St. Maurice Louisiana Map

About St. Maurice, Louisiana

St. Maurice is a locality in Winn Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 266. The population density is 15.4 people per km². St. Maurice is located at 31.7613°N, 92.9389°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 71457.

St. Maurice persists as a quiet gathering of frame houses and pine-shadowed roads, anchored firmly in the inland heat of the Louisiana timberlands. It lies 7.5 miles east of Natchitoches, LA (from Natchitoches, LA: bearing 91°T), and is situated 22.0 miles west-southwest of Winnfield. The landscape around St. Maurice is defined by the dense, persistent reach of the Kisatchie National Forest, which presses against the edges of the property lines with a wall of loblolly and longleaf pine. Only two miles distant, the still, tea-colored waters of Saint Maurice Lake mirror the heavy summer sky, while the nearby Little Natches Bayou carves a slow, meandering path through the loamy soil. On the western horizon, the faint, hazy silhouette of Mossy Ridge rises to break the flat monotony of the horizon, offering a subtle variation to a terrain otherwise dominated by low-lying thickets and the humid, verdant growth of the understory.

St. Maurice retains a character forged by the timber industry and the steady, unpretentious labor of those who have worked these woods for generations. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the forest and the small-scale agricultural plots that persist in the clearings, far removed from the frantic pace of the larger world. Daily life in St. Maurice moves with the deliberateness of a long afternoon, punctuated by the occasional sound of logging trucks moving toward the mills or the distant rustle of wind through the canopy. Those looking for a longer passage through the wilderness often venture toward the Dogwood Trail, where the earth feels ancient and the air is thick with the scent of damp pine needles and decaying leaves, keeping the town connected to the vast, quiet expanse of the surrounding wilderness.

About This St. Maurice Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Maurice, Louisiana. Coordinates: 31.761274, -92.938907. 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. Maurice includes the ZIP code (71457), telephone area code (318), county seat of Winn Parish, and school district assignment (Winn 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.