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 southwest corner of their home parish. During their lives, most doctors were in the next parish to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the parish to the south.
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 south 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 Pecan Island.<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 Seat for Vermilion: Abbeville
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Louisiana
- Vermilion Parish
- From Family Search:
- State of Louisiana
- Vermilion Parish
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Louisiana
- Vermilion Parish
- 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)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cheniere au Tigre have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheniere au Tigre
- Cheniere au Tigre is located in Vermilion Parish
- Forked Island
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forked Island have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forked Island
- Forked Island is located in Vermilion Parish
- Florence Landing
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Florence Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence Landing
- Florence Landing is located in Vermilion Parish
- Intracoastal City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Intracoastal City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Intracoastal City
- Intracoastal City is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Intracoastal City <4>
- Esther
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast) - Theall
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast) - Marceaux
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Mouton Cove
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mouton Cove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mouton Cove
- Mouton Cove is located in Vermilion Parish
- Wright
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north) - Mulvey
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north) - Bancker Ferry
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bancker Ferry have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancker Ferry
- Bancker Ferry is located in Vermilion Parish
- Bancker
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast) - Continue List (14 more) ...
- Gueydan
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gueydan have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gueydan
- Gueydan is located in Vermilion Parish
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,328 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gueydan <4>
- Kaplan
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaplan
- Kaplan is located in Vermilion Parish
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,345 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kaplan <4>
- Rose Hill
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast) - Henry
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast) - Nunez
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast) - Perry
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Perry have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perry
- Perry is located in Vermilion Parish
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Perry <4>
- Cossinade
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north) - Boston
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast) - Leleux
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north) - Riceville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north) - Abbeville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbeville
- Abbeville is located in Vermilion Parish
- Population from the 2020 Census: 11,927 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Abbeville <4>
- Youngs
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs
- Youngs is located in Vermilion Parish
- Grosse Isle
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grosse Isle have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grosse Isle
- Grosse Isle is located in Vermilion Parish
- Meaux
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meaux
- Meaux is located in Vermilion Parish
- Gueydan
- Cameron Parish
- Parish Seat for Cameron: Cameron
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Louisiana
- Cameron Parish
- From Family Search:
- State of Louisiana
- Cameron Parish
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Louisiana
- Cameron Parish
- Nearest Communities to Pecan Island ...
- North Island
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Island have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Island
- North Island is located in Cameron Parish
- North Island
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Pecan Island) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pecan Island. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.6466, Longitude: -92.4532 In this case, the coordinates for Pecan Island have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
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