Gueydan Louisiana Map

About Gueydan, Louisiana

Gueydan is a locality in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,165. The population density is 494.3 people per km². Gueydan is located at 30.0260°N, 92.5085°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Gueydan is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 70542.

Gueydan emerges from the flat, sprawling expanse of the Louisiana prairie as a quiet grid of streets defined by the relentless geometry of the surrounding rice fields. It lies 15.3 miles south-southwest of Crowley, LA (from Crowley, LA: bearing 212°T), and is situated 16.2 miles south-southeast of Jennings. The horizon here is vast and unobstructed, allowing the afternoon light to stretch across the open plains in long, amber ribbons that turn the horizon into a blurred seam of gold and gray. To the east, the Moon Island Canal tracks through the soil like a silver vein, its stillness echoing the heavy, humid silence that settles over the land once the midday heat begins to wane. While the distant Latania Hill remains a mere suggestion on the far edge of the map, the immediate terrain holds a firm, earthen gravity, feeling miles removed from any restless movement of water, anchored instead by the deep, nutrient-rich silt that sustains the grass and the grain.

Gueydan carries the weight of its agricultural heritage in the rusted silos and the rhythmic hum of seasonal machinery that punctuates the local economy. Established as a center for the rice trade, the identity of Gueydan remains tethered to the harvest cycles that dictate the pace of life, a slow and deliberate progression that favors tradition over the frantic pulse of the city. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the landscape transitions toward the protected reaches of the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area, where the land yields to a wilder, marshy complexity that has existed long before the first furrows were turned. Residents find a familiar rhythm in the distance between the town center and the open space of Laurents Pasture, or the quiet afternoons spent near the banks of Lake Arthur, maintaining a lifestyle that is neither hurried nor forgotten, but simply enduring in the steady, fertile quiet of the interior.

About This Gueydan Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gueydan, Louisiana. Coordinates: 30.02604, -92.508469. 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 Gueydan includes the ZIP code (70542), telephone area code (985), county seat of Vermilion Parish, and school district assignment (Vermilion 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.