Tullos Louisiana Map

About Tullos, Louisiana

Tullos is a locality in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 304. The population density is 74.1 people per km². Tullos is located at 31.8193°N, 92.3299°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Tullos is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 71479.

Tullos emerges from the dense, pine-shadowed interior of the Louisiana landscape, defined by the slow, deliberate movement of Castor Creek as it carves a path through the earth. It lies 34.9 miles north of Pineville, LA (from Pineville, LA: bearing 10°T), and is situated 14.9 miles northwest of Jena. The terrain here rises into modest, weathered swells, with Mountain Hill standing as a silent, stoic sentinel four miles to the north, watching over a horizon shaped by the deep, verdant reach of the Kisatchie National Forest. The air in Tullos carries the heavy, humid weight of the inland plains, a stillness that seems to suspend time beneath a canopy of hardwoods and longleaf pines. Sunlight here does not merely illuminate; it presses against the damp soil and the tangled undergrowth, turning the afternoon golden as it filters through the dense timber that has long dictated the rhythm of the region.

Industry in Tullos has historically been tethered to the extraction of the earth’s hidden reserves, a legacy that etched the character of the settlement into the surrounding clay and silt. While the economy has shifted over the decades, the presence of the Little River, a SCA located just two miles away, serves as a persistent reminder of the natural abundance that once drew settlers to these interior woods. Life in Tullos retains a quiet, unadorned quality, far removed from the frantic pace of the coast, where residents look to the local geography—the distant shimmer of Hardwater Lake or the winding course of the creeks—to frame their daily existence. It is a place where the history of the timber and oil trades lingers in the architecture and the deliberate, measured cadence of the people who remain to work the land.

About This Tullos Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tullos, Louisiana. Coordinates: 31.819334, -92.329862. 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 Tullos includes the ZIP code (71479), telephone area code (318), county seat of LaSalle Parish, and school district assignment (La Salle 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.