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Doyline is a village in southwestern Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States. The population was 818 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Under a cited cost-saving realignment plan, the Webster Parish School Board closed Union Elementary School in Doyline in 2011, as Doyline High School absorbed the elementary students. Vandals broke windows in the abandoned elementary school, which contained asbestos and black mold. The building was hence razed at a cost of $99,000.

The HBO television series True Blood about vampires is filmed in Doyline.

Doyline village overview:
Name:	Doyline village
LSAD Code:	47
LSAD Description:	village (suffix)
State:	Louisiana
County:	Webster Parish
Elevation:	226 ft (69 m)
Total Area:	3.34 sq mi (8.66 km²)
Land Area:	3.33 sq mi (8.62 km²)
Water Area:	0.02 sq mi (0.04 km²)
Total Population:	674
Population Density:	202.52/sq mi (78.18/km²)
Area code:	318
FIPS code:	2221590

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History

Doyline is an entry point to Lake Bistineau and the Lake Bistineau State Park, a popular fishing destination and the reservoir of Dorcheat Bayou.

The Doyline High School Panthers won their state basketball championship in 1967, and two of the players pursued athletic careers. Tommy Joe Eagles played for Louisiana Tech University in Ruston and became the head basketball coach for the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs from 1985 to 1989 and the Auburn Tigers in Alabama from 1989 to 1994. Shortly before his death of a heart attack, Eagles had been named coach of the University of New Orleans Privateers men’s basketball team, His teammate, James Ponder “Jimmy” Stewart (1949-2017), later played baseball for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and until sidelined by a shoulder injury the California Angels organization. In the early 1980s, Stewart coached basketball and was the pitching coach on three state championship baseball teams at Minden High School. He was from 1985 to 2005 the principal of Doyline High School. He died at the age of sixty-eight of long-term effects a stroke.

On August 24, 2006, an explosion of the Explo Systems, Inc., site at Camp Minden led to the evacuation of six hundred students nearby but caused no injuries or fatalities. The site is a former U.S. Army ammunition plant where military bombs were disassembled and recycled.

In December 2012, police began the removal of 2,700 tons of explosives from Camp Minden, located at the site of the former Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant, leading to evacuations from nearby Doyline.

In 2017, Steven T. Bridwell, a Democratic member of the Doyline Town Council, was appointed mayor on the resignation of Gary Carter (No Party) after his arrest for domestic abuse. Bridwell was succeeded on the council by Crystal “Christie” Carter Gates. A special election for both positions will be held in October 2017.