Rosedale Louisiana Map

About Rosedale, Louisiana

Rosedale is a locality in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 664. The population density is 33.0 people per km². Rosedale is located at 30.4429°N, 91.4601°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Rosedale is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 70390, 70772, 70757.

Rosedale occupies a low-slung stretch of land where the horizon is defined by the heavy, humid weight of the sky and the dark, tangled silhouettes of cypress trees. It lies 12.5 miles northwest of Thibodaux, LA (from Thibodaux, LA: bearing 314°T), and is situated 12.5 miles south of Donaldsonville. Bayou Lafourche crawls just a mile to the east, its sluggish current carrying the silt of the interior toward the brackish reaches of Bay Marcalite, which lies only twenty-one miles from the open coastline. To the north, the landscape settles into the basin of Bayou Sec, a shallow depression where the water hangs suspended in the thick, humid air of the afternoon. Toward the west, the flat expanse is broken only by the distant, shimmering surface of Lake Verret, while the dense thickets of Elm Hall Wildlife Management Area provide a refuge for the herons and raptors that watch the slow movement of the land. The light here at dusk is a bruised purple, catching the moisture in the air and turning the fields into a blurred, monochromatic study in silver and gray.

Rosedale holds the memory of a harder, agrarian past, where the earth was bent to the production of sugarcane and the rhythmic labor of the harvest defined the passing seasons. The local economy persists in this quiet connection to the soil, though the influence of the nearby waterways persists in the way the town organizes itself around the slow, deliberate pulse of the bayou. Willow Island rises as a lonely, wooded landmark in the distance, a reminder of the shifting, alluvial nature of the ground that supports the scattered homesteads and the quiet roads. Life in Rosedale moves with a gravitational pull that favors the long view, where the sound of the wind through the tall grass and the distant, rhythmic hum of machinery provide the only constant measure of time. The people here share a language of patience, shaped by the cycles of the water and the enduring, fertile fiber of the earth beneath them.

About This Rosedale Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rosedale, Louisiana. Coordinates: 30.4429, -91.460114. 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 Rosedale includes the ZIP code (70390, 70772, 70757), telephone area code (985), county seat of Assumption Parish, and school district assignment (Iberville 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.