Ball is a town in Rapides Parish, just north of Pineville, Louisiana, United States. Established in 1972, it is allowance of the Alexandria, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,000 at the 2010 census, an buildup of 8.7 percent greater than the 2000 tabulation of 3,681.

Ball had its start as a logging town past a sawmill.

The earliest photo album of settlers in Ball dates to in the company of 1840 and 1863. In 1893 Captain Chittenden Edwin Ball, a native of Union County, Kentucky, who captained steamboats taking place the Red River to Alexandria, named a sawmill town after himself. The captain approved in Rapides Parish in the late 1880s, where he time-honored the Sweet Home Mill.In 1940 Camp Livingston was constructed, bringing subsequent to it job opportunities and a population boom. The number of military personnel stationed at Camp Livingston reached a culmination of 42,500 in 1942. The halt of World War II in 1945 brought practically the closing of the base but many families established to stay in the community. Discussion of incorporation began in the 1960’s and in May 1972 captivation was completed later the finalization of the town charter under “The Lawrason Act”.

In 2011, former mayor Roy Hebron, a Democrat, was sentenced to four years imprisonment for corruption. Hebron meant to compensation to the office after his election on November 6, 2018, when he handily unseated the Republican incumbent, Neil S. Kavanagh, 817 (56 percent) to 380 (26 percent). Another 254 votes (18 percent) went to a second Republican candidate, Gene Decker. However, Hebron was unable to be sworn in because of a constitutional amendment passed in the November 2018 election which prevents felons from holding office for five years after the conclusion of their sentences.