Editing Livingston, Louisiana (section)

==Geography==
Livingston is located at {{Coord|30|29|55|N|90|44|54|W|type:city}} (30.498721, -90.748371).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|3.1|sqmi|km2}}, all land.
The communities of Doyle and Livingston, combined in 1955 to create the Town of Livingston.  Doyle was established northeast of present-day Livingston, located on Hog Branch, off present-day North Doyle Road but moved when the railroad was built from [[Baton Rouge]] to [[Hammond, Louisiana|Hammond]], and the community was re-located in 1908 by the McDonald family.

Livingston was started by the Lyons Lumber Company in 1916 as a logging community on 63 acres just west of Doyle, to support their logging industry and timber mill in [[Garyville, Louisiana|Garyville]], located south of Livingston on the [[Mississippi River]]. Therefore, Livingston and Garyville are sister cities.

When Livingston was first established there was a house on every lot, a board walk in front of every home, and water wells drilled on each corner so every home would have access to running water.