Springhill (Louisiana)

Webster Parish

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Spring Hill is a city in Webster Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Covering an area of ​​over 16 square kilometers, nearly 5300 people live.

Spring Hill is part of the socio-economic region Ark- La -Tex, which includes parts of four states Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.

Geography

Spring Hill is located in the northwest of the state of Louisiana in the southern United States, right on the northern border of Arkansas and about 55 kilometers from the western border with Texas. In the southwest of Lake Murray and the Williams Lake borders with the adjacent Paper Mill Pond to the city. Five kilometers north- west of the city is Lake Erling in Arkansas.

Nearby cities include Sarepta (8 km south), Taylor (9 km north), Shongaloo (17 km southeast), Bradley (18 km north-west ) and Plain Dealing (23 km southwest). The nearest major town is about 200,000 inhabitants, is the 55 km south west Shreveport.

History

A first permanent settlement of the area around present-day Shonagloo was about 1818 south of the Parish Seat in Minden recorded. In 1894 the present-day city was known as Barefoot. It was incorporated in 1902.

Economy

As in all places of the region also Springhills economy was initially dominated by the lumber industry. This began in 1896 when the Pine Woods Lumber Company built a plant here. The city growth benefited from this settlement enormous. After the world economic crisis, the company migrated, the population declined sharply. The company's former facilities changed in subsequent years hands several times. Opened in 1937, the International Paper Company, a paper mill, which strengthened the wood decomposition and the regional economy was growing again. The following construction of a farm for timber production made ​​Spring Hill for lumber center of the northern Louisiana. In 1979, the paper mill was closed; together with the crisis in the oil industry this also had a negative impact on the economy. By 2007, the farm was also sold to the competitors Georgia-Pacific.

Today only, there is a sawmill Tucker Lumber Company.

Traffic

In a north-south alignment of U.S. Highway 371 runs through the town. It leads to the north by Magnolia and Prescott to the east of De Queen and goes south on the Interstate 49. He crossed in the center of Louisiana Highway 157, south of Shreveport begins at U.S. Highway 71 and north of Shongaloo rises in an intersection.

About 40 kilometers west of the city run on a common route of Interstate 49 and U.S. Highway 71, about 45 kilometers south of the city runs off Interstate 20, which leads at 2470 miles through six states.

Spring Hill has a small airport and is connected via the Shreveport Regional Airport in the regional air traffic.

Demography

The 2000 census showed a population of 5439 people, spread over 2258 households and 1485 families. The population density was 337 people per square kilometer. 73.5 % of the population were white, 25.1 % black, 0.8 % Hispanic or Latino, 0.2 % Asian, 0.2% American Indian and Pacific Islanders at 0.1 %. 0.3 % were from a different ethnicity, 0.7 % had two or more ethnicities. For every 100 females 85 males. The average age was 40 years, the per capita income was about 17,500 U.S. dollars, which about 20 % of the population were below the poverty line.

Until the 2010 census, the population dropped to 5269 inhabitants.

Personalities

• Trace Adkins, a country singer, was born in Spring Hill.
• John David Crow is a former football player and was named four times to the Pro Bowl. He attended Spring Hill High School.