Gloster 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 ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in DeSoto Parish,

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, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 94. Gloster is located east of

U.S. Route 171 U.S. Highway 171 (US 171) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System and the only route within that system currently located entirely within the state of Louisiana. It spans in a north–south direction from the junction of U ...

, north of

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city ...

, the DeSoto Parish seat, and south of

Shreveport Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, Lo ...

. It is the nearest community to three places listed on the U.S.

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: * Myrtle Hill Plantation House * Roseneath * Thomas Scott House

Demographics

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Populated places in Ark-La-Tex Census-designated places in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana Census-designated places in Louisiana Census-designated places in Shreveport – Bossier City metropolitan area {{Louisiana-geo-stub