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 Forest Oaks (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 Forest Oaks. 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 southwest corner of their home parish. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next parish to the west. 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 west 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.
Forest Oaks is located in East Baton Rouge 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 East Baton Rouge Parish : Ascension , East Feliciana , Iberville , Livingston , Saint Helena , West Baton Rouge & West Feliciana .
Below are the parishes that are near Forest Oaks. For each of these parishes, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Forest Oaks:
East Baton Rouge Parish (The home parish of Forest Oaks)
The following are listed by their distance from Forest Oaks, with the one closest to Forest Oaks listed first.
Monticello (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Monticello is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monticello Maribel Village (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Maribel Village is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maribel Village Merrydale (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Merrydale is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrydale Westminster (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Westminster is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westminster Inniswold (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Woodshire Village (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Woodshire Village is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodshire Village Boganvilla (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Boganvilla is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boganvilla Zion City (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Zion City is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion City Shenandoah (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Shenandoah is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shenandoah Essen (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Essen is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essen Baton Rouge (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Central (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Central is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Population from the 2020 Census: 29,450 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Central <1>
Brownfields (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Brownfields is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownfields Ascension Parish
The following are listed by their distance from Forest Oaks, with the one closest to Forest Oaks listed first.
Hope Villa (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Hope Villa is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope Villa Bullion (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Bullion is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullion Oak Grove (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Oak Grove is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove Galvez Town (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Galvez Town is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galvez Town Hobart (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Hobart is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobart Little Prairie (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Little Prairie is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Prairie Prairieville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Claybank (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Claybank is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claybank Galvez (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Galvez is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galvez Dutch Town (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Dutch Town is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutch Town Duplessis (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Cornerview (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Cornerview is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornerview Lake (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Lake is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Assumption Parish
The following are listed by their distance from Forest Oaks, with the one closest to Forest Oaks listed first.
Belle Terre (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Belle Terre is located in Assumption Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Terre Burbank ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Burbank is located in Assumption Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burbank Belle Alliance (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Belle Alliance is located in Assumption Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Alliance Belle Rose (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Bruly Saint Martin (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Bruly Saint Martin is located in Assumption Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruly Saint Martin Freetown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Freetown is located in Assumption Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freetown Lula (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Lula is located in Assumption Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lula Monty (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Monty is located in Assumption Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monty Brulie Maurin (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Brulie Maurin is located in Assumption Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brulie Maurin Kessler (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Kessler is located in Assumption Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kessler Star (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Star is located in Assumption Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star East Feliciana Parish
The following are listed by their distance from Forest Oaks, with the one closest to Forest Oaks listed first.
Slaughter (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Lindsay (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Lindsay is located in East Feliciana Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindsay Blairstown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Blairstown is located in East Feliciana Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blairstown Bells Store ‑ Historic(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Bells Store is located in East Feliciana Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bells Store Ethel (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Clinton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Jackson (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Iberville Parish
The following are listed by their distance from Forest Oaks, with the one closest to Forest Oaks listed first.
Iberville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Iberville is located in Iberville Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iberville Sunshine (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Sunshine is located in Iberville Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Morrisonville ‑ Historic(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Morrisonville is located in Iberville Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrisonville Saint Gabriel (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Plaquemine (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Carville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Bayou Goula (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Indian Village (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Indian Village is located in Iberville Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village White Castle (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Grosse Tete (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Rosedale (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Maringouin (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Livingston Parish
The following are listed by their distance from Forest Oaks, with the one closest to Forest Oaks listed first.
Denham Springs (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
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 <1>
Watson (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Walker (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Walker is located in Livingston Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker Population from the 2020 Census: 6,302 people
Port Vincent (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Port Vincent is located in Livingston Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Vincent Population from the 2020 Census: 650 people
Oldfield (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Oldfield is located in Livingston Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oldfield Livingston (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
French Settlement (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Holden (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Starns (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Starns is located in Livingston Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Starns Maurepas (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Albany (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Clio (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Clio is located in Livingston Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clio Georgeville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Georgeville is located in Livingston Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgeville Pointe Coupee Parish
The following are listed by their distance from Forest Oaks, with the one closest to Forest Oaks listed first.
Glynn (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Hermitage (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Hermitage is located in Pointe Coupee Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermitage Rougon (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Lakeland (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Jarreau (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Oscar (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Patin (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Patin is located in Pointe Coupee Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patin Ventress (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Dupont (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
New Roads (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Livonia (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Saint Helena Parish
The following are listed by their distance from Forest Oaks, with the one closest to Forest Oaks listed first.
Grangeville (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Grangeville is located in Saint Helena Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grangeville Pine Grove (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Montpelier (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Montpelier is located in Saint Helena Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montpelier Population from the 2020 Census: 239 people
West Baton Rouge Parish
The following are listed by their distance from Forest Oaks, with the one closest to Forest Oaks listed first.
Port Allen (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Lobdell (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Lobdell is located in West Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lobdell Brusly (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
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 <1>
Addis (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
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 <1>
Devalls (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Devalls is located in West Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devalls Carey (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Carey is located in West Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carey Wilbert ‑ Historic(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Wilbert is located in West Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilbert Arbroth (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Arbroth is located in West Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arbroth Erwinville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
West Feliciana Parish
Saint Francisville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Forest Oaks, see our Parish-by-Parish Page for Forest Oaks .
Cemeteries Near Forest Oaks ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Forest Oaks.
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 Forest Oaks - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Forest Oaks covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Forest Oaks, with the one closest to Forest Oaks listed first.
Greenoaks Memorial Park (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenoaks Memorial Park To give a relative sense of its location, the Greenoaks Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located in Baton Rouge . The Greenoaks Memorial Park has also been known as:
Green Oaks Memorial Park Greenoaks Memorial Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #67665 <2>
Bible Students Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Rose Hill Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Mt. Olive Baptist Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Knox Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Shanks Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Devall Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Resthaven Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
O'Neal Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Edwards Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Gilbert Memorial Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Kleinpeter Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Continue List (280 more) ...
St. George Catholic Church Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Harelson Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Woodlawn Baptist Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
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 Forest Oaks in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Forest Oaks.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Forest Oaks, with the one closest to Forest Oaks listed first.
Baton Rouge (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Denham Springs (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
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 <1>
Magnolia (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Magnolia is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia Port Allen (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Gardere (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Gardere is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardere Hopeville ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Hopeville is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopeville Baker (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Baker is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker Population from the 2020 Census: 12,999 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Baker <1>
Brusly Landing (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Brusly Landing is located in West Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brusly Landing Lobdell (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Lobdell is located in West Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lobdell Sunshine (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Sunshine is located in Iberville Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Walker (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Walker is located in Livingston Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker Population from the 2020 Census: 6,302 people
Saint Gabriel (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Continue List (17 more) ...
Galvez (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Galvez is located in Ascension Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galvez Zachary (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Zachary is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zachary Population from the 2020 Census: 18,417 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Zachary <1>
Stonypoint ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Stonypoint is located in East Baton Rouge Parish Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonypoint
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Forest Oaks. See our List of 1890's Communities around Forest Oaks .
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 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 Forest Oaks:
Websites specific to Louisiana Pages specific to East Baton Rouge Parish Genealogy information for nearby parishes
Ascension Parish Assumption Parish East Feliciana Parish Iberville Parish Livingston Parish Pointe Coupee Parish Saint Helena Parish West Baton Rouge Parish West Feliciana Parish Cemetery Information and Directories for Louisiana Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Forest Oaks. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Louisiana: https://www.louisiana.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. 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 . 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 Forest Oaks, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.