RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Louisiana >> Cameron Parish >> North Island >> Nearby CommunitiesIndex...

Nearest Communities to North Island,
Listed Parish-By-Parish

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to North Island, on a Parish-by-Parish basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for North Island:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 north.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring parishes in addition to 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 north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring parishes, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from North Island.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

North Island is located in Cameron Parish.

The following 5 parishes adjoin and form the boundaries of Cameron Parish: Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion, Jefferson (TX) & Orange (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of North Island. Of these communities, 15 are located in parishes/counties other than Cameron Parish.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home parish for North Island (which is Cameron Parish), we list the parishes/counties in alphabetical order and for each of those parishes/counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from North Island

For the following list, only those parishes/counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Cameron Parish   (where North Island resides)
    • Parish Website:   https://www.louisiana.gov/local-louisiana/cameron-parish
    • Parish Seat for Cameron:   Cameron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to North Island   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from North Island.
      • Grand Chenier
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Lowry
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Lowry is located in Cameron Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowry
      • Oak Grove
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Oak Grove is located in Cameron Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
      • Creole
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Creole is located in Cameron Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creole
      • Gibbstown
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Gibbstown is located in Cameron Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibbstown
      • Hacketts Corner
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Hacketts Corner is located in Cameron Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hacketts Corner
      • Sweet Lake
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Sweet Lake is located in Cameron Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Lake
  • Calcasieu Parish
  • Jefferson Davis Parish
  • Vermilion Parish
    • Parish Website:   https://vppj.org/
    • Parish Seat for Vermilion:   Abbeville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to North Island   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from North Island.
      • Pecan Island
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Pecan Island is located in Vermilion Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecan Island
      • Florence Landing
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Florence Landing is located in Vermilion Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence Landing
      • Laurents Point
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Laurents Point is located in Vermilion Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurents Point
      • Gueydan
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Marceaux
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Marceaux is located in Vermilion Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marceaux
      • Forked Island
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Forked Island is located in Vermilion Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forked Island
      • Wright
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Wright is located in Vermilion Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright
      • Mulvey
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Mulvey is located in Vermilion Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mulvey
      • Riceville
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Riceville is located in Vermilion Parish
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riceville

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- North Island) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.

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 larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.

Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.