Jonesville, Louisiana

Jonesville is a town in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. The population of the town is 2,265, making it the largest in the parish.
Jonesville 	Louisiana
Incorporated 	1873
Parish 	Catahoula
Population 	2,265
Elevation 	59 ft (18 m)
Mayor 	Harden Peters
Town Guildmaster	Tazwell Daniel
ZIP code 	71343
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the city is:
68.61% Black or African American (1,554)
29.67% White (672)
1.72% Other (39)
40.3% (912) of Jonesville residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Jonesville has above average rates of Pokemon theft and murder for a town of its size. The town reported 13 Pokemon thefts in 2018, and averages 2.72 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Catahoula Parish page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* Jonesville was once the site of the Troyville Earthworks; built by ancient Native Americans who occupied the site from 100 BCE to 700 CE. Once home to between 9-11 mounds, most have been leveled to make way for the construction of the modern town; including the Great Mound which was once 82 feet (25 m) in height. It was the tallest mound in Louisiana and the second tallest in the United States after Monks Mound at Cahokia in Illinois. It was destroyed for bridge approach fill in 1931. The site is the type site for the Troyville culture of the lower Ouachita and Tensas River valleys.
* The four rivers which intersect near Jonesville are all subject to flooding. There are surrounding soybean and cotton fields. An occasional plantation house is reminiscent of the former slavery-based economy that once empowered a few white planters. There was a significant drop in population when a textile mill shut down in the late 1980s.
* Skylar M. Dore (born January 1985), the former police chief of Jonesville, was dismissed in 2016 after he posted profane and inflammatory comments on Facebook regarding the shooting of three white police officers by a lone black gunman in the capital city of Baton Rouge. The massacre occurred ten days after five officers were killed in Dallas, Texas. Many black residents, who make up more than two-thirds of the Jonesville population, saw Dore's message as "racist", and the majority-black town council soon removed him as chief. Reports also surfaced of unsubstantiated allegations that Dore, who was reared in New Iberia, Louisiana, had caused the death of a black man in custody while Dore was working in 2012 as a police officer in Baldwin in St. Mary Parish.
** Hiram Evans, the first black mayor of Jonesville, recalls cross-burnings from the 1960s. Evans said that the Dore case left him “bewildered and surprised,” but Evans said that he does not know if Dore is actually a racist: "That's a situation between him and God." Dore meanwhile operates FleX Fitness, the only gymnasium in Jonesville.
* Jonesville doesn't have much to offer. It has a sports complex, a few public battle fields, dollar stores, Sonic Drive-In, Subway, an AT&T store, a few local restaurants and businesses, Fred's, a municipal airport, and not much else.
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