Sicily Island Louisiana Map

About Sicily Island, Louisiana

Sicily Island is a locality in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 366. The population density is 246.2 people per km². Sicily Island is located at 31.8466°N, 91.6562°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Sicily Island is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 71368.

Sicily Island holds a landscape defined by the persistent, winding presence of Bayou Falcon, which carves its path through the earth with a quiet, deliberate force. It lies 53.2 miles south-southeast of Monroe, LA (from Monroe, LA: bearing 149°T), and is situated 16.1 miles north-northwest of Ferriday. The terrain here rises in unexpected relief against the flat horizons of the surrounding delta, where the soil holds the deep, heavy color of iron and damp wood. To the west, the elevated ridges of the Sicily Island Hills Wildlife Management Area provide a dense, tangled canopy that catches the low-angled sun, casting long, bruised shadows across the forest floor. In the humid stillness of late afternoon, the air feels thick and weighted with the scent of pine needles and turned earth, a sensory reminder that the land is far removed from the brine of the distant coast, anchored firmly in the inland heat.

History in Sicily Island is measured not in decades, but in the slow, rhythmic cycles of the harvest that have long sustained the local economy. Beyond the immediate reach of the bayou, the land opens into expansive fields that have supported farming families for generations, their lives governed by the subtle shifts in the regional temperature and the reliable fertility of the basin. While the nearby basin of Hog Glade and the expansive waters of Turkey Creek Lake offer quiet refuge for those who seek the solitude of the woods, the inhabitants remain tethered to the industrious reality of their surroundings. Even as the modern world encroaches, the pace of life in Sicily Island retains a deliberate, steady quality, grounded by the enduring presence of the hills and the constant, slow-moving narrative of the inland plains.

About This Sicily Island Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sicily Island, Louisiana. Coordinates: 31.846551, -91.656235. 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 Sicily Island includes the ZIP code (71368), telephone area code (318), county seat of Catahoula Parish, and school district assignment (Catahoula 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.