Zachary is a city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States.

It lies 16 miles (26 km) north of the city of Baton Rouge, and had a population of 14,960 at the 2010 census,[3] up from 11,275 in 2000.

[4] Much of the land which the city now occupies was part of a 160-acre (65 ha) farm owned by Darel Zachary (1827-1907).

[5] In the 1880s, Zachary sold his land to the Illinois Central Railroad, who built a track and a depot on it.

Zachary's first post office was opened in 1885, and it was incorporated as a city on August 2, 1889,[7] with Thomas Edward McHugh as its first mayor.

The "historic village" at the center of the city is composed of buildings which either survived the fire, or were built shortly after it, the oldest (excluding the depot) being the 1898 Allison House.

In 1966 Zachary became the first city in Louisiana since the Reconstruction Era to elect a Republican as mayor, Jack Louis Breaux.

[14] The United States Postal Service operates the Zachary Post Office.

[15] East Baton Rouge Parish Library operates the Zachary Branch.