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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Baggett. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Baggett to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Baggett, 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 Baggett (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 Baggett. 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 Parishes/Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring parishes/counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home parish. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next parish to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the parish to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring parishes/counties instead of the parish in which they lived:  their home parish contained property and probate records; the parish to the east contained birth and death records; the parish to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring parishes/counties, 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 Baggett is historic, it would have been located within present day Beauregard Parish.

To see how the shape of Louisiana's parishes may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following parishes adjoin and form the boundaries of Beauregard Parish: Allen, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Vernon & Newton (TX).

Below are the parishes/counties that are near Baggett. For each of these parishes/counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Baggett:

  • Beauregard Parish     (The home parish of Baggett)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baggett, with the one closest to Baggett listed first.
    • Sugartown
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Dry Creek
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Ikes
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Ikes is located in Beauregard Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ikes
    • Longville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Ludington
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Ludington is located in Beauregard Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludington
    • Fayette ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Fayette is located in Beauregard Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fayette
    • DeRidder
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Ragley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Newlin
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Newlin is located in Beauregard Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newlin
    • Singer
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Allen Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baggett, with the one closest to Baggett listed first.
    • Grant
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Tenmile
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Tenmile is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile
    • Cherry Grove
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Cherry Grove is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Grove
    • Mittie
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Reids
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Reids is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reids
    • Marionville ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Marionville is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marionville
    • Elizabeth
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Mab
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Mab is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mab
    • Reeves
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Canton
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Canton is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
    • Ward
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Ward is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ward
    • Le Blanc
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Le Blanc is located in Allen Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Le Blanc
    • Oberlin
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Evangeline Parish
    • Basile
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Basile is located in Evangeline Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basile
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,791 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Basile <2>
  • Jefferson Davis Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baggett, with the one closest to Baggett listed first.
    • Elton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Elton is located in Jefferson Davis Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,134 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elton <2>
    • Fenton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Fenton is located in Jefferson Davis Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fenton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 349 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fenton <2>
  • Rapides Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baggett, with the one closest to Baggett listed first.
    • Glenmora
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Hineston
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • McNary
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • McNary is located in Rapides Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNary
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 206 people
  • Vernon Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baggett, with the one closest to Baggett listed first.
    • Cole Central
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Cole Central is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cole Central
    • Pitkin
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Dido
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Dido is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dido
    • Cravens
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Cravens is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cravens
    • Fullerton
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Rosepine
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Pinewood
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Pinewood is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood
    • Fort Polk
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Pickering
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Pickering is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickering
    • Elmwood
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Elmwood is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmwood
    • Fort Polk North
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Fort Polk North is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Polk North
    • Billy Goat Hill
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Billy Goat Hill is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billy Goat Hill
    • Savage Fork
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Savage Fork is located in Vernon Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Savage Fork

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Baggett, see our Parish-by-Parish Page for Baggett.

Cemeteries Near Baggett ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Baggett.

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 Baggett - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Baggett covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Baggett, with the one closest to Baggett listed first.

  • Hamilton Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Shiloh Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Campground Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • New Campground Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Hoy Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Sugartown Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Horton Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Lindsey Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Dry Creek Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Smyrna Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Martin Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Hopwell Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (106 more) ...
    • Simmons Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Cole Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Pine Grove UMC Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)

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 Baggett in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Baggett.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Baggett, with the one closest to Baggett listed first.

  • Dido
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Dido is located in Vernon Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dido
  • Cora
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Cora is located in Vernon Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cora
  • Elmwood
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Elmwood is located in Vernon Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmwood
  • Hicks
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Hicks is located in Vernon Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicks
  • Hineston
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Baggett. See our List of 1890's Communities around Baggett.

Newspapers Published in Baggett ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Baggett.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Baggett, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Baggett.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Baggett:

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 Baggett, 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Baggett) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.