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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 Fiske (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 Fiske. 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/Counties ...

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

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest 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 north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring parishes/counties 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 north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring parishes/counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Fiske is located in West Carroll 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 West Carroll Parish: Chicot (AR), East Carroll, Morehouse & Richland.

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

  • West Carroll Parish     (The home parish of Fiske)
  • East Carroll Parish
  • Madison Parish
  • Morehouse Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fiske, with the one closest to Fiske listed first.
    • Jones
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Bonita
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Brodnax ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Brodnax is located in Morehouse Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brodnax
    • Mer Rouge
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Oak Ridge
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Collinston
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Bastrop
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Windsor
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Richland Parish
  • Ashley County (AR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fiske, with the one closest to Fiske listed first.
    • Wilmot
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Wilmot is located in Ashley County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmot
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 483 people
    • Parkdale
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Elon ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Elon is located in Ashley County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elon
    • Portland
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Montrose
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Hamburg
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Meridian
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Chicot County (AR)
  • Issaquena County (MS)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fiske, with the one closest to Fiske listed first.
    • Tallula
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Mayersville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Mayersville is located in Issaquena County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayersville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 517 people
  • Washington County (MS)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fiske, with the one closest to Fiske listed first.
    • Byrne City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Byrne City is located in Washington County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byrne City
    • Hampton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Fiske ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fiske.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fiske, with the one closest to Fiske 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.<4>

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

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

  • Oak Grove
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Forest
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Jones
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Bonita
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Kilbourne
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Floyd
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Floyd is located in West Carroll Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floyd
  • Shelburn
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Shelburn is located in East Carroll Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelburn
  • Parkdale
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Pilcher Point
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Pilcher Point is located in East Carroll Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilcher Point
  • Brodnax ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Brodnax is located in Morehouse Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brodnax
  • Brunett ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Brunett is located in East Carroll Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brunett
  • Mer Rouge
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Lake Providence
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Robertdale ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Robertdale is located in East Carroll Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robertdale
    • Sterling ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Sterling is located in Chicot County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterling

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

Newspapers Published in Fiske ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fiske.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fiske, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fiske.

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 helpful 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 Fiske:

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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Fiske) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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>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 Fiske, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.