Most of Coushatta was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1975. Its Register listing is the Coushatta Bank Building.
The Coushatta post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Coushatta Chute (1870), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 1,752143 years
How historic is Coushatta?
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More historic than 30% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Coushatta post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Coushatta’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Coushatta is more historic than 30% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
C
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Coushatta’s overall grade.
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 Coushatta’s 5.2 sits near the middle of its state (56% of Louisiana towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to C+. The pre-1940 share (±2.2 points) is firm at this size. 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 Coushatta’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Red River Parish and the Red River Valley were areas of unrest and white paramilitary activity and violence after the Civil War, and especially during the 1870s of Reconstruction. The parish developed around cotton cultivation and enslaved African Americans who far outnumbered the whites. After the war, white planters and farmers tried to reestablish dominance over a majority of the population. With emancipation and being granted citizenship and suffrage, African Americans tried to create their own lives.
The Coushatta post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Coushatta rank for history?
Coushatta is more historic than 30% 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.
What is on the National Register in Coushatta?
One place: the Coushatta Bank Building (listed 1983).
How old are the homes in Coushatta?
3% of Coushatta’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.2 points), against a typical 3.4% for a Louisiana town; the median home was built in 1975.
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 (5), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
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