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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Bayou Macon. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Bayou Macon to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Bayou Macon, please Contact Us.
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 Bayou Macon (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 Bayou Macon. 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/Parishes ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties/parishes.
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/parishes 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/parishes, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Bayou Macon is historic, it would have been located within present day Chicot County.
To see how the shape of Arkansas' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chicot County: Ashley, Desha, Drew, East Carroll (LA), West Carroll (LA), Issaquena (MS) & Washington (MS).
Below are the counties/parishes that are near Bayou Macon. For each of these counties/parishes, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bayou Macon:
- Chicot County (The home county of Bayou Macon)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Macon, with the one closest to Bayou Macon listed first.
- Lake Village
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Eudora
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Dermott
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Ashley County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Macon, with the one closest to Bayou Macon listed first.
- Montrose
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Montrose is located in Ashley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montrose
- Population from the 2020 Census: 298 people
- Portland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Parkdale
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Wilmot
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Wilmot is located in Ashley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmot
- Population from the 2020 Census: 483 people
- Hamburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Fountain Hill
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Fountain Hill is located in Ashley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain Hill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 157 people
- Desha County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Macon, with the one closest to Bayou Macon listed first.
- Arkansas City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Arkansas City is located in Desha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 310 people
- McGehee
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- McArthur
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- McArthur is located in Desha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McArthur
- Reed
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Reed is located in Desha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reed
- Population from the 2020 Census: 146 people
- Rohwer
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Drew County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Macon, with the one closest to Bayou Macon listed first.
- Jerome
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Jerome is located in Drew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerome
- Population from the 2020 Census: 34 people
- Collins
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Collins is located in Drew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins
- Tillar
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Tillar is located in Drew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tillar
- Population from the 2020 Census: 210 people
- Selma
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Selma is located in Drew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selma
- Morehouse Parish (LA)
- Jones
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- West Carroll Parish (LA)
- Kilbourne
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Bolivar County (MS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Macon, with the one closest to Bayou Macon listed first.
- Lamont
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Lamont is located in Bolivar County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamont
- Mound Landing
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Mound Landing is located in Bolivar County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mound Landing
- Scott
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Scott is located in Bolivar County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott
- Eutaw
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Eutaw is located in Bolivar County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eutaw
- Lake Vista
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Lake Vista is located in Bolivar County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Vista
- Grapeland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Grapeland is located in Bolivar County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grapeland
- Benoit
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Washington County (MS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Macon, with the one closest to Bayou Macon listed first.
- Avon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Avon is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon
- Greenville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- James
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- James is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
- Metcalfe
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Metcalfe is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metcalfe
- Population from the 2020 Census: 935 people
- Byrne City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Byrne City is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byrne City
- Forrest City ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Forrest City is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forrest City
- Stoneville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Stoneville is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville
- Wilmot
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Wilmot is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmot
- Arcola
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Arcola is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcola
- Population from the 2020 Census: 315 people
- Leland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Leland is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,659 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Leland <2>
- Hampton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Hampton is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton
- Hollandale
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bayou Macon, see our County-by-County Page for Bayou Macon.
Cemeteries Near Bayou Macon ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bayou Macon.
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 Bayou Macon - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bayou Macon covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bayou Macon, with the one closest to Bayou Macon listed first.
- Woodson Temple Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Bayou Macon Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Pleasant Hope Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Liberty Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Davies Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- St. Luke Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Mt. Zion Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- St. John Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jennie Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennie Cemetery
- The Jennie Cemetery has also been known as:
- Jennie Baptist Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #54544 <3>
- Greenland Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Tolliver Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Holly Grove Cemetery #2
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Continue List (158 more) ...
- Red Leaf Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Yellow Bayou Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Shady Grove Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 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.
While we didn't find Bayou Macon in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bayou Macon.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bayou Macon, with the one closest to Bayou Macon listed first.
- Lake Village
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Sunnyside
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Sunnyside is located in Chicot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
- Refuge
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Refuge is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Refuge
- Hudspeth
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hudspeth is located in Chicot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hudspeth
- Portland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Lakeport
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Lakeport is located in Chicot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeport
- Sunshine
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Sunshine is located in Ashley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
- Halley
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Halley is located in Desha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halley
- Dermott
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Swiftwater
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Swiftwater is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swiftwater
- Trafalgar
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Trafalgar is located in Ashley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trafalgar
- Grand Lake
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Grand Lake is located in Chicot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Lake
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- Lake Washington ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Lake Washington is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Washington
- James
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- James is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
- Avon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Avon is located in Washington County (MS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bayou Macon. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bayou Macon.
Newspapers Published in Bayou Macon ...
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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bayou Macon.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bayou Macon, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bayou Macon.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Bayou Macon:
- Websites specific to Arkansas
- Pages specific to Chicot County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Ashley County
- Desha County
- Drew County
- Morehouse Parish
- West Carroll Parish
- Bolivar County
- Washington County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arkansas
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Bayou Macon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <4> | 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- Bayou Macon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |