Do you know of Holt ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Holt. 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 Holt.
Our sources for Holt (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Holt other than they indicate that Holt would be found somewhere in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1903 and closed in 1910.
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.
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.
Communities Also Named Holt ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Holt.
Within Louisiana, the name Holt is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 27 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Tuscaloosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Holt [Tuscaloosa County].
- Arkansas
- California
- San Joaquin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Holt [San Joaquin County].
- Florida
- Okaloosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Holt [Okaloosa County].
- Georgia
- Iowa
- Taylor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Holt [Taylor County].
- Kentucky
- Breckinridge County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Holt [Breckinridge County].
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Holt [Lawrence County].
- Muhlenberg County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Holt [Muhlenberg County].
- Michigan
- Ingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Holt [Ingham County].
- Minnesota
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Holt [Marshall County].
- Mississippi
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Holt [Jasper County].
- Missouri
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Holt [Clay County].
- Montana
- Flathead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Holt [Flathead County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Holt.
- Pennsylvania
- Beaver County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Holt [Beaver County].
- Tennessee
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Holt [Wayne County].
- Texas
- Utah
- Wisconsin
- Marathon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Holt [Marathon County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Holt ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Holt:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Louisiana (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Natchitoches 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 Natchitoches Parish.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Holt could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong parish. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |