History-Parish Boundaries, Desoto Parish Louisiana

Submitted By:  Trudy Marlow
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Source: County-Parish Boundaries in Louisiana
Prepared by The Historical Records Survey 
Division of Professional and Service Projects 
Work Projects Administration
New Orleans, Louisiana; The Dept. of Archives 
LA State University; October 1939
DeSoto Parish

1843 April 1 
Created from Parish of Caddo and Natchitoches
(see entry below)

1845 March 8
Boundary line between Parish of Caddo and, DeSoto Parish 
altered

1848 March 16
Red River Parish proposed from portions of Natchitoches, 
Caddo, Bossier, Claiborne, and DeSoto

1871 March 2
Red River Parish created from Parishes of Bienville, Bossier, 
Caddo, Natchitoches and, DeSoto

1872 July 1
Act creating Red River Parish amended 

1873 April 8
Act 39, Section 7, creating Red River Parish, amended 
and re-enacted

1878 March 11
Act creating Red River Parish, amendment to, repealed... 
Constitutional Limitations
 

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La. A., 1843, 1st session of 16th Legislature, #88, p.52
Approved April 1, 1843.

AN ACT to create and establish the Parish of De Soto, and 
for other purposes.

Sec.1 . . . That all that tract of country bounded as follows, 
to wit:  Beginning on the southwest bank of Red River, on the 
line dividing townships thirteen and fourteen; thence due west 
along said line to the range line between twelve and thirteen; 
thence due north along said range line to the township line 
between townships fourteen and fifteen; thence due west along 
said township lines to the Ketchie Bayou; thence southwest, up 
said bayou, to the section line between section eighteen and 
nineteen in range fifteen and township fourteen; thence due 
west along said section line to the line between the United
States adn the Republic of Texas; thence due south along said 
line to the Sabine River; thence down said river to whore the 
section line in the centre of township ten strikes the said river;
thence due east along said section line to the range line between 
ranges ten and eleven; thence due north along said rane line to the 
Bayou Wallace; thence down said Bayou Wallace until it empties into 
Madam Dooley's Bayou; thence down said Bayou to the mouth of James
River; thence up said river to the Bayou Pierre River; thence up 
said river to Bayou Winsoy; thence along said Bayou to Red River;
thence up said river to the of beginning; do form and constitute
a new Parish, under the name of Parish De Soto.

Sec. 11 . . . That the south half of township ten, range eleven, and 
the south half of the fractional township ten, and ranges fourteen
and fifteen, be and the same are herby annexed to and shall 
constitute and form a part of the Parish of Sabine.