Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
75historic places
—earliest paper
1838formed
237,848pop. 2020
50cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 75 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Shreveport, Mooringsport, Greenwood.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Caddo Parish population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
5,282
12,140
26,296
44,499
83,265
150,203
176,547
223,859
252,358
252,161
237,848
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
50 cemeteries and 12 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 50 of 50 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Agudath Achim Cemetery
32.49737
-93.77184
Antioch Cemetery
32.98041
-93.98128
Black Bayou Cemetery
32.84916
-93.96136
Carter Cemetery
32.41277
-93.77124
Carver Memorial Cemetery
32.40626
-93.77267
Centerville Cemetery
32.8564
-93.93085
Centuries Memorial Park
32.41793
-93.78545
Chapelwood Cemetery
32.90319
-93.98267
Davidson Cemetery
32.30091
-93.96183
Draper Cemetery
32.42071
-94.00907
Forbing Union Cemetery
32.36896
-93.73509
Forest Park - Whitworth Cemetery
32.44126
-94.02379
Forest Park Cemetery
32.47348
-93.75934
Forest Park West Cemetery
32.43182
-93.82629
Fullalove Cemetery
32.23213
-93.99057
Greenwood Cemetery
32.50126
-93.73128
Harrell - Harrison Cemetery
32.83821
-93.95582
Hebrew Rest Cemetery
32.49626
-93.7572
Hosston Cemetery
32.88437
-93.86911
Hughes Cemetery
32.27543
-93.97823
Ivy Cemetery
32.33793
-94.01185
Jewella Cemetery
32.47293
-93.80184
Johnson Cemetery
32.29849
-93.94712
Josey Cemetery
32.95198
-94.04274
Lester Cemetery
32.43293
-94.00546
Light Hill Cemetery
32.57848
-93.80295
Lincoln Memorial Park
32.44077
-93.89615
Maiden Cemetery
32.26531
-93.94035
McDonald Cemetery
32.60403
-94.00518
McMillan Cemetery
32.40752
-93.80084
Mount Olive Cemetery
32.375
-93.97707
Mount Zion Baptist Church Cemetery
32.41331
-93.77158
Mount Zion Cemetery
32.59628
-93.9811
New Hill Cemetery
32.30488
-93.96393
New Hope Cemetery
32.86228
-93.99741
Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery
32.2665
-93.93317
Oakland Cemetery
32.5086
-93.75473
Park Rest Pet Cemetery
32.45931
-94.0224
Pollard Cemetery
32.28932
-93.95434
Raines Lease Cemetery
32.80791
-93.90462
Round Grove Cemetery
32.53404
-93.82324
Saint Joseph Cemetery
32.49071
-93.76676
Slaughter Cemetery
32.99068
-93.98962
Star Cemetery
32.49081
-93.76893
Stevens Cemetery
32.92154
-93.94342
Union Chapel Cemetery
32.78541
-93.86017
VIivian Cemetery - Old Section
32.87764
-93.99075
Vivian Cemetery New Section - Pine Park
32.87644
-93.99228
Walker Hill Cemetery
32.59556
-93.87518
Zion Rest Cemetery
32.46553
-93.81135
Historical populated places — 12 of 12
Name
Lat
Lon
Albany
32.61265
-93.83212
Aulds
32.36932
-93.7174
Black Bayou
32.84125
-93.9274
Buncombe
32.45821
-93.84574
Bungalo
32.36932
-93.8149
Frog Level
32.98819
-93.95518
Garfield
32.91208
-94.03435
Jewella
32.46876
-93.80629
Lane
32.80792
-93.8449
McCoy
33.00236
-94.01796
Nichols
32.44932
-93.87435
Uni
32.73487
-93.83462
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
Historical markers
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