Forest
Forest is a village in West Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States. The population was 275 at the 2000 census. Forest Police Chief James Robert "Bob" Smith, with service since 1998 is the oldest elected official in the State of Louisiana, as of 2017.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 304 residents
- Description: village in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Forest, LA” and “Forest, Louisiana”
- Postal code: 71242
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pioneer and Oak Grove.
Pioneer
Village
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pioneer is a village in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 171 at the 2000 census. Pioneer is situated 4 miles south of Forest.
Oak Grove
Town
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oak Grove is the parish seat of West Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,441 at the 2020 United States census. Oak Grove is situated 5 miles north of Forest.
Forest
- Categories: village in the United States and locality
- Location: West Carroll, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.79208° or 32° 47′ 32″ northLongitude
-91.41345° or 91° 24′ 48″ westPopulation
304Elevation
125 feet (38 metres)Open location code
864CQHRP+RJOpenStreetMap ID
node 151324520OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4324918Wikidata ID
Q1896580
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Forest” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورست”
- Basque: “Forest”
- Catalan: “Forest”
- Cebuano: “Forest”
- Chinese: “Forest”
- Chinese: “福利斯特”
- Chinese: “福里斯特”
- Dutch: “Forest”
- French: “Forest, Louisiane”
- French: “Forest”
- German: “Forest”
- Gilaki: “فؤرست (لۊئيزيانا)”
- Gilaki: “فؤرست”
- Haitian: “Forest, Lwizyana”
- Haitian: “Forest”
- Italian: “Forest”
- Ladin: “Forest”
- Mazanderani: “فوریست”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Forest”
- Persian: “فوریست”
- Polish: “Forest”
- Portuguese: “Forest”
- Serbian: “Форест”
- Serbian: “Форист”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forest, Louisiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forest”
- South Azerbaijani: “فورزت، لوئیزیانا”
- Spanish: “Forest”
- Swedish: “Forest, Louisiana”
- Swedish: “Forest”
- Ukrainian: “Форест”
- Volapük: “Forest”
- Welsh: “Forest, Louisiana”
- Welsh: “Forest”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Forest”. Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.