DESCRIPTION OF WARD TEN, UNION PARISH LOUISIANA

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. HUDSON, 5/2006



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DESCRIPTION OF WARD TEN, UNION PARISH LOUISIANA
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Information regarding precisely when the police jury created Ward Ten is contradictory. 
In the 1840s or 1850s, there were a total of twelve wards, but when they were redrawn 
by the police jury about 1860, the number was reduced to six. To better manage the 
parish affairs, the police jury created Wards Seven, Eight, and Nine in the latter 
1870s or early 1880s. At some point in the 1880s, 1890s, or early 1900s, the police 
jury designated Ward Ten to include the extreme northwestern corner of Union Parish, 
including the portion of Junction City in Union Parish. It appears that the railroad 
community of Randolph was also in Ward Ten. It is not readily known how far south 
the boundary of Ward Ten extended, but it appears to have been a small area confined 
to the extreme northwestern portion of the parish. The population was never very large. 

In the mid-1900s, the police jury abolished Ward Ten and designated Ward Nine to 
include southeastern Junction City, Randolph, as well as the Town of Lillie that had 
previously been in Ward Three. Also, Ward Nine now extended south to include the 
Union/Claiborne Parish border from Junction City to a point due west of Bernice. 


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Sources: 
    Union Parish Police Jury Records
    Union Parish Federal Censuses and Enumerator's Explanations


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