Sibley, Louisiana
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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Sibley, Louisiana
| settlement_type = Town
| image_skyline = Revised photo of Sibley, LA, Town Hall IMG_0605.JPG
| imagesize = 200px
| image_caption = Sibley Town Hall at site of former Sibley High School
| image_map = File:Webster Parish Louisiana Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Sibley Highlighted.svg
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| map_caption = Location of Sibley in Webster Parish, Louisiana.
| image_map1 = Louisiana in United States (US48).svg
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| map_caption1 = Location of Louisiana in the United States
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = United States
| subdivision_type1 = State
| subdivision_name1 = Louisiana
| subdivision_type2 = Parish
| subdivision_name2 = Webster
| established_title = Founded
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| leader_title = Mayor
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| unit_pref = Imperial
| area_total_km2 = 10.35
| area_total_sq_mi = 4.00
| area_land_km2 = 10.06
| area_land_sq_mi = 3.89
| area_water_km2 = 0.29
| area_water_sq_mi = 0.11
| population_as_of = 2020
| population_footnotes =
| population_total = 1127
| population_density_km2 = 111.98
| population_density_sq_mi = 290.02
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| timezone1 = CST
| utc_offset1 = -6
| timezone1_DST = CDT
| utc_offset1_DST = -5
| elevation_ft = 213
| coordinates = {{coord|32|32|32|N|93|17|41|W|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code_type = ZIP code
| postal_code = 71073
| area_code_type =
| area_code = 318
| blank_name = FIPS code
| blank_info = 22-70175
| blank1_name = GNIS feature ID
| blank1_info = 2407332{{GNIS|2407332}}
| website = {{URL|https://www.sibleyla.com/}}
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Sibley is a town in south Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,218 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The former Sibley High School, now known as Lakeside Junior/Senior High School, is located south of town off Louisiana Highway 7. The Sibley Town Hall was relocated to a portion of the former Sibley High School campus.
In a predominantly African American section of the nearby unincorporated community of Yellow Pine is an area formerly known as "King Solomon Hill," centered on an actual hill on which stood King Solomon Hill Baptist Church. (The community is now known as "Salt Works.") The blues historian Gayle Dean Wardlow concluded that it was from this address that Paramount Records chose to give the blues musician Joe Holmes, a resident of Sibley, the recording name of King Solomon Hill.Wardlow, Gayle Dean. Chasin' That Devil Music, Searching for the Blues. 1998. Miller Freeman Books. {{ISBN|0-87930-552-5}}. p. 211. Originally published as One Last Walk up King Solomon Hill in Blues Unlimited No. 148 (Winter 1987).
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10.4 km{{sup|2}}), of which 3.9 square miles (10.0 km{{sup|2}}) is land and 0.1 square mile (0.4 km{{sup|2}}) (3.49%) is water.
Demographics
{{US Census population
|1920= 900
|1930= 422
|1940= 405
|1950= 623
|1960= 595
|1970= 869
|1980= 1211
|1990= 997
|2000= 1098
|2010= 1218
|2020= 1127
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=June 4, 2015}}{{failed verification|date=March 2022}}
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| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+Sibley racial composition in 2020{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2270175&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 29, 2021|website=data.census.gov}} !scope="col"| Race !scope="col"| Number !scope="col"| Percentage |
| scope="row"| White (non-Hispanic)
| 816 | 72.4% |
|---|
| scope="row"| Black or African American (non-Hispanic)
| 237 | 21.03% |
| scope="row"| Native American
| 10 | 0.89% |
| scope="row"| Asian
| 3 | 0.27% |
| scope="row"| Other/Mixed
| 20 | 1.77% |
| scope="row"| Hispanic or Latino
| 41 | 3.64% |
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,127 people, 554 households, and 396 families residing in the town.
Notable person
- Provine Bradley (1907-1986), Negro league baseball player
Gallery
Image:Revised Calloway Corners, Sibley, LA IMG 0353.JPG|Calloway Corners Bed and Breakfast north of Sibley
Image:Baptist Tabernacle, Sibley, LA (under construction) IMG 0402.JPG|Baptist Tabernacle sanctuary under construction in Sibley
Image:Revised First Baptist Church, Sibley, LA IMG 3594.JPG|The First Baptist Church of Sibley was organized with fourteen members in February 1922, as an outreach of the First Baptist Church of Minden, with G. M. Harrell as the founding pastor."Sibley Baptist Church celebrates 50th year", Minden Press-Herald, February 24, 1972, p. 1"Sibley First Baptist grows from 14 members", Minden Press-Herald, July 31, 1987, p. 2C
Image:Lakeside Junior-Senior High School, Sibley, LA IMG 0362.jpg|Lakeside Junior and Senior High School south of Sibley]]
Image:Revised Sibley United Methodist Church, Sibley, LA IMG 0400.JPG|First United Methodist Church in Sibley (pastor Milton Geltz, 2010) is adjacent to Lane Memorial Cemetery.
Image:Revised, Lane Memorial Cemetery, Sibley, LA IMG 0401.JPG|Lane Memorial Cemetery
References
External links
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- {{official website|http://www.sibleyla.com}}
{{Webster Parish, Louisiana}}
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