Sikes, LA

Sikes is a village in Winn Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 2020 census counted 112 residents. The village was named after Sikes Bowman,, a leader in the Winn Parish Baptist church, musician, and the first postmaster in the local area. The Winn Parish Library maintains the Sikes Library Branch. A newcomer can read Sikes through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Sikes comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines.