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History · Port Vincent

Port Vincent’s post office opened in 1833, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Port Vincent was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990. Its Register listing is the Castleberry Boarding House. Below: maps from 1934 on and the census since 1960.

1833first post office
1on the National Register
4%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Port Vincent began

When was Port Vincent founded?

1833

The Port Vincent post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Beech Hill (1835) and Coelk (1848), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 340 in 19602020 census: 646193 years
Founding year: the first Port Vincent post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Port Vincent’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 Port Vincent are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Port Vincent.Deep rootsA post office since 1833: 193 years of Port Vincent.
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Start Port Vincent’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Port Vincent’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Port Vincent had its own post office from 1833 to 1835. Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Port Vincent
1833–1835
Beech Hill
1835–1842
Coelk
1848–1874
Port Vincent
1874–1954
18301930today
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Port Vincent
Saint William CatholicWatson

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

Timeline

Port Vincent, 1833 to 1934

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1833Post officeThe Port Vincent post office opens
  3. 1835Post officeThe Port Vincent post office closes
  4. 1835Post officeThe Beech Hill post office opens
  5. 1842Post officeThe Beech Hill post office closes
  6. 1848Post officeThe Coelk post office opens
  7. 1874Post officeThe Coelk post office closes
  8. 1875BuiltCastleberry Boarding House is built
  9. 20th century
  10. 1934On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Port Vincent, in brief

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

Port Vincent is a village in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Port Vincent had a population of 646. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1833. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 741 to 646 (-13%).

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

By decade

Port Vincent, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Port Vincent, Louisiana2026Port Vincent, LouisianaLAMap-doton-Port Vincent2004LAMap-doton-Port Vincent
On the map

Port Vincent on the map, 1934 to 1991

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

Port Vincent on the 1934 USGS mapPort Vincent on the 1953 USGS mapPort Vincent on the 1963 USGS mapPort Vincent on the 1980 USGS mapPort Vincent on the 1991 USGS map1934Denham Springs 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 Port Vincent.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Port Vincent

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
4
each building in a district counts
first listed
2001
Castleberry Boarding House
Castleberry Boarding House, built 1875
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Eastlake1
Castleberry Boarding HouseEastlake · Built 1875

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Port Vincent, census by census

02004006008001960198020002020Peak: 741

Between 340 and 741 people in every census since 1960.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Port Vincent

Nobody well known was born in Port Vincent itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Bobby JindalAmerican politician and 55th governor of Louisi… · b. 1971
Bob PettitAmerican basketball player and coach · b. 1932
Shane WestAmerican actor, musician and songwriter · b. 1978
Ted DiBiase Jr.American professional wrestler and actor · b. 1982
Carly PattersonAmerican artistic gymnast and rock singer · b. 1988
Francis T. NichollsConfederate Army general, lawyer, judge and Ame… · b. 1834

Questions about Port Vincent’s history

What year was Port Vincent founded?

The Port Vincent post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Port Vincent?

One place: the Castleberry Boarding House (listed 2001).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (2), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.