Rosedale Louisiana Map

About Rosedale, Louisiana

Rosedale is a locality in Iberville 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 emerges from the flat, alluvial expanse of the interior plains, defined by the deliberate, sluggish current of the Bayou Grosse Tete as it carves a path through the heavy, dark soil. It lies 17.7 miles west of Baton Rouge, LA (from Baton Rouge, LA: bearing 268°T), and is situated 6.7 miles south-southwest of Erwinville. The landscape here is a study in horizontal lines, where the sky presses low against fields of sugarcane that shimmer in the humid, stagnant air of late afternoon. At the center of the local geography, Library Park offers a modest clearing where the light filters through the canopy in thin, dusty shafts, providing a quiet reprieve from the relentless intensity of the sun. Eleven miles to the north, the waters of False River hold the reflection of the clouds, a stillness that mirrors the quietude of the surrounding agricultural grid.

Agriculture remains the pulse of Rosedale, a legacy grounded in the cultivation of the earth and the slow, rhythmic labor of the seasons. The economy relies on the fertility of the riverbanks, where the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the turning of the soil and the harvest cycles that dictate the pace of daily affairs. History here is quiet, etched into the architecture of frame houses and the long, straight roads that follow the contours of the Bayou Grosse Tete. In Rosedale, the cultural inheritance of the region manifests in the way language softens at the edges and the persistent, humid heat discourages haste, leaving the inhabitants to occupy their days with a steady, unforced endurance.

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 Iberville 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.