Lake Arthur is a town in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, United States.

[4][5] The lake and the abundant wildlife near Lake Arthur made the place an early camping ground for Native Americans, most likely Atakapas, although there were also Comanche Indians in the area at times during the era just before European settlement.

1887 Anatole Gauthier and C. St Germain brought in the first rice thresher and portable steam boiler.

The Live Oak was maintained and operated as a private hotel until 1922, when it was sold to the Lake Arthur Hunting Club.

1886 D. E. Sweet bought the "Louisa Storm" and "Olive" which made trips to Grand Chenier for 17 years.

1903 A petition signed by a majority of the land holders was submitted to the governor asking that Lake Arthur be incorporated as a village.

Names on the petition for incorporation were Dr. V. A. Miller, E. S. Streater, F. A. Smith, J. H. Jeppeson, George S. Wheeler, A. D. Spooner, Nick Arend, H. E. Sergrist, John L. Walter, A. G. Streater, F. R Gibbs, P. T. Reimers, John Lovell, L. N. Toups, M. Broussard, J. F. Ney, W.H.

1922 Lake Arthur was made an independent parish by Bishop Jules B. Jeanmard of Lafayette.

Today Lake Arthur citizens are a mixture of Acadians and French, and Anglo-Americans who arrived from the state of Iowa during the 1890s.

The town is in southeastern Jefferson Davis Parish, on the north shore of Lake Arthur, a tidal section of the Mermentau River.

Louisiana Highway 14 passes through the town center, leading west 44 miles (71 km) to Lake Charles.

To the east Highway 14 crosses the Mermentau River at its mouth then leads 36 miles (58 km) to Abbeville.

Louisiana Highway 26 has its southern terminus in Lake Arthur and leads north 10 miles (16 km) to Jennings.

Jefferson Davis Parish Library operates the Lake Arthur Branch at 600 4th Street.