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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Winnfield (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Winnfield. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Parishes ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring parishes.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home parish. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next parish to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the parish to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring parishes instead of 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 included the neighboring parishes, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Winnfield is located in Winn Parish and is the Parish Seat.

To see how the shape of Louisiana's parishes may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following parishes adjoin and form the boundaries of Winn Parish: Bienville, Caldwell, Grant, Jackson, La Salle & Natchitoches.

Below are the parishes that are near Winnfield. For each of these parishes, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Winnfield:

  • Winn Parish     (The home parish of Winnfield)
  • Bienville Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Winnfield, with the one closest to Winnfield listed first.
    • English
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Saline
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Burkplace
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Lucky
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Lucky is located in Bienville Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucky
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
  • Caldwell Parish
  • Grant Parish
  • Jackson Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Winnfield, with the one closest to Winnfield listed first.
    • Jonesboro
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Weston
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Zoar
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • East Hodge
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Hodge
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • North Hodge
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • North Hodge is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hodge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 372 people
    • Chatham
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Dalley ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Dalley is located in Jackson Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalley
    • Quitman
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • La Salle Parish
  • Natchitoches Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Winnfield, with the one closest to Winnfield listed first.
    • Goldonna
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Chestnut
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Clarence
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Caspari ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Caspari is located in Natchitoches Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caspari
    • Campti
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Campti is located in Natchitoches Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campti
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,033 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Campti <1>
    • Natchitoches
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Marco
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Melrose
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Natchez
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Ashland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Forest
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Forest is located in Natchitoches Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Winnfield, see our Parish-by-Parish Page for Winnfield.

Cemeteries Near Winnfield ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Winnfield.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Winnfield - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Winnfield covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Winnfield, with the one closest to Winnfield listed first.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Winnfield had a population of 133 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Winnfield had a population of 4,283 people.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Winnfield, with the one closest to Winnfield listed first.

  • Tunica ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Tunica is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunica
  • Atlanta
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Gaars Mill
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Gaars Mill is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaars Mill
  • Coldwater
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Couley
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Couley is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Couley
  • Flat Creek
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Gansville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Hickory Valley
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Hickory Valley is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Valley
  • Black Creek ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Black Creek is located in Grant Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Creek
  • Iatt
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Iatt is located in Grant Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iatt
  • Mount Zion
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Mount Zion is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Zion
  • Newport
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Winnfield. See our List of 1890's Communities around Winnfield.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Winnfield ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Winnfield.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Winnfield. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Winnfield and those printed in the larger area surrounding Winnfield.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<4> of Winnfield.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Winnfield:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>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 Winnfield, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Winnfield) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.