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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Dreyfus. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Dreyfus to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Dreyfus, 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 Dreyfus (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 Dreyfus. 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 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 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 Dreyfus is historic, it would have been located within present day Iberville 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 Iberville Parish: Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberia, Pointe Coupee, Saint Martin & West Baton Rouge.
Below are the parishes that are near Dreyfus. For each of these parishes, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dreyfus:
- Iberville Parish (The home parish of Dreyfus)
- The following are listed by their distance from Dreyfus, with the one closest to Dreyfus listed first.
- Carville
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Saint Gabriel
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Iberville
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Iberville is located in Iberville Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iberville
- Sunshine
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Sunshine is located in Iberville Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
- Bayou Goula
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- White Castle
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Morrisonville ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Morrisonville is located in Iberville Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrisonville
- Plaquemine
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Indian Village
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Indian Village is located in Iberville Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
- Grosse Tete
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Rosedale
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Ascension Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Dreyfus, with the one closest to Dreyfus listed first.
- Southwood
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Southwood is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southwood
- Geismar
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Dutch Town
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Dutch Town is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutch Town
- Cornerview
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Cornerview is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornerview
- Gonzales
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Bullion
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Bullion is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullion
- Duplessis
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Oak Grove
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Oak Grove is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
- Prairieville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Darrow
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Barton
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Barton is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
- Burnside
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Assumption Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Dreyfus, with the one closest to Dreyfus listed first.
- Belle Terre
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Belle Terre is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Terre
- Belle Alliance
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Belle Alliance is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Alliance
- Belle Rose
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Burbank ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Burbank is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burbank
- Lula
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Lula is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lula
- Bruly Saint Martin
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Bruly Saint Martin is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruly Saint Martin
- Freetown
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Freetown is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freetown
- Kessler
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Kessler is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kessler
- Monty
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Monty is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monty
- Star
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Star is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star
- Brulie Maurin
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Brulie Maurin is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brulie Maurin
- Bayou Corne ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Bayou Corne is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayou Corne
- East Baton Rouge Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Dreyfus, with the one closest to Dreyfus listed first.
- Burtville ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Burtville is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burtville
- Oak Hills Place
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Oak Hills Place is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hills Place
- Village Saint George
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Village Saint George is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village Saint George
- Gardere
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Gardere is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardere
- Perkins Village
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Perkins Village is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perkins Village
- Lynwood Village
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Lynwood Village is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynwood Village
- Old Jefferson
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Old Jefferson is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Jefferson
- Essen
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Essen is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essen
- Inniswold
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Shenandoah
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Shenandoah is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shenandoah
- Westminster
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Westminster is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westminster
- Woodshire Village
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Woodshire Village is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodshire Village
- Lafourche Parish
- Chackbay
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Chackbay is located in Lafourche Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chackbay
- Livingston Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Dreyfus, with the one closest to Dreyfus listed first.
- Port Vincent
(15 miles [24.1 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
- French Settlement
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Denham Springs
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Denham Springs is located in Livingston Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denham Springs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,842 people
- Former names for Denham Springs:
- Amite Springs
- Hill's Springs
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Denham Springs <2>
- Walker
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Walker is located in Livingston Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,302 people
- Maurepas
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Watson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Livingston
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Clio
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Clio is located in Livingston Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clio
- Killian
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Killian is located in Livingston Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Killian
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,337 people
- Holden
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Saint James Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Dreyfus, with the one closest to Dreyfus listed first.
- Free Town
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Free Town is located in Saint James Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Free Town
- Chatman Town
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Chatman Town is located in Saint James Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chatman Town
- Burton Lane
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Burton Lane is located in Saint James Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burton Lane
- Convent
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Uncle Sam
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Saint James
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Hester
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hester is located in Saint James Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hester
- Lagan
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Lagan is located in Saint James Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lagan
- Gramercy
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Lutcher
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Paulina
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Vacherie
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Saint John the Baptist Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Dreyfus, with the one closest to Dreyfus listed first.
- Wallace
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Wallace is located in Saint John the Baptist Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
- Mount Airy
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Garyville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Saint Martin Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Dreyfus, with the one closest to Dreyfus listed first.
- Bayou Geneve
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Bayou Geneve is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayou Geneve
- Bayou Chene
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Bayou Chene is located in Saint Martin Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayou Chene
- West Baton Rouge Parish
- The following are listed by their distance from Dreyfus, with the one closest to Dreyfus listed first.
- Addis
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- 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
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- 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
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Lobdell
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Lobdell is located in West Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lobdell
- Wilbert ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Wilbert is located in West Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilbert
- Carey
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Carey is located in West Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carey
- Devalls
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Devalls is located in West Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devalls
- Erwinville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Arbroth
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Arbroth is located in West Baton Rouge Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arbroth
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dreyfus, see our Parish-by-Parish Page for Dreyfus.
Cemeteries Near Dreyfus ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dreyfus.
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 Dreyfus - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dreyfus covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dreyfus, with the one closest to Dreyfus listed first.
- St. Marys Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Mt. Bethel Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Brazil Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Jerusalem Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Mt. Pelgrim Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- St. Gabriel Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Pt. Pleasant Baptist Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- St. Raphael Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Raspberry Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- St. Phillip Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Mt. Calvary Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Mt. Zion Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (176 more) ...
- Mt. Calvary Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Mt. Carmel Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- St. John Catholic Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
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 Dreyfus in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dreyfus.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Dreyfus, with the one closest to Dreyfus listed first.
- Southwood
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Southwood is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southwood
- Hohen Solms
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Hohen Solms is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hohen Solms
- Geismar
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Saint Gabriel
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Belle Helene
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Belle Helene is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Helene
- Dutch Town
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Dutch Town is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutch Town
- Sunshine
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Sunshine is located in Iberville Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
- Bayou Goula
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Dorcyville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Dorcyville is located in Iberville Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorcyville
- McCall
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- McCall is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCall
- Geary ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Geary is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geary
- Smoke Bend
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Smoke Bend is located in Ascension Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoke Bend
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Darrow
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Gonzales
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Donaldsonville
(9 miles [14.5 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 Dreyfus. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dreyfus.
Newspapers Published in Dreyfus ...
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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dreyfus.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dreyfus, there are papers which were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dreyfus.
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 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 Dreyfus:
- Websites specific to Louisiana
- Pages specific to Iberville Parish
- Genealogy information for nearby parishes
- Ascension Parish
- Assumption Parish
- East Baton Rouge Parish
- Lafourche Parish
- Livingston Parish
- Saint James Parish
- Saint John the Baptist Parish
- Saint Martin Parish
- West Baton Rouge Parish
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Louisiana
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 Dreyfus, 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> | 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- Dreyfus) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |