Caddo County, Louisiana Map
Explore Caddo County, Louisiana with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 10 cities and towns in Caddo County below.
Interactive Map of Caddo County, Louisiana
| County | Caddo |
| State | Louisiana (LA) |
| County Seat | Shreveport |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 32.784837 |
| Longitude | -93.90093 |
| Cities & Towns | 10 |
| Area Codes | 318 |
About Caddo County, Louisiana
Caddo Parish occupies the northwestern corner of Louisiana, a landscape defined by the expansive, sluggish meanderings of the Red River and the shallow, moss-draped basins of ancient lakes. The terrain transitions from the alluvial plains of the river valley into the pine-crested ridges of the uplands, where the clay soil carries a deep, iron-rich ochre. Hardwood bottoms and dense thickets of willow and cypress dominate the lower elevations, holding the moisture of the humid air in a perpetual, heavy stillness. When the sun descends, the light catches the suspended dust and swamp mist, turning the sky a bruised purple that seems to pull the heat directly out of the ground, leaving the earth to breathe in the cooling dark.
Caddo Parish emerged in the mid-nineteenth century, carved from the territories long inhabited by the indigenous people for whom it is named. Its development was tethered to the clearing of a massive log jam that had choked the river for generations, an engineering feat that opened the waterway to steamboat commerce and transformed a remote wilderness into a bustling node of river trade. The parish seat grew into a primary center of governance and exchange, its architecture reflecting the shifting fortunes of the frontier. Old brick facades and iron-wrought balconies remain, standing as silent witnesses to the era when the river was the only road, and the sound of a steam whistle meant the arrival of news, mail, and the outside world.
Economic life here has been forged by the extraction of subterranean wealth and the persistent demands of agriculture, moving from the labor of the plantation era to the later, frantic pulse of the oil and gas boom. Today, the parish maintains a character that balances the industrial scale of its refineries and sprawling rail yards with the quietude of its rural reaches, where cattle graze amidst the tall, unkempt grasses. Public squares and wide, grid-patterned streets hold the weight of a century’s ambition, while the humid air carries the scent of pine resin and wet pavement. It is a place where the modern hum of the highway never quite drowns out the slow, seasonal oscillation of the river, and the people move with a deliberate pace, acknowledging the heat as a constant, quiet companion to their daily labor.
Cities and Towns in Caddo County
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About This Caddo County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Caddo County, Louisiana alongside links to detailed street maps for 10 cities and towns. The county seat is Shreveport. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
