Denham Springs is a city in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 2010 U.S. census placed the population at 10,215, up from 8,757 at the 2000 U. S. census. At the 2020 United States census, 9,286 people lived in the city. The city is the largest Place of classified ad and residential go forward in Livingston Parish. Denham Springs and Walker are the single-handedly parish municipalities classified as cities. The Place has been known as Amite Springs, Hill’s Springs, and Denham Springs.

The native land claims of John Noblet and Alexander Hogue form what is now the older section of Denham Springs, including the first residential and issue districts. In 1828, William Denham, a Wilkinson County, Mississippi, native, married Mercy Hogue, the daughter of Alexander Hogue. Three months far ahead he purchased the 640 acres (2.6 km) originally claimed by his father-in-law. Denham purchased the home and a slave for $1,350.

A popular belief, supported by previously published histories, is that William Denham discovered the mineral springs upon his property and that a health resort quickly grew in the works there. This belief defies logic, however, considering the number of springs which may be found in this area even today, and the length of get older that elapsed past Denham arrived. Hogue and new early residents of the Place likely depended upon the springs for drinking water.

It was in the 1850s that Amite Springs became synonymous considering the Place that is now Denham Springs.