Shongaloo, Louisiana

Shongaloo is a village in Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Shongaloo has a civic center for town council meetings as well as general usage.

Dorcheat Bayou, 115-mile-long (185 km)[3] runs through Shongaloo, making it one of the longest natural bayous in the U.S. Shongaloo is connected to other cities by road; currently, there is no air or boat access directly to the village.

Shongaloo (pronounced Shawn-ga-lew) is an Indian term meaning "Running Water" or "Cypress Tree".

About 5.0% of families and 10.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.5% of those under the age of eighteen and 18.8% of those sixty-five or over.

In 1979, the Shongaloo Tiger baseball team won the Louisiana LHSAA Class C State Championship.

Mt. Paran Baptist Church is lined with flags in observance of Memorial Day 2009.
North Webster Lower Elementary School on Louisiana Highway 2 is located in the plant of the defunct Shongaloo High School.
The Shongaloo Museum is a log cabin structure behind the Civic Center.