Elksburg, Lewis County, Kentucky

[walkitout]

Another mystery place! I learned about this one from the 1820 census. Initial googling and mapping is not finding me Elksburg.

Lewis County was formed in 1806. It's right on the border with Virginia, if I understand the maps I am looking at. Any theories about Elksburg? There's an Amazon Gift Card/certificate in it for anyone who can track it down.

Nathaniel Hamlin was born there and his father died there. While he left in the 1830s, some of the Hamlins stuck around for a while. The county itself went for the Union during the war, and continued to be Republican for a while thereafter.

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[(Anonymous)]

My results place the county up near OH, not VA:

https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs&q=Lewis+County,+Kentucky&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x88441949bc702c63:0xf162a972fb318f8b,Lewis,+KY&gl=us&ei=s1CVUcGiDrOt0AHqioGACg&ved=0CJUBELYD

I can't find anything on Lewis township but I did find that many other genealogists were also trying to find info, all from that 1820 census.

You are correct -- it is near Ohio.

[walkitout]

I'm not sure why I typed Virginia. I was clearly deeply confused.

I found what you did when googling Elksburg Township (I'm assuming you meant Elksburg Township and not Lewis Township). And I went back and took a closer look at the tops of all the images of the pages of the Lewis County part of the Census and can find no reference to Elksburg. But that doesn't mean there isn't another element of the census that indicates Elksburg -- but it could also be a mistake at the way the data for this part of the census at ancestry.com is structured.

The fact that there is only _one_ township for all of Lewis County in the 1820 census is also interesting.