Dorseyville Louisiana Map

About Dorseyville, Louisiana

Dorseyville is a locality in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 159. The population density is 403.9 people per km². Dorseyville is located at 30.1773°N, 91.1614°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 70788.

Dorseyville anchors itself upon the fertile, silt-heavy banks where the Mississippi River carves a slow, deliberate arc through the lowland plains. It lies 11.7 miles south of Gardere, LA (from Gardere, LA: bearing 186°T), and is situated 6.7 miles southwest of St. Gabriel. The air here holds a permanent, humid weight, thick with the scent of damp earth and the pervasive, sweet musk of sugarcane stalks ripening under an unwavering sun. Beyond the immediate riverbend, the terrain flattens into an expansive, emerald horizon, broken only by the occasional stand of cypress or the disciplined, geometric rows of agricultural fields. Sunlight at dusk catches the suspended particles in the heavy atmosphere, turning the entire landscape a bruised, luminous violet that bleeds into the shadows of the tall, swaying grasses.

Dorseyville carries the quiet imprint of generations who have oriented their lives around the seasonal cycles of the river and the labor of the soil. While the local economy remains tethered to the rhythmic demands of large-scale farming and the logistics of the waterway, the pace of existence remains measured, dictated more by the heat of the afternoon than the urgency of the clock. Seven miles away, the Lsu Research Station serves as a quiet sentinel of scientific inquiry, watching over the ecological intricacies of the region, while the distant, placid surface of Lake Verret lies sixteen miles to the south, a silent witness to the inland geography. Life in Dorseyville is a study in consistency, where the transition from the labor of the day to the stillness of the evening is marked by the low, mournful call of distant river traffic and the emergence of fireflies in the deep, velvet dark.

About This Dorseyville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Dorseyville, Louisiana. Coordinates: 30.1773, -91.1614. 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 Dorseyville includes the ZIP code (70788), telephone area code (985), county seat of Iberville Parish, and school district assignment (Iberville 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.