Nearest Communities to Port Fourchon,
Listed Parish-By-Parish
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Port Fourchon, on a Parish-by-Parish basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Port Fourchon:
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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Port Fourchon.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Port Fourchon is located in Lafourche Parish.
The following 6 parishes adjoin and form the boundaries of Lafourche Parish: Assumption, Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist & Terrebonne.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 10 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Port Fourchon. Of these communities, 4 are located in parishes other than Lafourche 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 Port Fourchon (which is Lafourche 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 Port Fourchon
For the following list, only those parishes that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lafourche Parish (where Port Fourchon resides)
- Parish Seat for Lafourche: Thibodaux
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Louisiana
- Lafourche Parish
- From Family Search:
- State of Louisiana
- Lafourche Parish
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Louisiana
- Lafourche Parish
- Nearest Communities to Port Fourchon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Port Fourchon.
- Leeville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north) - Golden Meadow
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Golden Meadow have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Meadow
- Golden Meadow is located in Lafourche Parish
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,935 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Golden Meadow <5>
- Faleau ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest) - Galliano
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Galliano have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galliano
- Galliano is located in Lafourche Parish
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Galliano <5>
- Belle Amie
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Belle Amie have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Amie
- Belle Amie is located in Lafourche Parish
- Clovelly Farms
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clovelly Farms have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clovelly Farms
- Clovelly Farms is located in Lafourche Parish
- Jefferson Parish
- Parish Website: www.jeffparish.net/
- Parish Seat for Jefferson: Gretna
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Louisiana
- Jefferson Parish
- From Family Search:
- State of Louisiana
- Jefferson Parish
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Louisiana
- Jefferson Parish
- Nearest Communities to Port Fourchon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Port Fourchon.
- Cheniere Caminada
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cheniere Caminada have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheniere Caminada
- Cheniere Caminada is located in Jefferson Parish
- Grand Isle
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Grand Isle. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Isle
- Grand Isle is located in Jefferson Parish
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,447 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grand Isle <5>
- Bassa Bassa
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bassa Bassa have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bassa Bassa
- Bassa Bassa is located in Jefferson Parish
- Terrebonne Parish
- Parish Seat for Terrebonne: Houma
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Louisiana
- Terrebonne Parish
- From Family Search:
- State of Louisiana
- Terrebonne Parish
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Louisiana
- Terrebonne Parish
- Nearest Communities to Port Fourchon ...
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- Port Fourchon) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Port Fourchon. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.1058, Longitude: -90.1945 In this case, the coordinates for Port Fourchon 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> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |