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Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

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35historic places

—earliest paper

1807formed

160,368pop. 2020

36cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 35 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976. Most listings are in or near Monroe, West Monroe, Bosco.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

25 of 35 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

35 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Allen-Barringer House	West Monroe	Building	1982
Block, J. S., Building	Monroe	Building	1980
Bosco Plantation House	Monroe	Building	2009
Boscobel Cottage	Bosco	Building	1979
Bright-Lamkin-Easterling House	Monroe	Building	1986
Bynum House	Monroe	Building	1997
Cooley, G. B., House	Monroe	Building	1986
Downtown Monroe Historic District	Monroe	District	1986
Downtown Monroe Historic District	Monroe	District	2017
Filhiol, Roland M., House	Monroe	Building	1995
First United Methodist Church	West Monroe	Building	2001
Garrett, Isaiah, Law Office	Monroe	Building	1976
Grayson House	Monroe	Building	1999
Hall, Gov. Luther, House	Monroe	Building	1979
Harvey House	Monroe	Building	1997
Key-Mize House	West Monroe	Building	2001
Logtown Plantation	Monroe	Building	1980
Lower Pargoud	Monroe	Building	1984
Masur House	Monroe	Building	1982
McClendon House	West Monroe	Building	1996
Miller-Roy Building	Monroe	Building	2011
Milner Motors	Monroe	Building	2001
Mineral Springs Christian Methodist Episcopal Church	Calhoun	Building	2025
Monroe Residential Historic District	Monroe	District	1996
Mulberry Grove	Monroe	Building	1978
Neville High School	Monroe	Building	1985
Ouachita Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc.-Ouachita Candy Company, Inc.	Monroe	Building	2013
Ouachita Parish High School	Monroe	Building	1981
Price's Beauty Shop	Monroe	Building	2024
Rawls Cabin	West Monroe	Building	1991
Robinson Business College	Monroe	Building	1997
Slagle House	Monroe	Building	1995
West Monroe Historic District	West Monroe	District	2019
Whitehall Plantation House	Monroe	Building	1987
Wossman House	Monroe	Building	1999

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Ouachita was formed in 1807 (1807-04-14) from unknown / original county.

OUACHITA Parish created within Ouachita County. The creation of parishes did not abolish the 12 counties established on 10 Apr 1805. The counties existed for taxing and electoral purposes, while parishes took over jurisdiction of judicial matters.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Ouachita Parish population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1810	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,077	2,896	4,640	4,727	14,685	20,947	30,319	59,168	74,713	101,663	139,241	147,250	160,368

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

36 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 36 of 36 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Ballard Cemetery	32.46223	-92.05948
Bartholomew Cemetery	32.70124	-92.05596
Berry Cemetery	32.40153	-92.19319
Bufferin Cemetery	32.61458	-92.04568
Burton Cemetery	32.69314	-92.03215
Butler Cemetery	32.56597	-92.29513
Cosper Cemetery	32.55041	-92.01124
Cuba Cemetery	32.28015	-92.10374
Faulks Cemetery	32.35264	-92.11707
Faust Cemetery	32.30403	-92.14041
Frantom Chapel Cemetery	32.36869	-92.36563
Glendora Cemetery	32.6693	-92.11013
Hasley Cemetery	32.53042	-92.15707
Head Cemetery	32.34237	-92.2593
Indian Village Cemetery	32.47444	-92.41042
McCormick Cemetery	32.5593	-92.26847
Mount Zion Cemetery	32.52133	-92.32199
Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery	32.53375	-92.02179
New Sardis Cemetery	32.38653	-92.21596
Old Monroe City Cemetery	32.5068	-92.10818
Old Sardis Cemetery	32.39403	-92.19569
Parker Cemetery	32.47175	-92.37287
Phillips Cemetery	32.6439	-92.06714
Pierce Cemetery	32.44431	-92.25319
Pine Grove Cemetery	32.34681	-92.24735
Riser Cemetery	32.36875	-92.05068
Riverview Cemetery	32.4632	-92.11374
Rock Row Cemetery	32.6348	-92.12188
Roselawn Memorial Gardens	32.5182	-92.36736
Saint Matthew Cemetery	32.50986	-92.10957
Saint Pauls Cemetery	32.30098	-92.22791
Smith Cemetery	32.49297	-92.19817
Spring Hill Cemetery	32.59763	-91.9679
Twin Cities Memorial Gardens	32.52153	-92.25985
Wham Brake Cemetery	32.6255	-91.93369
Williams Cemetery	32.39848	-92.38932

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Myatt	32.41043	-92.14986

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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