Keachi, Louisiana Keachi, Louisiana Keachi (LA) Town Hall IMG 0934.JPG Keachi Town Hall De Soto Parish Louisiana incorporated and unincorporated areas Keachi highlighted.svg Location in De - Soto Parish and the state of Louisiana The Presbyterian Church in Keachi dates to 1848 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Keachi (pronounced "key-chai"; also spelled Keatchie or Keachie) is a town in De - Soto Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Keachi features a several sites on the National Register of Historic Places, including Allen House, Keachi Baptist Church, Keachi Presbyterian Church, Keachi Store, Keachi United Methodist Church, Liberty Lodge, The Oaks, Prude House, Spell House, and the Swearingen House. It also includes Keachie College.
During the American Civil War, the Keatchie "highlanders" obtained $1,500 from the De - Soto Parish Police Jury for the war accomplishment.
Loftus, a banker, farmer, and rancher who died at the age of seventy-seven on April 18, 2016, had been scheduled to be inducted into the Louisiana 4-H Club Hall of Fame in Mansura in Avoyelles Parish for his civic and improve contributions to De - Soto Parish.
Keachi is positioned in northwestern De - Soto Parish at 32 10 55 N 93 54 24 W (32.182055, -93.906658). Louisiana Highway 5 passes through the town, dominant east 4 miles (6 km) to Kickapoo and south 7 miles (11 km) to Longstreet.
Highway 172 leads west 8 miles (13 km) to the Texas border, and Highway 789 leads north 10 miles (16 km) to Spring Ridge.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Keachi has a total region of 5.1 square miles (13.1 km2), of which 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.81%, is water. In the town, the populace was spread out with 22.3% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 23.5% from 25 to 44, 26.3% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $31,071, and the median income for a family was $41,667.
About 17.9% of families and 23.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 38.6% of those under age 18 and 26.2% of those age 65 or over.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Keachi town, Louisiana".
Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963, ISBN 0-8071-0834-0, p.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Municipalities and communities of De - Soto Parish, Louisiana, United States
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