Starbase Louisiana location

Starbase Louisiana was announced for coastal Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. The precise site we name is Freshwater City. The nearby community in news and search is Pecan Island. Use both names. Do not treat them as the same place.

Coordinates

Public GNSS reference for Freshwater City: NOAA CORS FWTR, 29.5526°N, 92.3047°W, Freshwater City, Louisiana.

That point locates the area. It is not a gate, a parking lot, or a promised overlook.

Parish and nearby community

Site: Freshwater City. Parish: Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. Nearby community: Pecan Island. Inland context: Abbeville (parish seat); Lafayette to the north.

News searches often return Pecan Island because that is the community people already know. The site name we keep in the lead is Freshwater City.

Marsh context

The announced footprint is about 125,000 acres of coastal marsh — wetlands, water, and working coast on the Gulf side of the parish. That is the acreage we use. We do not round to 130,000.

This is not a city grid. It is marsh. Access, construction, and public facilities are not something we will diagram from a press release.

What this page is not

We do not list pad counts, access roads, or a visitor route. Construction and launch timing, where they have been mentioned in public, are announced targets, not confirmed.