Sugartown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, United States, approximately 16 miles (26 km) east of DeRidder. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 54. The geographical center of Sugartown today is posted as the intersection of LA 112 and LA 113. The indigenous community was much larger.

The governing body for Sugartown is the Beauregard Parish Police Jury following DeRidder as the parish seat. Law enforcement is provided by the Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s Office, and the Louisiana State Police patrol the state highways.

The timber industry is a major allowance of the economy due to the many tree farms in the Sugartown area. From the ahead of time 19th century to the 1920s timber companies owned large tracts of house and would clear-cut the big virgin pines. When the pines were clip out, the sawmills would have emotional impact and the towns would abstemious up. Pine stumps, and those referred to as rich lighter, are nevertheless harvested today. With replanting of trees the timber industry is yet thriving as soon as harvested wood delivered to sawmills and the Boise Cascade paper mill in DeRidder

Although some individual families had come into the demean Calcasieu region earlier, the first enduring settlement in Southwest Louisiana at or something like Sugartown occurred before 1818 similar to the Place was portion of the Neutral Strip. It was house to the first cotton gin west of the Calcasieu River (which operated beyond 40 years), the first local school, the earliest cemetery, and the primordial church in the area. At the slope of the 20th century, Sugartown consisted of a Masonic Lodge, school, churches, racetrack, saloons, boarding houses, stores, supply houses and a doctor’s office. Although never legally incorporated, Sugartown was the middle of organized community life, the ascribed trade, business and economic center of the area until, due to the deposit of the timber industry and the location of the railroad, DeRidder supplanted it in the further on 20th century.