Bossier Parish French: Paroisse de Bossier Bossier Parish was created on Feb. 24, 1843, through Act 33 of the Louisiana legislature, signed into law by Gov. Alexandre Mouton. The parish was  named for the Louisiana Creole militia general Pierre Evariste Jean Baptiste Bossier. Bossier Parish is also known as Cotton Parish. Bossier parish lies in the extreme northwestern part of the State, fronting Red river on the west for about seventy-live miles, and only separated from Texas by the parish of Caddo. On the north it is bounded by the State of Arkansas.  Benton is the parish seat. Cities and towns Benton Bossier City Eastwood Haughton Plain Dealing Red Chute   Unincorporated areas Adner Carterville  Koran Redland Antrim Curtis Mayer  Rocky Mount Badcou Ferguson Midway Vanceville Barksdale Fillmore Morris Ward View Bellevue Hinkle Mott Willow Chute Blenheim Hughes Oakland Bolinger Ivan Princeton Caplis Linton Red Chute Adjacent Areas North: Lafayette County, Ark. East: Webster Parish Southeast: Bienville Parish; Red River Parish Southwest: Caddo Parish Northwest: Miller County, Ark	Welcome to this Louisiana Genealogy Trails Website.   My name is Janice, and I am your host for Louisiana.  If you would like to submit data for this site, please email me with your submissions. Happy Trails to you on your quest for your ancestors. This is a new site, fashioned after our successful Illinois Trails websites, and we hope to soon add data here that can help Louisiana researchers as much as we've been able to help our Illinois researchers. We need some help to do that though - volunteers to host these county websites. If you can make a basic webpage, and you have a desire to transcribe data for the free use of all researchers, we can use your talents! Review our Volunteer Information and email Kim. In the meantime, join our mailing list to be kept apprised of updates to this website.     Online Data We intend to put data from all these categories online eventually. Feel free to contribute your data to this site to help it grow!   Louisiana is organized by Parish rather than County We need Parish Hosts! Email Kim if you want to help us to keep online Genealogy free! Acadia Parish Madison Parish Allen Parish Morehouse Parish Ascension Parish Natchitoches Parish Assumption Parish Orleans Parish Avoyelles Parish Ouachita Parish Beauregard Parish Plaquemines Parish Bienville Parish Pointe Coupee Parish Bossier Parish Rapides Parish Caddo Parish Red River Parish Calcasieu Parish Richland Parish Caldwell Parish Sabine Parish Cameron Parish St. Bernard Parish Catahoula Parish St. Charles Parish Claiborne Parish St. Helena Parish Concordia Parish St. James Parish DeSoto Parish St. John The Baptist Parish East Baton Rouge Parish St. Landry Parish East Carroll Parish St. Martin Parish East Feliciana Parish St. Mary Parish Evangeline Parish St. Tammany Parish Franklin Parish Tangipahoa Parish Grant Parish Tensas Parish Iberia Parish Terrebonne Parish Iberville Parish Union Parish Jackson Parish Vermilion Parish Jefferson Davis Parish Vernon Parish Jefferson Parish Washington Parish Lafayette Consolidated Government Webster Parish Lafourche Parish West Baton Rouge Parish LaSalle Parish West Carroll Parish Lincoln Parish West Feliciana Parish Livingston Parish Winn Parish
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