Home to the Louisiana Technical College-Bastrop Campus, this incorporated city in Morehouse Parish has an estimated population of less than 13000 inhabitants. Incorporated in the 1850s, this territory is located 110 miles away from Shreveport and less than 290 miles away from Dallas (TX). With a total land area of almost 8.5 square miles of extension, this community reporting rich American, Irish, German, and French ancestries has a racial makeup of 65% African American residents and close to 35% of White Non Hispanic citizens.