Lockport Heights Louisiana Map

About Lockport Heights, Louisiana

Lockport Heights is a locality in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,171. The population density is 345.9 people per km². Lockport Heights is located at 29.6590°N, 90.5506°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 70374.

Lockport Heights emerges from the low-lying, damp earth where the steady, dark pulse of Bayou Lafourche dictates the rhythm of the horizon. It lies 8.5 miles east of Bayou Blue, LA (from Bayou Blue, LA: bearing 88°T), and is situated 6.2 miles south-southeast of Raceland. The land here is a flattened expanse of alluvial soil, draped in the heavy, humid stillness that defines the coastal plains, yet it remains anchored by the quiet presence of Lake Fields just a mile to the west. At Lockport Bayouside Park, the vegetation leans toward the water, where cypress knees break the surface and the light at dusk turns the air a thick, bruised purple. The moisture is constant, a physical weight that softens the edges of the horizon and keeps the landscape in a perpetual state of verdant, slow-growing transition.

Lockport Heights carries the marks of a history built upon the labor of the waterways, where the economy has long been tethered to the movement of goods and the harvest of the surrounding fields. The legacy of sugarcane cultivation remains visible in the expansive, orderly rows that stretch away from the river, grounding the local identity in the cycles of the earth and the heat of the season. Cultural echoes of Cajun and Creole life persist in the vernacular of the streets, a quiet persistence that favors long afternoons over the frantic pace of larger hubs. Even as the modern world shifts, the proximity to Bayou Terrebonne reminds those who remain that the open coastline is a near, formidable neighbor, shaping the way the people of Lockport Heights understand their place in the world.

About This Lockport Heights Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lockport Heights, Louisiana. Coordinates: 29.658958, -90.550607. 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 Lockport Heights includes the ZIP code (70374), telephone area code (985), county seat of Lafourche Parish, and school district assignment (Lafourche 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.