Blairstown, Louisiana

Blairstown, Louisiana
Unincorporated community
Blairstown, Louisiana Show map of Louisiana Blairstown, Louisiana Show map of the United States
Coordinates: 30°45′10″N 90°57′45″W
Country	United States
State	Louisiana
Parish	East Feliciana Parish
Elevation [1]	174 ft (53 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	70722
Area code	225
GNIS feature ID	553708[1]
FIPS code	22-07695

Blairstown is an unincorporated community in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is located less than 4 miles (6.4 kilometres) north of Pride and 8 miles (13 kilometres) southeast of Clinton.

Etymology

It is speculated that the community is named after John Insley Blair. In the fall of 1866 a Presbyterian missionary named Rev. John Arndt Reiley migrated to the community from Blairstown, New Jersey.[2]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Blairstown, Louisiana
2. John Stover Arndt; Warren Smedley Ely (1922). The Story of the Arndts: The Life, Antecedents and Descendants of Bernhard Arndt who Emigrated to Pennsylvania in the Year 1731. Christopher Sower Company. pp. 251–.