Sibley, Louisiana

Sibley, Louisiana
Town
Sibley Town Hall at site of former Sibley High School
Location of Sibley in Webster Parish, Louisiana.
Location of Louisiana in the United States
Coordinates: 32°32′27″N 93°17′36″W
Country	United States
State	Louisiana
Parish	Webster
Government
• Mayor	Jimmy Williams (No Party) (reelected 2016) Police Chief Jeremy Allen Robinson (No Party) (elected 2012)
Area [1]
• Total	4.00 sq mi (10.35 km^2)
• Land	3.89 sq mi (10.06 km^2)
• Water	0.11 sq mi (0.29 km^2)
Elevation	200 ft (60 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	1,127
• Density	290.02/sq mi (111.98/km^2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	71073
Area code	318
FIPS code	22-70175
Website	www.sibleyla.com

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.

The former Sibley High School, now known as Lakeside Junior/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.

Calloway Corners Bed and Breakfast north of Sibley

Baptist Tabernacle sanctuary under construction in Sibley

The First Baptist Church of Sibley was organized with fourteen members in February 1922, as an outreach of the First Baptist Church of Minden, with G. M. Harrell as the founding pastor.[2][3]

Lakeside Junior and Senior High School south of Sibley

First United Methodist Church in Sibley (pastor Milton Geltz, 2010) is adjacent to Lane Memorial Cemetery.

Lane Memorial Cemetery

In a predominantly African American section of the nearby unincorporated community of Yellow Pine is an area 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.[4]

Geography

Sibley is located at 32°32′27″N 93°17′36″W (32.540704, -93.293208).[5]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10.4 km^2), of which 3.9 square miles (10.0 km^2) is land and 0.1 square mile (0.4 km^2) (3.49%) is water.

Demographics

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
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%
U.S. Decennial Census[6]^[failed verification]

Sibley racial composition in 2020[7]

Race	Number	Percentage
White (non-Hispanic)	816	72.4%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic)	237	21.03%
Native American	10	0.89%
Asian	3	0.27%
Other/Mixed	20	1.77%
Hispanic or Latino	41	3.64%

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

References

1. "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
2. "Sibley Baptist Church celebrates 50th year", Minden Press-Herald, February 24, 1972, p. 1
3. "Sibley First Baptist grows from 14 members", Minden Press-Herald, July 31, 1987, p. 2C
4. Wardlow, Gayle Dean. Chasin' That Devil Music, Searching for the Blues. 1998. Miller Freeman Books. ISBN 0-87930-552-5. p. 211. Originally published as One Last Walk up King Solomon Hill in Blues Unlimited No. 148 (Winter 1987).
5. "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
6. "Census of Population and Housing". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
7. "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved December 29, 2021.

External links

• Official website