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Pitkin, Louisiana

Field	Value
official_name	Pitkin, Louisiana
settlement_type	CDP
image_map	Vernon Parish Louisiana incorporated and unincorporated areas Pitkin highlighted.svg
mapsize	260px
map_caption	Location in Vernon Parish and the state of Louisiana.
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Louisiana
subdivision_type2	Parish
subdivision_name2	Vernon
unit_pref	Imperial
area_footnotes
area_total_km2	16.16
area_land_km2	16.13
area_water_km2	0.03
area_total_sq_mi	6.24
area_land_sq_mi	6.23
area_water_sq_mi	0.01
population_as_of	2020
population_total	455
population_density_km2	28.20
population_density_sq_mi	73.05
timezone	Central (CST)
utc_offset	-6
timezone_DST	CDT
utc_offset_DST	-5
elevation_footnotes
elevation_ft	161
coordinates
area_code	337
blank_name	GNIS feature ID
blank_info	2586699

Pitkin is a census-designated place (CDP) in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Pitkin is approximately 40 mi southeast of Leesville, the parish seat, and approximately 45 mi southwest of the city of Alexandria. As of the 2010 census, the CDP's population was 576.

Burl Cain, former warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, was reared in Pitkin. His older brother, James David, a former member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, was born in Pitkin in 1938.

History

In 1863, during the Civil War, Confederate soldiers built a military road from Niblett's Bluff to Alexandria that passed through the area. The Vernon Parish Tourism Commission placed an historical marker in 2009.

American sociologist, historian, and author James W. Loewen, in his 2005 book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, identified Pitkin as having been a sundown town.

Demographics

Pitkin first appeared as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S. census. '

According to the 2010 census, of its 576 population who live in 230 households, their median age was 41.6, 541 are White, 10 are multiracial, 3 are Asian, 2 are some other race, 1 is African American; 10 have Latino ethnicity.

Education

The Vernon Parish School District serves Pitkin. It operates Pitkin High School (PK-12). The Vernon Parish Library operates the Pitkin Branch Library.

References

"2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau.
{{GNIS. 2586699
" [http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st22_la/place/p2260600_pitkin/DC10BLK_P2260600_001.pdf 2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Pitkin CDP, LA]." [[U.S. Census Bureau]]. Retrieved on March 23, 2013.
"U.S. Census website". [[United States Census Bureau]].
"God’s Own Warden". Mother Jones.
"Old Confederate Military Road 1862-1865". HMdb.org.
"Pitkin, Louisiana". Tougaloo University.
"Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov.
"2010 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Louisiana".
. (2010). ["Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010"](https://www.census.gov). *United States Department of Commerce*.
"[http://www.vpsb.k12.la.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=20 Home]." [[Pitkin High School]]. Retrieved on March 23, 2013.
"[http://www1.youseemore.com/VernonParish/about.asp?p=23 Sexual Predator Policy]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140903173106/http://www1.youseemore.com/VernonParish/about.asp?p=23 Archive]) Vernon Parish Library. Retrieved on March 23, 2013.

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