The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusBasile is a town in Acadia and Evangeline parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 1,214 in 2020. The Acadia Parish portion of Basile is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,821 to 1,214 (-33%). Half of its homes were built before 1976.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Basile yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Basile’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Basile’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Basile, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Basile is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Basile has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Elton United Methodist Church in Elton, 5.4 miles away.
Basile and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
From Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.