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Estherwood Louisiana Map

Explore Estherwood, Louisiana, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Estherwood, Louisiana

How to Use This Estherwood, Louisiana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Estherwood, Louisiana. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Louisiana or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Estherwood.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Estherwood
State	Louisiana (LA)
County	Acadia Parish
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	30.180761
Longitude	-92.464301
Population	694
Density	143.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	70534
Area Code	985
School District	Acadia Parish School District

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About Estherwood, Louisiana

Estherwood is a locality in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 694. The population density is 143.8 people per km². Estherwood is located at 30.1808°N, 92.4643°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Estherwood is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 70534.

Estherwood occupies a flat, expansive stretch of southwest Louisiana where the horizon remains unbroken by anything taller than a grain silo or a stand of stubborn oaks. It lies 5.8 miles west-southwest of Crowley, LA (from Crowley, LA: bearing 247°T), and is situated 11.9 miles east-southeast of Jennings. The Coulee Triet carves a narrow, sluggish path through the landscape, its dark water reflecting the heavy, humid sky that presses down upon the fields. In the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised gold, catching the dust kicked up by trucks on rural roads and illuminating the vast, geometric patterns of the surrounding agricultural land. While the surface of the earth here is unremarkable in its uniformity, there is a quiet, heavy beauty in the way the shadows lengthen across the soil, stretching thin and dark until the evening heat finally begins to break.

History in Estherwood is measured in the cycles of the rice harvest, a rhythm that dictates the pace of life far more effectively than any clock. The economy remains tethered to these fields, where the expertise of generations keeps the irrigation pumps humming and the tractors moving in slow, rhythmic lines. Residents often look toward the quiet expanse of Lake Arthur for a change of scenery, or perhaps venture toward the quiet trails of Bronco Fields to find a moment of stillness away from the machinery. Estherwood persists as a place where the cultural influence of the region is felt in the cadence of local speech and the shared preference for work that leaves a man tired by sunset, maintaining a character that is defined by the soil it works rather than the noise of the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Rice Museum (Museum) — 4.8 mi, 072° E
Bronco Fields (Local Recreation) — 5.2 mi, 074° E
Hoffpauir Park (Local Park) — 5.3 mi, 060° NE
Martin Luther King Park (Local Park) — 5.6 mi, 065° NE
Mobile (Monument) — 5.8 mi, 067° NE
Lsu Research Station (Recreation Easement) — 6.1 mi, 089° E
Duson Monument Founders of Crowley (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 068° E
I-10 Rest Area (State Recreation Area) — 9.1 mi, 295° NW
Division Of State Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 10.2 mi, 249° W
Zigler Art Museum (Museum) — 11.9 mi, 284° W
Frog City Festival Pavilion (Monument) — 12.2 mi, 067° NE
Rayne City Museum (Museum) — 12.5 mi, 068° E
White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.0 mi, 179° S
“the Sky’s the Limit” Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 20.3 mi, 005° N
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Barataria Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 21.7 mi, 007° N
Prairie Acadian Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 21.8 mi, 007° N
Eunice Museum (Museum) — 21.8 mi, 008° N
Acadian Village (Attraction) — 22.1 mi, 091° E
Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.4 mi, 238° SW · 67k acres
First Horizon Ampitheatre (Theatre) — 25.4 mi, 087° E
Farm Service Agency Interest Of La (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.5 mi, 357° N · 9,337 acres
Evangeline Maid Bread Sign (Attraction) — 26.5 mi, 082° E
Alexandre Mouton House (Museum) — 26.6 mi, 084° E
Cité des Arts (Theatre) — 26.9 mi, 083° E
Vermilionville Historic Village (Attraction) — 28.1 mi, 085° E
Palmetto Island State Park (State Park) — 28.5 mi, 139° SE
Boho (Gallery) — 28.6 mi, 056° NE
Cajun Country Swamp Tours (Attraction) — 33.5 mi, 085° E
Street of Dreams Studios (Gallery) — 55.4 mi, 316° NW
Kisatchie National Forest (National Forest) — 56.6 mi, 349° N · 607k acres

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