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Sibley, Louisiana

FieldValue
nameSibley, Louisiana
settlement_typeTown
image_skylineRevised photo of Sibley, LA, Town Hall IMG_0605.JPG
imagesize200px
image_captionSibley Town Hall at site of former Sibley High School
image_mapFile:Webster Parish Louisiana Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Sibley Highlighted.svg
map_captionLocation of Sibley in Webster Parish, Louisiana.
image_map1Louisiana in United States (US48).svg
map_caption1Location of Louisiana in the United States
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameUnited States
subdivision_type1State
subdivision_name1Louisiana
subdivision_type2Parish
subdivision_name2Webster
established_titleFounded
leader_titleMayor
unit_prefImperial
area_footnotes
area_total_km210.35
area_total_sq_mi4.00
area_land_km210.06
area_land_sq_mi3.89
area_water_km20.29
area_water_sq_mi0.11
population_as_of2020
population_total1127
population_density_km2111.98
population_density_sq_mi290.02
timezone1CST
utc_offset1-6
timezone1_DSTCDT
utc_offset1_DST-5
elevation_footnotes
elevation_ft213
coordinates
coordinates_footnotes
postal_code_typeZIP code
postal_code71073
area_code318
blank_nameFIPS code
blank_info22-70175
blank1_nameGNIS feature ID
blank1_info2407332
website

Sibley is a town in south Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,218 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The former Sibley High School, now known as Lakeside Junior/Senior High School, is located south of town off Louisiana Highway 7. The Sibley Town Hall was relocated to a portion of the former Sibley High School campus.

In a predominantly African American section of the nearby unincorporated community of Yellow Pine is an area formerly known as "King Solomon Hill," centered on an actual hill on which stood King Solomon Hill Baptist Church. (The community is now known as "Salt Works.") The blues historian Gayle Dean Wardlow concluded that it was from this address that Paramount Records chose to give the blues musician Joe Holmes, a resident of Sibley, the recording name of King Solomon Hill.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10.4 km), of which 3.9 square miles (10.0 km) is land and 0.1 square mile (0.4 km) (3.49%) is water.

Demographics

RaceNumberPercentageWhite (non-Hispanic)Black or African American (non-Hispanic)Native AmericanAsianOther/MixedHispanic or Latino
81672.4%
23721.03%
100.89%
30.27%
201.77%
413.64%

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,127 people, 554 households, and 396 families residing in the town.

Notable people

  • Provine Bradley (1907-1986), Negro league baseball player

References

References

  1. "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau.
  2. {{GNIS. 2407332
  3. Wardlow, Gayle Dean. ''Chasin' That Devil Music, Searching for the Blues''. 1998. Miller Freeman Books. {{ISBN. 0-87930-552-5. p. 211. Originally published as ''One Last Walk up King Solomon Hill'' in Blues Unlimited No. 148 (Winter 1987).
  4. "Census of Population and Housing". United States Census Bureau.
  5. "Explore Census Data".
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