Pointe a la Hache, LA

Pointe à la Hache is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 2020 census counted 183, residents. Located on the east bank of the Mississippi River, the village has been the seat for Plaquemines Parish since the formation of the parish. Pointe a la Hache suffered severe damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011. Plaquemines Parish School Board operates the public schools of the parish. In Pointe a la Hache, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture.

The map tells the story in Pointe a la Hache, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. The land there is mostly marshland, with a strip of higher land less than a mile wide between the wetlands and the Mississippi River. In the 1812 Louisiana hurricane, a storm surge from the Gulf pushed all the way into the river, and there was widespread death and destruction. Pointe a la Hache is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River.