Bonfouca, Louisiana

Bonfouca, Louisiana
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 30°16′09″N89°50′40″W / 30.26917°N 89.84444°W / 30.26917; -89.84444
Country	United States
State	Louisiana
Parish	St. Tammany
Elevation [1]	3 ft (0.9 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code	985
GNIS feature ID	560246 [1]

Bonfouca (also Bonfonca,Boucffouca,Bouefuka,Boukfouca) is an unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. ^[1] It is on Louisiana Highway 433 adjacent to Liberty Bayou two miles west of Slidell. ^[2]

Etymology

It is speculated that the name derives from the Choctaw language words "bok", meaning river, and fuka, meaning home or residence. Bokfuka was the name of a Choctaw chief who attacked the German Coast of Louisiana in the year 1747. ^[3] In 1802 Louis-Narcisse Baudry Des Lozieres documented the name of the tribe. He referred to the 18th century chief as "Bonifoucas", a French transliteration of the Choctaw.

Notes

1. "Bonfouca, Louisiana". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Slidell, LA, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1971 (1994 rev.)
3. William A. Read (October 12, 2008). Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin: A Collection of Words. University of Alabama Press. pp. 20–. ISBN   978-0-8173-5505-0.