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Madison Parish, Louisiana

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15historic places

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1838formed

10,017pop. 2020

15cemeteries

2CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 15 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1982. Most listings are in or near Tallulah, Delhi.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Louisiana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Madison titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

12 of 15 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

15 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bear Lake Club, Ltd. Clubhouse	Tallulah	Building	2001
Bloom's Arcade	Tallulah	Building	1989
Crescent Plantation	Tallulah	Building	1984
Hermione	Tallulah	Building	1998
Kell House	Tallulah	Building	1988
Madison Parish Courthouse	Tallulah	Building	1989
Montrose Plantation House	Tallulah	Building	1982
Scottland Plantation House	Tallulah	Building	1982
Shirley Field	Tallulah	District	1985
Tallulah Book Club Building	Tallulah	Building	1991
Tallulah Coca-Cola Bottling Plant	Tallulah	Building	2013
Tallulah High School	Tallulah	Building	2013
Tallulah Men's Club Building	Tallulah	Building	1991
Tallulah Post Office	Tallulah	Building	2013
Thompson, Francis, Site (16 MA 112)	Delhi	Site	1991

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Madison was formed in 1838 (1838-01-19) from Concordia, Ouachita.

MADISON created from CONCORDIA and OUACHITA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Madison Parish population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,142	14,133	13,906	12,322	10,829	18,443	17,451	16,444	15,975	13,728	10,017

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Vicksburg National Military Park	Park unit	35.3 km
Poverty Point National Monument	Park unit	36.2 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

15 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Allendale Cemetery	32.24625	-91.18122
Crystal Springs Cemetery	32.2398	-91.01497
Glen Mary Cemetery	32.41202	-91.07346
Hodges Cemetery	32.24609	-91.0422
Memorial Park Cemetery	32.40119	-91.16795
Montrose Cemetery	32.32459	-91.14835
Morning Crest Cemetery	32.42125	-91.17427
Mound Cemetery	32.34385	-91.03066
Mount Cella Cemetery	32.36542	-91.12843
Oakwood Cemetery	32.39749	-91.2009
Saint John Cemetery	32.31903	-91.08288
Silver Cross Cemetery	32.40403	-91.16677
Snyder Cemetery	32.24625	-91.15899
Thomastown Cemetery	32.34759	-91.0658
Waverly Cemetery	32.45708	-91.40678

Historical populated places — 3 of 3

Name	Lat	Lon
Duck Port	32.39237	-91.014
Islington	32.33265	-91.18344
Millikens Bend	32.4557	-91.10483

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Milliken'S Bend	2,703	17.1 km	LA011
Vicksburg	12,265	34.2 km	MS011

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

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