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is a city in and the parish seat of Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is located twenty-eight miles east of Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish. The population, which has been stable since 1960, was 13,027 at the 2000 census. It has possessed a post office since 1839.
Minden is the principal city of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Shreveport-Bossier City-Minden Combined Statistical Area.
, which officially dates only to July 18, 1966, as a daily publication. It was previously two weekly papers, the
. A newspaper has existed in the community since the 1850s. The newspaper office is located on Gleason Street south of Broadway Street in a building once occupied by a supermarket.
Minden has an elevation of . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.0 square miles (31.0 km²), of which, 11.9 square miles (30.8 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²) of it (0.75%) is water.