| Mansfield, Louisiana | |
| Official Name: | City of Mansfield |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Mapsize: | 260px |
| Pushpin Map: | Louisiana#USA |
| Coordinates: | 32.0328°N -93.7025°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | States |
| Subdivision Type2: | Parish |
| Subdivision Name2: | DeSoto |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Thomas Jones (D) (began first term July 1, 2022)[1] |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Area Total Km2: | 9.48 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 3.66 |
| Area Land Km2: | 9.46 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 3.65 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.02 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.01 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 4714 |
| Population Density Km2: | 498.33 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 1290.80 |
| Timezone1: | CST |
| Utc Offset1: | -6 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | -5 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 71052 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | 318 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 22-48365 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | U.S. Highways |
Mansfield is a small city in, and the parish seat of, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, United States.[3] Mansfield is part of the Shreveport - Bossier City metropolitan statistical area, with a 2020 population of 4,714.
Mansfield is located at (32.032782, -93.702475)[4] and has an elevation of 335feet.[5]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.6 km2), all land.
| Number | Percentage | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| White (non-Hispanic) | 727 | 15.42% | |
| Black or African American (non-Hispanic) | 3,691 | 78.3% | |
| Native American | 15 | 0.32% | |
| Asian | 28 | 0.59% | |
| Other/Mixed | 122 | 2.59% | |
| Hispanic or Latino | 131 | 2.78% |
Mansfield was the childhood home of Joshua Logan, an award-winning director, producer, playwright and screenwriter for film and stage. He is most famous for directing Hollywood classics such as South Pacific, Picnic, Paint Your Wagon, Sayonara, Bus Stop and Fanny. Logan received the Pulitzer Prize at the age of forty for the libretto of South Pacific, which he cowrote with Oscar Hammerstein II. Logan used Mansfield as the setting for his play The Wisteria Trees.
Ocie Lee Smith was an American singer, who performed with Count Basie's band from 1961 to 1965 and sang on the 1969 Grammy Award-winning recording of the song "Little Green Apples". He was born in Mansfield on June 21, 1932.
Mansfield is the birthplace of major league baseball player Vida Blue, a left-handed starting pitcher. In a 17-year career, he played for the Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants, and Kansas City Royals. Also Jesse Hudson, New York Mets pitcher. They graduated Mansfield High School in 1967 together.
Mansfield is also the birthplace of Albert Lewis (born October 6, 1960). Lewis made his professional debut in the NFL in 1983 with the Kansas City Chiefs. He played for the Kansas City Chiefs, Oakland Raiders, and Los Angeles Raiders over the course of his 16-year career.NFL cornerback Fakhir Brown (born on September 21, 1977) initially attended Mansfield High School.
Others affiliated with Mansfield by birth or residence include: