FEBRUARY 20, 2027

Black Lake is a reservoir located between Creston and Campti in North Louisiana.Water feeds into Black Lake from Black Lake Bayou, a watershed that extends from north of Gibsland in Bienville Parish and south to Clarence in Natchitoches Parish through the parishes of Claiborne, Webster, Bienville, Red River and Natchitoches. The elevation of the lake is 102 feet (31 m). Louisiana Highway 9 runs across Black Lake. On the west side of Highway 9 the body of water is called Black Lake — the east is called Clear Lake or Clear Lake Bayou.

APRIL 10, 2027

Caddo Lake is a 25,400-acre lake and bayou (wetland) on the border between Texas and Louisiana, in northern Harrison County and southern Marion County in Texas and western Caddo Parish in Louisiana.

The lake is named after the Caddoans or Caddo, Native Americans who lived in the area until their expulsion by the United States in the 19th century.

The US forced most of them to move west to Indian Territory.

MAY 8, 2027

For hundreds of years, a huge logjam, later dubbed “The Great River Raft,” clogged the Red River from near modern-day Boyce to above Shreveport. The raft acted as a dam that caused bayou tributaries to back up and fill in low spots and create so-called “raft lakes” such as Lake Bistineau.

When the logjam was removed in the 1830s, the raft lakes drained out, only to be refilled whenever the Red River flooded. Modern concrete dams were built in the 20th century to keep the lakes filled permanently.