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History · Red Chute

Red Chute’s post office opened in 1879

More historic than 11% of U.S. towns · #135 of 161 in Louisiana. What drives it

Most of Red Chute was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1993. Below: maps from 1932 on and the census since 1990.

1879first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Red Chute began

When was Red Chute founded?

1879

The Red Chute post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 5,431 in 19902020 census: 7,065147 years

How historic is Red Chute?

D

More historic than 11% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

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

What drives Red Chute’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Red Chute is more historic than 11% of U.S. towns, #135 of 161 in Louisiana. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Red Chute’s overall grade.
Founding era1879, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19400.0% of homes (±0.7) · typical LA town 3.4% · U.S. 8.4%D−National 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 11%
NewerOlder
Louisiana towns of 2,500+ (161)Ahead of 16%

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 Red Chute’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 D. The pre-1940 share (±0.7 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 Red Chute’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 Red Chute are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages10 hamlets and corners are still on the map.
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Start Red Chute’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Red Chute’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
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, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Red Chute had its own post office from 1879 to 1880.

Red Chute
1879–1880
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Country PlaceDogwood AcresDogwood EstatesDogwood ForestDogwood HillsDogwood ParkEspanita ForestEspanita VillageHolly RidgeOak Thicket Acres
Gone or out of use
Touchstone Ridge Ultralight Flightparkairport
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Red Chute
FellowshipHillcrest Memorial Park

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

The story so far

Red Chute, in brief

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

Red Chute is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Red Chute had a population of 7,065. It is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1879. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 6,261 to 7,065 (+13%).

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

Timeline

Red Chute, 1879 to 1932

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Red Chute post office opens
  3. 1880Post officeThe Red Chute post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1932On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Red Chute, decade by decade

Today2 recent
199 foot cross in Louisiana2012199 foot cross in LouisianaLAMap-doton-Red Chute2004LAMap-doton-Red Chute
On the map

Red Chute on the map, 1932 to 1999

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

Red Chute on the 1932 USGS mapRed Chute on the 1948 USGS mapRed Chute on the 1955 USGS mapRed Chute on the 1975 USGS mapRed Chute on the 1999 USGS map1932Bossier SE sheet · 1:31,680

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

People over time

Red Chute, census by census

05001,0001,5002,0002,5003,0003,5004,0004,5005,0005,5006,0006,5007,0007,50020002020Peak: 7,065

Between 5,431 and 7,065 people in every census since 1990.

4 censuses, 1990–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Red Chute

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

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Jared LetoAmerican actor, singer, musician and songwriter · b. 1971
Mike JohnsonSpeaker of the United States House of Represent… · b. 1972
Evelyn AshfordAmerican sprinter · b. 1957
Pat CarrollAmerican actress · b. 1927
Robert ParishAmerican former basketball player · b. 1953
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Shannon LetoAmerican drummer · b. 1970
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

EastwoodIts storyDBossier City4 historic placesB−

Questions about Red Chute’s history

What year was Red Chute founded?

The Red Chute post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Red Chute rank for history?

Red Chute is more historic than 11% of U.S. towns, #135 of 161 in Louisiana. 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 Red Chute?

0.0% of Red Chute’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 3.4% for a Louisiana town; the median home was built in 1993.

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).

From Wikimedia Commons (2), 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.