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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 Kilbourne (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 Kilbourne. 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/Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring parishes/counties.

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/counties 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/counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Kilbourne is located in West Carroll 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 West Carroll Parish: Chicot (AR), East Carroll, Morehouse & Richland.

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

  • West Carroll Parish     (The home parish of Kilbourne)
  • East Carroll Parish
  • Morehouse Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kilbourne, with the one closest to Kilbourne listed first.
    • Jones
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Bonita
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Brodnax ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Brodnax is located in Morehouse Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brodnax
  • Ashley County (AR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kilbourne, with the one closest to Kilbourne listed first.
    • Parkdale
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Wilmot
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Wilmot is located in Ashley County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmot
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 483 people
    • Portland
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Montrose
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • Chicot County (AR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kilbourne, with the one closest to Kilbourne listed first.
    • Eudora
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Lake Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Drew County (AR)
  • Hinds County (MS)
    • Delta City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Delta City is located in Hinds County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta City
  • Issaquena County (MS)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kilbourne, with the one closest to Kilbourne listed first.
    • Mayersville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Mayersville is located in Issaquena County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayersville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 517 people
    • Tallula
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Booth
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Sharkey County (MS)
  • Washington County (MS)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kilbourne, with the one closest to Kilbourne listed first.
    • Byrne City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Byrne City is located in Washington County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byrne City
    • Hampton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • James
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Avon
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Forrest City ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Forrest City is located in Washington County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forrest City
    • Overby
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Hollandale
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Kilbourne ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kilbourne.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kilbourne, with the one closest to Kilbourne 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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Kilbourne had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Kilbourne had a population of 368 people.

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

  • Pilcher Point
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Pilcher Point is located in East Carroll Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilcher Point
  • Sterling ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Sterling is located in Chicot County (AR)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterling
  • Grand Lake
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Grand Lake is located in Chicot County (AR)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Lake
  • Shelburn
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Shelburn is located in East Carroll Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelburn
  • Oak Grove
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Brunett ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Brunett is located in East Carroll Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brunett
  • Robertdale ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Robertdale is located in East Carroll Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robertdale
  • Chatham
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Chatham is located in Washington County (MS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chatham
  • Forest
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Lake Providence
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Benham ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Benham is located in East Carroll Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benham
  • Parkdale
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Glen Allan
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Glen Allan is located in Washington County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Allan
    • Mayersville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Mayersville is located in Issaquena County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayersville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 517 people
    • Erwin
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Erwin is located in Washington County (MS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erwin

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

Newspapers Published in Kilbourne ...

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 17 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kilbourne.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kilbourne, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kilbourne.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Kilbourne:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Kilbourne) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Kilbourne, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.