Do you know of Florida Bend ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Florida Bend. 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 Florida Bend.<1>
We found mention of Florida Bend as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1848 and closed in 1851.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Florida Bend ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Florida Bend:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Avoyelles 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 Avoyelles Parish.
| Bayou Rouge | |
| Belledean | Mansura Junction |
| Bordeaux | Meyersville |
| Millburn | |
| Fort De Russy | |
| New Belledeau | |
| Green Store | |
| Planchville | |
| Haasville | Point Magre |
| Hyde | |
| Hydropolis | Tilden |
| Kleinwood | Water Valley |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |