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Welcome to Belle Alliance ...

Although we found mention of Belle Alliance during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Belle Alliance was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

We've added Belle Alliance to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Belle Alliance, please Contact Us.


The location of Belle Alliance has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<2>


Belle Alliance was established in 1846.

Belle Alliance is near sea level<3>.

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Belle Alliance might be (or was) located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

We believe that Belle Alliance would be found within the (225) area code.

Communities near Belle Alliance ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Belle Alliance.

  • Gonzales
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gonzales have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gonzales
    • Gonzales is located in Ascension Parish
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,245 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gonzales <4>
  • Donaldsonville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Donaldsonville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donaldsonville
    • Donaldsonville is located in Ascension Parish
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,638 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Donaldsonville <4>
  • Saint Gabriel
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Gramercy
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gramercy have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gramercy
    • Gramercy is located in Saint James Parish
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,188 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gramercy <4>
  • Lutcher
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lutcher
    • Lutcher is located in Saint James Parish
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,127 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lutcher <4>
  • Sorrento
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sorrento have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sorrento
    • Sorrento is located in Ascension Parish
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,719 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sorrento <4>
  • White Castle
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Castle have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Castle
    • White Castle is located in Iberville Parish
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,640 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for White Castle <4>
  • Napoleonville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Napoleonville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Napoleonville
    • Napoleonville is located in Assumption Parish
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 575 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Napoleonville <4>
  • Bruly Saint Martin
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bruly Saint Martin have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruly Saint Martin
    • Bruly Saint Martin is located in Assumption Parish
  • Paincourtville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Belle Alliance. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Belle Alliance.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Belle Alliance. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Belle Alliance.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Belle Alliance. See our Newspapers Page for Belle Alliance.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Belle Alliance ...

Looking for more information about Belle Alliance? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Belle Alliance, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Belle Alliance.

Adding Belle Alliance to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Belle Alliance in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Belle Alliance was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Belle Alliance post office opened in 1893.

We also found Belle Alliance on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Louisiana (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Belle Alliance.

The official website for State of Louisiana: louisiana.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Belle Alliance and then turned west". While Belle Alliance could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Belle Alliance as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Belle Alliance could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong parish. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Belle Alliance - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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