Welcome to Ash Point ...
Although we found mention of Ash Point during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Ash Point 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..
While we are confident that Ash Point was located in Bossier Parish, we don't know its actual location within the parish.
We've added Ash Point to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Ash Point - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Ash Point, please Contact Us.
A typical abbreviation for Ash Point: Ash Pt.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Ash Point might be (or was) located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
We believe that Ash Point would be found within the (318) area code.
Communities Also Named Ash Point ...
Using our Gazetteer, we have found that there are 2 communities that are also named Ash Point - they are located in Kansas and Maine.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Ash Point.
Adding Ash Point to Our Gazetteer ...
As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.
Our notes show that the earliest dated mention that we've found for Ash Point was in the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Ash Point on our Genealogy Page.
Other Roadside Stops ...
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Bossier Parish: www.mybossier.com/
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 north past Ash Point and then turned east". While Ash Point could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Ash Point 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 Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller 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 Ash Point 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. |