Choctaw Louisiana Map

About Choctaw, Louisiana

Choctaw is a locality in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 775. The population density is 47.9 people per km². Choctaw is located at 29.8457°N, 90.7238°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 70719, 70301.

Choctaw emerges from the low, damp horizons of the Louisiana wetlands where the dark, silt-heavy current of Bayou Baton Pilon carves a slow path through the marsh. It lies 8.5 miles east-northeast of Thibodaux, LA (from Thibodaux, LA: bearing 69°T), and is situated 9.5 miles northwest of Raceland. The air here holds a permanent, humid weight, thick with the scent of brackish water and the rot of cypress knees, while the light at dusk bruises the sky into shades of deep violet and bruised gold. To the north, the land rises subtly toward the elevation of Walker Point, offering a slight reprieve from the saturated earth that stretches toward the distant, salt-tinged expanse of Baie Chevreuil. Beyond the immediate banks of the bayou, the landscape is defined by the flat, quiet persistence of the wilderness, where the proximity of the Division Of State Lands ensures the survival of tangled thickets and hidden sloughs that remain largely untouched by the encroaching reach of the modern world.

Choctaw maintains a rhythm dictated by the seasons of the soil and the rising tides that press inland from the coast, seventeen miles away. The local economy has long been tethered to the bounty of the swamp and the labor of the earth, echoing a history built upon the steady harvest of sugarcane and the quiet industry of those who know how to read the water. Life here moves with a deliberate, unforced gravity, far removed from the frantic pace of larger hubs, finding its center instead in the proximity of Lake Boeuf and the interconnected veins of the bayous. Residents carry the legacy of a landscape that is constantly shifting, a place where the boundaries between the solid ground and the water are always in flux, requiring a patience that is as deep and murky as the channels of the basin itself.

About This Choctaw Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Choctaw, Louisiana. Coordinates: 29.845682, -90.72384. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Choctaw includes the ZIP code (70719, 70301), telephone area code (985), county seat of Lafourche Parish, and school district assignment (Lafourche Parish School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.