Port Vincent Louisiana Map

About Port Vincent, Louisiana

Port Vincent is a locality in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 646. The population density is 146.4 people per km². Port Vincent is located at 30.3338°N, 90.8495°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Port Vincent is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 70726.

Port Vincent stretches along the low, alluvial plains where the heavy, humid air clings to the dense canopy of hardwoods and tangled underbrush. It lies 7.6 miles east-northeast of Prairieville, LA (from Prairieville, LA: bearing 74°T), and is situated 7.8 miles north-northeast of Gonzales. The Amite River carves a dark, serpentine path through the landscape, its slow-moving current defining the eastern edge of the community as it pushes steadily toward the south. Six miles to the north, the rise of Indian Mound interrupts the flatness of the terrain, while the broader, distant horizon holds the quiet stillness of the inland woods. Light filters through the canopy in muted, shifting patterns, casting long shadows across the soil during the golden hour of the afternoon, when the cicadas begin their rhythmic, rising hum against the backdrop of the humid, inland heat.

Port Vincent preserves a lingering connection to the agrarian traditions that first shaped the development of these riverbank settlements. While the local economy has evolved from its early reliance on the timber harvested from the surrounding bottomlands, the pace of life remains tethered to the seasonal cycles of the river and the quiet productivity of the regional agricultural lands. Residents often find their way toward Paula Park, a three-mile journey that offers a rare, managed space of green within the broader, untamed expanse of the basin. The proximity to Seles Point further emphasizes the isolation of this corner of the state, where history is measured less by the noise of industry and more by the steady, persistent flow of the Amite River as it sustains the life of the land.

About This Port Vincent Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Port Vincent, Louisiana. Coordinates: 30.333805, -90.849542. 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 Port Vincent includes the ZIP code (70726), telephone area code (985), county seat of Livingston Parish, and school district assignment (Livingston 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.