Do you know of Red Top ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Red Top. 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 Red Top.
Our sources for Red Top (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Red Top other than they indicate that Red Top would be found somewhere in Acadia 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 Red Top ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Red Top.
Within Louisiana, the name Red Top is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Illinois
- Edwards County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Red Top [Edwards County].
- Kansas
- Mississippi
- Pearl River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Red Top [Pearl River County].
- Missouri
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Red Top [Webster County].
- Montana
- Dawson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Red Top [Dawson County].
- Nevada
- Churchill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Red Top [Churchill County].
- South Carolina
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Red Top [Charleston County].
- Tennessee
- Stewart County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Red Top [Stewart County].
- Texas
- Young County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Red Top [Young County].
- Virginia
- Suffolk City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Red Top [Suffolk City].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Red Top ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Red Top:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Red Top - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Acadia 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 Acadia Parish.
| Basile | |
| Link | |
| Canal | |
| Mermenton | |
| Echo | Millersville |
| Fabacher | Plaquemine Brulee |
| Gassler | Redlich |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Red Top 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. |