Baldwin Louisiana Map
Baldwin, Louisiana — interactive Google street map, satellite and terrain views, Street View, live National Weather Service conditions and 7-day forecasts, real-time local and world news, and an editorial description of Baldwin, St. Mary Parish.
Interactive Map of Baldwin, Louisiana
| City | Baldwin |
| State | Louisiana (LA) |
| County | St. Mary Parish |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 29.837984 |
| Longitude | -91.544279 |
| Population | 1,962 |
| Density | 203.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
About Baldwin, Louisiana
Baldwin is a locality in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,962. The population density is 203.3 people per km². Baldwin is located at 29.8380°N, 91.5443°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 70514.
Baldwin breathes with the humid, verdant spirit of the Louisiana bayou country, a place where the land itself seems to exhale a perpetual mist. It lies 20.0 miles south-east of New Iberia, LA (from New Iberia, LA: bearing 125°T), and is situated 3.9 miles north-west of Franklin. Ancient live oaks, their limbs draped with Spanish moss like somber shawls, stand sentinel over the flat terrain, their roots a tangled testament to centuries of slow growth. The air, thick and syrupy, carries the faint, earthy scent of decaying cypress and the distant, mournful cry of a lone heron. Water is the dominant character here, not in grand, sweeping rivers, but in the quiet, inky veins of bayous that snake through the landscape, reflecting the dense green of the surrounding vegetation in their still surfaces. The light, even at midday, feels filtered, softened by the canopy, and at dusk, it bleeds into the sky in bruised purples and oranges, a painterly farewell to the day. The history of Baldwin is as intertwined with the flow of water as the cypress knees are with the bayou floor. Once a vital stopping point for steamboats navigating the Atchafalaya Basin, its fortunes ebbed and flowed with the changing currents of transportation and trade. The local economy, historically tethered to the bounty of the waterways and the fertile soil, still finds sustenance in agriculture, with sugarcane fields stretching out like emerald carpets under the wide sky. Though the grand days of riverboat commerce have receded, a quiet resilience persists in Baldwin, a recognition of the land’s enduring generosity and the deep roots of its people. The distinctive charm of this place lies in its unhurried pace, a gentle cadence that allows for contemplation of the slow, inexorable march of time, marked not by clocks but by the subtle shifts of seasons and the persistent whisper of the wind through the moss-laden trees.
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About This Baldwin Map Page
This page provides an interactive Google map of Baldwin, Louisiana with street, satellite and terrain views and integrated Street View imagery. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Baldwin and St. Mary Parish. Coordinates and population data are also included.
Location data for Baldwin is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity, not name matching alone — ensuring the correct Baldwin is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states.
| Page generated | June 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. Location verified by proximity — not name matching alone. |
