Estherwood Louisiana Map

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.

About This Estherwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Estherwood, Louisiana. Coordinates: 30.180761, -92.464301. 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 Estherwood includes the ZIP code (70534), telephone area code (985), county seat of Acadia Parish, and school district assignment (Acadia 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.