Walker is a city in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was placed at 6,138 (up 28% over the in the same way as decade), making Walker and Denham Springs the unaccompanied parish municipalities classified as cities.

The area now known as Walker was founded by Michael Joseph Milton, Jr. (1795-1863) and “several slaves” in 1825. Michael Milton married in 1832 in Livingston Parish. He and his wife, Martha Clark Milton (1803-1878) developed 343 acres from a Land Grant for his bolster in the War of 1812. The Milton intimates was a pioneering relations from North Carolina who settled an area in Alabama, before establishing the further community in the piney woods east of the Amite River and Denham Springs. In this sense, Walker, Louisiana, by virtue of its establishment, traces its roots to the founding of the nation in Jamestown, Virginia. The Federal government endorsed the lump of the deal and opened a pronounce office as Milton Old Field in 1856. Michael Milton was appointed as postmaster in 1858. In 1890, the herald office was renamed after Dr. William Elliott Walker, M.D., a legislator from easy to reach to Springfield, who had furthermore served as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate States of America.

Walker became a city in 2011, by official declaration of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.

Walker is located at 30°29′22″N 90°51′46″W / 30.48944°N 90.86278°W / 30.48944; -90.86278 (30.489423, -90.862872). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total Place of 5.8 square miles (14.9 km²), all land.