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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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 Dunn (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 Dunn. 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.

Name Variations for Dunn ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Another variation: Dunns.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Dunn. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Dunn.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 northeast corner of their home parish. During their lives, most doctors were in the next parish to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the parish to the north.

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 north 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.

Dunn is located in Richland 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 Richland Parish: Caldwell, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita & West Carroll.

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

  • Richland Parish     (The home parish of Dunn)
  • East Carroll Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dunn, with the one closest to Dunn listed first.
    • Sondheimer
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Transylvania
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Franklin Parish
  • Madison Parish
  • Morehouse Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dunn, with the one closest to Dunn listed first.
    • Oak Ridge
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Windsor
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Collinston
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Mer Rouge
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Bastrop
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Ouachita Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dunn, with the one closest to Dunn listed first.
    • Swartz
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Spanish City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Spanish City is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish City
    • Leisure Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Leisure Village is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leisure Village
    • Richwood
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Richwood is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richwood
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,375 people
    • Fairbanks
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Pino Bayou Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Pino Bayou Village is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pino Bayou Village
    • Northpark Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Northpark Village is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northpark Village
  • Tensas Parish
  • West Carroll Parish

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

Cemeteries Near Dunn ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dunn.

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

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

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

  • Newton Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Sunflower Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • McKnight Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Seven Star Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Greer Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Palestine Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Friendship Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Trio Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Waverly Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Epps Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Stevenson Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (120 more) ...
    • Masonic Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Gwin Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Pleasant Hall Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 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.<3>

While we didn't find Dunn in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dunn.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Dunn ...

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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dunn.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dunn, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dunn.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Dunn:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>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 Dunn, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Dunn) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.