Editing Haynesville, Louisiana

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{{Infobox settlement
| name                 = Haynesville, Louisiana
| settlement_type      = Town
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| image_caption        = Welcoming to Haynesville: "Gateway to North Louisiana"
| image_map            = File:Claiborne Parish Louisiana Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Haynesville Highlighted.svg
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| map_caption          = Location of Haynesville in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.
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| map_caption1         = Location of Louisiana in the United States
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| subdivision_name1    = Louisiana
| subdivision_type2    = Parish
| subdivision_name2    = [[Claiborne Parish, Louisiana|Claiborne]]
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| established_title    = Founded
| established_date     = 1818
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| leader_title         = Mayor
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| area_footnotes       = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020">{{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_22.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=March 20, 2022}}</ref>
| area_total_km2       = 12.53
| area_total_sq_mi     = 4.84
| area_land_km2        = 12.50
| area_land_sq_mi      = 4.83
| area_water_km2       = 0.03
| area_water_sq_mi     = 0.01
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| population_as_of     = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
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| population_total     = 2039
| population_density_km2 = 163.06
| population_density_sq_mi = 422.33
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| utc_offset1          = −6
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| utc_offset1_DST      = −5
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| elevation_ft         = 367
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|postal_code_type      = [[ZIP code]]
|postal_code           = 71038<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zipdatamaps.com/71038|title=Haynesville LA ZIP Code|publisher=zipdatamaps.com|year=2023|access-date=June 16, 2023}}</ref>
| area_code            = [[Area code 318|318]]
| blank_name           = [[Federal Information Processing Standards|FIPS code]]
| blank_info           = 22-33525
| blank1_name          = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info          = 2405809<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|2405809}}</ref>
| website              = {{URL|http://haynesvillela.org/}}
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}}

'''Haynesville''' is a town in northern [[Claiborne Parish, Louisiana|Claiborne Parish]], Louisiana, United States, located just south of the [[Arkansas]] border. The population was 2,039 in 2020.<ref name=":0" />

Haynesville is known as the "Gateway to North Louisiana" and the "Butterfly Capital of Louisiana". Loice Kendrick-Lacy of Haynesville published ''Gardening To Attract Butterflies: The Beauty And The Beast'' (2012). Kendrick-Lacy begins with memories of her childhood, when she was introduced to [[Butterfly|butterflies]] by her grandmother.<ref>Donna LaFleur, "Interview" Loice Kendrick-Lacy", "Authors in Shreveport" feature, 2012, [[Louisiana Public Broadcasting]], at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://media.lpb.org/LNWMK0447_iPod.mp4|title=Loice Kendrick-Lacy|publisher=media.lpb.org|access-date=January 26, 2013}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Louisiana - Boyce through Kinder - NARA - 23940399 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Haynesville in 1935]]
The town of Haynesville is the namesake of the [[Haynesville Shale]], an upper [[Jurassic]] formation that is difficult to define<ref>Chapman, R.T., (1951), Jurassic Development in the Haynesville Field, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions. Vol. 1, p. 40., this abstract is hosted in the archives section of the website of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists ([https://www.aapg.org/ AAPG])</ref> on a technical basis<ref>Horn, Marty, (2009), Toward a Better Definition of Haynesville Formation, Northern Louisiana Subsurface, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Denver, Colorado.</ref> but nevertheless covers a broad region of western Louisiana and east Texas and contains a large natural gas resource.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beg.utexas.edu/research/programs/starr/unconventional-resources/haynesville|title = Haynesville Shale-gas Study &#124; Bureau of Economic Geology}}</ref>  On March 24, 2008, Chesapeake Energy announced a new natural gas discovery in the Haynesville Shale.<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20080324005847/en/Chesapeake-Announces-Haynesville-Shale-Discovery-New-Unconventional|title = News}}</ref>  This announcement began a new chapter in the development of the Hayneville Shale and hastened the activities of several other companies in the play.<ref>http://www.inexs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Haynesville-Study.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

The town's churches include [[Baptist]], [[United Methodist]], [[Presbyterian]], [[Missionary Baptist]], [[Pentecostal]], and [[The churches of Christ (non-institutional)|Church of Christ]]. This part of the state was settled by Protestants from other parts of the South, more than by ethnic French, Louisiana Creole, Italian and Irish Catholics more typically found in the New Orleans area.

Material on the history of Haynesville can be found at the [[Herbert S. Ford Memorial Museum]] located across from the Claiborne Parish Courthouse in [[Homer, Louisiana|Homer]].

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|12.5|km2|disp=flip}}, of which {{convert|12.5|km2|disp=flip}} is land and 0.22% is water.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.census.gov| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Haynesville town, Louisiana| publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]| access-date=April 3, 2012}}</ref>

The most common soil is Eastwood series, which has {{convert|3|to|10|in}} of brown very fine sandy [[loam]] over {{convert|20|in}} of red [[clay]].<ref>[http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/][http://www2.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/osd/dat/E/EASTWOOD.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427150842/http://www2.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/osd/dat/E/EASTWOOD.html|date=April 27, 2009}}</ref> It supports a native forest vegetation of [[loblolly pine]], [[shortleaf pine]], [[southern red oak]], [[American sweet gum]] and [[hickory]].

===Climate===
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.  According to the [[Köppen Climate Classification]] system, Haynesville has a [[humid subtropical climate]], abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.<ref>[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=131461&cityname=Haynesville%2C+Louisiana%2C+United+States+of+America&units= Climate Summary for Haynesville, Louisiana]</ref>

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1880= 123
|1910= 663
|1920= 903
|1930= 2541
|1940= 2418
|1950= 3040
|1960= 3031
|1970= 3055
|1980= 3454
|1990= 2854
|2000= 2679
|2010= 2327
|2020= 2039
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+Haynesville racial composition as of 2020<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2233525&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 29, 2021|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!scope="col"| Race
!scope="col"| Number
!scope="col"| Percentage
|-
!scope="row"| [[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
| 679
| 33.3%
|-
!scope="row"| [[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
| 1,233
| 60.47%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
| 12
| 0.59%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
| 2
| 0.1%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
| 77
| 3.78%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
| 36
| 1.77%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 2,039 people, 1,081 households, and 664 families residing in the town.

==Government and infrastructure==
The [[United States Postal Service]] operates the Haynesville Post Office.<ref>"[http://usps.whitepages.com/service/post_office/haynesville-10007-highway-79-haynesville-la-1366554 Post Office Location – HAYNESVILLE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616070657/http://usps.whitepages.com/service/post_office/haynesville-10007-highway-79-haynesville-la-1366554 |date=2012-06-16 }}." [[United States Postal Service]]. Retrieved October 2, 2010.</ref>

[[Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections]] operates the [[David Wade Correctional Center]] in an [[unincorporated area|unincorporated section]] of [[Claiborne Parish, Louisiana|Claiborne Parish]] near Haynesville.<ref>"[http://www.doc.louisiana.gov/view.php?cat=7&id=39 David Wade Corr. Center] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127083937/http://doc.louisiana.gov/view.php?cat=7&id=39 |date=2011-01-27 }}." ''[[Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections]]''. Retrieved September 14, 2008.</ref><ref>"[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AD&p_theme=ad&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB47596A984957E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Inmate wants his privileges restored]." ''[[The Advocate (Louisiana)|The Advocate]]''. January 11, 1990. Retrieved October 2, 2010. "But Mule was transferred to Wade Correctional Center in Haynesville[...]"</ref>

==Crime==
In May 1999, the Haynesville Police Department discovered the skeletal remains of Shannon Capers, a 13-year-old girl who had been missing since March 8, 1997. She was found in the woods behind the Mill Street Apartments on the north side of town. Capers had lived in the apartments. She was known to have been murdered by her boyfriend, a local drug dealer named Maurice Tate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kcwd.com/gj/2004/briefs-2004-04-08.html|title=The Guardian-Journal Headlines and News Briefs|website=kcwd.com|access-date=February 26, 2019}}</ref>

[[File:Haynesville, LA, High School IMG 0879.JPG|thumb| right|[[Haynesville Junior-Senior High School]]]]
==Education==
The [[Claiborne Parish School Board]] is the local school district for the entire parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st22_la/schooldistrict_maps/c22027_claiborne/DC20SD_C22027.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Claiborne Parish, LA|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=February 11, 2024}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st22_la/schooldistrict_maps/c22027_claiborne/DC20SD_C22027_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> It operates Haynesville Elementary School and [[Haynesville Junior/Senior High School]].<ref>"[http://www.claibornepsb.org/dept.asp?dept_id=16 Welcome to Haynesville Elementary School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725175649/http://www.claibornepsb.org/dept.asp?dept_id=16 |date=2011-07-25 }}." [[Claiborne Parish Schools]]. Retrieved October 2, 2010.</ref><ref>"[http://www.claibornepsb.org/dept.asp?dept_id=15 Welcome to Haynesville Jr/Sr School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725175659/http://www.claibornepsb.org/dept.asp?dept_id=15 |date=2011-07-25 }}." [[Claiborne Parish Schools]]. Retrieved October 2, 2010.</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Geoffrey Beene]], American fashion designer, born August 30, 1924
* [[Demetric Evans]], NFL football player (San Francisco 49ers)
* [[Doug Evans (American football)|Doug Evans]], former NFL football player ([[Green Bay Packers]]; [[Super Bowl XXXI]] champion)
* [[Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick]], musician and civil rights activist
* [[John Sidney Garrett]], Speaker of the [[Louisiana State Legislature|Louisiana House of Representatives]] (1968–1972)
* [[James Haynes|Jim Haynes]] (1933–2021), leading figure in British counter-culture
* [[George H. Mahon]], [[U.S. Representative]] from [[Texas's 19th congressional district]] from 1935 to 1979.
* [[Danny Roy Moore]] (1925–c. 2020), Louisiana state senator from 1964 to 1968
* [[Bob Odom]], former Louisiana commissioner of Agriculture and [[Forestry]]
* [[Larry Sale]], sheriff of Claiborne Parish from 1936 to 1944
* [[A. L. Williams (American football)|A. L. Williams]], high school and college football coach; born in Haynesville

==Photo gallery==
<gallery class="center" widths="150px">
Image:Haynesville, LA, Methodist Church IMG 0887.JPG|Haynesville [[United Methodist Church]]
Image:Revised photo of Haynesville Baptist Church IMG 2202.JPG|First [[Baptist]] Church in downtown Haynesville
Image:Haynesville, LA, Presbyterian Church IMG 0903.JPG|The First [[Presbyterian]] Church in Haynesville
Image:Haynesville, LA, City Hall IMG 0885.JPG|City Hall in Haynesville
Image:Obelisk in Centennial Park in Haynesville, LA IMG 0906.JPG|This [[obelisk]] erected in 1976 in Bicentennial Park in Haynesville is dedicated to the medical profession.
Image:Old Town Cemetery in Haynesville, LA IMG 0900.JPG|The large Old Town Cemetery in south Haynesville.
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
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