RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Louisiana >> Pointe Coupee Parish >> Fordoche >> MentionsIndex...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
Louisiana


The Commemorative Quarter for Louisiana







Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Fordoche came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Fordoche in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fordoche. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Fordoche data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fordoche:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station, an Express Office

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Southern States
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2001
(Available from Amazon.com)

Rand McNally Map of Louisiana (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Fordoche is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

We found Fordoche in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Fordoche for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Fordoche. See our Misc Page for Fordoche for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/