Blackhawk is a rural community near Shaw in Corcordia Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

[1][2][3] It was one of the last rural areas of Louisiana to receive reliable phone service, after Centennial Wireless built a cellular tower in 2005.

[4][5] In recent years, the Vicksburg District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has worked on strengthening a section of the mainline Mississippi River levee system near Blackhawk.

[14] In 2017, the Associated Press reported that farmer Matt Frey and his brothers were growing 150 acres of sugarcane in Blackhawk.

[18] In 2005, a Moreauville man was charged with theft of livestock from Blackhawk Plantation, after he shot and killed a 13-point buck from his vehicle off of Highway 15 through an eight-foot tall game fence.