The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusSikes is a village in Winn Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Sikes had a population of 112. The village was named after Sikes Bowman, (1856–1925), a leader in the Winn Parish Baptist church, musician, and the first postmaster in the local area.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 119 to 112 (-6%). Half of its homes were built before 2000.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Sikes 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 Sikes’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sikes’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Sikes, decade by decade
2000
1 historic place in Sikes
1 place in Sikes is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.