St. Joseph Louisiana Map

About St. Joseph, Louisiana

St. Joseph is a locality in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 831. The population density is 360.5 people per km². St. Joseph is located at 31.9185°N, 91.2334°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. St. Joseph is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 71366.

St. Joseph sits upon a flat expanse of fertile earth, where the horizon stretches wide and the air holds a heavy, humid stillness that seems to slow the turning of the day. It lies 26.7 miles north-northeast of Natchez, MS (from Natchez, MS: bearing 22°T), and is situated 34.0 miles south of Tallulah. The landscape is defined by the deliberate geometry of wide-reaching fields, punctuated only by the distant, hazy silhouette of Buck Ridge rising against the sky far to the west. Two miles away, the dark, quiet waters of Brushy Lake offer a reflective surface to the sky, while the nearby Bayou Bruin winds through the low-lying terrain like a vein of cool, shaded earth. Light at dusk here settles in thin, amber layers over the fields, turning the soil to a deep, bruised purple that contrasts sharply with the pale, drying stalks of the season’s crop.

St. Joseph carries the weight of a long agricultural legacy, its economy rooted firmly in the productivity of the surrounding bottomlands where cotton and grain have dictated the rhythm of life for generations. The legacy of the land is visible in the nearby Winter Quarters Crevasse, a reminder of the shifting waters that once shaped the local topography and the industry that rose to manage it. Scientific inquiry finds a home at the Lsu Research Station, where the study of plant life and soil health continues to inform the labor of the people who work these acres. The pace of existence in St. Joseph remains tethered to the harvest and the heat, a quiet endurance that marks the character of a place built entirely upon the patience of the farmer and the stubborn fertility of the plains.

About This St. Joseph Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Joseph, Louisiana. Coordinates: 31.918493, -91.233445. 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 St. Joseph includes the ZIP code (71366), telephone area code (318), county seat of Tensas Parish, and school district assignment (Tensas 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.