Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Parish
- Grant Parish
- Type
- Mayor
- Total
- 1.50 sq mi (3.88 km )
- Land
- 1.49 sq mi (3.86 km )
- Water
- 0.0077 sq mi (0.02 km )
- Elevation
- 92 ft (28 m)
- Rank
- GR : 1st
- Density
- 957.6/sq mi (369.73/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 22-16375
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Encyclopedic overview
Colfax Banking Company The Louisiana Pecan Festival Country Store is activated during the annual festival the first weekend of November. Colfax Elementary School; pupils in Colfax attend Grant High School in nearby Dry Prong. First United Methodist Church in Colfax
Colfax is a town in and the parish seat of Grant Parish, Louisiana, United States, founded in 1869. Colfax is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana metropolitan area. The largely African American population of Colfax was 1,428 at the 2020 census. The town was the site of the 1873 Colfax massacre.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colfax” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.