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Welcome to Prairie Home ...

So far, we found very little information about Prairie Home. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Prairie Home to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Prairie Home, please Contact Us.

Prairie Home would have been located within present day Winn Parish<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Prairie Home, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Prairie Home is 210 feet [64 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Prairie Home was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Prairie Home was located: 318 & 457<4>

Communities Also Named Prairie Home ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Louisiana communities named Prairie Home: This one is located in Winn Parish and the other is located in Grant Parish.

Beyond Louisiana, there are 6 communities that are also named Prairie Home - they are located in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Prairie Home.

Communities near Prairie Home ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Prairie Home.

  • Winnfield
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Montgomery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Dry Prong
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Tullos
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Georgetown
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Dodson
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Calvin
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Atlanta
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Whitford
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Whitford is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitford
  • Black Creek ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Black Creek is located in Grant Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Creek

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Prairie Home. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Prairie Home.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Prairie Home. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Prairie Home.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Prairie Home. See our Newspapers Page for Prairie Home.

Adding Prairie Home to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Prairie Home in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Prairie Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Prairie Home post office opened in 1886. The Prairie Home post office closed in 1907.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Prairie Home.

Footnotes ...

<1>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Prairie Home, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Louisiana's parishes, including Winn, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Prairie Home - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 318 code has been Overlayed with the 457 area code. New phone numbers in the Prairie Home area will be assigned with one of these codes: 318 or 457. As a result, placing a call in the Prairie Home area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/