Epps is a village in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Very little is known about the early days of the town, but it is thought the settlement began as steamboat traffic carying cotton and timber increased on Bayou Macon in the 1850s.
Epps owned a cotton plantation in Avoyelles Parish and he is known as one of the enslavers of the famous abolitionist Solomon Northup.
[6] The 2,700-acre, man-made lake of the Poverty Point Reservoir State Park is also located five miles south of the village within Richland Parish.
[8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), all land.
The racial makeup of the village was 36.17% White, 63.05% African American, 0.09% Asian, and 0.69% from two or more races.