Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Cinco during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Cinco 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..
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 Cinco (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 Cinco. 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 southwest corner of their home parish. During their lives, most doctors were in the next parish to the west. 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 west 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.
Cinco is located in Saint Martin 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 Saint Martin Parish: Assumption, Iberia, Iberville, Lafayette, Pointe Coupee, Saint Landry & Saint Mary.
Below are the parishes that are near Cinco. For each of these parishes, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cinco:
- Saint Martin Parish (The home parish of Cinco)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cinco, with the one closest to Cinco listed first.
- Keystone
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Keystone is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
- Delacroix
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Delacroix is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delacroix
- Saint Martinville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Cade
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Levert
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Levert is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Levert
- Banker Plantation
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Banker Plantation is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banker Plantation
- Saint John
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Saint John is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint John
- Duchamp
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Duchamp is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duchamp
- Bankers
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Bankers is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bankers
- Isle Labbe
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Isle Labbe is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isle Labbe
- Coteau Holmes
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Coteau Holmes is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coteau Holmes
- Catahoula Cove
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Catahoula Cove is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catahoula Cove
- Acadia Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Cinco, with the one closest to Cinco listed first.
- Castille
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Castille is located in Acadia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castille
- Higginbotham
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Higginbotham is located in Acadia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higginbotham
- Rayne
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Ebenezer
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Ebenezer is located in Acadia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ebenezer
- Branch
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Church Point
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Iberia Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Cinco, with the one closest to Cinco listed first.
- Loreauville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- New Iberia
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Morbihan
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Morbihan is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morbihan
- Derouen
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Derouen is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derouen
- Lydia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Avery Island
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Patoutville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Patoutville is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patoutville
- Jeanerette
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lafayette Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Cinco, with the one closest to Cinco listed first.
- Billeaud
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Billeaud is located in Lafayette Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billeaud
- Broussard
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Youngsville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Lafayette
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Milton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Scott
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Stekey
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Stekey is located in Lafayette Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stekey
- Carencro
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Ridge
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Ridge is located in Lafayette Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridge
- Ossun
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Ossun is located in Lafayette Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ossun
- Duson
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Pointe Coupee Parish
- East Krotz Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- East Krotz Springs is located in Pointe Coupee Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Krotz Springs
- Saint Landry Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Cinco, with the one closest to Cinco listed first.
- Arnaudville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Portage
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Portage is located in Saint Landry Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
- Cankton
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Cankton is located in Saint Landry Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cankton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 504 people
- Frozard
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Frozard is located in Saint Landry Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frozard
- Grand Coteau
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Sunset
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Leonville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Krotz Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Saint Mary Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Cinco, with the one closest to Cinco listed first.
- Adeline
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Adeline is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adeline
- Home Place
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Home Place is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Place
- Cypremort
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Cypremort is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypremort
- Florence
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Florence is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
- Ashton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Ashton is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashton
- Bodin
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Bodin is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodin
- Caneland
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Caneland is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caneland
- Glencoe
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Glencoe is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glencoe
- Charenton
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Cote Blanche Landing
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Cote Blanche Landing is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cote Blanche Landing
- Baldwin
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Cypremort Point
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Cypremort Point is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypremort Point
- Vermilion Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Cinco, with the one closest to Cinco listed first.
- Delcambre
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Erath
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Maurice
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Youngs
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Youngs is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs
- Abbeville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Leroy
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Leroy is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leroy
- Perry
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Meaux
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Meaux is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meaux
- Andrew
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Andrew is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrew
- Indian Bayou
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Indian Bayou is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Bayou
- Kaplan
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Intracoastal City
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cinco, see our Parish-by-Parish Page for Cinco.
Cemeteries Near Cinco ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cinco.
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 Cinco - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cinco covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cinco, with the one closest to Cinco listed first.
- St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Memorial Park Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Memorial Park Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Memorial Park Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of New Iberia.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #170947 <3>
- Bunk Johnsons Grave
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- St. Peter's Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- #1 Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Holy Family Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holy Family Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Holy Family Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of New Iberia.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1977799 <3>
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Broussard Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- St. Bernard Cemetery #2
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Our Lady of the Lake Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Lafayette Memorial Park
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Bodoin Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Continue List (95 more) ...
- St. Bernard Cemetery #1
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- St. Joseph Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Calvary Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
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.<5>
While we didn't find Cinco in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cinco.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cinco, with the one closest to Cinco listed first.
- Delacroix
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Delacroix is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delacroix
- Saint Martinville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Cade
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Burke
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Burke is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burke
- Segura
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Segura is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Segura
- Duchamp
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Duchamp is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duchamp
- New Iberia
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Loreauville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Broussard
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Youngsville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Derouen
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Derouen is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derouen
- Breaux Bridge
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Lafayette
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Patoutville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Patoutville is located in Iberia Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patoutville
- Jeanerette
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cinco. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cinco.
Newspapers Published in Cinco ...
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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cinco.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cinco, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cinco.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Cinco:
- Websites specific to Louisiana
- Pages specific to Saint Martin Parish
- Genealogy information for nearby parishes
- Acadia Parish
- Iberia Parish
- Lafayette Parish
- Pointe Coupee Parish
- Saint Landry Parish
- Saint Mary Parish
- Vermilion Parish
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Louisiana
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 Cinco and then turned west". While Cinco could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Cinco 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 Cinco 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.
Since confusion between parishes is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Louisiana community named Cinco. |
| <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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cinco) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <5> | 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 Cinco, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |