St. Joseph, Louisiana
| Town of Saint Joseph | |
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Tensas |
| Elevation | 75 ft (23 m) |
| Coordinates | 31°55′07″N 91°14′18″W / 31.91861°N 91.23833°WCoordinates: 31°55′07″N 91°14′18″W / 31.91861°N 91.23833°W |
| Area | 0.9 sq mi (2.3 km2) |
| - land | 0.9 sq mi (2 km2) |
| - water | 0.0 sq mi (0 km2), 0% |
| Population | 1,058 (2015) |
| Density | 11,460.0/sq mi (4,424.7/km2) |
| Mayor | Elvadus Fields, Jr. (D) |
| Timezone | CST (UTC-6) |
| - summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 71366 |
| Area code | 318 |
 Location in Tensas Parish and the state of Louisiana.
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St. Joseph, often called St. Joe, is a town in and the parish seat of Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,340 at the 2000 census, but it declined by 12.2 percent to 1,176 in 2010. The African American majority increased from 69 percent in 2000 to 77.4 percent in 2010.
Unique for the Deep South, St. Joseph was planned and constructed in 1843 along a New England-style village green. The downtown along Plank Road is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Near the conclusion of the Civil War, when Louisiana became part of the Trans-Mississippi Department, St. Joseph served as the chief route across the Mississippi River. According to the historian John D. Winters in his The Civil War in Louisiana, "Such a strong force of Confederate cavalry occupied the Mississippi side opposite St. Joseph that all Federal attempts to close the transit in January [1865] ended in failure."
In 1879, the Jesse James gang robbed two stores in far western Mississippi, at Washington in Adams County and Fayette in Jefferson County. The gang absconded with $2,000 cash in the second robbery and took shelter in abandoned cabins on the Kemp Plantation south of St. Joseph. The posse attacked and killed two of the outlaws but failed to capture the entire gang. Among the deputies was Jefferson B. Snyder, later a long-serving district attorney in northeastern Louisiana. Jesse James would live another three years until his demise in, coincidentally, another St. Joseph in northwestern Missouri.
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