Keithville
| Keithville | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
| Hamlet of Keithville | |
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| Coordinates: 32°20′00″N 93°50′11″W / 32.33333°N 93.83639°WCoordinates: 32°20′00″N 93°50′11″W / 32.33333°N 93.83639°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| States |  Louisiana |
| Parish |  Caddo Parish |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 71047 |
| Area code(s) | 318 |
Keithville is an unincorporated community in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies to the south of Shreveport along U.S. Route 171. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 71047. Along with a large elementary and middle school, Keithville has several gas stations which also serve as restaurants along with a farmers co-operative store. The area mainly serves as a suburb of Shreveport. It has grown in recent years from "white flight" from the city. However Keithville remains a rural farming community. Keithville residents are known to have very strong family ties . A large number of residents are employed in the oil and gas industry because of the inclusion of Keithville in the Haynesville shale region.
Keithville came into existence when two railroads, the Southern Pacific and the Houston-Shreveport, met on properties of the Keith brothers in the early 1880s. One of the Keith brothers was State Representative Perry Polk Keith, who served four terms from 1912 to 1928.
Perry Keith was born near Macon, Georgia but settled in virgin territory in Caddo Parish when he was three months old with his parents, Henry David Keith and the former Mary Jones. On February 23, 1871, he married the former Narcissa Miller (died 1910) of Caddo Parish. Their children were William Henry Keith (1875-1951), Daniel Wesley Keith (1875-1929), Perry P. Keith, Jr. (1877-1945), David Keith (Perry's twin who died an infant), Mary Slaughter Keith (1880-1931, never married), James Hardy Keith (born and died in 1883), Anna Beulah Keith Darby Cranfield (1885-1966, remarried after death of first husband) of Plaquemine, Louisiana, and Ray Cleveland Keith, who died soon after birth in 1889.
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