Lake Bruin

Lake Bruin State Park is a state park in Louisiana located on the shore of Lake Bruin, an oxbow lake near the town of St. Joseph in Tensas Parish.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newellton and St. Joseph.

Newellton

Village

Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Newellton is a town in northern Tensas Parish in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 886 in the 2020 census, a decline of 596 persons, or 40 percent, from the 2000 tabulation of 1,482. Newellton is situated 5 miles north of Lake Bruin.

St. Joseph

Village

Photo: Billy Hathorn, Public domain.

St. Joseph is a town in, and the parish seat of, rural Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States, in the delta of the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, St. St. Joseph is situated 6 miles south of Lake Bruin.

Lake Bruin

Type: Lake
Also known as: “Bruins Lake”
Category: body of water
Location: Tensas Parish, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

32.00599° or 32° 0′ 22″ north

Longitude

-91.22067° or 91° 13′ 14″ west

Elevation

62 feet (19 metres)

Open location code

864C2Q4H+9P

GeoNames ID

4318066

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