Campti is a town in the northern part of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States.

[3] Church records in Natchitoches show that a French missionary, Père Valentin, visited the community of Campti around 1745.

The rural parish was developed for large cotton plantations, and a majority of the population were enslaved African Americans in the antebellum years.

But by the time of the American Civil War, a number of free people of color also lived in Campti and the area.

At least nine men of color, and likely more, enlisted in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and "easily entered a predominately white military company.

"[4] During the war, Union Brigadier-General A. J. Smith, with two brigades, reached Campti to assist Rear-Admiral David D. Porter's gunboats on the Red River there.

Confederate Brigadier-General St. John R. Liddell's scattered troops had been harassing the Union fleet but quickly retreated as Smith's overwhelming force arrived on April 13, 1864.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), all land.

In 2010, Campti had the eighth-lowest median household income of all places in the United States with a population over 1,000.