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History · Choudrant

Choudrant’s post office opened in 1890

More historic than 19% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Most of Choudrant was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2003. Below: maps from 1950 on and the census since 1920.

1890first post office
0on the National Register
4%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Choudrant began

When was Choudrant founded?

1890

The Choudrant post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Roan (1883), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 393 in 19202020 census: 989136 years

How historic is Choudrant?

C−

More historic than 19% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Choudrant post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade

What drives Choudrant’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Choudrant is more historic than 19% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.

C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Choudrant’s overall grade.
Founding era1890, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19404.0% of homes (±4.3) · typical LA town 3.4% · U.S. 8.4%CNational RegisterNo listings counted · typical LA town 3.8 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 19%
NewerOlder

Louisiana towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Louisiana town has 3.8 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Choudrant’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (21% of Louisiana towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.3 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Choudrant’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Choudrant are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Choudrant’s history is told.

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The story so far

Choudrant, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Choudrant yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Choudrant is a village in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Choudrant had a population of 989. It is part of the Ruston Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1890. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 845 to 989 (+17%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Choudrant, 1883 to 1950

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1883Post officeThe Roan post office opens
  3. 1890Post officeThe Roan post office closes
  4. 1890Post officeThe Choudrant post office opens
  5. 1895Born hereBill Bagwell is born here
  6. 20th century
  7. 1950On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Choudrant, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Tremont Rest Area2017Tremont Rest AreaTremont Rest Area, Choudrant, LA 20172017Tremont Rest Area, Choudrant, LA 2017First Baptist Church of Choudrant, LA IMG 01102010First Baptist Church of Choudrant, LA IMG 0110Choudrant, LA, Village Hall IMG 01052010Choudrant, LA, Village Hall IMG 0105Choudrant, LA, High School IMG 01002010Choudrant, LA, High School IMG 0100LAMap-doton-Choudrant2004LAMap-doton-Choudrant
On the map

Choudrant on the map, 1950 to 1994

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Choudrant. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Choudrant on the 1950 USGS mapChoudrant on the 1968 USGS mapChoudrant on the 1985 USGS mapChoudrant on the 1994 USGS map1950Ruston sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Choudrant.

People over time

Choudrant, census by census

02004006008001,000192019401960198020002020989

Grew from 393 people in 1920 to 989 in 2020.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Choudrant’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Choudrant’s post office has been open since 1890. Another post office, Roan, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Roan
1883–1890
Choudrant
1890–today
18801950today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Choudrant’s history

What year was Choudrant founded?

The Choudrant post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Choudrant rank for history?

Choudrant is more historic than 19% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

How old are the homes in Choudrant?

4% of Choudrant’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.3 points), against a typical 3.4% for a Louisiana town; the median home was built in 2003.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.