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Plain Dealing is a town in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 893 in 2020.[3] It is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area.
Plain Dealing, Louisiana | |
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Town | |
Town of Plain Dealing | |
Coordinates: 32°54′21″N 93°42′0″W | |
Country | United States |
State | Louisiana |
Parish | Bossier |
Government | |
• Mayor[1] | Shavonda E. Gay (NP) |
Area | |
• Total | 1.58 sq mi (4.10 km2) |
• Land | 1.58 sq mi (4.09 km2) |
• Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.01 km2) |
Elevation | 266 ft (81 m) |
Population (2020) | |
• Total | 893 |
• Rank | BO: 4th |
• Density | 565.55/sq mi (218.41/km2) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Area code | 318 |
FIPS code | 22-60670 |
Website | https://thetownofplaindealing.com/ |
Prior to 1839, the United States government forcibly removed the Caddo Nation of Native Americans—longtime local inhabitants who had first settled the area over 1,000 years before Europeans' 16th-century arrival in mainland North America—from the area of Northern Louisiana that included the parcel that would later become the town of Plain Dealing.[4]
In 1839, George Oglethorpe Gilmer and his son, James Blair Gilmer, bought 5,000 acres of this land—then described as a "vast, unsettled wilderness"—from the United States government, calling a portion of this acreage "Plain Dealing" after the family's Virginia plantation.[4][5] The "Plain Dealing" name became official when the town was formally chartered on April 24, 1890.[4]
On March 26, 1893, during an evening school dance at Plain Dealing High School, a fight broke out. Two students were shot and killed immediately, two more were fatally wounded, and the high school's Professor Johnson was wounded in the arm.[6]
Plain Dealing is 8 miles (13 km) south of the Arkansas border and 31 miles (50 km) north of Shreveport.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), of which 0.004 square miles (0.01 km2), or 0.26%, is water.[7]
According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Plain Dealing has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded in Plain Dealing was 114 °F (45.6 °C) on August 10, 1936, while the coldest temperature recorded was −14 °F (−25.6 °C) on February 13, 1899.[8] The record high temperature is also the highest temperature ever recorded in Louisiana.[9]
Climate data for Plain Dealing, Louisiana, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1892–1999 | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °F (°C) | 85 (29) |
91 (33) |
93 (34) |
95 (35) |
99 (37) |
108 (42) |
111 (44) |
114 (46) |
107 (42) |
103 (39) |
94 (34) |
87 (31) |
114 (46) |
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 56.6 (13.7) |
60.7 (15.9) |
68.7 (20.4) |
76.9 (24.9) |
83.8 (28.8) |
89.8 (32.1) |
93.4 (34.1) |
95.0 (35.0) |
88.8 (31.6) |
78.5 (25.8) |
67.6 (19.8) |
58.3 (14.6) |
76.5 (24.7) |
Daily mean °F (°C) | 44.2 (6.8) |
47.9 (8.8) |
55.3 (12.9) |
63.3 (17.4) |
71.6 (22.0) |
78.3 (25.7) |
81.7 (27.6) |
82.2 (27.9) |
75.6 (24.2) |
64.4 (18.0) |
54.5 (12.5) |
46.2 (7.9) |
63.8 (17.6) |
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 31.8 (−0.1) |
35.0 (1.7) |
41.8 (5.4) |
49.7 (9.8) |
59.3 (15.2) |
66.8 (19.3) |
69.9 (21.1) |
69.3 (20.7) |
62.3 (16.8) |
50.2 (10.1) |
41.5 (5.3) |
34.0 (1.1) |
51.0 (10.5) |
Record low °F (°C) | −4 (−20) |
−14 (−26) |
13 (−11) |
26 (−3) |
35 (2) |
45 (7) |
52 (11) |
51 (11) |
36 (2) |
22 (−6) |
11 (−12) |
0 (−18) |
−14 (−26) |
Average precipitation inches (mm) | 4.78 (121) |
4.28 (109) |
5.36 (136) |
4.69 (119) |
4.57 (116) |
4.47 (114) |
3.22 (82) |
3.13 (80) |
3.95 (100) |
4.85 (123) |
4.86 (123) |
4.96 (126) |
53.12 (1,349) |
Average snowfall inches (cm) | 0.1 (0.25) |
0.3 (0.76) |
0.2 (0.51) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.6 (1.52) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 8.8 | 7.9 | 8.8 | 8.1 | 8.6 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 90.3 |
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
Source 1: NOAA (monthly high/mean/low 1981–2010)[10][11] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: National Weather Service[8] |
Race | Number | Percentage |
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White (non-Hispanic) | 440 | 49.27% |
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) | 414 | 46.58% |
Other/Mixed | 22 | 2.46% |
Hispanic or Latino | 15 | 1.68% |
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 893 people, 424 households, and 192 families residing in the town.[3]
The community is in the Bossier Parish School District.[13] There is one school in the community, Plain Dealing High School, which covers grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12.[14] Its attendance boundary includes all of Plain Dealing.[15]
White and black students had separate K-12 schools, under educational segregation in the United States. White students went to Plain Dealing High School, then K-12, while black students went to Carrie Martin High School, a K-12 school established in 1952 by its namesake. In 1969 the white and black schools were consolidated into a single school with two campuses, later separated into Plain Dealing Elementary School and Plain Dealing High School. The elementary school was renamed Carrie Martin Elementary School in 2003.[16] In 2017 the district announced that it will merge Martin Elementary into Plain Dealing High, and stop using the former elementary facility.[17]
Bossier Parish is in the areas of Bossier Parish Community College and Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College.[18]
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