Lucky Louisiana Map

About Lucky, Louisiana

Lucky is a locality in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 251. The population density is 11.9 people per km². Lucky is located at 32.2441°N, 93.0133°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Lucky is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 71008.

Lucky occupies a quiet stretch of northern Louisiana where the earth settles into a tapestry of pine-shadowed woodland and open, sun-drenched fields. It lies 28.0 miles southwest of Ruston, LA (from Ruston, LA: bearing 229°T), and is situated 16.4 miles west of Jonesboro. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness that seems to suspend the afternoon, thickening as the light shifts toward a bruised violet at dusk. Only a mile away, the dark, slow-moving currents of Sixmile Creek carve a narrow vein through the landscape, feeding the dense, tangled undergrowth of Big Cypress State Park. Beyond the immediate tree line, the terrain rises toward the distant silhouette of Shell Hill, a modest crest that anchors the horizon against the vast, cloud-streaked sky.

Lucky draws its character from the rhythms of the soil and the legacy of the timber industry that once defined the region’s steady expansion. The local economy persists in the quiet labor of agriculture and forestry, sustained by the moisture drawn from the nearby Mill Creek Reservoir, which keeps the surrounding acreage lush even when the summer heat turns the grasses to straw. Time moves at a deliberate pace here, defined not by the rush of commerce but by the seasonal change in the color of the pine needles and the patient, cyclical work of those who tend the land. Life in Lucky is a matter of knowing the reach of the shadows and the particular, earthy scent of the woods after a rain, where the quietude is not an absence of life, but a fullness that requires no explanation.

About This Lucky Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lucky, Louisiana. Coordinates: 32.244082, -93.013336. 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 Lucky includes the ZIP code (71008), telephone area code (318), county seat of Bienville Parish, and school district assignment (Bienville 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.