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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 Lucky (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 Lucky. 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 and doctors 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.

Lucky is located in Bienville 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 Bienville Parish: Bossier, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Red River, Webster & Winn.

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

  • Bienville Parish     (The home parish of Lucky)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lucky, with the one closest to Lucky listed first.
    • Burkplace
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Burkplace is located in Bienville Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burkplace
    • Saline
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Bienville
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Alberta
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Alberta is located in Bienville Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alberta
    • Castor
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Liberty Hill
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Liberty Hill is located in Bienville Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Hill
    • Sparta
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Sparta is located in Bienville Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparta
    • English
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • English is located in Bienville Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English
    • Jamestown
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Bryceland
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Bryceland is located in Bienville Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryceland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
    • Ringgold
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Mount Lebanon
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Mount Lebanon is located in Bienville Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Lebanon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 69 people
    • Armistead
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Armistead is located in Bienville Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armistead
  • Bossier Parish
    • Atkins
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Atkins is located in Bossier Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atkins
  • Claiborne Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lucky, with the one closest to Lucky listed first.
    • Darley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Darley is located in Claiborne Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darley
    • Athens
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Sugar Creek
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Sugar Creek is located in Claiborne Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Creek
  • Jackson Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lucky, with the one closest to Lucky listed first.
    • Hodge
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • East Hodge
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • East Hodge is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Hodge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 270 people
    • Jonesboro
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • North Hodge
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • North Hodge is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hodge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 372 people
    • Quitman
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Ansley
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Ansley is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ansley
    • Weston
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Weston is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weston
  • Lincoln Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lucky, with the one closest to Lucky listed first.
    • Simsboro
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Grambling
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Ruston
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Natchitoches Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lucky, with the one closest to Lucky listed first.
    • Ashland
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Ashland is located in Natchitoches Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 260 people
    • Chestnut
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Chestnut is located in Natchitoches Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut
    • Goldonna
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Campti
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Campti is located in Natchitoches Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campti
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,033 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Campti <1>
    • Caspari ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Caspari is located in Natchitoches Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caspari
    • Grappes Bluff
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Grappes Bluff is located in Natchitoches Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grappes Bluff
    • Powhatan
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Clarence
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Red River Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lucky, with the one closest to Lucky listed first.
    • Martin
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Martin is located in Red River Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 543 people
    • Hall Summit
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Edgefield
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Edgefield is located in Red River Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgefield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 185 people
    • Halfway
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Halfway is located in Red River Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway
    • Carroll
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Carroll is located in Red River Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carroll
    • Coushatta
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • East Point
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • East Point is located in Red River Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Point
    • Hanna
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Hanna is located in Red River Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanna
    • Harmon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Lake End
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Lake End is located in Red River Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake End
    • Westdale
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Westdale is located in Red River Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westdale
    • Abington
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Abington is located in Red River Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abington
  • Webster Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lucky, with the one closest to Lucky listed first.
    • Heflin
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Buckhorn ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Buckhorn is located in Webster Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhorn
    • Dubberly
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Yellow Pine
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Yellow Pine is located in Webster Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Pine
    • Sibley
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Dixie Inn
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Dixie Inn is located in Webster Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Inn
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 266 people
    • Doyline
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Minden
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Winn Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lucky, with the one closest to Lucky listed first.
    • Pine Ridge
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Pine Ridge is located in Winn Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
    • Gansville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Gansville is located in Winn Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gansville
    • Coldwater
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Coldwater is located in Winn Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coldwater
    • Bethlehem
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Bethlehem is located in Winn Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethlehem
    • Calvin
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Dodson
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Couley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Couley is located in Winn Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Couley
    • Hudson
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Hudson is located in Winn Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hudson
    • Winnfield
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Lucky ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lucky.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lucky, with the one closest to Lucky listed first.

  • Burt Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Old Castor Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • New Ebenezer Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Ebenezer Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the New Ebenezer Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<3> to the south of Castor.
    • The New Ebenezer Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Ebenezer Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1960131 <2>
  • Camp Ground Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Ramah Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Sparta Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Danville Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Old Liberty Hill Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Liberty Hill Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Hathorn Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Taylor Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (188 more) ...
    • Williamson Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Holder Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Newman Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)

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>

While we didn't find Lucky in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lucky.

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

  • Burkplace
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Burkplace is located in Bienville Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burkplace
  • Blume
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Blume is located in Bienville Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blume
  • Brown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Brown is located in Bienville Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
  • Saline
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Friendship
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Friendship is located in Bienville Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
  • Bienville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Sparta
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Sparta is located in Bienville Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparta
  • Liberty Hill
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Liberty Hill is located in Bienville Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Hill
  • Pine Ridge
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Pine Ridge is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
  • Bear Creek
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Bear Creek is located in Bienville Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Creek
  • Chestnut
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Chestnut is located in Natchitoches Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut
  • Ringgold
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Gansville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Gansville is located in Winn Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gansville
    • Mount Lebanon
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Mount Lebanon is located in Bienville Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Lebanon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 69 people
    • Coldwater
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Coldwater is located in Winn Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coldwater

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

Newspapers Published in Lucky ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lucky.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lucky, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lucky.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Lucky:

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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lucky) 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 Lucky, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.