listed by their distance from Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
Kermit (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Greyeagle (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Greyeagle is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greyeagle Dingess (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Dingess is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dingess Chattaroy (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Chattaroy is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chattaroy Myrtle (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Myrtle is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myrtle Williamson (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Delbarton (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Sprigg (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Sprigg is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprigg Red Jacket (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Red Jacket is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Jacket Blackberry City (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Blackberry City is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackberry City Matewan (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Musick (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Musick is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Musick Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
Manila (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Manila is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manila Havana (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Havana is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havana Hewett (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Hewett is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hewett Layville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Layville is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Layville Turtle Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Turtle Creek is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle Creek Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
Harts (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Wewanta (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Wewanta is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wewanta Spears ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Spears is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spears Kinder ‑ Historic(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Kinder is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinder Palermo (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Palermo is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palermo Sheridan (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Sheridan is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Myra (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Myra is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myra Logan County
The following are listed by their distance from Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
Whirlwind (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Whirlwind is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whirlwind Troy Town (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Troy Town is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy Town Holden (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Holden is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holden Hedgeview (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Hedgeview is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedgeview Thompson Town (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Thompson Town is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson Town Whitman (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Wilkinson (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Chapmanville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Logan (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Mitchell Heights (21 miles [33.8 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
Omar (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Big Creek (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Big Creek is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Creek Wayne County
The following are listed by their distance from Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
Stonecoal (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Stonecoal is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonecoal Wilsondale (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Wilsondale is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsondale Doane (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Doane is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doane Dunlow (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Dunlow is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlow Kiahsville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Kiahsville is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiahsville Cove Gap (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Cove Gap is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Gap Effie (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Effie is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Effie East Lynn (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
East Lynn is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lynn Fort Gay (21 miles [33.8 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 (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Mineral Springs is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Springs Armilda (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Armilda is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armilda Echo (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Echo is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo Floyd County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
Auxier (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Auxier is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auxier Dwale (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Dwale is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwale Ivel (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Prestonsburg (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Stanville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Tram (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Tram is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tram Allen (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Allen is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen Population from the 2020 Census: 168 people
Allen has also been known as:
Beaver Creek Junction Beaver Creek Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Allen <1>
Banner (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Betsy Layne (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Watergap (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Watergap is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watergap Harold (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Harold is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harold Dana (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Dana is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana Johnson County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
Whitehouse (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Whitehouse is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitehouse Butcher Hollow (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Butcher Hollow is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butcher Hollow Lowmansville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Lowmansville is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowmansville Williamsport (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Williamsport is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsport Meally (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Meally is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meally Nero (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Nero is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nero Thelma (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Thelma is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thelma Tutor Key (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Tutor Key is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tutor Key Van Lear (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Nippa (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Nippa is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nippa West Van Lear (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
West Van Lear is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Van Lear Wittensville (22 miles [35.4 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 Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
Clifford (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Clifford is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifford Maynard ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Maynard is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maynard Peach Orchard (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Peach Orchard is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Orchard Patrick (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Patrick is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patrick Richardson (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Richardson is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardson Ben Bow (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Ben Bow is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ben Bow Gallup ‑ Historic(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Gallup is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup Georges Creek (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Georges Creek is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georges Creek Ulysses ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Ulysses is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulysses Bumblebee ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Bumblebee is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bumblebee Torchlight ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Torchlight is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torchlight Charley (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Charley is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charley Martin County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
Lovely (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Lovely is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovely Warfield (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Hode (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Hode is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hode Beauty (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Beauty is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beauty Pilgrim (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Pilgrim is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim Inez (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Debord (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Tomahawk (11 miles [17.7 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 Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
South Williamson (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Forest Hills (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Forest Hills is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Hills Varney (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Varney is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Varney Sidney (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Toler (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Toler is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toler Belfry (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Canada (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Hardy (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Hardy is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardy Gulnare (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Gulnare is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gulnare Huddy (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Huddy is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huddy Stone (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Stone is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Buskirk (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Buskirk is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buskirk
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Selwyn, see our County-by-County Page for Selwyn .
Cemeteries Near Selwyn ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Selwyn.
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 Selwyn - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Selwyn covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
Brewer Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Brewer Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Chaffin Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Small Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Rose Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Brewer Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Wills Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Brewer Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Darnell Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Stepp Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Aker Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Williamson Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Continue List (862 more) ...
Spaulding Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Marcum Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Marcum 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.<2>
While we didn't find Selwyn in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Selwyn.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Selwyn, with the one closest to Selwyn listed first.
Warfield (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Stonecoal (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Stonecoal is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonecoal Pilgrim (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Pilgrim is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim Inez (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Rural (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Rural is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rural Dunlow (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Dunlow is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlow Clifford (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Clifford is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifford Maynard ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Maynard is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maynard Peach Orchard (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Peach Orchard is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Orchard Ferguson (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Ferguson is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferguson Richardson (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Richardson is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardson Thomas (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Thomas is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas Continue List (14 more) ...
Kiahsville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Kiahsville is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiahsville Summit (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Summit is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Gallup ‑ Historic(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Gallup is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Selwyn. See our List of 1890's Communities around Selwyn .
Newspapers Published in Selwyn ...
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 17 newspapers that have been published in the area around Selwyn.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Selwyn, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Selwyn.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Selwyn:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Mingo County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone 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 Selwyn. 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 Selwyn, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Selwyn) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.