Come See For Yourself

If you want a place to live and work that offers an excellent quality of life with clean air, clean water, low crime, and friendly people, look no further than Coushatta and Red River Parish!

If this all sounds too good to be true, we invite you to check us out for yourself!  Guests are always welcome!

Learn how Coushatta/Red River Parish can give you the peace of mind and tranquility of small town living with the nearby big city benefits.

Climate

The area's average seasonal temperatures range from 83.7 degrees in the summer to 47.5 degrees in the winter.  On the average of once every two years, snow falls in sufficient quantities to accumulate on the ground for several hours.  Even in January, when the North is gripped by ice and snow, our magnolia trees and ligustrum shrubs are glossy green, and camellias, pansies and calendulas are in bloom.

Cost of Living

There's a low cost of living in Coushatta/Red River Parish.  We have low property taxes- the State of Louisiana offers a $75,000 homestead exemption - and real estate and utilities are low in cost.  Housing runs the full range, from stately antebellum homes to garden apartments.

Medical Care

Excellent medical care is available in Coushatta/Red River Parish. There is a 60-bed hospital with emergency care, four resident doctors, dentist, chiropractor and optometrist.  Other services available are home health care, an adult day care center, non-emergency medical transportation, a nursing home and helicopter service (20 minutes or less) to major medical care centers.

Services

Coushatta/Red River Parish offer a variety of special services to meet your needs - from recreational to medical to spiritual.  Protestant and Catholic churches are located throughout the parish, and service clubs include Lions, VFW, American Legion and Pilot Club.  For retired military, nearby Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City provides a host of amenities, including one of the best commissaries in the nation.

Industries

 Pine trees are the number one agricultural commodity grown in the Coushatta area, followed by two row-crops, soybeans and cotton.  Beef cattle sometimes ranks even with or ahead of row crops.
 Two large sawmills process the trees that grow so good here, Hood Industries and Almond Brothers.  Hood was once the largest capacity mill in the South and Almond exports all of their production of clear, prime cut, pine.  Willamette has a paper mill just 9 miles south of Coushatta and 15 miles to the west is the largest paper mill in the world (when it was built 20 yrs. ago) owned by International Paper Co.

Leibhardt Mills Inc.:
 A division of West Point-Stevens, Leibhardt is a newcomer to Coushatta, with a 150,000 sq. ft. plant that manufactures pillows and mattress pads.  Just getting into production, they now employ less 100 people but plan to grow to about 300 by the year 2001.

Christus-Coushatta Health Care:
 A 60 bed full-time care hospital, now undergoing a $5 million expansion, is an unusual feature of a small town.  Four full-time physicians with a wellness and rehabilitation center being built gives this area the finest care anywhere.
 

Major Employers

The larger employers in the parish include:
Almond Brothers Lumber & Supply Co.
Hood Industries, Inc.
B&C Wood Co.
Natchitoches Louisiana Meat Pies
Red River Mining Co.
Quality Wood, Inc
Coushatta Concrete Co.
Red River Parish School Board
Green Meadow Haven
Leibhardt Mills Inc.
Christus-Coushatta Health Care

Utilities

Electrical service is provided Central Louisiana Electric Company, Southwestern Electric Power Company Company, Valley Electric Membership Corporation, and Entergy.

Long distance telephone service is available through AT&T, LDDS, LDS, MCI, Bell South, and U.S. Sprint.

Natural gas is available through Trans-Louisiana Gas Company.

Water supply is provided through each of the individual communities, i.e., the Town of Coushatta provides water for resdents and businesses located within the township.