Mooringsport Louisiana Map

About Mooringsport, Louisiana

Mooringsport is a locality in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 748. The population density is 224.2 people per km². Mooringsport is located at 32.6876°N, 93.9610°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mooringsport is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 71060.

Mooringsport sits anchored upon the edge of a vast, ancient stillness, where the persistent humidity clings to the skin like a damp wool blanket. It lies 16.6 miles northwest of Shreveport, LA (from Shreveport, LA: bearing 313°T), and is situated 8.4 miles north-northwest of Blanchard. The landscape surrounding Mooringsport is defined by the dark, tea-colored waters of Caddo Lake, which stretches out with a mirror-like intensity that reflects the heavy, moss-draped branches of towering cypress trees. To the west, the flat expanse of the Soda Lake Bed offers a stark, dry contrast to the water-logged basin, while the distant Pine Hills rise in the north as a hazy, indigo suggestion against the horizon. The air remains heavy and thick, carrying the scent of rich, dark earth and decaying vegetation, a quiet testament to the slow, heavy passage of time in this inland basin.

Big Cypress Bayou winds lazily through the periphery, its current barely perceptible as it feeds into the complex network of sloughs and channels that define the local topography. The economic character of the region remains tethered to the land’s subterranean wealth and the harvest of the woods, echoing a history built upon the extraction of oil and the endurance of those who work the timber. Residents often find their way toward the Caddo Lake Wildlife Management Area, a sanctuary where the silence is broken only by the sharp call of a heron or the sudden splash of a turtle slipping from a log. Daily life here moves at the pace of the rising and falling water, where the heat of the afternoon sun bleaches the wooden piers and forces the world into a brief, meditative slumber.

About This Mooringsport Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mooringsport, Louisiana. Coordinates: 32.687646, -93.961015. 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 Mooringsport includes the ZIP code (71060), telephone area code (318), county seat of Caddo Parish, and school district assignment (Caddo 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.