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St. James Louisiana Map

Explore St. James, 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 St. James, Louisiana

How to Use This St. James, Louisiana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for St. James, 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 St. James.

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	St. James
State	Louisiana (LA)
County	St. James Parish
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	30.018643
Longitude	-90.850881
Population	592
Density	27.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	70723, 70086
Area Code	985, 504
School District	St. James Parish School District

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About St. James, Louisiana

St. James is a locality in St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 592. The population density is 27.2 people per km². St. James is located at 30.0186°N, 90.8509°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 70723, 70086.

St. James occupies a flat, verdant expanse of alluvial soil where the heavy, humid air clings to the skin like a damp velvet shroud. It lies 15.5 miles north of Thibodaux, LA (from Thibodaux, LA: bearing 7°T), and is situated 9.3 miles north of Chackbay. The horizon is defined by the steady, muscular curve of the Mississippi River, which rolls past the low-lying fields with a quiet, persistent gravity. Behind the levee, the land shifts into a mosaic of dense thickets and open acreage, occasionally marked by the subtle depression of the Belmont Crevasse. Sunlight here loses its sharp edge as the afternoon wanes, softening into a bruised gold that catches the dust rising from the unpaved lanes and turns the broad, waxy leaves of the surrounding vegetation into dark, shimmering silhouettes.

St. James finds its identity in the slow, rhythmic pulse of an economy built upon the fertile earth, where the cycle of the sugarcane harvest dictates the pace of the year. The legacy of the region persists in the architecture of the older houses and the lingering influence of the families who first worked this silt-heavy ground. Life remains tethered to the land, far removed from the frantic noise of modern centers, though the proximity of Paulina Park offers a quiet space to observe the local ecology. Even the distant, gentle rise of Indian Mound remains a silent, stoic witness to the generations that have farmed these plains, while the waters of Lac des Allemands wait eleven miles away, reflecting the stillness of a landscape that measures time not in minutes, but in the slow maturation of the crops.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.2 mi, 040° NE
Division Of State Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 6.6 mi, 172° S
Paulina Park (Local Park) — 6.6 mi, 083° E
Blind River (State Conservation Area) — 6.6 mi, 038° NE
Lemannville Park (Local Park) — 7.3 mi, 326° NW
Bocage Plantation (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 319° NW
Houmas House Plantation and Gardens (Attraction) — 9.9 mi, 329° NW
I-10 Rest Area (State Recreation Area) — 11.3 mi, 348° N
The Longboat (Public Artwork) — 12.0 mi, 083° E
San Francisco Plantation (Attraction) — 15.0 mi, 082° E
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Barataria Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 15.4 mi, 174° S
Gonzales 'Tee Joe' Museum (Museum) — 15.6 mi, 346° N
Laurel Valley Museum (Museum) — 16.3 mi, 166° S
Lsu Research Station (Recreation Easement) — 16.7 mi, 211° SW
National Hansen's Disease Museum (Museum) — 20.7 mi, 307° NW
Galvez Town (Monument) — 22.5 mi, 354° N
WHITE ALDER Memorial Light 195A (Monument) — 22.8 mi, 303° NW
Goula Paradise Farms (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 22.8 mi, 312° NW
Wild Louisiana Kayak Swamp Tour Launch (Attraction) — 26.2 mi, 068° E
Tickfaw State Park (State Park) — 27.2 mi, 024° NE
Wildcat Stadium (Stadium) — 28.3 mi, 097° E
Veterans Memorial Plaza (Monument) — 28.5 mi, 102° E
Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum (Museum) — 30.1 mi, 165° S
Morgan City Stadium (Stadium) — 30.3 mi, 225° SW
Southdown Museum (Museum) — 30.4 mi, 167° S
Dumas Auditorium (Theatre) — 30.5 mi, 166° S
Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.8 mi, 178° S · 8,780 acres
Create Studios (Arts Centre) — 33.2 mi, 327° NW
Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.1 mi, 244° SW · 22k acres
Atchafalaya Delta Wildlife Management Area and Game Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 45.0 mi, 214° SW

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