Mooringsport, Louisiana
Caddo Parish
22-51830
Mooringsport is a town in Caddo Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Covering an area of more than three square kilometers, about 800 people live.
Mooringsport is part of the socio-economic region Ark- La -Tex, which includes parts of four states Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Geography
Mooringsport is in the northwest of the state of Louisiana, about seven miles from the western border with Texas and 37 kilometers away from the northern border with Arkansas. In the north of the city adjacent to the Caddo Lake, an approximately 103 -square-mile lake in the states of Louisiana and Texas. A few kilometers to the east is a small game reserve.
Nearby towns include Oil City (5 km north), Vivian (17 km north), Shreveport ( 19 m southeast ), Marshall (35 km southwest) and Jefferson (38 miles west).
History
Mooringsport is the first community in northern Caddo Parish with a permanent settlement. 1837 Timothy Mooring moved from Henderson County, Tennessee with his the men and his nine children here. He built a ferry through the nearly 20 -kilometer-long sump to allow cotton shipments from Shreveport in the area now Mooringsport. To protect the cotton he built near the ferry a shed. The ferry was known as Mooring 's Port.
In the 1840s and 1850s the Mooringsport Road was built to Shreveport to allow other colonists a better way to greater market their products. 1854 a post was established after Mooringsport, 1870 was followed by an official post office. In the 1870s and 1880s, the city served as a port for Bamwolltransport to Texas. For rail transport, a trestle bridge was built in 1897. Due to the growing importance of rail transport took on steamboats on the Caddo Lake is shrinking.
1914 Vertical lift bridge over Caddo Lake was built in the, which ended definitively the use of steamships. Later, a new bridge was built, so that the old bridge was not used further.
1897 and 1941 each hit a severe tornado in the area Mooringsport and destroyed both times the industrial areas and business centers of the city. The 1920 and 1928 had negative effects on the economy of the city. From the Great Depression in the early 1930s, they did not recover fully until today.
In the 1950s, several schools of northern Caddo Parish were combined, so that the smaller towns shared a high school. Founded in 1911 Mooringsport School closed in the 1970s and was reopened later restored. In the 1970s, the city received a prison, a new police station and a fire department. A local company supplies parts of the Ark- La -Tex with electricity.
For the 150th anniversary of the city, the Mooringsport Mini Museum was opened in 1987. It displays numerous objects from the history of the city and the region.
Traffic
From north to south east of the city of Louisiana Highway 538, which leads north and south of the city in each of the Louisiana Highway 1 runs. Within the urban area is the Louisiana Highway 767, the route but after a short run in the Louisiana Highway 169 passes, in turn, about 60 kilometers to the south rises in an intersection.
About ten kilometers east of the city runs in a north - south U.S. Highway 71, which is carried on the same route in part as Interstate 49 and north leads among other things to the Texarkana Cities and south to Shreveport and Alexandria.
Demography
The 2000 census showed a population of 833 people, spread over 334 households and 228 families. The population density was about 277 people per square kilometer. 80.2 % of the population were white, 17.8 % black, 0.7 % Hispanic or Latino and 0.4 % Indians. 0.4 % were from a different ethnicity, 1.3% had two or more ethnicities. The average age was 35 years, the per capita income was more than 14,500 U.S. dollars, which slightly more than 10 % of the population were below the poverty line.
Bs for the 2010 census has declined slightly to 793 the number of inhabitants.
Personalities
- Leadbelly (1889-1949) was a born in Mooringsport blues singer.