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Stanley Louisiana Map

Explore Stanley, 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 Stanley, Louisiana

How to Use This Stanley, Louisiana Map

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

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.

CityStanley
StateLouisiana (LA)
CountyAllen Parish
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude31.956654
Longitude-93.904775
Population132
Density23.5 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Codes71052, 71049, 70648, 71032
Area Code985, 318
School DistrictDe Soto Parish School District

About Stanley, Louisiana

Stanley is a locality in Allen Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 132. The population density is 23.5 people per km². Stanley is located at 31.9567°N, 93.9048°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Stanley is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 71052, 71049, 70648.

Stanley occupies a quiet stretch of land where the earth rises in subtle, pine-strewn swells, defined by the slow, deliberate movement of the landscape toward the nearby Calcasieu River. It lies 22.1 miles northeast of Moss Bluff, LA (from Moss Bluff, LA: bearing 52°T), and is situated 2.9 miles west-northwest of Kinder. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness that seems to suspend the afternoon in amber, casting long shadows across the red clay roads that vein the woods. Deep within the timbered reaches, the Calcasieu River offers a sanctuary of tangled roots and quiet water, providing a constant, dark pulse to the terrain. Sunlight filters through the dense canopy of loblolly pines, creating a flicker of gold on the forest floor that shifts with the passing of the day, marking time in a way that mechanical clocks rarely capture.

Stanley maintains a modest, enduring economy, rooted in the rhythms of the timber industry and the small-scale cultivation that has defined the region for generations. The history of the locality is written in the quiet endurance of its homesteads and the persistence of the families who have long worked this soil. While the distant, shimmering surface of Mitchell Lake lies nineteen miles away, the life of the people remains tethered to the more immediate presence of the woodlands and the thickets that border the riverbanks. The character of Stanley is shaped by this isolation, a place where the pace of life favors the deliberate over the hurried, and where the evening cool brings a sense of profound, undisturbed rest.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Division Of State Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 2.3 mi, 089° E
  • North Toledo Bend Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 204° SW
  • Sabine River Authority Swede Johnson Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 4.5 mi, 236° SW
  • Sabine National Forest (National Forest) — 5.7 mi, 214° SW · 161k acres
  • Brookland Cemetery (Monument) — 6.6 mi, 278° W
  • Public Hunting Land Panola County Unit #630 (Local Conservation Area) — 6.7 mi, 283° W
  • Pickering Lumber Company mill? (Historic Ruins) — 7.1 mi, 275° W
  • Sabine River Authority Recreation Site 2 (Local Recreation) — 8.1 mi, 195° S
  • B. F. Morris and the Town of Joaquin (Monument) — 8.9 mi, 274° W
  • International Boundary Marker (Monument) — 9.7 mi, 303° NW
  • Shelby County Museum (Museum) — 19.6 mi, 235° SW
  • Chimp Haven (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 20.7 mi, 354° N
  • Red River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 21.4 mi, 065° NE · 30k acres
  • Jim Reeves Statue and Grave (Public Artwork) — 26.7 mi, 305° NW
  • North Toledo Bend State Park (State Park) — 28.3 mi, 161° S
  • Panola County Historical Museum and Library (Museum) — 29.0 mi, 299° NW
  • San Augustine County Historical Foundation Museum (Museum) — 31.8 mi, 202° S
  • Ezekiel Cullen Home Museum (Museum) — 31.9 mi, 202° S
  • Angelina National Forest (National Forest) — 37.8 mi, 206° SW · 154k acres
  • Old Railroad Equitment (Attraction) — 39.3 mi, 014° N
  • Sci-Port: Louisiana's Science Center (Museum) — 39.6 mi, 014° N
  • Track Speeder (Attraction) — 39.7 mi, 012° N
  • Shreveport Aquarium (Aquarium) — 39.8 mi, 014° N
  • Derelict Tram (Attraction) — 40.1 mi, 014° N
  • SUSLA Sign (Attraction) — 40.8 mi, 006° N
  • Krewe of Gemini (Arts Centre) — 41.0 mi, 015° N
  • Indian Mounds Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 41.3 mi, 171° S · 12k acres
  • Turkey Hill Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 42.8 mi, 201° S · 5,536 acres
  • Alligator Park (Nature Reserve) — 45.0 mi, 101° E
  • Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 48.9 mi, 345° N · 15k acres

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About This Stanley Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Stanley, Louisiana. Coordinates: 31.956654, -93.904775. 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 Stanley includes the ZIP code (71052, 71049, 70648), telephone area code (985, 318), county seat of Allen Parish, and school district assignment (De Soto Parish School District).

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.

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.

Page generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.