PLACE NAME MICHAUD


 





    Since July 2, 1989, the Commission de toponymie de Québec officially designated the bridge over the Kamouraska river on highway 132 the "Pont Pierre Micheau".  The list of Michauds who gave their name to geographical places in Quebec is rather significant  : 52 place names, hydrographic especially.  Here is the enumeration :






    You can still find the name Michaud across the American map, marking their wanderings in places from Nova Scotia to Louisiana and Idaho, and especially to Maine, where the name remains in places like Michaud Farm and the Michaud Tote Road in the Allagash, Michaud Island in the St. John River, and Michaud Hill near the town of Daigle on Eagle Lake.   Elsewhere in the United States, one finds in Michigan a Michaud Lake just as another Michaud Lake in Minnesota.  Who would think of finding as far as in Idaho a Michaud Flats, a locality named Michaud and a Michaud Creek ?

    The U.S. Directory of Michaud Families lists over 5 600 households in the United States.  These figures have been extracted from various national sources as telephone listings, automobile registrations, election rolls and other public records.  This information is updated annually in order to maintain the most current resident records available.  Here is the statement for the year 1997 :
 
 
 

 Alabama : 22  Alaska : 24  Arkansas : 3  California : 240  North Carolina : 45
 South Carolina : 31  Colorado : 72  Connecticut : 700  North Dakota : 2  South Dakota : 6
 Delaware : 5  Distr. of Columbia : 6  Florida : 483  Georgia : 37  Hawaii : 13
 Idaho : 15  llinois : 58  Indiana : 25  Iowa : 17  Kansas : 22
 Louisiana : 39  Maine : 1 220  Maryland : 43  Massachusetts : 678  Michigan : 143
 Minnesota : 120  Mississippi : 6  Missouri : 38   Montana : 18  Nebraska : 22
 Nevada : 12  New Hampshire : 369  New Jersey : 75  New York : 236  New Mexico : 14
 Ohio : 55  Oklahoma : 12  Oregon : 30  Pennsylvania : 40  Rhode Island : 101
 Tennessee : 32  Texas : 114  Utah : 6  Vermont : 66  Virginia : 58
 West Virginia : 5  Washington : 64  Wisconsin : 73  Wyoming : 10  Puerto Rico : 4

 
 

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