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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 Forksville (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 Forksville. 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 northeast corner of their home parish. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

Forksville is located in Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish: Caldwell, Jackson, Lincoln, Morehouse, Richland & Union.

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

  • Ouachita Parish     (The home parish of Forksville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Forksville, with the one closest to Forksville listed first.
    • Calhoun
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Eureka
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Frost Town
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Frost Town is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost Town
    • Indian Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Indian Village is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
    • Claiborne
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Claiborne is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claiborne
    • Lapine
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • West Monroe
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Monroe
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Pino Bayou Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Pino Bayou Village is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pino Bayou Village
    • Northpark Village
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Northpark Village is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northpark Village
    • Richwood
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Richwood is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richwood
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,375 people
    • Leisure Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Leisure Village is located in Ouachita Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leisure Village
  • Caldwell Parish
  • Jackson Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Forksville, with the one closest to Forksville listed first.
    • Cartwright
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Eros
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Eros is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eros
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 151 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eros <1>
    • Nash ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Nash is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nash
    • Chatham
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Dalley ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Dalley is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalley
    • Zoar
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Ansley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Weston
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Quitman
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • East Hodge
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • North Hodge
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • North Hodge is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hodge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 372 people
    • Hodge
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Lincoln Parish
  • Morehouse Parish
  • Richland Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Forksville, with the one closest to Forksville listed first.
    • Start
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Alto
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Union Parish
  • Winn Parish

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

Cemeteries Near Forksville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Forksville.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Forksville, with the one closest to Forksville 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Forksville had a population of 65 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Calhoun
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Cheniere
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Cheniere is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheniere
  • Indian Village
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Indian Village is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
  • Cadeville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Cadeville is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadeville
  • Walnut Lane ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Walnut Lane is located in Union Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Lane
  • Averit ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Averit is located in Lincoln Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Averit
  • Lapine
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Downsville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Sibley
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • West Monroe
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Point
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Point is located in Union Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point
  • Nash ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Nash is located in Jackson Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nash
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Choudrant
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Monroe
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Douglas
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Douglas is located in Lincoln Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douglas

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

Newspapers Published in Forksville ...

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 44 newspapers that have been published in the area around Forksville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Forksville, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Forksville.

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 websites either 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 Forksville:

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 Forksville, 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- Forksville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.