Banks Springs, LA

Banks Springs is an unincorporated census-designated place in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, with 1,136 residents in the 2020 census. It lies along U.S. Route 165 north of Grayson, with the highway running through the center and Columbia Heights included within the CDP. The place is part of a north-central Louisiana landscape of pine woods, parish roads, and communities strung along the route toward Monroe and Alexandria.

Its most meaningful local marker is the memory of a Rosenwald school, one of the schools built across the South to expand education for Black children during segregation. That connection gives Banks Springs a deeper story than a highway label: land, school, and regional movement all meet here. Today the CDP remains unincorporated, so its daily life is tied to parish services, nearby towns, and the road itself. Banks Springs is a small Caldwell Parish community where U.S. 165 carries traffic past homes and fields, Columbia Heights adds a neighborhood layer, and the Rosenwald-school legacy keeps local education in view.