Nearest Communities to Balize,
Listed Parish-By-Parish
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Balize, on a Parish-by-Parish basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Balize:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home parish. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next parish to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the parish to the north.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring parishes in addition to 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 checked the neighboring parishes, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Balize is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Plaquemines Parish.
The following 3 parishes adjoin and form the boundaries of Plaquemines Parish: Jefferson, Orleans & Saint Bernard.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Balize. Of these communities, 1 are located in parishes other than Plaquemines Parish.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home parish for Balize (which is Plaquemines Parish), we list the parishes in alphabetical order and for each of those parishes, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Balize
For the following list, only those parishes that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Plaquemines Parish (where Balize resides)
- Parish Website: https://www.plaqueminesparish.gov/
- Parish Seat for Plaquemines: Pointe a la Hache
- Note: The Gulf of Mexico lies to the south and the east
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Balize ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Balize.
- Pilotsville ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Pilotsville is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilotsville
- Port Eads
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Port Eads is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Eads
- Pilottown
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- South Pass
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- South Pass is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Pass
- Orchard
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Orchard is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard
- Venice
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Burrwood ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Burrwood is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burrwood
- Duvic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Duvic is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duvic
- Olga
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Olga is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olga
- West Point
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- West Point is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Point
- Boothville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Breton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Breton is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breton
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- Fort Jackson
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Fort Jackson is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Jackson
- Triumph
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Triumph is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triumph
- Fort Saint Phillip
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Fort Saint Phillip is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Saint Phillip
- Gulftown
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Gulftown is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gulftown
- Buras
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Ostrica
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Ostrica is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ostrica
- Quarantine ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Quarantine is located in Plaquemines Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quarantine
- Pointe Coupee Parish
- Parish Website: https://pcparish.org/
- Parish Seat for Pointe Coupee: New Roads
- Note: The Mississippi River runs along the eastern border of the county
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Balize ...
- Torras ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Torras is located in Pointe Coupee Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torras
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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- Balize) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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 Balize, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.
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 larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.
Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know. |
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