Wallace Ridge, Louisiana

Wallace Ridge, Louisiana
Census-designated place
Wallace Ridge Location within Louisiana
Coordinates: 31°41′3″N 91°50′11″W / 31.68417°N 91.83639°WCoordinates: 31°41′3″N 91°50′11″W / 31.68417°N 91.83639°W
Country	United States
State	Louisiana
Parish	Catahoula
Area
• Total	19.3 km^2 (7.5 sq mi)
• Land	18.1 km^2 (7.0 sq mi)
• Water	1.2 km^2 (0.5 sq mi)
Elevation	20 m (60 ft)
Population (2010)	710
• Density	39.2/km^2 (102/sq mi)
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CST (UTC-5)
ZIP Codes	71343
Area Code	318

Wallace Ridge is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 710.^[1] It is located northeast of the center of Catahoula Parish on the west side of the Ouachita River. Tew Lake, a former channel of the river that is now an oxbow lake, is in the northern part of the CDP, and Wallace Lake, another oxbow, borders the southern part. The original community of Wallace Ridge is on relatively higher ground on the north side of Tew Lake.

Louisiana State Highway 124 passes through Wallace Ridge, leading north 5 miles (8 km) to Harrisonburg, the Catahoula Parish seat, and south 4 miles (6 km) to Jonesville, the largest town in the parish.

References

1. "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Wallace Ridge CDP, Louisiana". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved August 20, 2014.