Harrisonburg Louisiana Map

About Harrisonburg, Louisiana

Harrisonburg is a locality in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 277. The population density is 110.5 people per km². Harrisonburg is located at 31.7721°N, 91.8215°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Harrisonburg is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 71340, 71343.

Harrisonburg sits in the quiet embrace of a landscape defined by the deliberate, steady movement of the Ouachita River. It lies 47.6 miles northeast of Pineville, LA (from Pineville, LA: bearing 49°T), and is situated 19.3 miles east-northeast of Jena. The water carries a heavy, silt-thickened weight as it carves through the earth, passing within a mile of the center of Harrisonburg, where the air often hangs thick with the moisture of the lowlands. To the east, the terrain rises toward the rugged, wooded ridges of the Sicily Island Hills Wildlife Management Area, a three-mile stretch of untamed timber and uneven ground that stands in sharp contrast to the flat, alluvial plains stretching out in other directions. The light here in the late afternoon possesses a copper quality, catching the dust motes that dance above the riverbanks and turning the surrounding woods into a deep, impenetrable violet as dusk settles over the fields.

History in this region is measured in the slow accumulation of agricultural cycles and the persistence of families who have worked the soil for generations. While Bee Lake sits nine miles away, providing a quiet, stagnant counterpoint to the restless flow of the river, the economy of Harrisonburg remains tied to the rhythms of the land and the timber that blankets the nearby elevations. The pace of life here moves with a gravity of its own, indifferent to the hurried clocks of distant cities, favoring instead the long, deliberate conversations held on porches as the heat breaks. Those who travel through find a place where the edges of modernity are softened by the dense, persistent growth of the woods and the constant, unseen labor of the river, which has shaped the character of the settlement as surely as it has defined the geography of the parish.

About This Harrisonburg Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Harrisonburg, Louisiana. Coordinates: 31.772111, -91.821518. 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 Harrisonburg includes the ZIP code (71340, 71343), telephone area code (318), county seat of Catahoula Parish, and school district assignment (Catahoula 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.