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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 Killian (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 Killian. 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 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.

Killian is located in Livingston 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 Livingston Parish: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Saint Helena, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist & Tangipahoa.

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

  • Livingston Parish     (The home parish of Killian)
  • Ascension Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Killian, with the one closest to Killian listed first.
    • Summerfield
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Summerfield is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerfield
    • Claybank
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Claybank is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claybank
    • Lake
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Lake is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake
    • Brignac
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Brignac is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brignac
    • Galvez Town
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Galvez Town is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galvez Town
    • Saint Amant
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Galvez
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Galvez is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galvez
    • Brittany
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Sorrento
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Weber City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Weber City is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weber City
    • Little Prairie
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Little Prairie is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Prairie
    • Duplessis
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Hobart
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Hobart is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobart
  • East Baton Rouge Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Killian, with the one closest to Killian listed first.
    • Shenandoah
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Shenandoah is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shenandoah
    • Woodshire Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Woodshire Village is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodshire Village
    • Old Jefferson
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Old Jefferson is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Jefferson
    • Perkins Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Perkins Village is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perkins Village
    • Village Saint George
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Village Saint George is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village Saint George
    • Baywood
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Greenwell Springs
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Stonypoint ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Stonypoint is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonypoint
    • Monticello
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Monticello is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monticello
    • Central
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • 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>
    • Inniswold
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
    • Oak Hills Place
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Oak Hills Place is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hills Place
    • Westminster
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Westminster is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westminster
  • Jefferson Parish
  • Saint Charles Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Killian, with the one closest to Killian listed first.
    • Gypsy
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Gypsy is located in Saint Charles Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsy
    • Killona
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Montz
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Montz is located in Saint Charles Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montz
    • Taft
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Taft is located in Saint Charles Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taft
    • Norco
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Hahnville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • New Sarpy
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Saint Helena Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Killian, with the one closest to Killian listed first.
    • Montpelier
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Montpelier is located in Saint Helena Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montpelier
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 239 people
    • Pine Grove
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Saint James Parish
  • Saint John the Baptist Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Killian, with the one closest to Killian listed first.
    • Frenier
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Edgard
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Garyville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Laplace
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Mount Airy
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Reserve
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Wallace
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Wallace is located in Saint John the Baptist Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
  • Saint Tammany Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Killian, with the one closest to Killian listed first.
    • Madisonville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Goodbee
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Lewisburg
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Covington
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Mandeville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Folsom
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Folsom is located in Saint Tammany Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Folsom
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 871 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Folsom <1>
    • Saint Benedict
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Tangipahoa Parish

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

Cemeteries Near Killian ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Killian.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Killian, with the one closest to Killian 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 in 1895, Killian had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Killian had a population of 1,337 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Killian ...

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 36 newspapers that have been published in the area around Killian.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Killian, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Killian.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Killian:

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 Killian, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Killian) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.