Wallace Ridge, Louisiana | |
Official Name: | Hamlet of Wallace Ridge |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | USA Louisiana |
Pushpin Label: | Wallace Ridge |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Louisiana |
Coordinates: | 31.6842°N -91.8364°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | Parish |
Subdivision Name2: | Catahoula |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 19.33 |
Area Land Km2: | 18.13 |
Area Water Km2: | 1.20 |
Elevation Ft: | 60 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Density Km2: | 31.54 |
Timezone1: | CST |
Utc Offset1: | -6 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | -5 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Codes |
Postal Code: | 71343 |
Area Code Type: | Area Code |
Area Code: | 318 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 22-79310 |
Population Total: | 572 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 7.47 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 7.00 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.46 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 81.70 |
Wallace Ridge is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 710.[2] It is located northeast of the center of Catahoula Parish on the west side of the Ouachita River. Tew Lake, a former channel of the river that is now an oxbow lake, is in the northern part of the CDP, and Wallace Lake, another oxbow, borders the southern part. The original community of Wallace Ridge is on relatively higher ground on the north side of Tew Lake.
Louisiana State Highway 124 passes through Wallace Ridge, leading north 5miles to Harrisonburg, the Catahoula Parish seat, and south 4miles to Jonesville, the largest town in the parish.