Haynesville, Louisiana
Haynesville is a town in northern Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, United States, located just south of the Arkansas border. The population was 2,039 in 2020.[2]
Haynesville, Louisiana | |
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Town | |
Location of Haynesville in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. | |
Location of Louisiana in the United States | |
| Coordinates: 32°57′40″N 93°08′17″W / 32.96111°N 93.13806°WCoordinates: 32°57′40″N 93°08′17″W / 32.96111°N 93.13806°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Claiborne |
| Founded | 1818 |
| Government | |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.84 sq mi (12.53 km2) |
| • Land | 4.83 sq mi (12.50 km2) |
| • Water | 0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2) |
| Elevation | 367 ft (112 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 2,039 |
| • Density | 422.33/sq mi (163.06/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 318 |
| FIPS code | 22-33525 |
| Website | haynesvillela |
Haynesville is known as the "Gateway to North Louisiana" and the "Butterfly Capital of Louisiana". Loice Kendrick-Lacy of Haynesville published Gardening To Attract Butterflies: The Beauty And The Beast (2012). Kendrick-Lacy begins with memories of her childhood, when she was introduced to butterflies by her grandmother.[3][4]
History
Haynesville was settled in 1818. The community adopted the name in 1843 from farmer Samuel Haynes of Georgia, who established Old Haynesville some two miles south of the present site of the town. In 1898, the whole town moved north to meet the railroad that was being constructed through the area, now known as the Louisiana and Northwest Railroad.[5]
Modern Haynesville developed during the 1920s petroleum boom in the area, one of the largest in Louisiana. For a time, the population reached twenty thousand.[5] The "old boom town" was constructed in what is called Baucum Spur. It had a hotel, restaurants, and saloons.
In the early 21st century, the Haynesville economy is based on oil production, hunting, fishing, and timber, with considerable logging and pulpwood production in the area.[5]
The town of Haynesville is the namesake of the Haynesville Shale, an upper Jurassic formation that is difficult to define[6] on a technical basis[7] but nevertheless covers a broad region of western Louisiana and east Texas and contains a large natural gas resource.[8] On March 24, 2008, Chesapeake Energy announced a new natural gas discovery in the Haynesville Shale.[9] This announcement began a new chapter in the development of the Hayneville Shale and hastened the activities of several other companies in the play.[10]
The town's churches include Baptist, United Methodist, Presbyterian, Missionary Baptist, Pentecostal, and Church of Christ. This part of the state was settled by Protestants from other parts of the South, more than by ethnic French, Louisiana Creole, Italian and Irish Catholics more typically found in the New Orleans area.
Material on the history of Haynesville can be found at the Herbert S. Ford Memorial Museum located across from the Claiborne Parish Courthouse in Homer.
Geography
Haynesville is located at 32°57′40″N 93°8′17″W / 32.96111°N 93.13806°W (32.961132, −93.138091).[11]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.8 square miles (12.5 km2), of which 4.8 square miles (12.5 km2) is land and 0.22% is water.[12]
The most common soil is Eastwood series, which has 3 to 10 inches (76 to 254 mm) of brown very fine sandy loam over 20 inches (510 mm) of red clay.[13] It supports a native forest vegetation of loblolly pine, shortleaf pine, southern red oak, American sweet gum and hickory.
Demographics
| Historical population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1880 | 123 | — | |
| 1910 | 663 | — | |
| 1920 | 903 | 36.2% | |
| 1930 | 2,541 | 181.4% | |
| 1940 | 2,418 | −4.8% | |
| 1950 | 3,040 | 25.7% | |
| 1960 | 3,031 | −0.3% | |
| 1970 | 3,055 | 0.8% | |
| 1980 | 3,454 | 13.1% | |
| 1990 | 2,854 | −17.4% | |
| 2000 | 2,679 | −6.1% | |
| 2010 | 2,327 | −13.1% | |
| 2020 | 2,039 | −12.4% | |
| U.S. Decennial Census[14] | |||
| Race | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| White (non-Hispanic) | 679 | 33.3% |
| Black or African American (non-Hispanic) | 1,233 | 60.47% |
| Native American | 12 | 0.59% |
| Asian | 2 | 0.1% |
| Other/Mixed | 77 | 3.78% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 36 | 1.77% |
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,039 people, 1,081 households, and 664 families residing in the town.
Government and infrastructure
The United States Postal Service operates the Haynesville Post Office.[15]
Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections operates the David Wade Correctional Center in an unincorporated section of Claiborne Parish near Haynesville.[16][17]
Crime
In May 1999, the Haynesville Police Department discovered the skeletal remains of Shannon Capers, a 13-year-old girl who had been missing since March 8, 1997. She was found in the woods behind the Mill Street Apartments on the north side of town. Capers had lived in the apartments. She was known to have been murdered by her boyfriend, a local drug dealer named Maurice Tate.[18]
Education
The Claiborne Parish School Board operates Haynesville Elementary School and Haynesville Junior/Senior High School.[19][20]
Notable people
- Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer, born August 30, 1924
- Demetric Evans, NFL football player (San Francisco 49ers)
- Doug Evans, former NFL football player (Green Bay Packers; Super Bowl XXXI champion)
- Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, musician known for his song "Everybody's Got a Right to Live," civil rights activist and co-founder of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, and minister in Louisiana and New York City
- John Sidney Garrett, Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1968–1972)
- Jim Haynes (1933–2021), leading figure in British counter-culture
- George H. Mahon, U.S. Representative from Texas's 19th congressional district from 1935 to 1979, was born in Mahon near Haynesville in 1900.
- Danny Roy Moore (1925–c. 2020), Louisiana state senator from Claiborne and Bienville parishes from 1964 to 1968
- Bob Odom, former Louisiana commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry
- Larry Sale, sheriff of Claiborne Parish from 1936 to 1944; bodyguard at the assassination of Huey Pierce Long, Jr.
- A. L. Williams, football coach at Fair Park High School, Woodlawn High School (both in Shreveport), Northwestern State University, and Louisiana Tech University; born in Haynesville in 1934; retired in Ruston
- Iberia Beatrice Hampton (1922–2016) mother of Fred Hampton, American activist and chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party
Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Haynesville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.[21]
Photo gallery
Haynesville United Methodist Church
First Baptist Church in downtown Haynesville
The First Presbyterian Church in Haynesville
City Hall in Haynesville
This obelisk erected in 1976 in Bicentennial Park in Haynesville is dedicated to the medical profession. The site is at the former location of a hospital.
The large Old Town Cemetery in south Haynesville contains the grave of John Sidney Garrett.
See also
References
- ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
- ^ a b "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
- ^ Donna LaFleur, "Interview" Loice Kendrick-Lacy", "Authors in Shreveport" feature, 2012, Louisiana Public Broadcasting, at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum.
- ^ "Loice Kendrick-Lacy". media.lpb.org. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Haynesville: Gateway to North Louisiana", Haynesville Official website
- ^ Chapman, R.T., (1951), Jurassic Development in the Haynesville Field, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions. Vol. 1, p. 40., this abstract is hosted in the archives section of the website of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
- ^ Horn, Marty, (2009), Toward a Better Definition of Haynesville Formation, Northern Louisiana Subsurface, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Denver, Colorado.
- ^ "Haynesville Shale-gas Study | Bureau of Economic Geology".
- ^ "News".
- ^ http://www.inexs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Haynesville-Study.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
- ^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Haynesville town, Louisiana". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
- ^ [1][2] April 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ^ "Post Office Location – HAYNESVILLE 2012-06-16 at the Wayback Machine." United States Postal Service. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
- ^ "David Wade Corr. Center 2011-01-27 at the Wayback Machine." Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Retrieved September 14, 2008.
- ^ "Inmate wants his privileges restored." The Advocate. January 11, 1990. Retrieved October 2, 2010. "But Mule was transferred to Wade Correctional Center in Haynesville[...]"
- ^ "The Guardian-Journal Headlines and News Briefs". kcwd.com. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
- ^ "Welcome to Haynesville Elementary School 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine." Claiborne Parish Schools. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
- ^ "Welcome to Haynesville Jr/Sr School 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine." Claiborne Parish Schools. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
- ^ Climate Summary for Haynesville, Louisiana