Greenwood, LA
| Greenwood, Louisiana | |
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Greenwood Municipal Complex
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| Motto: Gateway to Louisiana | |
 Location of Greenwood in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. |
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.svg) Location of Louisiana in the United States |
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| Coordinates: 32°26′10″N 93°57′50″W / 32.43611°N 93.96389°WCoordinates: 32°26′10″N 93°57′50″W / 32.43611°N 93.96389°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Caddo |
| Founded | 1839 |
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| Area | |
| • Total | 8.99 sq mi (23.30 km2) |
| • Land | 8.98 sq mi (23.25 km2) |
| • Water | 0.02 sq mi (0.04 km2) |
| Elevation | 249 ft (76 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,219 |
| • Estimate (2016) | 3,157 |
| • Density | 351.68/sq mi (135.78/km2) |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Area code(s) | 318 |
| FIPS code | 22-31705 |
| Website | greenwoodla |
Greenwood is a town in southern Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,219 at the 2010 census, up from 2,458 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is about 165 miles to the east of Dallas, Texas, and about 290 miles to the northwest of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Greenwood was established in 1839. During the Civil War Battle of Mansfield in April 1864, Confederate wounded were treated at the Dunn House, now used as the headquarters of the local chamber of commerce. Several other historic houses in Greenwood, including the Trosper House, have been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Caddo Parish Sheriff J. Howell Flournoy, who served a record 26 years in office from 1940–1966, was born in Greenwood in 1891.
On March 3, 1964, Owen Dickson Adams (January 13, 1926 – April 18, 2017) of Greenwood and B. F. O'Neal, Jr., of Shreveport, later a state representative, were elected as Republicans to the historically Democratic Caddo Parish Commission, then known as the police jury, equivalent to the county commission in other states. Adams served on the police jury until 1976; O'Neal until 1968, when Adams won his second term and was the only Republican in Caddo Parish that year to win an election. An engineer with Spectra Energy, then known as Texas Eastern, Adams relocated to Houston, Texas. On retirement, he returned to Greenwood and subsequently served twelve years as mayor and three terms on the city council. He died at the age of ninety-one and is interred at Forest Park West Cemetery in Shreveport.
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