Gibsland
Gibsland is a town in Bienville Parish in northern Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 773. The town is best known for its connecting railroads, as the birthplace of the defunct historically black Coleman College, and for being the place where notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers on May 23, 1934.
- Type: Village with 773 residents
- Description: town in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Gibsland, LA” and “Gibsland, Louisiana”
- Postal code: 71028
Gibsland
- Categories: town in the United States, Rural community (local government), and locality
- Location: Bienville, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.54404° or 32° 32′ 39″ north
Longitude
-93.05294° or 93° 3′ 11″ west
Population
773
Elevation
269 feet (82 metres)
Open location code
8648GWVW+JR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Gibsland” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غيبسلاند”
- Basque: “Gibsland”
- Catalan: “Gibsland”
- Cebuano: “Gibsland”
- Chechen: “Гибсленд”
- Chinese: “Gibsland”
- Chinese: “吉布斯兰”
- Dutch: “Gibsland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيبسلاند”
- French: “Gibsland”
- German: “Gibsland”
- Gilaki: “گیبزلند (لۊئيزيانا)”
- Gilaki: “گیبزلند”
- Haitian: “Gibsland, Lwizyana”
- Haitian: “Gibsland”
- Hungarian: “Gibsland”
- Italian: “Gibsland”
- Ladin: “Gibsland”
- Mazanderani: “گیبسلاند”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gibsland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gibsland”
- Norwegian: “Gibsland”
- Persian: “گیبسلاند، لوئیزیانا”
- Persian: “گیبسلاند”
- Polish: “Gibsland”
- Portuguese: “Gibsland”
- Serbian: “Гибсланд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gibsland, Louisiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gibsland”
- South Azerbaijani: “جیبسلاند، لوئیزیانا”
- Spanish: “Gibsland (Luisiana)”
- Spanish: “Gibsland”
- Swedish: “Gibsland”
- Tatar: “Гибсленд”
- Ukrainian: “Гібсленд”
- Ukrainian: “Ґібсленд”
- Urdu: “گبز لینڈ، لوزیانا”
- Volapük: “Gibsland”
- Welsh: “Gibsland, Louisiana”
- Welsh: “Gibsland”
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