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Introduction ...

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

We've added Bayou Corne to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Bayou Corne, 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 Corne (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 Corne. 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 ...

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

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast 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 south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring parishes 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 south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring 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 Corne is historic, it would have been located within present day Assumption 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 Assumption Parish: Ascension, Iberia, Iberville, Lafourche, Saint James, Saint Martin, Saint Mary & Terrebonne.

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

  • Assumption Parish     (The home parish of Bayou Corne)
  • Ascension Parish
  • East Baton Rouge Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Corne, with the one closest to Bayou Corne listed first.
    • Burtville ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Gardere
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Gardere is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardere
    • Oak Hills Place
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Oak Hills Place is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hills Place
    • Perkins Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Perkins Village is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perkins Village
    • Village Saint George
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Village Saint George is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village Saint George
    • Lynwood Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Lynwood Village is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynwood Village
    • Essen
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Old Jefferson
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Old Jefferson is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Jefferson
    • Inniswold
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Westminster
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Westminster is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westminster
    • Shenandoah
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Shenandoah is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shenandoah
    • Beauregard Town
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Beauregard Town is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beauregard Town
  • Iberville Parish
  • Lafourche Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Corne, with the one closest to Bayou Corne listed first.
    • Chackbay
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Chackbay is located in Lafourche Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chackbay
    • Thibodaux
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Acadia
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Kraemer
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Livingston Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Corne, with the one closest to Bayou Corne listed first.
    • French Settlement
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Port Vincent
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Port Vincent is located in Livingston Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Vincent
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 650 people
  • Saint James Parish
  • Saint John the Baptist Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Corne, with the one closest to Bayou Corne listed first.
    • Wallace
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Wallace is located in Saint John the Baptist Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
    • Mount Airy
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Saint Martin Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Corne, with the one closest to Bayou Corne listed first.
    • Bayou Geneve
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Bayou Geneve is located in Saint Martin Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayou Geneve
    • Stephenville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Stephenville is located in Saint Martin Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stephenville
    • Bayou Chene
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Saint Mary Parish
  • Terrebonne Parish
  • West Baton Rouge Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bayou Corne, with the one closest to Bayou Corne listed first.
    • Addis
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Addis is located in West Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Addis
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,464 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Addis <2>
    • Brusly
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Brusly is located in West Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brusly
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,580 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brusly <2>
    • Port Allen
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Bayou Corne ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bayou Corne.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Bayou Corne ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bayou Corne.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bayou Corne, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bayou Corne.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Corne:

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 Corne, 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 from Point A (ie- Bayou Corne) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.