Dry Prong is a village in central Grant Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 421 at the 2000 census.
Dry Prong was incorporated as a village in 1945 with Clarence M. Fuller serving as the first mayor.
According to the web-based Encyclopedia Louisiana, a family moved to the region in the 1870s to build a sawmill. To power the mill, they built a water wheel, only to discover that the creek over which they had built it went dry every summer: the creek was a “dry prong”. The mill was soon rebuilt over a nearby creek which flowed all year, but the name stuck. The creek is now outside the city limits, on Hwy.123. John L. Landry is the current mayor of the village.
Dry Prong is located at 31°34′44″N 92°31′46″W / 31.57889°N 92.52944°W / 31.57889; -92.52944 (31.578819, -92.529487).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km), all land.
As of the…
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