Jena Louisiana Map

About Jena, Louisiana

Jena is a locality in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,155. The population density is 291.8 people per km². Jena is located at 31.6832°N, 92.1337°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Jena is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 71342.

Jena occupies a landscape defined by the persistent, quiet movement of the West Prong Hemphill Creek, which threads through the low-lying terrain like a silver vein. It lies 30.6 miles northeast of Pineville, LA (from Pineville, LA: bearing 35°T), and is situated 31.6 miles northeast of Alexandria. The ground here rises in modest, pine-thickened swells toward the distant silhouette of Bald Hill, offering a topography that feels ancient and settled in its stillness. To the south, the earth dips into the quiet moisture of Sandy Hollow, while the horizon remains wide and open, holding a quality of light at dusk that turns the needles of the loblolly pines into a deep, bruised violet. Those who walk near the water find the air heavy with the scent of damp loam and decay, a reminder that the land is perpetually drinking from the humid, inland heat that defines these woods.

Jena serves as a primary hub for a region built upon the steady extraction of timber and the slow, rhythmic labor of the oil fields. This economy has carved a specific character into the streets, where the pace of life favors the deliberate over the frantic, and the legacy of early industry remains visible in the sturdy, unadorned architecture of the storefronts. Residents gather under the shade at Jena Town Park, a place that anchors the social geography of the area as much as the nearby presence of Catahoula Lake draws the hunters and those seeking the quiet solitude of the basin. The history of the place is not shouted, but rather felt in the way the local vernacular flattens the vowels and stretches the afternoons, suggesting that Jena is a point of gravity where time does not pass so much as it settles into the red clay and the roots of the forest.

About This Jena Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Jena, Louisiana. Coordinates: 31.683227, -92.133745. 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 Jena includes the ZIP code (71342), telephone area code (318), county seat of LaSalle Parish, and school district assignment (La Salle 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.