Do you know of Welsh ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Welsh. 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 Welsh.<1>

Our sources for Welsh (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Welsh other than they indicate that Welsh would be found somewhere in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

Communities Also Named Welsh ...

We found eight communities that share the name Welsh.

There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Welsh.

Beyond Louisiana, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, seven are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Louisiana ...
- Jefferson Davis Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Welsh [Jefferson Davis Parish].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Chambers County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Welsh [Chambers County].
- Arkansas
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Welsh [Montgomery County].
- Indiana
  - Greene County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Welsh [Greene County].
- Ohio
  - Meigs County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Welsh [Meigs County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Welsh.
- Pennsylvania
  - Columbia County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Welsh [Columbia County].
- Texas
  - Titus County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Welsh [Titus County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Welsh ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Welsh:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Welsh - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

Rand McNally Map of Louisiana (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Calcasieu 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 Calcasieu Parish.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Welsh 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.