Heflin, LA

Heflin is a village in southern Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 2020 census counted 213 residents. Heflin is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area. Heflin is named for Alabama native Charles Buckner Heflin, a veteran of the Confederate Army who thereafter operated a cotton gin and was engaged in the planting and mercantile business in south Webster Parish. In Heflin, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Heflin, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. Charles Heflin was for eight years a member of the Webster Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body, and the Webster Parish Democratic Executive Committee.