Pointe a la Hache Louisiana Map

About Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana

Pointe a la Hache is a locality in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 288. The population density is 75.4 people per km². Pointe a la Hache is located at 29.5751°N, 89.7902°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 70082.

Pointe a la Hache exhales a humid breath, a place where the land softens into the embrace of water, where the Mississippi River, fat and slow, hums its ancient song. It lies 29.1 miles south-east of Marrero, LA (from Marrero, LA: bearing 140°T), and is situated 8.7 miles north-west of Port Sulphur. The sky here is a vast, luminous canvas, often painted with the bruised purples and tender golds of an approaching storm, or the bleached, relentless white of a Louisiana sun. Cypress trees, their knees like skeletal fingers, stand sentinel in the brackish marshes, their beards of Spanish moss trailing like forgotten memories. The air itself is thick with the scent of salt, decay, and the sweet perfume of unseen blossoms, a palpable presence that clings to everything. Life in Pointe a la Hache moves to a cadence dictated by the tides and the seasons, a quiet persistence against the relentless embrace of the subtropical climate. This sliver of Plaquemines Parish, Pointe a la Hache, carries the deep, resonant echoes of its past, a history etched not in stone but in the silt of the river and the hardy spirit of its people. For generations, the economy here has been inextricably bound to the bounty of the water, from fishing fleets that once cast their nets wide to the shrimp boats that still chug out at dawn, their diesel engines a familiar thrum against the morning stillness. The land, though often threatened by the encroaching Gulf, has yielded its crops, particularly sugarcane, its stalks a rustling testament to human toil and the fertile, if sometimes fickle, soil. There is a certain quiet pride in Pointe a la Hache, a resilience born of living so intimately with the powerful forces of nature, a quiet understanding that life here is a dance with the elements, a constant negotiation between man and the magnificent, untamed wild.

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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 29.575122, -89.790187. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Pointe a la Hache and Plaquemines Parish.

Detailed location data for Pointe a la Hache includes the ZIP code (70082), telephone area code (504), county seat of Plaquemines Parish, and school district assignment (Plaquemines Parish School District). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Pointe a la Hache is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.