Union County, Louisiana Map
Explore Union County, Louisiana with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 6 cities and towns in Union County below.
Interactive Map of Union County, Louisiana
| County | Union |
| State | Louisiana (LA) |
| County Seat | Farmerville |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 32.831992 |
| Longitude | -92.496999 |
| Cities & Towns | 6 |
| Area Codes | 318 |
About Union County, Louisiana
Union Parish occupies a distinct northern threshold where the flatter, alluvial plains of the state surrender to the rising, timbered ridges of the piney woods. Water defines its perimeter and its interior alike, with the Ouachita River carving a deep, wandering channel along the eastern boundary while a massive man-made reservoir dominates the central landscape, spreading its fingers into the surrounding forests. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness that seems to suspend the afternoon light, casting a long, amber glow over the sandy soil and the dense stands of loblolly pine. This terrain serves as a transition zone where the dark, tangled thickets of the bottomlands meet higher, better-drained ground, creating a topography that is less about vast horizons and more about the intimate, shadowed corners of the woods.
Union Parish emerged as a political entity in the late eighteen-thirties, carved from a larger territory to accommodate the needs of settlers moving inward from the river corridors. The people who arrived then found a rugged, forested frontier, and they established their seat of government near the geographic center to provide a singular point of civic gravity for the scattered homesteads. Over the subsequent decades, the development of the area remained tethered to the slow, deliberate pace of agricultural expansion and the extraction of timber, a process that required a quiet persistence against the encroachment of the wild. The courthouse square functions as a low-slung anchor for this administrative life, where the architecture reflects a utilitarian restraint, mirroring the stoic temperament of those who first cleared the pine barrens to lay out the grid of the streets.
Economy and character in the region remain deeply rooted in the land, moving in cycles dictated by the timber harvest and the seasonal shifts of the vast, open water. Residents navigate a landscape where the primary industries are visible in the heavy trucks hauling raw fiber toward the mills and the quiet industry of the poultry houses that dot the rural sectors. A certain solitude prevails here, marked by the way the dusk gathers quickly beneath the heavy canopy, turning the gray trunks of the trees into silent, vertical sentinels. Life maintains a deliberate, unadorned quality, evidenced by the stillness that settles over the water as the evening sky bruises into shades of violet and charcoal, leaving the traveler with the distinct impression of a place that is entirely sufficient unto itself, unconcerned with the noise of the world beyond its borders.
Cities and Towns in Union County
About This Union County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Union County, Louisiana alongside links to detailed street maps for 6 cities and towns. The county seat is Farmerville. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
