Sibley, Louisiana

Sibley, Louisiana
Town
Sibley Town Hall at site of former Sibley High School
Sibley Town Hall at site of former Sibley High School
Location of Sibley in Webster Parish, Louisiana.
Location of Sibley in Webster Parish, Louisiana.
Location of Louisiana in the United States
Location of Louisiana in the United States
Coordinates: 32°32′27″N 93°17′36″W / 32.54083°N 93.29333°W / 32.54083; -93.29333
CountryUnited States
StateLouisiana
ParishWebster
Government
 • MayorJimmy Williams (No Party) (reelected 2016)
Police Chief Jeremy Allen Robinson (No Party) (elected 2012)
Area
[1]
 • Total4.00 sq mi (10.35 km2)
 • Land3.89 sq mi (10.06 km2)
 • Water0.11 sq mi (0.29 km2)
Elevation
200 ft (60 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total1,127
 • Density290.02/sq mi (111.98/km2)
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
71073
Area code318
FIPS code22-70175
Websitewww.sibleyla.com

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.

Calloway Corners Bed and Breakfast north of Sibley
Baptist Tabernacle sanctuary under construction in Sibley
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.[2][3]
Lakeside Junior and Senior High School south of Sibley
First United Methodist Church in Sibley (pastor Milton Geltz, 2010) is adjacent to Lane Memorial Cemetery.
Lane Memorial Cemetery

In a predominantly African American section of Yellow Pine is a community 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.[4]

  1. ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
  2. ^ "Sibley Baptist Church celebrates 50th year", Minden Press-Herald, February 24, 1972, p. 1
  3. ^ "Sibley First Baptist grows from 14 members", Minden Press-Herald, July 31, 1987, p. 2C
  4. ^ 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).