| Official Name: | Pitkin, Louisiana |
| Settlement Type: | CDP |
| Mapsize: | 260px |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Louisiana |
| Subdivision Type2: | Parish |
| Subdivision Name2: | Vernon |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 16.16 |
| Area Land Km2: | 16.13 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.03 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 6.24 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 6.23 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.01 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 455 |
| Population Density Km2: | 28.20 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 73.05 |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation Ft: | 167 |
| Coordinates: | 30.9364°N -92.9364°W |
| Area Code: | 337 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 555670 |
Pitkin is a census-designated place (CDP) in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States.[2]
Pitkin is approximately 40miles southeast of Leesville, the parish seat. Pitkin is approximately 45miles southwest of the city of Alexandria and about 150miles due west of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP, also known as Angola) in West Feliciana Parish.[3] As of the 2010 census, the CDP's population was 576.[4] James Ridgeway of Mother Jones said that the Pitkin area had 1,965 residents.[3]
Burl Cain, the warden of LSP, was reared in Pitkin.[3] His older brother, James David, a former member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, was born in Pitkin in 1938.
In 1863, during the Civil War, Confederate soldiers built a military road from Niblett's Bluff to Alexandria that passed through the area. The Vernon Parish Tourism Commission placed an historical marker in 2009.[5]
According to the 2010 census, of its 576 population who live in 230 households, their median age was 41.6, 541 are White, 10 are multiracial, 3 are Asian, 2 are some other race, 1 is African American; 10 have Latino ethnicity.[6]
The Vernon Parish School District serves Pitkin. It operates Pitkin High School (PK-12).[7] The Vernon Parish Library operates the Pitkin Branch Library.[8]