Wallace Louisiana Map

About Wallace, Louisiana

Wallace is a locality in De Soto Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 755. The population density is 45.2 people per km². Wallace is located at 30.0246°N, 90.6590°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 71063, 70090.

Wallace emerges from the damp, heavy heat of the inland plains where the dark, sluggish waters of Little Wallace Bayou carve a meandering path through the earth. It lies 23.7 miles west-northwest of Natchitoches, LA (from Natchitoches, LA: bearing 293°T), and is situated 17.3 miles southeast of Mansfield. The landscape here favors the flat, expansive reach of the lowlands, broken only by the distant, hazy silhouette of the Dolette Hills rising against the horizon like a bruised thumb. Four miles away, the quiet surface of Teloque Lake holds the evening light, its stillness a mirror for the overhanging canopy of cypress and hardwood. The air in Wallace carries a persistent, humid weight that slows the pulse of the day, turning the afternoon hours into a long, golden stretch where the shadows lengthen with an almost visible, deliberate intention.

Agriculture defines the economic pulse of the region, where the soil yields its harvest to the persistent labor of those who work the fields. Long before modern machinery, the land was shaped by the cycles of planting and the steady, rhythmic demands of the sugarcane, a crop that remains an indelible part of the local character. Beyond the immediate reach of the cultivated rows, the reach of the Red River National Wildlife Refuge provides a sanctuary for the wilder, untamed aspects of the terrain, existing thirteen miles away as a testament to the preservation of the regional ecosystem. Life in Wallace follows the quiet cadence of the seasons, a place where the memory of earlier generations remains woven into the local speech and the slow, deliberate pace of daily existence.

About This Wallace Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wallace, Louisiana. Coordinates: 30.024587, -90.658997. 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 Wallace includes the ZIP code (71063, 70090), telephone area code (318, 504), county seat of De Soto Parish, and school district assignment (St. John the Baptist 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.