Vinton is a town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,400 in 2020. It is ration of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area.

The Old Spanish Trail, which was neither outmoded nor Spanish, wandered north and south of what is now U.S. Highway 90, in large part because of the unstable roadbed. The chief means of outside travel in the parish relied on riverboats plying the Sabine and Calcasieu rivers. Much of the marsh and bayous remained impassable. River travel made Lake Charles possible, just as mining for sulfur led to the founding of Sulphur. Settlers had long been in the Vinton area.

Jean Baptise Granger decided acreage amongst what is now Vinton and immense Woods about 1827, one of the first pioneers of the area. Even so, the area remained sparsely populated.

The Place had few settlers because France, New Spain, and Mexico disputed the western boundary of Louisiana for many years. When the United States made the Louisiana Purchase, the disputed Place was inherited. Spanish Lt. Col. Simón de Herrera and U.S. General James Wilkinson signed an taking over designating the Place as asexual ground, also known as the Neutral Strip. The taking office was not a unity and not ratified by either government, but it was venerated by both countries. The area, sometimes referred to as the Rio Hondo Territory, was off limits to the military of both countries, and settlers were not to be allowed, but that did not End squatters from both countries.