Waterproof is a village in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States with a population of 541 as of the 2020 census.

[2] Waterproof is approximately 17 mi (27 km) north of Ferriday, one of the two principal communities of Concordia Parish.

The village is named for its relative safety from flooding prior to construction of the Mississippi River levee system.

Jim Crow rules were strong through the segregation era, and the Ku Klux Klan was active in southwest Louisiana through the late 20th century.

[5] As of 1990, Waterproof hosted "a general store, a grocery, two gas stations, two banks and the Western Auto franchise".

On December 8, 2018, the village elected its youngest mayor in history, Jarrod Randell Bottley, an African American male.

Both native to Waterproof, the two African-American men had also lived and worked for years in other cities, including New Orleans.

Jenkins had a 30-year career in the US military and earned a master's degree in public administration from Troy University in Alabama.

Higginbotham claimed that Jones arrested him in order to prevent his running for sheriff again in the October 20, 2007, non-partisan blanket primary.

Jones said he incurred $7,500 in legal fees before he took office as sheriff because Higginbotham sued him over allegations of a "rigged" election.

He cited numerous arrests by Jones and prosecution by Paxton, on charges that observers said they had never heard used against a police official.

The conviction was reversed and the sentence was vacated by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in April 2012, based on trial irregularities, including missing witness testimonies.