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Do you know of Drew ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Drew. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Drew.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Drew, so we are uncertain whether Drew is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Drew would be found somewhere in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Drew ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Drew.

There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Drew.

Beyond Louisiana, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Louisiana ...
    • Ouachita Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Drew [Ouachita Parish].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • San Bernardino County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Drew [San Bernardino County].
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Drew [Hillsborough County].
    • Georgia
      • Forsyth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Drew [Forsyth County].
    • Indiana
      • Delaware County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Drew [Delaware County].
    • Iowa
      • Wright County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Drew [Wright County].
    • Kentucky
      • Knott County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Drew [Knott County].
    • Maine
      • Penobscot County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Drew [Penobscot County].
    • Michigan
      • Isabella County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Drew [Isabella County].
      • Newaygo County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Drew [Newaygo County].
    • Mississippi
      • Sunflower County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Drew [Sunflower County].
    • Missouri
      • Laclede County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Drew [Laclede County].
      • Saint Louis County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Drew [Saint Louis County].
    • North Carolina
      • Bertie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Drew [Bertie County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Drew.
    • Oregon
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Drew [Douglas County].

More Orphans in  Calcasieu Parish ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Calcasieu Parish.

Bear 
BeckworthMerryville
BurissaMystic
  
CalcasieuOaklin Spring
CantonOberlin
China 
Crown PointPearl
 Phillips' Bluff
Dry CreekPickett
 Pine Hill
East Side 
EsterlyRaymond
Evangeline 
 Serpent
Greenwich VillageSimmons
Greinwich TerraceSoileau
 Sugartown
High MountSulphur South
Houston River 
 Tenmile
JacksonvilleThompson
Jennings 
JohnsonVincent
  
LacasineWasey
Lake ArthurWelsh
Lake Charles NortheastWest Lake Charles
Loretta 

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

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 Drew 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.









 

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