Mer Rouge Louisiana Map

About Mer Rouge, Louisiana

Mer Rouge is a locality in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 491. The population density is 161.8 people per km². Mer Rouge is located at 32.7751°N, 91.7926°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mer Rouge is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 71261.

Mer Rouge defines itself through the flat, expansive horizon of a landscape that holds the light of the sun long after the shadows have begun to stretch across the soil. It lies 26.4 miles northeast of Monroe, LA (from Monroe, LA: bearing 46°T), and is situated 4.8 miles east-northeast of Bastrop. This terrain, defined by the broad, fertile expanse of Prairie Mer Rouge, creates a sense of openness where the sky feels like a heavy, velvet weight pressing down upon the earth. Two miles away, the dark, slow-moving waters of Little Bayou Galion carve a quiet path through the silt, providing a moisture that feeds the dense vegetation of the region. Only three miles from the managed wetlands of Farm Service Agency Interest Of La, the environment retains a primitive, stillness that is interrupted only by the seasonal migration of birds. Nine miles distant, Bussy Brake sits as a glassy, reflective expanse, its surface often mirroring the deep, bruised colors of a summer storm rolling in from the plains.

Mer Rouge remains a place where the economy is written in the furrows of the fields and the seasonal cycle of the harvest. Historically, the ground has favored the cultivation of row crops, anchoring the local identity to the rhythms of agriculture that have persisted for generations. Life in Mer Rouge moves with the deliberate pace of a pendulum, unhurried by the frantic pulse of larger centers, as the inhabitants attend to the machinery and the maintenance of their trade. While the Pargoud Indian Mound stands as a silent sentinel twenty-five miles away, the people here are more concerned with the immediate stewardship of their own acres and the quiet endurance of their daily work. There is a particular clarity in the air during the autumn months, a crispness that clarifies the silhouette of every tree and silo against the pale, bleached sky, marking the passage of time not by the clock, but by the turning of the earth itself.

About This Mer Rouge Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mer Rouge, Louisiana. Coordinates: 32.775135, -91.792626. 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 Mer Rouge includes the ZIP code (71261), telephone area code (318), county seat of Morehouse Parish, and school district assignment (Morehouse 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.