Pleasant Hill, Louisiana
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Location in Louisiana
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| Foundation : | 1844 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Louisiana | ||
| Parish : | Sabine Parish | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 49 ′ N , 93 ° 31 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 723 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 180.8 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 4.1 km 2 (about 2 mi 2 ) of which 4 km 2 (about 2 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 87 m | ||
| Postal code : | 71065 | ||
| Area code : | +1 318 | ||
| FIPS : | 22-61055 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 2407527 | ||
| Mayor : | Bill Thomas | ||
Pleasant Hill is a town in Sabine Parish in the US state of Louisiana . Almost 700 people live in an area of around four square kilometers.
Pleasant Hill is part of the Ark-La-Tex socio-economic region , which includes parts of the four states of Arkansas , Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas .
geography
Pleasant Hill is located in northwest Louisiana, about 30 kilometers from the western Texas border and 140 kilometers from the northern Arkansas border. The city is located roughly halfway between the Sabine National Forest in the west and one of the longest rivers in the world, the Red River , in the east and near the border between the Sabine and De Soto Parish .
Nearby cities include Converse (17 km west), Zwolle (22 m southwest), Many (25 km south), Coushatta (26 km northeast), Mansfield (28 km northwest), and Natchitoches (42 km southwest). The nearest major city with a population of nearly 200,000 is Shreveport , about 90 kilometers to the north.
history
In 1844, John Jordan from Pleasant Valley , Alabama looked around for a new home and found it in the southernmost part of De Soto Parish . Friends and relatives quickly followed him, so that a town emerged as early as 1850. Because of the local cotton production, the affluence of the local families increased rapidly. A girls' school was built, as well as a post office, a hotel and two Methodist churches.
The city was best known for the Battle of Pleasant Hill , which is considered the bloodiest of the clashes of the American Civil War west of the Mississippi River . On April 19, 1864, around 25,500 soldiers of the Union and Confederate troops met here, and around 3,000 soldiers were killed. In addition, local businesses have been looted or destroyed and homes have been occupied. After the battle, the school building and various residential buildings were used as hospitals to care for injured soldiers.
In 1881 the expansion of the railway lines began. This marked a major change in the history of the city; since no railway line was built in the immediate vicinity of the city, houses in the urban area were abandoned and families and companies settled along the railway line. The new city arose two miles away from the old town center and was now in Sabine Parish . Incorporated in 1893, it was initially called Sodus , but Pleasant Hill remained common among the residents who had largely moved here from the old city . In 1922, the railroad officials decided to rename the town Pleasant Hill again .
Demographics
The 2000 census showed a population of 786 people, divided into 293 households and 200 families. The population density was nearly 195 people per square kilometer. 58.8% of the population were white, 35.1% black, 3.2% Native American, 1.9% Hispanic or Latin American, and 0.1% Asian. 2.8% had two or more ethnicities. The median age was 35 and the per capita income was over US $ 13,000, putting more than 30% of the population below the poverty line.
By the 2010 census , the population had dropped to 723.
traffic
Louisiana Highway 174 runs from west to east of the city, ending in the west near the Texas border and in the east on Louisiana Highway 1 . He is in the center of the north-south running Louisiana Highway 175 crossed that in the north, among others, according to Mansfield leads and rises to Louisiana Highway 1 and in the south near Many in the US Highway 171 rises.
Interstate 49 runs approximately 14 kilometers northeast of the city .
Personalities
- Oscar K. Allen , a politician and four years Governor of Louisiana, taught at a school in Pleasant Hill for about a decade.
