Do you know of Pisgah ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pisgah. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Pisgah.
We found mention of Pisgah as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1873 and closed in 1874.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Pisgah ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Pisgah.
There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Pisgah.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Louisiana ...
- Union Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Pisgah [Union Parish].
- Union Parish
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Pisgah [Jackson County].
- Limestone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Pisgah [Limestone County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Pisgah [Montgomery County].
- Arkansas
- California
- San Bernardino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Pisgah [San Bernardino County].
- Georgia
- Gilmer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Pisgah [Gilmer County].
- Illinois
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Pisgah [Morgan County].
- Iowa
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Pisgah [Harrison County].
- Kentucky
- Woodford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pisgah [Woodford County].
- Maryland
- Charles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Pisgah [Charles County].
- Mississippi
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Pisgah [Greene County].
- Prentiss County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Pisgah [Prentiss County].
- Rankin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Pisgah [Rankin County].
- Missouri
- Cooper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pisgah [Cooper County].
- North Carolina
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Pisgah [Randolph County].
- Ohio
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Pisgah [Butler County].
- South Carolina
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Pisgah [Sumter County].
- Tennessee
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pisgah [DeKalb County].
- Giles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pisgah [Giles County].
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pisgah [Shelby County].
- Weakley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pisgah [Weakley County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Augusta County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Pisgah [Augusta County].
- Tazewell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Pisgah [Tazewell County].
- West Virginia
- Preston County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Pisgah [Preston County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pisgah ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pisgah:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Catahoula Parish ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Catahoula Parish.
| Black River | |
| Burshley Creek | Lavacca |
| Castor Sulphur Springs | Prohibition |
| Copeland | |
| Roesfield | |
| Davis | Routon |
| Eden | Stafford Point |
| Stafford | |
| Florence | Summerville |
| Jena | Tooley's |
| Kirk's Ferry | White Sulphur Springs |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Pisgah could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong parish. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |