Sibley, Louisiana facts for kids
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Sibley, Louisiana
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Sibley Town Hall at site of former Sibley High School
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Location of Sibley in Webster Parish, Louisiana.
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| Country | United States |
| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Webster |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.00 sq mi (10.35 km2) |
| • Land | 3.89 sq mi (10.06 km2) |
| • Water | 0.11 sq mi (0.29 km2) |
| Elevation | 200 ft (60 m) |
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| • Total | 1,127 |
| • Density | 290.02/sq mi (111.98/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code |
71073
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| Area code(s) | 318 |
| FIPS code | 22-70175 |
Sibley is a town in south Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,218 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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Community highlights
The former Sibley High School, now known as Lakeside Junior and Senior High School, is located south of town off Louisiana Highway 7. The Sibley Town Hall was relocated to a portion of the former Sibley High School campus.
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Calloway Corners
North of Sibley is Calloway Corners Bed and Breakfast, refurbished in 1991 by Jeanne Woods, formerly of San Diego, California. Woods turned her business into a vacation destination through Harlequin Enterprises, which produces popular romance novels. Woods said that she chose the white house that had been abandoned in Sibley because "I love this part of the country. The people have great charm. They are so friendly and easy to know. It's so different. People care about people here; they're not caught up in the rush of life." Calloway Corners is featured on the front of several books penned by romance novelists Katherine Burton, Sandra Canfield, Tracy Hughes, and Penny Richards. Woods even got the state of Louisiana and the Webster Parish Police Jury to designate Calloway Corners as a "town" on signs on Highway 7.
Yellow Pine
The Yellow Pine community south of Sibley began as a sawmill of the Long Bell Company. Yellow Pine was the home of a comissary of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad. The mill employed both white and African American laborers. There were private residences and hotels in Yellow Pine, which was consolidated in 1921 with Sibley.
The American artist Ben Earl Looney was born and reared in Yellow Pine but graduated from Minden High School before launching a career which took him to many parts of the United States.
In a predominantly African American section of Yellow Pine is a community formerly known as "King Solomon Hill," centered on an actual hill on which stood King Solomon Hill Baptist Church. (The community is now known as "Salt Works.") The blues historian Gayle Dean Wardlow concluded that it was from this address that Paramount Records chose to give the blues musician Joe Holmes, a resident of Sibley, the recording name of King Solomon Hill.
Churches
Sibley is the home of several churches, including First Baptist, First United Methodist, Missionary Baptist, and the Independent Baptist congregation, Baptist Tabernacle, founded by the late evangelist Jimmy G. Tharpe. In 2010, Baptist Tabernacle began constructing a new sanctuary adjacent to the existing one.
Lane Memorial Cemetery is adjacent to the Methodist Church.
Geography
Sibley is located at 32°32′27″N 93°17′36″W / 32.54083°N 93.29333°W (32.540704, -93.293208).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10.4 km²), of which 3.9 square miles (10.0 km²) is land and 0.1 square mile (0.4 km²) (3.49%) is water.
Demographics
| Historical population | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1920 | 900 | — | |
| 1930 | 422 | −53.1% | |
| 1940 | 405 | −4.0% | |
| 1950 | 623 | 53.8% | |
| 1960 | 595 | −4.5% | |
| 1970 | 869 | 46.1% | |
| 1980 | 1,211 | 39.4% | |
| 1990 | 997 | −17.7% | |
| 2000 | 1,098 | 10.1% | |
| 2010 | 1,218 | 10.9% | |
| 2020 | 1,127 | −7.5% | |
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2020 census
| Race | Number | Percentage |
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| White (non-Hispanic) | 816 | 69.69% |
| Black or African American (non-Hispanic) | 237 | 54.7% |
| Native American | 10 | 0.455% |
| Asian | 1000 | 0.45% |
| Other/Mixed | 20 | 1.56% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 41 | 3.4% |
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,127 people, 554 households, and 396 families residing in the town.
Notable people
- Provine Bradley (1907-1986), Negro league baseball player
- Natalie Grantham Jennings, Sibley High School graduate appointed in 2017 as the editor of "The Fix," a political blog of The Washington Post; previously she was an aide to former U. S. Senator David Vitter and former intern at the Minden Press-Herald.
- Larkin T. Riser (born 1949), sheriff of Webster Parish from 1996 to 2004 and Sibley resident
- George Norman Tharpe (1932-2013), former Sibley alderman and mayor; real estate developer, used-car salesman, and pastor of three churches; interred at Lane Memorial Cemetery.
- Jimmy G. Tharpe (1930–2008) was an Independent Baptist clergyman originally from Sibley who founded Louisiana Baptist University in Shreveport; brother of Mayor George Tharpe.
See also
In Spanish: Sibley (Luisiana) para niños
