Do you know of Decatur ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Decatur. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Decatur.
Our sources for Decatur (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Decatur other than they indicate that Decatur would be found somewhere in Union Parish, Louisiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1904 and closed in 1908.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Decatur ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Decatur.
Within Louisiana, the name Decatur is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Decatur [Morgan County].
- Arkansas
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Decatur [Benton County].
- Colorado
- Summit County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Decatur [Summit County].
- Georgia
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Decatur [DeKalb County].
- Illinois
- Macon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Decatur [Macon County].
- Indiana
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Decatur [Adams County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Decatur [Russell County].
- Michigan
- Van Buren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Decatur [Van Buren County].
- Mississippi
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Decatur [Newton County].
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Burt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Decatur [Burt County].
- New York
- Otsego County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Decatur [Otsego County].
- Ohio
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Decatur [Brown County].
- Pennsylvania
- Mifflin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Decatur [Mifflin County].
- Tennessee
- Meigs County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Decatur [Meigs County].
- Texas
- Wise County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Decatur [Wise County].
- Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Decatur ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Decatur:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Louisiana (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Union Parish ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Union Parish.
| Archer | |
| Ouachita | |
| Bearden | |
| Bunkerhill | Quachita City |
| Callaway | Rugg |
| Center | |
| Spears Store | |
| Lone Well | |
| Louter | Taylorville |
| Mooresville | Union Cross Roads |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Decatur 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |