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Presquille Louisiana Map

Explore Presquille, Louisiana, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Presquille, Louisiana

How to Use This Presquille, Louisiana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Presquille, Louisiana. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Louisiana or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Presquille.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Presquille
State	Louisiana (LA)
County	Terrebonne Parish
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	29.563826
Longitude	-90.6462
Population	1,703
Density	839.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	70343
Area Code	985
School District	Terrebonne Parish School District

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About Presquille, Louisiana

Presquille is a locality in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,703. The population density is 839.8 people per km². Presquille is located at 29.5638°N, 90.6462°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 70343.

Presquille emerges from the low-lying marshlands where the heavy, salt-thickened air clings to the skin like damp linen. It lies 4.9 miles east-southeast of Houma, LA (from Houma, LA: bearing 117°T), and is situated 7.6 miles east-southeast of Bayou Cane. Bayou Petit Caillou carves a serpentine path directly past the doorsteps of the settlement, its dark, brackish waters mirroring the shifting violet hues of a coastal dusk. Beyond the immediate reach of the bank, the landscape dissolves into a flat, verdant expanse where the horizon feels vast and unencumbered, save for the distant, shimmering suggestion of Lake Long sitting five miles to the north. A mile away, the grounds of Presque Isle Park offer a quiet sanctuary of sawgrass and wind-bent scrub, where the tide’s slow pulse dictates the rhythm of the day and the light softens into a bruised, golden amber that seems to suspend the very notion of urgency.

Presquille holds the quiet residue of generations who learned to read the water as fluently as a script, their lives anchored to the ebb and flow of the bayou’s economy. The industry here remains tethered to the harvest of the marsh and the shifting yields of the coast, a labor that demands a steady hand and an intimate knowledge of the mud and the current. While the bustling centers of commerce lie far beyond the reach of these quiet channels, the character of the place remains distinctly forged by the confluence of Cajun and Creole influences, audible in the cadence of local speech and the lingering scent of woodsmoke at evening. Life in Presquille moves in a measure of its own choosing, far removed from the sharp edges of modern industry, finding its focus instead in the endurance of the land and the simple, persistent necessity of the catch.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Presque Isle Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 327° NW
City Park (Local Park) — 2.1 mi, 297° NW
Division Of State Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 2.8 mi, 360° N
Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum (Museum) — 5.1 mi, 298° NW
Dumas Auditorium (Theatre) — 5.2 mi, 291° W
Southdown Museum (Museum) — 5.9 mi, 287° W
Pointe Aux Chenes Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.8 mi, 131° SE
Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 7.9 mi, 269° W · 8,780 acres
Home Port (Historic Castle / Fort) — 8.7 mi, 159° S
Boudreaux Canal (Viewpoint) — 12.4 mi, 172° S
Lake Boeuf Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.4 mi, 001° N
Bush Canal 2 (Attraction) — 13.8 mi, 169° S
Greenwood Gator Farm (Attraction) — 15.8 mi, 283° W
Blessed Virgin Mary (Public Artwork) — 16.4 mi, 088° E
Laurel Valley Museum (Museum) — 17.8 mi, 332° NW
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Barataria Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 19.3 mi, 326° NW
Veterans Memorial Plaza (Monument) — 30.0 mi, 032° NE
Wildcat Stadium (Stadium) — 32.1 mi, 030° NE
Swamp tour airboat (Attraction) — 33.0 mi, 068° E
Ragin Cajun Airboat Tours (Attraction) — 33.0 mi, 043° NE
Clark Cheniere Historical Marker (Monument) — 33.4 mi, 069° E
Manila Village Historical Marker (Monument) — 33.4 mi, 069° E
Morgan City Stadium (Stadium) — 35.0 mi, 286° W
The Rig Museum (Museum) — 35.0 mi, 285° W
Atchafalaya Delta Wildlife Management Area and Game Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 35.4 mi, 254° W
Louisiana Toy Train Museum (Museum) — 37.2 mi, 040° NE
Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 47.8 mi, 288° W · 22k acres

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