Bethany is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Caddo Parish, Louisiana Caddo Parish () () is a Parish (administrative division), parish located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. According to the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, the parish had a population of 237,848. The paris ...

and

Panola County, Texas Panola County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 22,491, with its county seat in Carthage. Located in East Texas and originally developed for cotton plantations, the county's name is der ...

United States, on

U.S. Route 79 U.S. Route 79 (US 79) is a United States highway in the Southern United States. The route is officially considered and signed as a north–south highway, but its path is actually more of a diagonal northeast–southwest highway. The highway's n ...

. The Caddo Parish portion of the community is part of the

Shreveport – Bossier City metropolitan area Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat. It extends along the west ban ...

History

Bethany was founded in 1840. It was named after the Bethany Church.

Geography

The northern part of Bethany is located in Caddo Parish. The southern portion is in northeastern Panola County, some northeast of

Carthage Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classic ...

References

Unincorporated communities in Texas Unincorporated communities in Louisiana Populated places established in 1840 Unincorporated communities in Panola County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Caddo Parish, Louisiana Populated places in Ark-La-Tex Unincorporated communities in Shreveport – Bossier City metropolitan area {{PanolaCountyTX-geo-stub