Arcadia is a town in, and the parish chair of, Bienville Parish in northern Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,919 at the 2010 census. Arcadia has the highest height of any incorporated municipality in Louisiana. Arcadia’s make known commemorates the Ancient Greek region of Arcadia.

In 1934, bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde were killed near Arcadia in a shootout. Their bodies were brought for embalming to a furniture accretion in Arcadia which afterward served as a funeral parlor. Enormous crowds of onlookers descended upon the city past news of the pair’s deaths there became public.

Arcadia has been a center of the poultry industry, with in the works to 300 independent growers for years supplying the local feed mill operated by poultry company Pilgrim’s Pride. In 2009 the company, facing bankruptcy, announced that it would near most of its Louisiana operations, including nature in Arcadia, Athens, Choudrant, and Farmerville; these operations were estimated to have provided a summative 1,300 jobs. Several weeks later, Pilgrim’s Pride well-liked an $80 million have enough money from Foster Farms of California to buy their operations and keep the birds running. Foster Farms put up $40 million of the purchase price, with the other $40 million covered by the State of Louisiana.

Arcadia is located at 32°33′7″N 92°55′27″W / 32.55194°N 92.92417°W / 32.55194; -92.92417 (32.551931, −92.924233) and has an height of 384 feet (117.0 m) above sea level. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.1 square miles (7.9 km), all land. It is 50 miles (80 km) east of Shreveport.