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Shreveport, Louisiana

February 06, 2023

Shreveport (/ˈʃriːvpɔːrt/ SHREEV-port) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, respectively. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, with a population of 393,406 in 2020, is the fourth largest in Louisiana,[4] though 2020 census estimates placed its population at 397,590.[5] The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat.[6] It extends along the west bank of the Red River (most notably at Wright Island, the Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park, and Bagley Island) into neighboring Bossier Parish. The United States Census Bureau's 2020 census tabulation for the city's population was 187,593,[7] though the American Community Survey's census estimates determined 189,890 residents.[8]

Shreveport
City
City of Shreveport
From top, left to right: Downtown, Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium, Shreveport Convention Center, Caddo Parish Courthouse
Flag
Seal
Coat of arms
Location within Caddo Parish
Shreveport
Location in the United States of America
Shreveport
Shreveport (the United States)
Coordinates: 32°30′53″N 93°44′50″W / 32.51472°N 93.74722°W / 32.51472; -93.74722Coordinates: 32°30′53″N 93°44′50″W / 32.51472°N 93.74722°W / 32.51472; -93.74722
Country United States
State Louisiana
ParishesCaddo, Bossier
Founded1836
IncorporatedMarch 20, 1839
Named forCaptain Henry Miller Shreve
Government
 • MayorTom Arceneaux (R)
 • City Council
Members list
Area
[1]
 • City123.84 sq mi (320.74 km2)
 • Land108.14 sq mi (280.10 km2)
 • Water15.69 sq mi (40.65 km2)
 • Metro
2,698 sq mi (6,987.8 km2)
Elevation
154 to 253 ft (46 to 77.1 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • City187,593
 • Rank1st in Caddo Parish
3rd in Louisiana
137th in United States
 • Density1,734.64/sq mi (669.75/km2)
 • Urban
288,052 (US: 140th)[2]
 • Urban density1,592.8/sq mi (615.0/km2)
 • Metro
393,406 (US: 140th)
DemonymShreveporter[3]
Time zoneUTC−6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−5 (CDT)
ZIP codes
71101-71109, 71115-71166
Area code318
FIPS code22-70000
Primary airportShreveport Regional Airport
Interstates
WaterwaysRed River, Cross Bayou
Websiteshreveportla.gov

Shreveport was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation established to develop a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail, an overland route into the newly independent Republic of Texas. Prior to Texas becoming independent, this trail entered Mexico.[9] It grew throughout the 20th century and, after the discovery of oil in Louisiana, became a national center for the oil industry. Standard Oil of Louisiana (absorbed by Standard Oil of New Jersey and now part of ExxonMobil) and United Gas Corporation (now part of Pennzoil) were headquartered in the city until the 1960s and 1980s. After the loss of jobs in the oil industry, the close of Shreveport Operations (a General Motors vehicle factory), and other economic problems it struggled with a declining population, poverty, drugs and violent crime.[10] However, the city continues in its efforts to revitalize its infrastructure,[11][12][13] revive the economy through diversification,[14][15][16] and lower crime.[17] Despite these efforts, the city witnessed the largest number of homicides in its recorded history in 2021, eclipsing the previous record set in 1993.[18]

Shreveport is the educational, commercial and cultural center of the Ark-La-Tex region, where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet. It is the location of Centenary College of Louisiana, Louisiana State University Shreveport, Louisiana Tech University Shreveport, Southern University at Shreveport, and Louisiana Baptist University. Its neighboring city, Bossier City, is the location of Bossier Parish Community College. It forms part of the I-20 Cyber Corridor linking Shreveport, Bossier City, Ruston, Grambling, and Monroe to Dallas and Tyler, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia.[19][20][21][22] Companies with significant operations or headquarters in Shreveport are Amazon, Regions Financial Corporation, JPMorgan Chase, Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, AT&T Mobility, United Parcel Service, Walmart, Chick-fil-A, Waffle House, SWEPCO, General Electric, UOP LLC,[23] Calumet Specialty Products Partners, and APS Payroll.

History

Main articles: History of Shreveport, Louisiana and Timeline of Shreveport, Louisiana

Early settlers

Shreveport was established to create a town at the meeting point of the Brown Bricks and the Texas Trail. The Red River was made navigable by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, who led the United States Army Corps of Engineers efforts to clear the Red River. A 180-mile-long (290 km) natural log jam, the Great Raft, had previously obstructed passage to shipping. Shreve used a specially modified riverboat, the Heliopolis, to remove the log jam. The company and the village of Shreve Town were named in Shreve's honor.[24]

Shreve Town was originally contained within the boundaries of a piece of land sold to the company in 1835 by the indigenous Caddo Indians. In 1838 Caddo Parish was created from the large Natchitoches Parish, and Shreve Town became its parish seat. On March 20, 1839, the town was incorporated as Shreveport. Originally, the town consisted of 64 city blocks, created by eight streets running west from the Red River and eight streets running south from Cross Bayou, one of its tributaries.

Shreveport soon became a center of steamboat commerce, carrying mostly cotton and agricultural crops from the plantations of Caddo Parish. Shreveport also had a slave market, though slave trading was not as widespread as in other parts of the state. Steamboats plied the Red River, and stevedores loaded and unloaded cargo. By 1860, Shreveport had a population of 2,200 free people and 1,300 slaves within the city limits.

Civil War and Reconstruction

During the American Civil War, Shreveport was the capital of Louisiana from 1863 to 1865, having succeeded Baton Rouge and Opelousas after each fell under Union control. The city was a Confederate stronghold throughout the war and was the site of the headquarters of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate Army. Fort Albert Sidney Johnston was built on a ridge northwest of the city. Because of limited development in that area, the site is relatively undisturbed in the 21st century.

Isolated from events in the east, the Civil War continued in the Trans-Mississippi theater for several weeks after Robert E. Lee's surrender in April 1865, and the Trans-Mississippi was the last Confederate command to surrender, on May 26, 1865. "The period May 13–21, 1865, was filled with great uncertainly after soldiers learned of the surrenders of Lee and Johnston, the Good Friday assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the rapid departure of their own generals."[25] In the confusion there was a breakdown of military discipline and rioting by soldiers. They destroyed buildings containing service records, a loss that later made it difficult for many to gain Confederate pensions from state governments.[25]

Throughout the war, women in Shreveport did much to assist the soldiers fighting mostly far to the east. Historian John D. Winters writes of them in The Civil War in Louisiana (1963):

The women of Shreveport and vicinity labored long hours over their sewing machines to provide their men with adequate underclothing and uniforms. After the excitement of Fort Sumter, there was a great rush to get the volunteer companies ready and off to New Orleans ... Forming a Military Aid Society, the ladies of Shreveport requested donations of wool and cotton yarn for knitting socks. Joined by others, the Society collected blankets for the wounded and gave concerts and tableaux to raise funds. Tickets were sold for a diamond ring given by the mercantile house of Hyams and Brothers ...[26]

A Confederate minstrel show gave two performances to raise money for the war effort in Shreveport in December 1862. The Shreveport Ladies Aid Society announced a grand dress ball for April 6, 1863. That same month students at the Mansfield Female College, in Mansfield in De Soto Parish, presented a vocal and instrumental concert to support the war.[27]

The Red River, opened by Shreve in the 1830s, remained navigable throughout the Civil War. But seasonal water levels got so low at one point that Union Admiral David Dixon Porter was trapped with his gunboats north of Alexandria. His engineers quickly constructed a temporary dam to raise the water level and free his fleet.

In 1873, Shreveport lost 759 citizens in an 80-day period to a yellow fever epidemic, with over 400 additional victims eventually succumbing. The total death toll from August through November was approximately 1,200.[28][29] Five Roman Catholic priests in the city and two religious sisters died while caring for yellow fever victims in the city.[30]

20th century to present

In 1895, Justin Vincent Gras (1868–1959), an immigrant from France, opened the largest grocery and liquor store in Shreveport. "What is good for Shreveport is good for me" became his motto. He had come to the city four years before to work for his uncle, and had quickly learned English and the mercantile business. Gras also invested in real estate; by the 1920s he was the largest landholder in Caddo Parish. Gras and his wife, Eugenie, became philanthropists, donating $2.3 million to establish the Community Foundation of North Louisiana. During World War I, Gras rebuilt the home church of his native village in the Pyrenees. He is interred at St. Joseph Cemetery in Shreveport.[31][32]

A number of local African American musicians became nationally famous. By the 1910s, Huddie William Ledbetter—also known as "Lead Belly", a blues singer and guitarist—was performing for Shreveport audiences in St. Paul's Bottoms, the notable red-light district of Shreveport that operated legally from 1903 to 1917. Ledbetter began to develop his own style of music after exposure to a variety of musical influences on Fannin Street, a row of saloons, brothels, and dance halls in the Bottoms. Bluesmen Jesse Thomas, Dave Alexander, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and the early jazz and ragtime composers Bill Wray and Willian Christopher O'Hare were all from Shreveport. Lead Belly achieved international fame.

By 1914, neglect and lack of use, due to diversion of freight traffic to railroad lines, resulted in the Red River becoming unnavigable. In projects accomplished over decades, in 1994, the United States Army Corps of Engineers restored navigability by completion of a series of federally funded lock-and-dam structures and a navigation channel.

As early as 1924, the citizens of Shreveport became interested in hosting a military flying field. In 1926, Shreveport citizens learned that the 3rd Attack Wing stationed at Fort Crockett, Texas, would be enlarged by 500 percent and would require at least 20,000 acres (81 km2) to support aerial gunnery and a bombing range. The efforts to procure the government's commitment to build the facility in the Greater Shreveport metropolitan area were spearheaded by a committee co-chaired by local civic leaders Andrew Querbes and John D. Ewing, beginning in 1927. It took a great deal of correspondence between the interested parties and the original proposal was rejected. However, in February 1928, a young crop duster, an Air Corps captain named Harold Ross Harris, was hired to fly over the local area in order to find a suitable site for the airfield.

Captain Harris selected what he felt was an adequate location for a military airfield. It was a sprawling section of cotton plantation near Bossier City. The site selection committee, representing the wealthiest taxpayers in the city, unanimously agreed upon the Barksdale Field location. A delegation of citizens traveled to Washington, D.C., to personally present the advantages of the proposed site to the War Department. Following the return of this delegation, a special army board visited Shreveport and reported the location met all requirements of the Air Corps.

The site was selected December 5, 1928, as the location of the airfield. The land in Bossier Parish on which the airfield was built was unincorporated land near Bossier City that was annexed by the city of Shreveport once the site had been selected among 80 candidates. The real estate was purchased from over 800 property owners via a $1,500,000 municipal bond issue approved by Shreveport voters in 1929 in fulfillment of the pledge that the citizens of Shreveport made to the U.S. government. The last of these bonds matured on December 31, 1959. After acquisition, Shreveport then donated the land to the federal government per their agreement, while the federal government assumed all the costs of building construction and equipment installation. Shreveport had originally proposed a site adjacent to Cross Lake, but the United States Department of War deemed this location inappropriate due to the lack of suitable terrain for the facility's future expansion. Subsequent to the establishment of the military installation, Bossier City grew and expanded southward and eastward, eventually enveloping the area surrounding the base. Technically, Barksdale AFB is neither in Bossier City nor Shreveport but, like all military bases, is an autonomous community with its own infrastructure.[33]

In September, 1941, the capture of the city of Shreveport was the objective of a U.S. Army war game, or military exercise, known as the Louisiana Maneuvers. The field exercise's mission was accomplished largely due to General George S. Patton, who commanded the mock "Blue" army's 2nd Armored Division.[34]

 
Elvis in the Louisiana Hayride

Shreveport was home to the Louisiana Hayride radio program, broadcast weekly from the Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium. During its heyday from 1948 to 1960, this program stimulated the careers of some of the greatest figures in American music. The Hayride featured musicians including Hank Williams and Elvis Presley, who made his broadcasting debut at this venue. In the mid-1950s, KWKH was the first major radio station to feature the music of Presley on its long-running Louisiana Hayride program at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium. Horace Logan, long-term KWKH program manager and originator of the Hayride, and Frank Page introduced Presley on the Hayride.

African American veterans of World War II were among activists in Shreveport through the 1960s who worked in the civil rights movement to correct injustices under Jim Crow and disenfranchisement of blacks. While activism gradually increased, 1963 was a particularly violent year in Shreveport because of white resistance. The Shreveport home of Dr. C. O. Simpkins was bombed in retaliation for his work with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.[35][36]

In September 1963 George W. D'Artois, Public Service Commissioner, refused a permit for a march to the Little Union Baptist Church in Shreveport, where mourners gathered to honor and commemorate four black girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing on September 15 in Birmingham, Alabama. D'Artois and other officers entered the church on horseback and took out the pastor, Dr. Harry Blake, beating him severely.[35][37]

Also in 1963, headlines across the country reported that African American musician Sam Cooke was arrested in Shreveport after his band tried to register at a "whites-only" Holiday Inn, where they planned to stay before performing in the city. Public facilities in Louisiana were still segregated.[38] In the months following, Cooke recorded the civil rights era song, "A Change Is Gonna Come". In 1964 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act to end segregation of public facilities.

In the mid-1990s, the coming of riverboat gambling to Shreveport attracted numerous new patrons to the downtown and spurred a revitalization of the adjacent riverfront areas. Many downtown streets were given a facelift through the "Streetscape" project. Traditional brick sidewalks and crosswalks were built, and statues, sculptures, and mosaics were added to create a better pedestrian environment. The O.K. Allen Bridge, commonly known as the Texas Street bridge, was lit with neon lights. Residents predictably had a variety of reactions to these changes.[39] Shreveport was named an All-American City in 1953, 1979, and 1999.[40]

During the September 11, 2001 attacks, President George W. Bush was taken to the nearby Barksdale Air Force Base. He also made a visit to speak in the city on March 11, 2005.[41]

Since the downturn in the oil industry and other economic problems, the city has struggled with a declining population, unemployment, poverty, drugs and violent crime.[10] City data from 2017 showed a dramatic increase in certain violent crimes from the previous year, including a 138 percent increase in homicides, a 21 percent increase in forcible rapes and more than 130 percent increases in both business armed robberies and business burglaries.[10] In 2018 the local government and police authorities reported a crime drop in most categories; it was part of an overall reduction in crime since the late 20th century.[17] As Shreveport continued its economic resurgence,[12][15] the Adrian Perkins administration saw the coming of Advanced Aero Services,[16] Tomakk Glass Partners,[42] and the revitalization plan of the Shreveport Economic Recovery Task Force after the Cross Bayou redevelopment plan was rejected.[43][44]

In June 2020, rapper Hurricane Chris was arrested in Shreveport for second-degree murder.[45] Following the George Floyd killing in Minnesota, multiple protests were held in the city.[46][47]

Geography

 
Red River between Shreveport and Bossier City with Barksdale Air Force Base in background, 2008

Shreveport is located in Northwest Louisiana. It is the center of the Ark-La-Tex region where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet. It is also part of the I-20 Cyber Corridor linking the tech-centered Dallas–Fort Worth, Shreveport–Bossier, Greater Monroe, and Greater Atlanta metropolitan areas together.[19][20][22][21][48] The city of Shreveport is 188 miles (303 km) from Dallas,[49] 98 miles (158 km) from Tyler,[50] and 41 miles (66 km) from Marshall, Texas;[51] 215 miles (346 km) from Little Rock and 73 miles (117 km) from Texarkana, Arkansas;[52][53] and 250 miles (400 km) from the state capital of Baton Rouge,[54] 99 miles (159 km) from Monroe,[55] 69 miles (111 km) from Ruston,[56] and 30 miles (48 km) from Minden, Louisiana.[57] The city's proximity to the nearby cities makes it North Louisiana and the Ark-La-Tex's transportation hub.

Shreveport is the parish seat of Caddo Parish. Portions of the city extend into neighboring Bossier Parish, bordering Bossier City. Shreveport sits on a low elevation overlooking the Red River.[58] Western and northern portions of Shreveport have an elevation over 253 feet (77 m) above sea level.[59] Pine forests, cotton fields, wetlands, and waterways mark the outskirts of the city. According to the United States Census Bureau in 2010, the city had a total area of 122.35 sq mi (316.88 km2), of which 107.14 sq mi (277.48 km2) is land and 15.21 sq mi (39.40 km2) is water.[60]

Cityscape

 
The Long-Allen Bridge (also known as the Texas Street Bridge) connects Shreveport and Bossier City.

Shreveport—since the mid-1990s—has been a major gambling center with a modest downtown skyline. The "Streetscape" project, inspired by the coming of riverboat gaming, gave Shreveport's downtown traditional brick sidewalks, statues, sculptures, and mosaics. The O.K. Allen Bridge (Texas Street bridge) was lit with neon lights. Since then, Downtown Shreveport has seen minor changes until the 2010s; the whole of Shreveport has been improving roads since the mid-2010s, with continued road projects in 2018.[61] In 2018, buildings in Shreveport's downtown and nearby districts were revitalized due to re-investment in the area.[12][14] In 2020, plans were unveiled for the I-49 Connector and further redevelopment of the city.[43]

 
View of Downtown Shreveport
 
Pine Wold house (Fairfield Avenue at Kirby Street) was designed by Edward F. Neild, who created some of the designs for the interior of the White House in the Truman administration, as well as the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Pine Wold was constructed in 1903 by lumberman T. J. Jones and expanded in 1919 by oilman J. P. Evans. For a time the Mighty Haag Circus wintered on the grounds, and the circus elephant Trilby is buried there.
 
A.C. Steere School, expanded in 1938, is named for Albert Coldwell Steere, developer and founder of the Broadmoor neighborhood; the institution was added in 1991 to the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by Edward F. Neild of Shreveport.

Neighborhoods

Shreveport encompasses many areas, neighborhoods, and districts. The busiest thoroughfares and areas of Shreveport are the Youree Drive area (named for Peter Youree), the Shreveport Downtown Riverfront, and Highland neighborhood. All of the busiest areas are located in Eastern Shreveport, nearby or along the Red River. Below is a list of areas in the Shreveport area of Caddo Parish:

  • Acadiana Place
  • Allendale
  • Allendale-Lakeside, interloop of neighborhoods
  • Anderson Island
  • Azalea Gardens
  • Braemar Estates
  • Broadmoor
  • Broadmoor Terrace
  • Brunswick Place
  • Caddo Heights
  • Cedar Grove
  • Chapel Creek
  • Cherokee Park
  • Cooper Road
  • Crescent Wood
  • Cross Lake, some not in city
  • Dixie Gardens
  • Eden Gardens
  • Ellerbe Road Estates
  • Ellerbe Woods
  • Evangeline Oaks
  • Fairfield Heights
  • Forbing
  • Fox Crossing
  • Garden Valley
  • Glen Iris
  • Greenbrook
  • The Haven
  • Hidden Trace
  • Highland
  • Hollywood
  • Hollywood Heights
  • Huntington
  • Ingleside
  • Jackson Square
  • Jewella-South Park
  • Hyde Park
  • Lakeside
  • Lakeside Acres
  • Lakeside on Long Lake
  • Ledbetter Heights or The Bottoms
  • Long Lake Estates
  • Lynbrook
  • Madison Park
  • Mooretown
  • Norris Ferry Crossing
  • Norris Ferry Estates
  • Norris Ferry Landing
  • North Highlands
  • Parkside
  • Pines Road
  • Pierremont
  • Pierremont Place
  • Pierremont Ridge
  • Provenance
  • Queensborough
  • St. Charles Place
  • Shreve Island
  • Shreve Lake Estates
  • South Broadmoor
  • South Highlands
  • Southern Hills
  • Southern Trace
  • Spring Lake
  • Stoner Hill
  • Sunset Acres
  • Towne South
  • Twelve Oaks
  • Shadow Pines Estates
  • Steeple Chase
  • Stoner Hill
  • University Terrace
  • Waterside
  • West End
  • Western Hills
  • Wright Island
  • Yarborough

In the Highland section, along Fairfield Avenue, more than a half dozen houses have been designated as historic and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. These include residences once occupied by Lieutenant Governor Thomas Charles Barret, who served early in the 20th century; a Broadway director, Joshua Logan; a former governor, Ruffin Pleasant, and wife; a physician and developer, George W. Robinson; a Coca-Cola bottler, Zehntner Biedenharn; Ewald Max Hoyer, the first mayor of Bossier City beginning in 1907; and John B. Slattery, a major real estate owner, whose former home is one of five remaining structures in Shreveport designed by the noted architect N. S. Allen.[62]

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    Robinson Place in Shreveport, former home of physician and developer George W. Robinson; later the residence of Douglas and Lucille Lee, owners of Lee Hardware Company

  •  

    Historic residence of late Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Thomas Charles Barret at Fairfield and Prospect

  •  

    Walker House on Fairfield Avenue was once the home of the Coca-Cola bottler Zehntner Biedenharn.

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    Bliss-Hoyer House, built by Abel and Nettie Bliss, was later the home of Ewald Max Hoyer, the first mayor of Bossier City, who continued to reside in Shreveport.

Climate

Shreveport has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa). Rainfall is abundant, with the normal annual precipitation averaging over 51 inches (1,300 mm), with monthly averages ranging from less than 3 inches (76 mm) in August to more than 5 inches (130 mm) in June. Severe thunderstorms with heavy rain, hail, damaging winds and tornadoes occur in the area during the spring and summer months. The winter months are normally mild, with an average of 35 days of freezing or below-freezing temperatures per year, with ice and sleet storms possible.

Summer months are hot and humid, with maximum temperatures exceeding 90 °F (32 °C) on an average of 91 days per year, with high to very high relative average humidity. The extreme temperatures range from −5 °F (−21 °C) on February 12, 1899,[63] to 110 °F (43 °C) on August 18, 1909.[63] Shreveport is home to a branch of the National Weather Service which provides forecasts and warnings for the greater Ark-La-Tex region.

Climate data for Shreveport, Louisiana (Shreveport Regional Airport), 1991–2020 normals,[64] extremes 1871–present
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °F (°C) 85
(29) 		89
(32) 		92
(33) 		96
(36) 		102
(39) 		104
(40) 		108
(42) 		110
(43) 		109
(43) 		99
(37) 		88
(31) 		84
(29) 		110
(43)
Mean maximum °F (°C) 76
(24) 		79
(26) 		85
(29) 		87
(31) 		92
(33) 		96
(36) 		100
(38) 		101
(38) 		98
(37) 		91
(33) 		82
(28) 		77
(25) 		103
(39)
Average high °F (°C) 58.4
(14.7) 		62.6
(17.0) 		70.4
(21.3) 		77.5
(25.3) 		84.6
(29.2) 		91.1
(32.8) 		94.3
(34.6) 		94.9
(34.9) 		89.6
(32.0) 		79.3
(26.3) 		67.9
(19.9) 		59.9
(15.5) 		77.5
(25.3)
Daily mean °F (°C) 47.9
(8.8) 		51.8
(11.0) 		59.0
(15.0) 		65.9
(18.8) 		74.0
(23.3) 		80.9
(27.2) 		83.9
(28.8) 		84.0
(28.9) 		78.3
(25.7) 		67.4
(19.7) 		56.6
(13.7) 		49.5
(9.7) 		66.6
(19.2)
Average low °F (°C) 37.3
(2.9) 		41.0
(5.0) 		47.7
(8.7) 		54.3
(12.4) 		63.5
(17.5) 		70.6
(21.4) 		73.5
(23.1) 		73.0
(22.8) 		67.0
(19.4) 		55.4
(13.0) 		45.3
(7.4) 		39.0
(3.9) 		55.6
(13.1)
Mean minimum °F (°C) 21
(−6) 		26
(−3) 		30
(−1) 		38
(3) 		50
(10) 		62
(17) 		68
(20) 		66
(19) 		54
(12) 		39
(4) 		29
(−2) 		24
(−4) 		20
(−7)
Record low °F (°C) −2
(−19) 		−5
(−21) 		15
(−9) 		31
(−1) 		39
(4) 		52
(11) 		58
(14) 		53
(12) 		42
(6) 		28
(−2) 		16
(−9) 		5
(−15) 		−5
(−21)
Average precipitation inches (mm) 4.40
(112) 		4.30
(109) 		4.90
(124) 		5.19
(132) 		4.46
(113) 		4.78
(121) 		3.50
(89) 		2.91
(74) 		3.46
(88) 		4.59
(117) 		4.00
(102) 		4.94
(125) 		51.43
(1,306)
Average snowfall inches (cm) 0.2
(0.51) 		0.5
(1.3) 		0.1
(0.25) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.1
(0.25) 		0.9
(2.3)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) 9.4 9.6 9.7 7.9 9.1 8.9 7.5 6.6 6.7 7.6 8.4 9.6 101.0
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.7
Average relative humidity (%) 72.6 69.7 67.7 69.6 73.2 73.3 72.4 71.7 73.6 71.7 73.7 74.4 72.0
Mean monthly sunshine hours 158.3 172.8 213.1 231.2 267.1 297.9 317.9 300.7 249.8 235.8 176.8 158.4 2,779.8
Percent possible sunshine 50 56 57 59 62 70 73 73 67 67 56 51 63
Source: NOAA (sun and relative humidity 1961–1990)[63][65][66]

Demographics

Historical population
Census Pop. %±
18501,728—
18602,19026.7%
18704,607110.4%
18808,00973.8%
189011,97949.6%
190016,01333.7%
191028,01575.0%
192043,87456.6%
193076,65574.7%
194098,16728.1%
1950127,20629.6%
1960164,37229.2%
1970182,06410.8%
1980206,98913.7%
1990198,525−4.1%
2000200,1450.8%
2010199,311−0.4%
2020187,593−5.9%
U.S. Decennial Census[67]
2018 Estimate[68]

Shreveport's population was initially 1,728 at the 1850 U.S. census, and has experienced growth to a historic high of 206,989 at the 1980 census. According to the 2020 United States census, there were 187,593 people, 73,114 households, and 42,775 families residing in the city; the 2020 American Community Survey determined an estimated 189,890 people resided in the city, purporting a slight population rebound.[8] The 2020 census estimates showed Shreveport had 75,680 households with an average of 2.4 people per household. Of the households, 39% were married-couple households, though 44% of its male population and 40% of its female population have never married.

Throughout the city, there were 89,523 housing units, with a 85% occupancy rate; among them, 54% were owner-occupied. Among its units, 73% were single-unit detached homes and 31% of its population moved into those homes from 2015 to 2016. The median value of its owner-occupied housing units were $151,700, and 30% of its units were estimated to be under $100,000; 38% of its units were estimated to cost from $100,000 to $200,000.[8] From 2014 to 2018, the median value of an owner-occupied housing unit was $144,800. The median monthly cost with a mortgage was $1,178 and the median monthly cost without a mortgage was $364; the city of Shreveport had a median gross rent of $810.

The median income from 2014 to 2018 was $36,338, and the mean income was $55,582.[69] The per capita income was $25,022. By the 2020 American Community Survey, its median household income increased to $40,809.[70] The median income for families grew to $54,023 with a mean income of $82,854; married-couple families $84,282 with a mean of $112,363; and non-family households $26,628 with a mean of $41,090.[71] According to census estimates, 25% of its population earned from $50,000 to $100,000 annually; 13% $100,000 to $200,000; and 5% over $200,000. Approximately 24.9% of Shreveport lived at or below the poverty line, down from 2014 to 2018's census estimates of 25.4%.[72]

Race and ethnicity

Shreveport racial composition as of 2020[73]
Race Number Percentage
White (non-Hispanic) 66,138 35.26%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 104,612 55.77%
Native American 573 0.31%
Asian 3,031 1.62%
Pacific Islander 102 0.05%
Other/Mixed 6,479 3.45%
Hispanic or Latino 6,658 3.55%
 
Map of racial distribution in Shreveport, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic or other (yellow).

In 2019, the racial and ethnic makeup of Shreveport was 56.9% Black and African American, 36.8% non-Hispanic white, 0.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.7% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 0.1% some other race, 1.5% two or more races, and 2.6% Hispanic and Latino American of any race.[74] At the 2010 U.S. census, the racial and ethnic composition of the population was 54.70% Black or African American, 41.16% White, 1.0% Native American, 2.0% Asian, 1.2% from some other race and 1.5% from two or more races. In 2010, about 6.5% of the population was Hispanic or Latino American of any race.[75]

Reflecting the decline in North Louisiana's population,[76] the city of Shreveport's racial and ethnic makeup among Hispanic and Latino Americans declined from 2010 yet rebounded from 2019's census estimates.[73] At the 2020 census, Shreveport remained a predominantly Black and African American city, with 57.77% of the population identifying as such; non-Hispanic whites slightly declined to 35.26% and multiracial or Americans of another race increased to 3.45% of the population. Data from the 2020 United States census reflected growing trends of Hispanic and Latino, and Asian American population growth nationwide.[77]

Religion

Christianity is the city and metropolitan area's dominant religion, being part of the Bible Belt.[78] Its residents were predominantly Protestant through the nineteenth century. Today, Baptists form the majority of Christians in Shreveport, followed by Methodists and Catholics.[78] Many Baptist and Methodist churches are affiliated with Evangelical Protestant denominations, though several are also affiliated with Mainline Protestantism; among Baptists, the Southern Baptist Convention,[79] National Baptist Convention (USA), National Baptist Convention of America, and Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship are the largest Protestant Baptist denominations in the city.[80] The Progressive National Baptist Convention is the largest Progressive Baptist group in the area. Methodists are mainly affiliates of the African Methodist Episcopal Church or Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, though some also claimed affiliation to the mainline United Methodist Church.[81] The Catholic community is primarily served by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shreveport.[82]

A large First Baptist Church was once pastored by Monroe E. Dodd, an early radio minister and founder of the former Dodd College for Girls.[83] Former Governor Jimmie Davis, also a Shreveport city commissioner, taught history for a year under Dodd's tutelage. Other historic large Baptist congregations include Galilee Missionary Baptist, Calvary Baptist, Broadmoor Baptist, Summer Grove Baptist, and Mount Canaan Missionary Baptist Church. Summer Grove Baptist Church was previously pastored by Wayne L. DuBose, a Baptist denominational officer.[84] Mount Canaan was previously pastored by Civil Rights icon Dr. Harry Blake.[85][86]

At the head of Texas Street is the large First United Methodist Church, established at that site in 1884. The current sanctuary dates to 1913. Among its former pastors were D. L. Dykes Jr. and John E. Fellers. During a severe thunderstorm in 2009, the fiberglass steeple of the church toppled and fell onto a passing car.[87][88] It has since been replaced.

A second Methodist congregation is named for J. S. Noel Jr. The church was begun as a mission in 1906. Methodist layman James Noel and his wife, Fannie, provided financially for the church in its early years. The congregation decided to name the church for the Noel's late son. Like First United Methodist, it opened in the current sanctuary in 1913 and grew rapidly. A fire gutted the building in 1925, and only a portion of the loss was covered by insurance. The members expanded their ranks and rebuilt at the 500 Herndon location.

 
St. Mark's Cathedral, an Episcopal church

The large Holy Trinity Catholic Church, located downtown, was founded in 1858; it served Irish and German immigrants as well as native-born residents. Five priests died of yellow fever in the 1873 epidemic. The current sanctuary in Romanesque revival style architecture dates to 1896.[89] Particularly striking in size and architecture is St. Mark's Cathedral, an Episcopal Church congregation at 908 Rutherford Street in the Highland area of Shreveport. St. Mark's dates its establishment to the first religious service held in Shreveport in 1839.[90] It became the see of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana in 1990.[91]

Shreveport is home to Shreveport Community Church, an Evangelical church affiliated with Assemblies of God.[92][93] The church owns and operates Evangel Christian Academy, a pre‑K through 12th grade private school that has produced an average of 1 million dollars of scholastic scholarships for its graduating seniors every year. The church has produced a biblical musical, Songs of the Season, during the Christmas holidays for over 20 years.[94][95] Westview Christian Church is an independent Christian church that serves members from diverse denominational backgrounds.

The Eastern Orthodox Church has maintained a presence in Shreveport since the early 1900s.[96] The oldest Orthodox church in the city is St. George Greek Orthodox Church of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, followed by St. Nicholas Orthodox Church (Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America),[97] and the Holy Nativity of the Lord Church of the Orthodox Church in America.

 
Original B'nai Zion Temple, designated a National Historic Place

The Jewish community of Shreveport dates to the organization of Congregation Har El in 1859, made up primarily of German Jewish immigrants in its early years. It developed as B'nai Zion Temple, today the city's Reform congregation, which built the city's largest synagogue. Agudath Achim, founded in 1905 as an Orthodox congregation of immigrants from Eastern Europe, is today a traditional Jewish synagogue. Shreveport, historically, has had a large and civic-minded Jewish community and has elected three Jewish mayors.[98]

The Islamic community in Shreveport-Bossier constituted approximately 14% of Louisiana's total Muslim population in 2018.[99] The majority of Shreveporter Muslims are Sunni, followed by the Nation of Islam and non-denominational Islam.

Economy

 
Regions Tower, the tallest building in downtown Shreveport
 
Health care is a major industry in Shreveport; Christus Schumpert Medical Center is the secondary leading cancer-treatment facility in the South, behind Willis Knighton.
 
The Shreveport Convention Center

Shreveport was once a major player in United States oil business, and at one time could boast Standard Oil of Louisiana as a locally based company. The Louisiana branch was later absorbed by Standard Oil of New Jersey. Beginning in 1930, United Gas Corporation, the nation's busiest pipeline operator and massive integrated oil company, was headquartered in Shreveport. Pennzoil performed a hostile takeover in 1968, and forced a merger. In the 1980s, the oil and gas industry suffered a large economic downturn. This affected all of the regional economy, and many companies cut back jobs or went out of business, including a large retail shopping mall (South Park Mall) which closed in the late 1990s. Its major facilities were adapted for use by Summer Grove Baptist Church. Shreveport suffered severely from this recession, and many residents left the area.

Since that time, Shreveport has largely transitioned to a service economy. In particular, there has been rapid growth in the gaming industry. The city hosts various riverboat gambling casinos, and, before Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was second only to New Orleans in Louisiana tourism. Nearby Bossier City is home to one of the three horse racetracks in the state, Louisiana Downs. Casinos in Shreveport-Bossier include Sam's Town, Bally's, Horseshoe, Boomtown, and Margaritaville. Diamond Jacks Casino (formerly Isle of Capri) closed in 2020.[100][101] The Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau is the official tourism information agency for the region. The bureau maintains a comprehensive database of restaurants, accommodations, attractions, and events.

In May 2005, the Louisiana Boardwalk, a 550,000-square-foot (51,000 m2) shopping and entertainment complex, opened in Bossier City across from Shreveport's downtown. It features outlet shopping, several restaurants, a 14‑screen movie theater, a bowling complex, and Bass Pro Shops.

A 350,000-square-foot (33,000 m2) convention center was completed in the Shreveport Downtown Riverfront. Managed by SMG, it includes an 800-space parking garage. An adjoining Hilton Hotel opened in June 2007. It was constructed by and owned by the city, which has been a controversial issue, and the subject of discussions about use of public funds.

Shreveport is a major medical center of the region and state. The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport operates at expanded facilities once used by the former Confederate Memorial Medical Center. Major hospitals include Christus Highland Medical Center, Willis Knighton, and the Shriners Hospital for Children.

As of November 2008, excitement had centered around development of the Haynesville Shale, with many new jobs in the natural gas industry expected to be created over the next few years. Residents in the region have been given large bonuses for signing mineral rights leases up to $25,000 per acre. However, economic downturn had resulted in a lower market price for natural gas and slower-than-expected drilling activity. The city expected to generate revenue by leasing the mineral rights on public lands in the near future as neighboring municipalities had already done.

Shreveport was home to Shreveport Operations, a General Motors plant that closed in August 2012. The plant produced the Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon, Hummer H3 series, and the Isuzu i-Series.[102] In January 2013, the plant was leased from Caddo Parish by Elio Motors.[103] In addition to GM, other notable large companies that have had or still have Shreveport manufacturing/assembly or production facilities or operations include: General Electric (electric transformer production), Western Electric (payphone manufacturing, approximately 7,500 employees at its peak, changed ownership through the years but closed in 2001)[104] Honeywell UOP, Libbey-Owens-Ford, Beaird-Poulan (the originator of and, for decades, the only manufacturer of the single-operator chainsaw in the world),[105] Calumet Specialty Products Partners (originally United Gas Corporation's Atlas Processing Unit and then Pennzoil), and Frymaster, LLC (a subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company). In 2017, manufacturing and other goods-producing (e.g. petrochemical refining) jobs accounted for about 5% of Shreveport occupations, compared to 8% for the nationwide percentage of the workforce involved in manufacturing.[106][107]

Outside of the manufacturing, gambling and hotel industries in Shreveport, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, and Regions Financial Corporation have regional offices in Shreveport's downtown and surrounding districts and neighborhoods. Dallas–Fort Worth and Metro Atlanta-based AT&T, and New York-based Verizon Communications are also prevalent in the city. AT&T's regional headquarters is located in Downtown Shreveport. Walmart, Lamar Advertising Company, Target and Best Buy, and United Parcel Service also have facilities throughout Shreveport. Amazon and Governor Edwards announced plans to open a fulfillment center in 2021.[108][109] Amazon began construction on the $200 million fulfillment center in 2021 with completion expected by the end of 2022.The fulfillment center has been expected to create 1,000 direct jobs.[110] Additionally, other business investments alongside Amazon during the early 2020s contributed more than $750 million to revitalizing and expanding the municipal and metropolitan economy.[111]

In 2014, the city government pumped $16.5 million into Mall St. Vincent. In 2015 Fortune magazine ranked Shreveport the "#1 place to start a business".[112] In 2017, Gymboree and Grimaldi's Pizzeria closed their Mall St. Vincent operations; Sears is now closed as well as of 2018.[113] In 2020, Advanced Aero Services planned to open a facility at Shreveport Regional Airport.[16][15] On July 31, 2020 the Shreveport Economic Recovery Task Force released a revitalization plan with a primary focus on the downtown area.[43]

Film industry

Tax incentives offered by the state government have given Louisiana the third largest film industry in the country, behind California and New York. Louisiana is sometimes called "Hollywood South".[114] A number of films have been made in Shreveport. Facilities include sound stages, prop rental facilities, the Fairgrounds Complex, and the Louisiana Wave Studio, a computer-controlled outdoor wave pool.[115]

Selected films shot in Shreveport include:

Several television series have been shot in Shreveport and the surrounding area, including The Gates (2010), and Salem (2014). The Louisiana Film Prize has spurred the creation of over 200 short films shot in Shreveport and Northwest Louisiana by filmmakers from around the world since its inception in 2012.

Arts and culture

Shreveport is home to many theatres, museums, and performing arts groups, including:

 
Shreveport Symphony Orchestra in 2010
  • Academy of Children's Theatre[116]
  • Artspace Shreveport
  • Barnwell Memorial Garden and Art Center
  • Hayride Diner/Soundstage 516
  • J.O.S.H. Lounge – Jazz, Old School and Heritage [117][118] [119][120]
  • Louisiana Dance Theatre
  • Louisiana State Exhibit Museum
  • Marjorie Lyons Playhouse on the Centenary College Campus
  • Meadows Museum of Art – Centenary College
  • Multicultural Center of the South
  • Once in a Millennium Moon mural by Meg Saligman[121]
  • Power and Grace School of Performing Arts
  • R. W. Norton Art Gallery
  • River City Repertory Theatre, the professional theatre for Shreveport-Bossier
  • RiverView Theatre
  • Robinson Film Center
  • Shreveport House Concerts[122]
  • Shreveport Little Theatre[123]
  • Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet
  • Shreveport Municipal Auditorium
  • Shreveport Opera
  • Shreveport Symphony Orchestra
  • Southern University Museum of Art
  • Spring Street Museum
  • StageCenter Performing Arts
  • The Strand Theatre
  • Theatre of the Performing Arts of Shreveport

Events

 
Louisiana State Fair Grounds in 2015
  • ArtBreak Festival, largest annual student arts festival in the South since 1984
  • Barksdale Air Force Base Air Show, held annually since 1933
  • Cinco De Mayo Fiesta, held annually since 1998
  • Highland Jazz & Blues Festival, held annually the second Saturday of November since 2003
  • Holiday in Dixie, annual springtime festival, began 1949
  • Independence Bowl, held annually close to New Year's since 1976
  • Independence Day Festival, held annually on the 4th of July since 2009
  • Let the Good Times Roll Festival, annual Juneteenth festival since 1986
  • Louisiana Film Prize, short film competition and film festival
  • Mardi Gras parades
  • Mudbug Madness, annual celebration of crawfish, held each May since 1984
  • Red River Balloon Rally, annual summer festival since 2016
  • Red River Revel, annual autumn arts festival which began in 1976; the largest outdoor festival in northern Louisiana
  • The State Fair of Louisiana, held annually each autumn since 1906

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras celebrations in Shreveport date to the mid‑19th century when krewes and parades were organized along the lines of those of New Orleans. Mardi Gras in Shreveport did not survive the cancellations caused by World War I. Attempts to revive it in the 1920s were unsuccessful, and the last Carnival celebrations in Shreveport for decades were held in 1927. Mardi Gras in Shreveport was revived beginning in 1984 with the organization of the Krewe of Apollo. The Krewes of Gemini, Centaur, Aesclepius, Highland, Sobek, Harambee, and others, followed during the next decade and a half. The first krewe[clarification needed] to revive parading was Gemini in 1989. Today, Mardi Gras is again an important part of the cultural life of the Shreveport-Bossier metropolitan area.[124]

Sports

Main article: Sports in Shreveport-Bossier
 
Independence Stadium, 2015

Dating back to 1911, the state fairgrounds (and later Independence Stadium, formerly State Fair Stadium) has traditionally hosted a college football game or two during the State Fair of Louisiana, an event currently dubbed the Red River State Fair Classic. Since 1976, Independence Stadium has served as host of college football's annual Independence Bowl.[125] Also, the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team occasionally hosts games at Independence Stadium. Shreveport was also home to a few now defunct football teams. The Houston franchise of the professional World Football League relocated to Shreveport rebranded as the Shreveport Steamer midway through the 1974 season, but the franchise along with the WFL folded midway through the 1975 season.

Another franchise named the Shreveport Steamers played as a member of the American Football Association from 1979 until folding in 1981. Shreveport's Independence Stadium was also home to the Shreveport Pirates, an unsuccessful professional Canadian Football League franchise that opened play in 1994 but folded after the 1995 season.Baseball in Shreveport has an extensive past. The city had affiliated Minor League Baseball teams from 1968 to 2002. The most memorable team was the Shreveport Captains of the Texas League. Baseball teams in Shreveport have gone through eight different name changes and seven different leagues all since 1895. Shreveport's most recent independent minor league baseball team, the Shreveport-Bossier Captains, ceased operations in 2011 and moved to Laredo, Texas.

The city also has an extensive history in basketball and soccer. The Shreveport Crawdads and Shreveport Storm operated in 1994 and 1995 as members of the Continental Basketball Association. The Shreveport-Bossier Mavericks of the American Basketball Association played from 2013 to 2015 before relocating to Owensboro, Kentucky; since 2021, the Mavericks returned as the Shreveport Mavericks within The Basketball League.[126][127] The Shreveport/Bossier Lions played in 1998 as affiliates of the United Soccer League. NPSL-affiliate Shreveport Rafters FC operated from 2016 to 2018; their expansion team for the Women's Premier Soccer League operated for one season in 2017. Shreveport almost had a USL expansion team in 2020 before its rejection by the city council,[128] though USL League Two announced the establishment of Blue Goose SC in 2022.[129]

The city was once considered as location for an NBA G League-affiliate of the New Orleans Pelicans. The city council unanimously rejected the proposal.[130] The Shreveport Mudbugs are a Tier II junior ice hockey team that has competed in the North American Hockey League since 2016. The Centenary Gentlemen and Ladies compete in NCAA Division III as a member of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. The LSU–Shreveport Pilots compete in the NAIA as a member of the Red River Athletic Conference.

Government

Main article: Politics of Shreveport
 
Caddo Parish Courthouse

Founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1839, Shreveport is the parish seat of Caddo Parish. It is part of the First Judicial District, housing the parish courthouse. It also houses the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal, which consists of nine elected judges representing twenty parishes in Northwest Louisiana. A portion of east Shreveport extends into Bossier Parish due to the changing course of the Red River.

The city of Shreveport has a mayor-council government. The elected municipal officials include the mayor, Adrian Perkins, and seven members of the city council. Cedric Glover, a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, was the first African American to hold the mayoral position.[131][132] Under the mayor-council government, the mayor serves as the executive officer of the city. As the city's chief administrator and official representative, the mayor is responsible for the general management of the city and for seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced.

Crime

According to the most recent FBI statistics, the total crime rate in Shreveport is 5,722.4 per 100,000 people, or 143.92% higher than the national rate of 2,346.0 per 100,000 people and 62.39% higher than the Louisiana total crime rate of 3,523.8 per 100,000 people.[133] The violent crime rate in Shreveport is 923.0 per 100,000 people, or 138.01% higher than the national rate of 387.8 per 100,000 people, and 44.35% higher than the Louisiana violent crime rate of 639.4 per 100,000 people.[133]

Shreveport has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes—from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime is 1 in 15. Within Louisiana, more than 93% of the communities had a lower crime rate than Shreveport. NeighborhoodScout found Shreveport to be one of the top 100 most dangerous cities in the United States.[134] In the late 1980s, authorities started to track local Los Angeles-based gangs that distributed cocaine out of low-income neighborhoods. The first and the biggest street gang was the 52nd Street Hoover Crips; shortly after LA gangs moved in, gang-related homicides began to rise. Shreveport was the first city in Louisiana to have Crips and Blood gangs.[135][136] In 1993, Shreveport hit a peak in murders, with 86 killings. Most of the killings were drug- or gang-related homicides.[137] In 2017, Shreveport was placed 18th on 24/7 Wall St.'s list of "America's 25 Murder Capitals."[138] Shreveport's crime rate was 71% higher than the Louisiana average. The crime rate was also 149% higher than the national average.[139]

The city had a so-called "saggy pants" law since 2007.[140] The city ordinance was repealed by the city council in June 2019.[141]

Education

Main article: Caddo Public Schools (Louisiana)

Caddo Public Schools is a school district based in Shreveport.[142] The district serves all of Caddo Parish. Its founding superintendent was Clifton Ellis Byrd, a Virginia native, who assumed the chief administrative position in 1907 and continued until his death in 1926. C. E. Byrd High School, which was established in 1925 on Line Avenue at the intersection with East Kings Highway, bears his name. There are a number of private schools in the city as well, including Loyola College Prep, a coeducational high school founded in 1902 as the all-male St. John's High School.

Colleges and universities

 
Louisiana State University Shreveport

Shreveport has several colleges, including the Methodist-affiliated Centenary College (founded at Jackson, Louisiana, in 1825; relocated to Shreveport in 1908) and Louisiana State University in Shreveport, which opened as a two-year institution in 1967; it became a four-year institution in 1976. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport, the only medical school in Northern Louisiana, opened in 1969. Shreveport also has one of the largest nursing schools in northern Louisiana, the Northwestern State University College of Nursing.

Louisiana Tech University at Shreveport-Bossier City was launched in 2012 offering their Executive MBA and main campus undergraduate and graduate degree programs at the university's Shreveport Center.[143] Southern University at Shreveport (SUSLA) offers a two-year associate's degree program. Founded in 1973, Louisiana Baptist University and Theological Seminary is also located in Shreveport, at 6301 Westport Avenue.

Ayers Career College is a Shreveport-based college that offers career training in the medical and HVAC fields.[144] Since July 2007, Shreveport is home to a local Remington College campus. This location offers both diploma and degree programs, and is active in the Shreveport community.[145] Virginia College opened in 2012. Located in Shreveport-Bossier City, it offers career training in areas such as business and office, health and medical, and medical billing.[146]

Media

Further information: Media in Shreveport, Louisiana
 
KSLA, a CBS affiliate, is the oldest television station in Shreveport. Established in the former Washington Youree Hotel in 1954, it was moved to Fairfield Avenue in the early 1970s.

Shreveport and its surrounding area are served by a variety of local newspapers, magazines, television stations and radio stations. The major daily newspaper serving the area is The Shreveport Times, owned by USA Today parent Gannett. Its headquarters is in Shreveport's downtown near Interstate 20. The newspaper's former rival, the afternoon Shreveport Journal, ceased publication in 1991. Other major newspapers include The Shreveport Sun, Caddo Citizen, and SB Magazine. The Shreveport Sun is the area's primary African American newspaper.[147]

Across the Red River, Shreveport's sister city of Bossier City is served by the daily Bossier Press-Tribune. The Barksdale Warrior is the weekly newspaper of record for the Barksdale Air Force Base. Alternative publications include The Forum Newsweekly, City Lights, The Inquisitor and The Shreveport Catalyst. Twice annually, North Louisiana History, the journal of the North Louisiana Historical Association, is published in Shreveport.

Shreveport and Bossier City are primarily served by two major cable television and internet companies: Shreveport is served by Comcast and Bossier City is served by Suddenlink.

Shreveport is home to several radio stations, particularly KWKH and KEEL, which have reputations beyond the city. The three commercial television outlets are KSLA (CBS), founded in 1954; KTBS-TV (ABC), founded in 1955; and KTAL-TV, which arrived in Shreveport in September 1961 as the NBC station. KTBS was an NBC station, with occasional ABC programs, from 1955 to 1961, when it switched affiliation to ABC. KTAL, formerly known as KCMC of Texarkana, was a CBS outlet prior to conversion to NBC, when it began to cover Shreveport as well as Texarkana. Don Owen (1930–2012), a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission from 1984 to 2002, is also a former news anchorman on KSLA. The Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area is also the point of origination of internet radio station KHAM Radio which signed on in March 2011. The internet radio station is completely web-based and is not affiliated with any terrestrial radio station in the area.

Infrastructure

Transportation

Main article: Transportation in Shreveport

Highways and roads

 
Texas Street
 
Texas Avenue

Shreveport's past reflects the need for mass transit and public roads. As far back as the 1870s, residents used mule-drawn street cars that were converted to electric motorized cars by 1890. Commuter rail systems in Shreveport flourished for many decades, and rail car lines extended out to rural areas. In 1930 trolleys and rail cars began to be replaced by buses, although motor buses did not finally replace all trolley service until the 1960s. In the 1960s, the Interstate Highway System came to the area with the construction of Interstate 20.

The local public transportation provider, SporTran, provides moderately extensive bus service throughout Shreveport and Bossier City. Sportran operates seven days a week on seventeen bus routes (five night routes) from 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 am, with no night service on Sunday. The highway system has a cross-hair and loop freeway structure similar to that of Texas cities like Houston and Dallas. The loop consists of the Outer Loop Freeway Interstate 220 on the north and the Inner Loop Freeway, Louisiana Highway 3132, on the south, forming approximately an 8-mile-diameter (13 km) semi-loop around downtown. Another loop is formed by the Bert Kouns Industrial Loop (Louisiana Highway 526) and circles further south, bisecting Interstate 49. I-49 now extends north to Interstate 30 in Arkansas, though there is a gap in I-49 within Shreveport.

Shreveport lies along the route of the proposed Interstate 69 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) superhighway that will link Canada, the U.S. industrial Midwest, Texas, and Mexico.

Airports

Shreveport is served by two airports. The larger is Shreveport Regional Airport (SHV), established in 1952, and is served by Allegiant Air (to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Daytona Beach (starting June 2, 2022), Destin/Fort Walton Beach (starting May 27, 2022) and Orlando), American Airlines (to Dallas/Ft. Worth and Charlotte), Delta Air Lines (to Atlanta), and United Airlines (as United Express) (to Houston and Denver). The smaller airport, Shreveport Downtown Airport (DTN), was built in 1931 and is located north of the Downtown Business District along the Red River. It is currently a general aviation and reliever airport, but was originally Shreveport's commercial airport.

Railroads

The Shreveport Waterworks Museum contains the Shreveport Railroad Museum, commemorating area railroad history.[148]

The city had been served until the 1960s by several passenger railroads, at different stations.

Military installations

 
Entrance to Barksdale AFB

Barksdale Air Force Base is located in Bossier Parish across the river from Shreveport, which annexed and donated the land for its construction in the 1920s. Named for pioneer army aviator Lt. Eugene Hoy Barksdale and originally called Barksdale Army Air Field, it opened in 1933 and became Barksdale Air Force Base in 1947. Headquartered here are the Air Force Global Strike Command, 8th Air Force, 2d Bomb Wing, and 307th Wing. The primary aircraft housed here is the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. In earlier years, the base was the home to other famous aircraft, including the B-47 Stratojet.

Shreveport is home to the two 108th Cavalry Squadrons, the reconnaissance element of the 256th Infantry Brigade. Three of the squadron's four cavalry troops are located at 400 East Stoner Avenue in a historic armory known as "Fort Humbug". It got the name due to the Confederate Army burning logs to look like cannons and placing them along the Red River. This caused Union ironclad ships sailing north on the Red River to be tricked into turning back south.[151]

Notable people

Main article: List of people from Shreveport, Louisiana

See also

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External links

  • City of Shreveport official website
  • National Weather Service Shreveport office
  • Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau
  • Shreveport/Bossier webpage
  • The Times newspaper
  • www.Shreveport.com
  • Past train stations of Shreveport

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shreveport, louisiana, shreveport, ɔːr, shreev, port, city, state, louisiana, third, most, populous, city, louisiana, after, orleans, baton, rouge, respectively, shreveport, bossier, city, metropolitan, area, with, population, 2020, fourth, largest, louisiana,. Shreveport ˈ ʃ r iː v p ɔːr t SHREEV port is a city in the U S state of Louisiana It is the third most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge respectively The Shreveport Bossier City metropolitan area with a population of 393 406 in 2020 is the fourth largest in Louisiana 4 though 2020 census estimates placed its population at 397 590 5 The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish of which it is the parish seat 6 It extends along the west bank of the Red River most notably at Wright Island the Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park and Bagley Island into neighboring Bossier Parish The United States Census Bureau s 2020 census tabulation for the city s population was 187 593 7 though the American Community Survey s census estimates determined 189 890 residents 8 ShreveportCityCity of ShreveportFrom top left to right Downtown Holy Trinity Catholic Church Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium Shreveport Convention Center Caddo Parish CourthouseFlagSealCoat of armsLocation within Caddo ParishShreveportLocation in the United States of AmericaShow map of LouisianaShreveportShreveport the United States Show map of the United StatesCoordinates 32 30 53 N 93 44 50 W 32 51472 N 93 74722 W 32 51472 93 74722 Coordinates 32 30 53 N 93 44 50 W 32 51472 N 93 74722 W 32 51472 93 74722Country United StatesState LouisianaParishesCaddo BossierFounded1836IncorporatedMarch 20 1839Named forCaptain Henry Miller ShreveGovernment MayorTom Arceneaux R City CouncilMembers list Chair James Flurry R Dist A Willie Bradford D Dist B LeVette Fuller D Dist C John Nickelson R Dist D Grayson Boucher R Dist E James Flurry R Dist F James E Green D Dist G Jerry Bowman D Area 1 City123 84 sq mi 320 74 km2 Land108 14 sq mi 280 10 km2 Water15 69 sq mi 40 65 km2 Metro2 698 sq mi 6 987 8 km2 Elevation154 to 253 ft 46 to 77 1 m Population 2020 City187 593 Rank1st in Caddo Parish3rd in Louisiana137th in United States Density1 734 64 sq mi 669 75 km2 Urban288 052 US 140th 2 Urban density1 592 8 sq mi 615 0 km2 Metro393 406 US 140th DemonymShreveporter 3 Time zoneUTC 6 CST Summer DST UTC 5 CDT ZIP codes71101 71109 71115 71166Area code318FIPS code22 70000Primary airportShreveport Regional AirportInterstatesWaterwaysRed River Cross BayouWebsiteshreveportla govShreveport was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company a corporation established to develop a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail an overland route into the newly independent Republic of Texas Prior to Texas becoming independent this trail entered Mexico 9 It grew throughout the 20th century and after the discovery of oil in Louisiana became a national center for the oil industry Standard Oil of Louisiana absorbed by Standard Oil of New Jersey and now part of ExxonMobil and United Gas Corporation now part of Pennzoil were headquartered in the city until the 1960s and 1980s After the loss of jobs in the oil industry the close of Shreveport Operations a General Motors vehicle factory and other economic problems it struggled with a declining population poverty drugs and violent crime 10 However the city continues in its efforts to revitalize its infrastructure 11 12 13 revive the economy through diversification 14 15 16 and lower crime 17 Despite these efforts the city witnessed the largest number of homicides in its recorded history in 2021 eclipsing the previous record set in 1993 18 Shreveport is the educational commercial and cultural center of the Ark La Tex region where Arkansas Louisiana and Texas meet It is the location of Centenary College of Louisiana Louisiana State University Shreveport Louisiana Tech University Shreveport Southern University at Shreveport and Louisiana Baptist University Its neighboring city Bossier City is the location of Bossier Parish Community College It forms part of the I 20 Cyber Corridor linking Shreveport Bossier City Ruston Grambling and Monroe to Dallas and Tyler Texas and Atlanta Georgia 19 20 21 22 Companies with significant operations or headquarters in Shreveport are Amazon Regions Financial Corporation JPMorgan Chase Sam s Town Hotel and Gambling Hall AT amp T Mobility United Parcel Service Walmart Chick fil A Waffle House SWEPCO General Electric UOP LLC 23 Calumet Specialty Products Partners and APS Payroll Contents 1 History 1 1 Early settlers 1 2 Civil War and Reconstruction 1 3 20th century to present 2 Geography 2 1 Cityscape 2 1 1 Neighborhoods 2 2 Climate 3 Demographics 3 1 Race and ethnicity 3 2 Religion 4 Economy 4 1 Film industry 5 Arts and culture 5 1 Events 5 1 1 Mardi Gras 6 Sports 7 Government 8 Crime 9 Education 9 1 Colleges and universities 10 Media 11 Infrastructure 11 1 Transportation 11 1 1 Highways and roads 11 1 2 Airports 11 1 3 Railroads 11 2 Military installations 12 Notable people 13 See also 14 References 15 External linksHistory EditMain articles History of Shreveport Louisiana and Timeline of Shreveport Louisiana Early settlers Edit Shreveport was established to create a town at the meeting point of the Brown Bricks and the Texas Trail The Red River was made navigable by Captain Henry Miller Shreve who led the United States Army Corps of Engineers efforts to clear the Red River A 180 mile long 290 km natural log jam the Great Raft had previously obstructed passage to shipping Shreve used a specially modified riverboat the Heliopolis to remove the log jam The company and the village of Shreve Town were named in Shreve s honor 24 Shreve Town was originally contained within the boundaries of a piece of land sold to the company in 1835 by the indigenous Caddo Indians In 1838 Caddo Parish was created from the large Natchitoches Parish and Shreve Town became its parish seat On March 20 1839 the town was incorporated as Shreveport Originally the town consisted of 64 city blocks created by eight streets running west from the Red River and eight streets running south from Cross Bayou one of its tributaries Shreveport soon became a center of steamboat commerce carrying mostly cotton and agricultural crops from the plantations of Caddo Parish Shreveport also had a slave market though slave trading was not as widespread as in other parts of the state Steamboats plied the Red River and stevedores loaded and unloaded cargo By 1860 Shreveport had a population of 2 200 free people and 1 300 slaves within the city limits Civil War and Reconstruction Edit During the American Civil War Shreveport was the capital of Louisiana from 1863 to 1865 having succeeded Baton Rouge and Opelousas after each fell under Union control The city was a Confederate stronghold throughout the war and was the site of the headquarters of the Trans Mississippi Department of the Confederate Army Fort Albert Sidney Johnston was built on a ridge northwest of the city Because of limited development in that area the site is relatively undisturbed in the 21st century Isolated from events in the east the Civil War continued in the Trans Mississippi theater for several weeks after Robert E Lee s surrender in April 1865 and the Trans Mississippi was the last Confederate command to surrender on May 26 1865 The period May 13 21 1865 was filled with great uncertainly after soldiers learned of the surrenders of Lee and Johnston the Good Friday assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the rapid departure of their own generals 25 In the confusion there was a breakdown of military discipline and rioting by soldiers They destroyed buildings containing service records a loss that later made it difficult for many to gain Confederate pensions from state governments 25 Throughout the war women in Shreveport did much to assist the soldiers fighting mostly far to the east Historian John D Winters writes of them in The Civil War in Louisiana 1963 The women of Shreveport and vicinity labored long hours over their sewing machines to provide their men with adequate underclothing and uniforms After the excitement of Fort Sumter there was a great rush to get the volunteer companies ready and off to New Orleans Forming a Military Aid Society the ladies of Shreveport requested donations of wool and cotton yarn for knitting socks Joined by others the Society collected blankets for the wounded and gave concerts and tableaux to raise funds Tickets were sold for a diamond ring given by the mercantile house of Hyams and Brothers 26 A Confederate minstrel show gave two performances to raise money for the war effort in Shreveport in December 1862 The Shreveport Ladies Aid Society announced a grand dress ball for April 6 1863 That same month students at the Mansfield Female College in Mansfield in De Soto Parish presented a vocal and instrumental concert to support the war 27 The Red River opened by Shreve in the 1830s remained navigable throughout the Civil War But seasonal water levels got so low at one point that Union Admiral David Dixon Porter was trapped with his gunboats north of Alexandria His engineers quickly constructed a temporary dam to raise the water level and free his fleet In 1873 Shreveport lost 759 citizens in an 80 day period to a yellow fever epidemic with over 400 additional victims eventually succumbing The total death toll from August through November was approximately 1 200 28 29 Five Roman Catholic priests in the city and two religious sisters died while caring for yellow fever victims in the city 30 20th century to present Edit In 1895 Justin Vincent Gras 1868 1959 an immigrant from France opened the largest grocery and liquor store in Shreveport What is good for Shreveport is good for me became his motto He had come to the city four years before to work for his uncle and had quickly learned English and the mercantile business Gras also invested in real estate by the 1920s he was the largest landholder in Caddo Parish Gras and his wife Eugenie became philanthropists donating 2 3 million to establish the Community Foundation of North Louisiana During World War I Gras rebuilt the home church of his native village in the Pyrenees He is interred at St Joseph Cemetery in Shreveport 31 32 A number of local African American musicians became nationally famous By the 1910s Huddie William Ledbetter also known as Lead Belly a blues singer and guitarist was performing for Shreveport audiences in St Paul s Bottoms the notable red light district of Shreveport that operated legally from 1903 to 1917 Ledbetter began to develop his own style of music after exposure to a variety of musical influences on Fannin Street a row of saloons brothels and dance halls in the Bottoms Bluesmen Jesse Thomas Dave Alexander and Kenny Wayne Shepherd and the early jazz and ragtime composers Bill Wray and Willian Christopher O Hare were all from Shreveport Lead Belly achieved international fame By 1914 neglect and lack of use due to diversion of freight traffic to railroad lines resulted in the Red River becoming unnavigable In projects accomplished over decades in 1994 the United States Army Corps of Engineers restored navigability by completion of a series of federally funded lock and dam structures and a navigation channel As early as 1924 the citizens of Shreveport became interested in hosting a military flying field In 1926 Shreveport citizens learned that the 3rd Attack Wing stationed at Fort Crockett Texas would be enlarged by 500 percent and would require at least 20 000 acres 81 km2 to support aerial gunnery and a bombing range The efforts to procure the government s commitment to build the facility in the Greater Shreveport metropolitan area were spearheaded by a committee co chaired by local civic leaders Andrew Querbes and John D Ewing beginning in 1927 It took a great deal of correspondence between the interested parties and the original proposal was rejected However in February 1928 a young crop duster an Air Corps captain named Harold Ross Harris was hired to fly over the local area in order to find a suitable site for the airfield Captain Harris selected what he felt was an adequate location for a military airfield It was a sprawling section of cotton plantation near Bossier City The site selection committee representing the wealthiest taxpayers in the city unanimously agreed upon the Barksdale Field location A delegation of citizens traveled to Washington D C to personally present the advantages of the proposed site to the War Department Following the return of this delegation a special army board visited Shreveport and reported the location met all requirements of the Air Corps The site was selected December 5 1928 as the location of the airfield The land in Bossier Parish on which the airfield was built was unincorporated land near Bossier City that was annexed by the city of Shreveport once the site had been selected among 80 candidates The real estate was purchased from over 800 property owners via a 1 500 000 municipal bond issue approved by Shreveport voters in 1929 in fulfillment of the pledge that the citizens of Shreveport made to the U S government The last of these bonds matured on December 31 1959 After acquisition Shreveport then donated the land to the federal government per their agreement while the federal government assumed all the costs of building construction and equipment installation Shreveport had originally proposed a site adjacent to Cross Lake but the United States Department of War deemed this location inappropriate due to the lack of suitable terrain for the facility s future expansion Subsequent to the establishment of the military installation Bossier City grew and expanded southward and eastward eventually enveloping the area surrounding the base Technically Barksdale AFB is neither in Bossier City nor Shreveport but like all military bases is an autonomous community with its own infrastructure 33 In September 1941 the capture of the city of Shreveport was the objective of a U S Army war game or military exercise known as the Louisiana Maneuvers The field exercise s mission was accomplished largely due to General George S Patton who commanded the mock Blue army s 2nd Armored Division 34 Elvis in the Louisiana Hayride Shreveport was home to the Louisiana Hayride radio program broadcast weekly from the Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium During its heyday from 1948 to 1960 this program stimulated the careers of some of the greatest figures in American music The Hayride featured musicians including Hank Williams and Elvis Presley who made his broadcasting debut at this venue In the mid 1950s KWKH was the first major radio station to feature the music of Presley on its long running Louisiana Hayride program at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium Horace Logan long term KWKH program manager and originator of the Hayride and Frank Page introduced Presley on the Hayride African American veterans of World War II were among activists in Shreveport through the 1960s who worked in the civil rights movement to correct injustices under Jim Crow and disenfranchisement of blacks While activism gradually increased 1963 was a particularly violent year in Shreveport because of white resistance The Shreveport home of Dr C O Simpkins was bombed in retaliation for his work with Dr Martin Luther King Jr 35 36 In September 1963 George W D Artois Public Service Commissioner refused a permit for a march to the Little Union Baptist Church in Shreveport where mourners gathered to honor and commemorate four black girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing on September 15 in Birmingham Alabama D Artois and other officers entered the church on horseback and took out the pastor Dr Harry Blake beating him severely 35 37 Also in 1963 headlines across the country reported that African American musician Sam Cooke was arrested in Shreveport after his band tried to register at a whites only Holiday Inn where they planned to stay before performing in the city Public facilities in Louisiana were still segregated 38 In the months following Cooke recorded the civil rights era song A Change Is Gonna Come In 1964 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act to end segregation of public facilities In the mid 1990s the coming of riverboat gambling to Shreveport attracted numerous new patrons to the downtown and spurred a revitalization of the adjacent riverfront areas Many downtown streets were given a facelift through the Streetscape project Traditional brick sidewalks and crosswalks were built and statues sculptures and mosaics were added to create a better pedestrian environment The O K Allen Bridge commonly known as the Texas Street bridge was lit with neon lights Residents predictably had a variety of reactions to these changes 39 Shreveport was named an All American City in 1953 1979 and 1999 40 During the September 11 2001 attacks President George W Bush was taken to the nearby Barksdale Air Force Base He also made a visit to speak in the city on March 11 2005 41 Since the downturn in the oil industry and other economic problems the city has struggled with a declining population unemployment poverty drugs and violent crime 10 City data from 2017 showed a dramatic increase in certain violent crimes from the previous year including a 138 percent increase in homicides a 21 percent increase in forcible rapes and more than 130 percent increases in both business armed robberies and business burglaries 10 In 2018 the local government and police authorities reported a crime drop in most categories it was part of an overall reduction in crime since the late 20th century 17 As Shreveport continued its economic resurgence 12 15 the Adrian Perkins administration saw the coming of Advanced Aero Services 16 Tomakk Glass Partners 42 and the revitalization plan of the Shreveport Economic Recovery Task Force after the Cross Bayou redevelopment plan was rejected 43 44 In June 2020 rapper Hurricane Chris was arrested in Shreveport for second degree murder 45 Following the George Floyd killing in Minnesota multiple protests were held in the city 46 47 Geography Edit Red River between Shreveport and Bossier City with Barksdale Air Force Base in background 2008Shreveport is located in Northwest Louisiana It is the center of the Ark La Tex region where Arkansas Louisiana and Texas meet It is also part of the I 20 Cyber Corridor linking the tech centered Dallas Fort Worth Shreveport Bossier Greater Monroe and Greater Atlanta metropolitan areas together 19 20 22 21 48 The city of Shreveport is 188 miles 303 km from Dallas 49 98 miles 158 km from Tyler 50 and 41 miles 66 km from Marshall Texas 51 215 miles 346 km from Little Rock and 73 miles 117 km from Texarkana Arkansas 52 53 and 250 miles 400 km from the state capital of Baton Rouge 54 99 miles 159 km from Monroe 55 69 miles 111 km from Ruston 56 and 30 miles 48 km from Minden Louisiana 57 The city s proximity to the nearby cities makes it North Louisiana and the Ark La Tex s transportation hub Shreveport is the parish seat of Caddo Parish Portions of the city extend into neighboring Bossier Parish bordering Bossier City Shreveport sits on a low elevation overlooking the Red River 58 Western and northern portions of Shreveport have an elevation over 253 feet 77 m above sea level 59 Pine forests cotton fields wetlands and waterways mark the outskirts of the city According to the United States Census Bureau in 2010 the city had a total area of 122 35 sq mi 316 88 km2 of which 107 14 sq mi 277 48 km2 is land and 15 21 sq mi 39 40 km2 is water 60 Cityscape Edit The Long Allen Bridge also known as the Texas Street Bridge connects Shreveport and Bossier City Shreveport since the mid 1990s has been a major gambling center with a modest downtown skyline The Streetscape project inspired by the coming of riverboat gaming gave Shreveport s downtown traditional brick sidewalks statues sculptures and mosaics The O K Allen Bridge Texas Street bridge was lit with neon lights Since then Downtown Shreveport has seen minor changes until the 2010s the whole of Shreveport has been improving roads since the mid 2010s with continued road projects in 2018 61 In 2018 buildings in Shreveport s downtown and nearby districts were revitalized due to re investment in the area 12 14 In 2020 plans were unveiled for the I 49 Connector and further redevelopment of the city 43 View of Downtown Shreveport Pine Wold house Fairfield Avenue at Kirby Street was designed by Edward F Neild who created some of the designs for the interior of the White House in the Truman administration as well as the Harry S Truman Presidential Library and Museum Pine Wold was constructed in 1903 by lumberman T J Jones and expanded in 1919 by oilman J P Evans For a time the Mighty Haag Circus wintered on the grounds and the circus elephant Trilby is buried there A C Steere School expanded in 1938 is named for Albert Coldwell Steere developer and founder of the Broadmoor neighborhood the institution was added in 1991 to the National Register of Historic Places It was designed by Edward F Neild of Shreveport Neighborhoods Edit Shreveport encompasses many areas neighborhoods and districts The busiest thoroughfares and areas of Shreveport are the Youree Drive area named for Peter Youree the Shreveport Downtown Riverfront and Highland neighborhood All of the busiest areas are located in Eastern Shreveport nearby or along the Red River Below is a list of areas in the Shreveport area of Caddo Parish Acadiana Place Allendale Allendale Lakeside interloop of neighborhoods Anderson Island Azalea Gardens Braemar Estates Broadmoor Broadmoor Terrace Brunswick Place Caddo Heights Cedar Grove Chapel Creek Cherokee Park Cooper Road Crescent Wood Cross Lake some not in city Dixie Gardens Eden Gardens Ellerbe Road Estates Ellerbe Woods Evangeline Oaks Fairfield Heights Forbing Fox Crossing Garden Valley Glen Iris Greenbrook The Haven Hidden Trace Highland Hollywood Hollywood Heights Huntington Ingleside Jackson Square Jewella South Park Hyde Park Lakeside Lakeside Acres Lakeside on Long Lake Ledbetter Heights or The Bottoms Long Lake Estates Lynbrook Madison Park Mooretown Norris Ferry Crossing Norris Ferry Estates Norris Ferry Landing North Highlands Parkside Pines Road Pierremont Pierremont Place Pierremont Ridge Provenance Queensborough St Charles Place Shreve Island Shreve Lake Estates South Broadmoor South Highlands Southern Hills Southern Trace Spring Lake Stoner Hill Sunset Acres Towne South Twelve Oaks Shadow Pines Estates Steeple Chase Stoner Hill University Terrace Waterside West End Western Hills Wright Island Yarborough In the Highland section along Fairfield Avenue more than a half dozen houses have been designated as historic and listed on the National Register of Historic Places These include residences once occupied by Lieutenant Governor Thomas Charles Barret who served early in the 20th century a Broadway director Joshua Logan a former governor Ruffin Pleasant and wife a physician and developer George W Robinson a Coca Cola bottler Zehntner Biedenharn Ewald Max Hoyer the first mayor of Bossier City beginning in 1907 and John B Slattery a major real estate owner whose former home is one of five remaining structures in Shreveport designed by the noted architect N S Allen 62 Robinson Place in Shreveport former home of physician and developer George W Robinson later the residence of Douglas and Lucille Lee owners of Lee Hardware Company Historic residence of late Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Thomas Charles Barret at Fairfield and Prospect Walker House on Fairfield Avenue was once the home of the Coca Cola bottler Zehntner Biedenharn Bliss Hoyer House built by Abel and Nettie Bliss was later the home of Ewald Max Hoyer the first mayor of Bossier City who continued to reside in Shreveport Climate Edit Shreveport has a humid subtropical climate Koppen climate classification Cfa Rainfall is abundant with the normal annual precipitation averaging over 51 inches 1 300 mm with monthly averages ranging from less than 3 inches 76 mm in August to more than 5 inches 130 mm in June Severe thunderstorms with heavy rain hail damaging winds and tornadoes occur in the area during the spring and summer months The winter months are normally mild with an average of 35 days of freezing or below freezing temperatures per year with ice and sleet storms possible Summer months are hot and humid with maximum temperatures exceeding 90 F 32 C on an average of 91 days per year with high to very high relative average humidity The extreme temperatures range from 5 F 21 C on February 12 1899 63 to 110 F 43 C on August 18 1909 63 Shreveport is home to a branch of the National Weather Service which provides forecasts and warnings for the greater Ark La Tex region Climate data for Shreveport Louisiana Shreveport Regional Airport 1991 2020 normals 64 extremes 1871 presentMonth Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high F C 85 29 89 32 92 33 96 36 102 39 104 40 108 42 110 43 109 43 99 37 88 31 84 29 110 43 Mean maximum F C 76 24 79 26 85 29 87 31 92 33 96 36 100 38 101 38 98 37 91 33 82 28 77 25 103 39 Average high F C 58 4 14 7 62 6 17 0 70 4 21 3 77 5 25 3 84 6 29 2 91 1 32 8 94 3 34 6 94 9 34 9 89 6 32 0 79 3 26 3 67 9 19 9 59 9 15 5 77 5 25 3 Daily mean F C 47 9 8 8 51 8 11 0 59 0 15 0 65 9 18 8 74 0 23 3 80 9 27 2 83 9 28 8 84 0 28 9 78 3 25 7 67 4 19 7 56 6 13 7 49 5 9 7 66 6 19 2 Average low F C 37 3 2 9 41 0 5 0 47 7 8 7 54 3 12 4 63 5 17 5 70 6 21 4 73 5 23 1 73 0 22 8 67 0 19 4 55 4 13 0 45 3 7 4 39 0 3 9 55 6 13 1 Mean minimum F C 21 6 26 3 30 1 38 3 50 10 62 17 68 20 66 19 54 12 39 4 29 2 24 4 20 7 Record low F C 2 19 5 21 15 9 31 1 39 4 52 11 58 14 53 12 42 6 28 2 16 9 5 15 5 21 Average precipitation inches mm 4 40 112 4 30 109 4 90 124 5 19 132 4 46 113 4 78 121 3 50 89 2 91 74 3 46 88 4 59 117 4 00 102 4 94 125 51 43 1 306 Average snowfall inches cm 0 2 0 51 0 5 1 3 0 1 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 25 0 9 2 3 Average precipitation days 0 01 in 9 4 9 6 9 7 7 9 9 1 8 9 7 5 6 6 6 7 7 6 8 4 9 6 101 0Average snowy days 0 1 in 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7Average relative humidity 72 6 69 7 67 7 69 6 73 2 73 3 72 4 71 7 73 6 71 7 73 7 74 4 72 0Mean monthly sunshine hours 158 3 172 8 213 1 231 2 267 1 297 9 317 9 300 7 249 8 235 8 176 8 158 4 2 779 8Percent possible sunshine 50 56 57 59 62 70 73 73 67 67 56 51 63Source NOAA sun and relative humidity 1961 1990 63 65 66 Demographics EditHistorical populationCensus Pop 18501 728 18602 19026 7 18704 607110 4 18808 00973 8 189011 97949 6 190016 01333 7 191028 01575 0 192043 87456 6 193076 65574 7 194098 16728 1 1950127 20629 6 1960164 37229 2 1970182 06410 8 1980206 98913 7 1990198 525 4 1 2000200 1450 8 2010199 311 0 4 2020187 593 5 9 U S Decennial Census 67 2018 Estimate 68 Shreveport s population was initially 1 728 at the 1850 U S census and has experienced growth to a historic high of 206 989 at the 1980 census According to the 2020 United States census there were 187 593 people 73 114 households and 42 775 families residing in the city the 2020 American Community Survey determined an estimated 189 890 people resided in the city purporting a slight population rebound 8 The 2020 census estimates showed Shreveport had 75 680 households with an average of 2 4 people per household Of the households 39 were married couple households though 44 of its male population and 40 of its female population have never married Throughout the city there were 89 523 housing units with a 85 occupancy rate among them 54 were owner occupied Among its units 73 were single unit detached homes and 31 of its population moved into those homes from 2015 to 2016 The median value of its owner occupied housing units were 151 700 and 30 of its units were estimated to be under 100 000 38 of its units were estimated to cost from 100 000 to 200 000 8 From 2014 to 2018 the median value of an owner occupied housing unit was 144 800 The median monthly cost with a mortgage was 1 178 and the median monthly cost without a mortgage was 364 the city of Shreveport had a median gross rent of 810 The median income from 2014 to 2018 was 36 338 and the mean income was 55 582 69 The per capita income was 25 022 By the 2020 American Community Survey its median household income increased to 40 809 70 The median income for families grew to 54 023 with a mean income of 82 854 married couple families 84 282 with a mean of 112 363 and non family households 26 628 with a mean of 41 090 71 According to census estimates 25 of its population earned from 50 000 to 100 000 annually 13 100 000 to 200 000 and 5 over 200 000 Approximately 24 9 of Shreveport lived at or below the poverty line down from 2014 to 2018 s census estimates of 25 4 72 Race and ethnicity Edit Shreveport racial composition as of 2020 73 Race Number PercentageWhite non Hispanic 66 138 35 26 Black or African American non Hispanic 104 612 55 77 Native American 573 0 31 Asian 3 031 1 62 Pacific Islander 102 0 05 Other Mixed 6 479 3 45 Hispanic or Latino 6 658 3 55 Map of racial distribution in Shreveport 2010 U S census Each dot is 25 people White Black Asian Hispanic or other yellow In 2019 the racial and ethnic makeup of Shreveport was 56 9 Black and African American 36 8 non Hispanic white 0 4 American Indian and Alaska Native 1 7 Asian 0 1 Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander 0 1 some other race 1 5 two or more races and 2 6 Hispanic and Latino American of any race 74 At the 2010 U S census the racial and ethnic composition of the population was 54 70 Black or African American 41 16 White 1 0 Native American 2 0 Asian 1 2 from some other race and 1 5 from two or more races In 2010 about 6 5 of the population was Hispanic or Latino American of any race 75 Reflecting the decline in North Louisiana s population 76 the city of Shreveport s racial and ethnic makeup among Hispanic and Latino Americans declined from 2010 yet rebounded from 2019 s census estimates 73 At the 2020 census Shreveport remained a predominantly Black and African American city with 57 77 of the population identifying as such non Hispanic whites slightly declined to 35 26 and multiracial or Americans of another race increased to 3 45 of the population Data from the 2020 United States census reflected growing trends of Hispanic and Latino and Asian American population growth nationwide 77 Religion Edit Christianity is the city and metropolitan area s dominant religion being part of the Bible Belt 78 Its residents were predominantly Protestant through the nineteenth century Today Baptists form the majority of Christians in Shreveport followed by Methodists and Catholics 78 Many Baptist and Methodist churches are affiliated with Evangelical Protestant denominations though several are also affiliated with Mainline Protestantism among Baptists the Southern Baptist Convention 79 National Baptist Convention USA National Baptist Convention of America and Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship are the largest Protestant Baptist denominations in the city 80 The Progressive National Baptist Convention is the largest Progressive Baptist group in the area Methodists are mainly affiliates of the African Methodist Episcopal Church or Christian Methodist Episcopal Church though some also claimed affiliation to the mainline United Methodist Church 81 The Catholic community is primarily served by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shreveport 82 A large First Baptist Church was once pastored by Monroe E Dodd an early radio minister and founder of the former Dodd College for Girls 83 Former Governor Jimmie Davis also a Shreveport city commissioner taught history for a year under Dodd s tutelage Other historic large Baptist congregations include Galilee Missionary Baptist Calvary Baptist Broadmoor Baptist Summer Grove Baptist and Mount Canaan Missionary Baptist Church Summer Grove Baptist Church was previously pastored by Wayne L DuBose a Baptist denominational officer 84 Mount Canaan was previously pastored by Civil Rights icon Dr Harry Blake 85 86 At the head of Texas Street is the large First United Methodist Church established at that site in 1884 The current sanctuary dates to 1913 Among its former pastors were D L Dykes Jr and John E Fellers During a severe thunderstorm in 2009 the fiberglass steeple of the church toppled and fell onto a passing car 87 88 It has since been replaced A second Methodist congregation is named for J S Noel Jr The church was begun as a mission in 1906 Methodist layman James Noel and his wife Fannie provided financially for the church in its early years The congregation decided to name the church for the Noel s late son Like First United Methodist it opened in the current sanctuary in 1913 and grew rapidly A fire gutted the building in 1925 and only a portion of the loss was covered by insurance The members expanded their ranks and rebuilt at the 500 Herndon location St Mark s Cathedral an Episcopal churchThe large Holy Trinity Catholic Church located downtown was founded in 1858 it served Irish and German immigrants as well as native born residents Five priests died of yellow fever in the 1873 epidemic The current sanctuary in Romanesque revival style architecture dates to 1896 89 Particularly striking in size and architecture is St Mark s Cathedral an Episcopal Church congregation at 908 Rutherford Street in the Highland area of Shreveport St Mark s dates its establishment to the first religious service held in Shreveport in 1839 90 It became the see of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana in 1990 91 Shreveport is home to Shreveport Community Church an Evangelical church affiliated with Assemblies of God 92 93 The church owns and operates Evangel Christian Academy a pre K through 12th grade private school that has produced an average of 1 million dollars of scholastic scholarships for its graduating seniors every year The church has produced a biblical musical Songs of the Season during the Christmas holidays for over 20 years 94 95 Westview Christian Church is an independent Christian church that serves members from diverse denominational backgrounds The Eastern Orthodox Church has maintained a presence in Shreveport since the early 1900s 96 The oldest Orthodox church in the city is St George Greek Orthodox Church of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America followed by St Nicholas Orthodox Church Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America 97 and the Holy Nativity of the Lord Church of the Orthodox Church in America Original B nai Zion Temple designated a National Historic Place The Jewish community of Shreveport dates to the organization of Congregation Har El in 1859 made up primarily of German Jewish immigrants in its early years It developed as B nai Zion Temple today the city s Reform congregation which built the city s largest synagogue Agudath Achim founded in 1905 as an Orthodox congregation of immigrants from Eastern Europe is today a traditional Jewish synagogue Shreveport historically has had a large and civic minded Jewish community and has elected three Jewish mayors 98 The Islamic community in Shreveport Bossier constituted approximately 14 of Louisiana s total Muslim population in 2018 99 The majority of Shreveporter Muslims are Sunni followed by the Nation of Islam and non denominational Islam Economy Edit Regions Tower the tallest building in downtown Shreveport Health care is a major industry in Shreveport Christus Schumpert Medical Center is the secondary leading cancer treatment facility in the South behind Willis Knighton The Shreveport Convention Center Shreveport was once a major player in United States oil business and at one time could boast Standard Oil of Louisiana as a locally based company The Louisiana branch was later absorbed by Standard Oil of New Jersey Beginning in 1930 United Gas Corporation the nation s busiest pipeline operator and massive integrated oil company was headquartered in Shreveport Pennzoil performed a hostile takeover in 1968 and forced a merger In the 1980s the oil and gas industry suffered a large economic downturn This affected all of the regional economy and many companies cut back jobs or went out of business including a large retail shopping mall South Park Mall which closed in the late 1990s Its major facilities were adapted for use by Summer Grove Baptist Church Shreveport suffered severely from this recession and many residents left the area Since that time Shreveport has largely transitioned to a service economy In particular there has been rapid growth in the gaming industry The city hosts various riverboat gambling casinos and before Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was second only to New Orleans in Louisiana tourism Nearby Bossier City is home to one of the three horse racetracks in the state Louisiana Downs Casinos in Shreveport Bossier include Sam s Town Bally s Horseshoe Boomtown and Margaritaville Diamond Jacks Casino formerly Isle of Capri closed in 2020 100 101 The Shreveport Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau is the official tourism information agency for the region The bureau maintains a comprehensive database of restaurants accommodations attractions and events In May 2005 the Louisiana Boardwalk a 550 000 square foot 51 000 m2 shopping and entertainment complex opened in Bossier City across from Shreveport s downtown It features outlet shopping several restaurants a 14 screen movie theater a bowling complex and Bass Pro Shops A 350 000 square foot 33 000 m2 convention center was completed in the Shreveport Downtown Riverfront Managed by SMG it includes an 800 space parking garage An adjoining Hilton Hotel opened in June 2007 It was constructed by and owned by the city which has been a controversial issue and the subject of discussions about use of public funds Shreveport is a major medical center of the region and state The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport operates at expanded facilities once used by the former Confederate Memorial Medical Center Major hospitals include Christus Highland Medical Center Willis Knighton and the Shriners Hospital for Children As of November 2008 excitement had centered around development of the Haynesville Shale with many new jobs in the natural gas industry expected to be created over the next few years Residents in the region have been given large bonuses for signing mineral rights leases up to 25 000 per acre However economic downturn had resulted in a lower market price for natural gas and slower than expected drilling activity The city expected to generate revenue by leasing the mineral rights on public lands in the near future as neighboring municipalities had already done Shreveport was home to Shreveport Operations a General Motors plant that closed in August 2012 The plant produced the Chevrolet Colorado GMC Canyon Hummer H3 series and the Isuzu i Series 102 In January 2013 the plant was leased from Caddo Parish by Elio Motors 103 In addition to GM other notable large companies that have had or still have Shreveport manufacturing assembly or production facilities or operations include General Electric electric transformer production Western Electric payphone manufacturing approximately 7 500 employees at its peak changed ownership through the years but closed in 2001 104 Honeywell UOP Libbey Owens Ford Beaird Poulan the originator of and for decades the only manufacturer of the single operator chainsaw in the world 105 Calumet Specialty Products Partners originally United Gas Corporation s Atlas Processing Unit and then Pennzoil and Frymaster LLC a subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company In 2017 manufacturing and other goods producing e g petrochemical refining jobs accounted for about 5 of Shreveport occupations compared to 8 for the nationwide percentage of the workforce involved in manufacturing 106 107 Outside of the manufacturing gambling and hotel industries in Shreveport JPMorgan Chase Capital One and Regions Financial Corporation have regional offices in Shreveport s downtown and surrounding districts and neighborhoods Dallas Fort Worth and Metro Atlanta based AT amp T and New York based Verizon Communications are also prevalent in the city AT amp T s regional headquarters is located in Downtown Shreveport Walmart Lamar Advertising Company Target and Best Buy and United Parcel Service also have facilities throughout Shreveport Amazon and Governor Edwards announced plans to open a fulfillment center in 2021 108 109 Amazon began construction on the 200 million fulfillment center in 2021 with completion expected by the end of 2022 The fulfillment center has been expected to create 1 000 direct jobs 110 Additionally other business investments alongside Amazon during the early 2020s contributed more than 750 million to revitalizing and expanding the municipal and metropolitan economy 111 In 2014 the city government pumped 16 5 million into Mall St Vincent In 2015 Fortune magazine ranked Shreveport the 1 place to start a business 112 In 2017 Gymboree and Grimaldi s Pizzeria closed their Mall St Vincent operations Sears is now closed as well as of 2018 113 In 2020 Advanced Aero Services planned to open a facility at Shreveport Regional Airport 16 15 On July 31 2020 the Shreveport Economic Recovery Task Force released a revitalization plan with a primary focus on the downtown area 43 Film industry Edit Tax incentives offered by the state government have given Louisiana the third largest film industry in the country behind California and New York Louisiana is sometimes called Hollywood South 114 A number of films have been made in Shreveport Facilities include sound stages prop rental facilities the Fairgrounds Complex and the Louisiana Wave Studio a computer controlled outdoor wave pool 115 Selected films shot in Shreveport include The Guardian 2006 Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner Factory Girl 2006 Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce The Great Debaters 2007 Denzel Washington Mr Brooks 2007 Kevin Costner William Hurt and Demi Moore Premonition 2007 Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon Cleaner 2007 Samuel L Jackson The Mist 2007 Thomas Jane Toby Jones and Marcia Gay Harden Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins 2008 Martin Lawrence and Cedric The Entertainer Soul Men 2008 Samuel L Jackson Bernie Mac Year One 2008 Jack Black and Michael Cera W 2008 Josh Brolin Richard Dreyfuss and James Cromwell Harold amp Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay 2008 John Cho and Kal Penn I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell 2009 Matt Czuchry Jesse Bradford and Geoff Stults Super 2010 Elliot Page Rainn Wilson Straw Dogs 2011 James Marsden Kate Bosworth Drive Angry 2011 Nicolas Cage Trespass 2011 Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman Battle Los Angeles 2011 Michelle Rodriguez Bridget Moynahan The Iceman 2012 Michael Shannon Winona Ryder Ain t Them Bodies Saints 2013 Casey Affleck Rooney Mara Olympus Has Fallen 2013 Gerard Butler Aaron Eckhart Morgan Freeman Texas Chainsaw 3D 2013 The Town that Dreaded Sundown 2014 Dark Places 2015 Chloe Grace Moretz Charlize Theron I Saw the Light 2015 Tom Hiddleston Elizabeth Olsen Several television series have been shot in Shreveport and the surrounding area including The Gates 2010 and Salem 2014 The Louisiana Film Prize has spurred the creation of over 200 short films shot in Shreveport and Northwest Louisiana by filmmakers from around the world since its inception in 2012 Arts and culture EditShreveport is home to many theatres museums and performing arts groups including Shreveport Symphony Orchestra in 2010 Academy of Children s Theatre 116 Artspace Shreveport Barnwell Memorial Garden and Art Center Hayride Diner Soundstage 516 J O S H Lounge Jazz Old School and Heritage 117 118 119 120 Louisiana Dance Theatre Louisiana State Exhibit Museum Marjorie Lyons Playhouse on the Centenary College Campus Meadows Museum of Art Centenary College Multicultural Center of the South Once in a Millennium Moon mural by Meg Saligman 121 Power and Grace School of Performing Arts R W Norton Art Gallery River City Repertory Theatre the professional theatre for Shreveport Bossier RiverView Theatre Robinson Film Center Shreveport House Concerts 122 Shreveport Little Theatre 123 Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet Shreveport Municipal Auditorium Shreveport Opera Shreveport Symphony Orchestra Southern University Museum of Art Spring Street Museum StageCenter Performing Arts The Strand Theatre Theatre of the Performing Arts of Shreveport Events Edit Louisiana State Fair Grounds in 2015 ArtBreak Festival largest annual student arts festival in the South since 1984 Barksdale Air Force Base Air Show held annually since 1933 Cinco De Mayo Fiesta held annually since 1998 Highland Jazz amp Blues Festival held annually the second Saturday of November since 2003 Holiday in Dixie annual springtime festival began 1949 Independence Bowl held annually close to New Year s since 1976 Independence Day Festival held annually on the 4th of July since 2009 Let the Good Times Roll Festival annual Juneteenth festival since 1986 Louisiana Film Prize short film competition and film festival Mardi Gras parades Mudbug Madness annual celebration of crawfish held each May since 1984 Red River Balloon Rally annual summer festival since 2016 Red River Revel annual autumn arts festival which began in 1976 the largest outdoor festival in northern Louisiana The State Fair of Louisiana held annually each autumn since 1906 Mardi Gras Edit Mardi Gras celebrations in Shreveport date to the mid 19th century when krewes and parades were organized along the lines of those of New Orleans Mardi Gras in Shreveport did not survive the cancellations caused by World War I Attempts to revive it in the 1920s were unsuccessful and the last Carnival celebrations in Shreveport for decades were held in 1927 Mardi Gras in Shreveport was revived beginning in 1984 with the organization of the Krewe of Apollo The Krewes of Gemini Centaur Aesclepius Highland Sobek Harambee and others followed during the next decade and a half The first krewe clarification needed to revive parading was Gemini in 1989 Today Mardi Gras is again an important part of the cultural life of the Shreveport Bossier metropolitan area 124 Sports EditMain article Sports in Shreveport Bossier Independence Stadium 2015 Dating back to 1911 the state fairgrounds and later Independence Stadium formerly State Fair Stadium has traditionally hosted a college football game or two during the State Fair of Louisiana an event currently dubbed the Red River State Fair Classic Since 1976 Independence Stadium has served as host of college football s annual Independence Bowl 125 Also the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team occasionally hosts games at Independence Stadium Shreveport was also home to a few now defunct football teams The Houston franchise of the professional World Football League relocated to Shreveport rebranded as the Shreveport Steamer midway through the 1974 season but the franchise along with the WFL folded midway through the 1975 season Another franchise named the Shreveport Steamers played as a member of the American Football Association from 1979 until folding in 1981 Shreveport s Independence Stadium was also home to the Shreveport Pirates an unsuccessful professional Canadian Football League franchise that opened play in 1994 but folded after the 1995 season Baseball in Shreveport has an extensive past The city had affiliated Minor League Baseball teams from 1968 to 2002 The most memorable team was the Shreveport Captains of the Texas League Baseball teams in Shreveport have gone through eight different name changes and seven different leagues all since 1895 Shreveport s most recent independent minor league baseball team the Shreveport Bossier Captains ceased operations in 2011 and moved to Laredo Texas The city also has an extensive history in basketball and soccer The Shreveport Crawdads and Shreveport Storm operated in 1994 and 1995 as members of the Continental Basketball Association The Shreveport Bossier Mavericks of the American Basketball Association played from 2013 to 2015 before relocating to Owensboro Kentucky since 2021 the Mavericks returned as the Shreveport Mavericks within The Basketball League 126 127 The Shreveport Bossier Lions played in 1998 as affiliates of the United Soccer League NPSL affiliate Shreveport Rafters FC operated from 2016 to 2018 their expansion team for the Women s Premier Soccer League operated for one season in 2017 Shreveport almost had a USL expansion team in 2020 before its rejection by the city council 128 though USL League Two announced the establishment of Blue Goose SC in 2022 129 The city was once considered as location for an NBA G League affiliate of the New Orleans Pelicans The city council unanimously rejected the proposal 130 The Shreveport Mudbugs are a Tier II junior ice hockey team that has competed in the North American Hockey League since 2016 The Centenary Gentlemen and Ladies compete in NCAA Division III as a member of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference The LSU Shreveport Pilots compete in the NAIA as a member of the Red River Athletic Conference Government EditMain article Politics of Shreveport Caddo Parish Courthouse Founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1839 Shreveport is the parish seat of Caddo Parish It is part of the First Judicial District housing the parish courthouse It also houses the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal which consists of nine elected judges representing twenty parishes in Northwest Louisiana A portion of east Shreveport extends into Bossier Parish due to the changing course of the Red River The city of Shreveport has a mayor council government The elected municipal officials include the mayor Adrian Perkins and seven members of the city council Cedric Glover a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives was the first African American to hold the mayoral position 131 132 Under the mayor council government the mayor serves as the executive officer of the city As the city s chief administrator and official representative the mayor is responsible for the general management of the city and for seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced Crime EditAccording to the most recent FBI statistics the total crime rate in Shreveport is 5 722 4 per 100 000 people or 143 92 higher than the national rate of 2 346 0 per 100 000 people and 62 39 higher than the Louisiana total crime rate of 3 523 8 per 100 000 people 133 The violent crime rate in Shreveport is 923 0 per 100 000 people or 138 01 higher than the national rate of 387 8 per 100 000 people and 44 35 higher than the Louisiana violent crime rate of 639 4 per 100 000 people 133 Shreveport has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes from the smallest towns to the very largest cities One s chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime is 1 in 15 Within Louisiana more than 93 of the communities had a lower crime rate than Shreveport NeighborhoodScout found Shreveport to be one of the top 100 most dangerous cities in the United States 134 In the late 1980s authorities started to track local Los Angeles based gangs that distributed cocaine out of low income neighborhoods The first and the biggest street gang was the 52nd Street Hoover Crips shortly after LA gangs moved in gang related homicides began to rise Shreveport was the first city in Louisiana to have Crips and Blood gangs 135 136 In 1993 Shreveport hit a peak in murders with 86 killings Most of the killings were drug or gang related homicides 137 In 2017 Shreveport was placed 18th on 24 7 Wall St s list of America s 25 Murder Capitals 138 Shreveport s crime rate was 71 higher than the Louisiana average The crime rate was also 149 higher than the national average 139 The city had a so called saggy pants law since 2007 140 The city ordinance was repealed by the city council in June 2019 141 Education Edit C E Byrd High SchoolMain article Caddo Public Schools Louisiana Caddo Public Schools is a school district based in Shreveport 142 The district serves all of Caddo Parish Its founding superintendent was Clifton Ellis Byrd a Virginia native who assumed the chief administrative position in 1907 and continued until his death in 1926 C E Byrd High School which was established in 1925 on Line Avenue at the intersection with East Kings Highway bears his name There are a number of private schools in the city as well including Loyola College Prep a coeducational high school founded in 1902 as the all male St John s High School Colleges and universities Edit Louisiana State University Shreveport Shreveport has several colleges including the Methodist affiliated Centenary College founded at Jackson Louisiana in 1825 relocated to Shreveport in 1908 and Louisiana State University in Shreveport which opened as a two year institution in 1967 it became a four year institution in 1976 Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport the only medical school in Northern Louisiana opened in 1969 Shreveport also has one of the largest nursing schools in northern Louisiana the Northwestern State University College of Nursing Louisiana Tech University at Shreveport Bossier City was launched in 2012 offering their Executive MBA and main campus undergraduate and graduate degree programs at the university s Shreveport Center 143 Southern University at Shreveport SUSLA offers a two year associate s degree program Founded in 1973 Louisiana Baptist University and Theological Seminary is also located in Shreveport at 6301 Westport Avenue Ayers Career College is a Shreveport based college that offers career training in the medical and HVAC fields 144 Since July 2007 Shreveport is home to a local Remington College campus This location offers both diploma and degree programs and is active in the Shreveport community 145 Virginia College opened in 2012 Located in Shreveport Bossier City it offers career training in areas such as business and office health and medical and medical billing 146 Media EditFurther information Media in Shreveport Louisiana KSLA a CBS affiliate is the oldest television station in Shreveport Established in the former Washington Youree Hotel in 1954 it was moved to Fairfield Avenue in the early 1970s Shreveport and its surrounding area are served by a variety of local newspapers magazines television stations and radio stations The major daily newspaper serving the area is The Shreveport Times owned by USA Today parent Gannett Its headquarters is in Shreveport s downtown near Interstate 20 The newspaper s former rival the afternoon Shreveport Journal ceased publication in 1991 Other major newspapers include The Shreveport Sun Caddo Citizen and SB Magazine The Shreveport Sun is the area s primary African American newspaper 147 Across the Red River Shreveport s sister city of Bossier City is served by the daily Bossier Press Tribune The Barksdale Warrior is the weekly newspaper of record for the Barksdale Air Force Base Alternative publications include The Forum Newsweekly City Lights The Inquisitor and The Shreveport Catalyst Twice annually North Louisiana History the journal of the North Louisiana Historical Association is published in Shreveport Shreveport and Bossier City are primarily served by two major cable television and internet companies Shreveport is served by Comcast and Bossier City is served by Suddenlink Shreveport is home to several radio stations particularly KWKH and KEEL which have reputations beyond the city The three commercial television outlets are KSLA CBS founded in 1954 KTBS TV ABC founded in 1955 and KTAL TV which arrived in Shreveport in September 1961 as the NBC station KTBS was an NBC station with occasional ABC programs from 1955 to 1961 when it switched affiliation to ABC KTAL formerly known as KCMC of Texarkana was a CBS outlet prior to conversion to NBC when it began to cover Shreveport as well as Texarkana Don Owen 1930 2012 a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission from 1984 to 2002 is also a former news anchorman on KSLA The Shreveport Bossier City metropolitan area is also the point of origination of internet radio station KHAM Radio which signed on in March 2011 The internet radio station is completely web based and is not affiliated with any terrestrial radio station in the area Infrastructure EditTransportation Edit Main article Transportation in Shreveport Highways and roads Edit Texas Street Texas Avenue Shreveport s past reflects the need for mass transit and public roads As far back as the 1870s residents used mule drawn street cars that were converted to electric motorized cars by 1890 Commuter rail systems in Shreveport flourished for many decades and rail car lines extended out to rural areas In 1930 trolleys and rail cars began to be replaced by buses although motor buses did not finally replace all trolley service until the 1960s In the 1960s the Interstate Highway System came to the area with the construction of Interstate 20 The local public transportation provider SporTran provides moderately extensive bus service throughout Shreveport and Bossier City Sportran operates seven days a week on seventeen bus routes five night routes from 6 00 a m to 1 00 am with no night service on Sunday The highway system has a cross hair and loop freeway structure similar to that of Texas cities like Houston and Dallas The loop consists of the Outer Loop Freeway Interstate 220 on the north and the Inner Loop Freeway Louisiana Highway 3132 on the south forming approximately an 8 mile diameter 13 km semi loop around downtown Another loop is formed by the Bert Kouns Industrial Loop Louisiana Highway 526 and circles further south bisecting Interstate 49 I 49 now extends north to Interstate 30 in Arkansas though there is a gap in I 49 within Shreveport Shreveport lies along the route of the proposed Interstate 69 North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA superhighway that will link Canada the U S industrial Midwest Texas and Mexico Airports Edit Shreveport is served by two airports The larger is Shreveport Regional Airport SHV established in 1952 and is served by Allegiant Air to Las Vegas Los Angeles Daytona Beach starting June 2 2022 Destin Fort Walton Beach starting May 27 2022 and Orlando American Airlines to Dallas Ft Worth and Charlotte Delta Air Lines to Atlanta and United Airlines as United Express to Houston and Denver The smaller airport Shreveport Downtown Airport DTN was built in 1931 and is located north of the Downtown Business District along the Red River It is currently a general aviation and reliever airport but was originally Shreveport s commercial airport Railroads Edit The Shreveport Waterworks Museum contains the Shreveport Railroad Museum commemorating area railroad history 148 The city had been served until the 1960s by several passenger railroads at different stations Central Station at 1025 Marshall Street served the Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad Texas amp Pacific Station at 104 Market Street served the Texas and Pacific Railway Its last trains were unnamed successors to the Louisiana Eagle Fort Worth New Orleans and the Louisiana Daylight El Paso New Orleans 149 150 Union Station on Louisiana Avenue at Lake Street had the Illinois Central the Southwestern Limited Northeastern Limited Shreveport Meridian MS Kansas City Southern Railway the Southern Belle Kansas City New Orleans St Louis Southwestern Railway the Lone Star Dallas Memphis and the Southern Pacific 149 Military installations Edit Entrance to Barksdale AFB Barksdale Air Force Base is located in Bossier Parish across the river from Shreveport which annexed and donated the land for its construction in the 1920s Named for pioneer army aviator Lt Eugene Hoy Barksdale and originally called Barksdale Army Air Field it opened in 1933 and became Barksdale Air Force Base in 1947 Headquartered here are the Air Force Global Strike Command 8th Air Force 2d Bomb Wing and 307th Wing The primary aircraft housed here is the Boeing B 52 Stratofortress In earlier years the base was the home to other famous aircraft including the B 47 Stratojet Shreveport is home to the two 108th Cavalry Squadrons the reconnaissance element of the 256th Infantry Brigade Three of the squadron s four cavalry troops are located at 400 East Stoner Avenue in a historic armory known as Fort Humbug It got the name due to the Confederate Army burning logs to look like cannons and placing them along the Red River This caused Union ironclad ships sailing north on the Red River to be tricked into turning back south 151 Notable people EditMain article List of people from Shreveport LouisianaSee also Edit United States portal Louisiana portal Cities portalHouston E amp W T Ry Co v United States a landmark U S Supreme Court commerce clause ruling commonly known as The Shreveport Rate Cases Mighty Haag Circus List of U S cities with 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