Nearest Communities to Pecan Island,
Listed Parish-By-Parish
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Pecan Island, on a Parish-by-Parish basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Pecan Island:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home parish. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next parish to the east. 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 east 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Pecan Island is located in Vermilion Parish.
The following 5 parishes adjoin and form the boundaries of Vermilion Parish: Acadia, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis & Lafayette.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Pecan Island. Of these communities, 1 are located in parishes other than Vermilion 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 Pecan Island (which is Vermilion Parish), we list the parishes in alphabetical order and for each of those parishes, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Pecan Island
For the following list, only those parishes that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Vermilion Parish (where Pecan Island resides)
- Parish Website: https://vppj.org/
- Parish Seat for Vermilion: Abbeville
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Pecan Island ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Pecan Island.
- Cheniere au Tigre
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Cheniere au Tigre is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheniere au Tigre
- Forked Island
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Forked Island is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forked Island
- Florence Landing
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Florence Landing is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence Landing
- Intracoastal City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Esther
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Esther is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esther
- Theall
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Theall is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Theall
- Marceaux
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Marceaux is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marceaux
- Mouton Cove
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Mouton Cove is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mouton Cove
- Wright
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Wright is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright
- Mulvey
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Mulvey is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mulvey
- Bancker Ferry
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Bancker Ferry is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancker Ferry
- Bancker
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Bancker is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancker
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Gueydan
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Kaplan
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Kaplan is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaplan
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,345 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kaplan <3>
- Rose Hill
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Rose Hill is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hill
- Henry
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Henry is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry
- Nunez
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Nunez is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nunez
- Perry
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Cossinade
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Cossinade is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cossinade
- Boston
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Boston is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boston
- Leleux
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Leleux is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leleux
- Riceville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Riceville is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riceville
- Abbeville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Youngs
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Youngs is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs
- Grosse Isle
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Grosse Isle is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grosse Isle
- Meaux
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Meaux is also located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meaux
- Cameron Parish
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Pecan 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. |