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DeQuincy is the northernmost city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,235 at the 2010 census. DeQuincy is part of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area.

DeQuincy was founded in 1897 as a railroad town with the Calcasieu, Vernon & Shreveport Railway Company (CV&S) having been completed and Arthur Stilwell's Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Railway Company (KCS&G), that was owned by the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad (KCP&G), completed in 1897. On 8 March 1944, two Air Force aircraft from nearby Barksdale Air Force Base collided overhead killing seven people.

DeQuincy is located in northern Calcasieu Parish at (30.450915, 93.435613). Louisiana Highways 12 and 27 pass through the center of town: LA 12 leads east 36 mile (58 km) to Kinder and southwest 22 mile (35 km) to Deweyville, Texas, while LA 27 leads north 31 mile (50 km) to DeRidder and south 17 mile (27 km) to Sulphur, 9 mile (14 km) west of Lake Charles. According to the United States Census Bureau, DeQuincy has a total area of , all land. +DeQuincy racial composition as of 2020 Race Number Percentage White (non Hispanic) 2,368 75.32% Black or African American (non Hispanic) 544 17.3% Native American 26 0.83% Asian 8 0.25% Pacific Islander 1 0.03% Other/Mixed 119 3.78% Hispanic or Latino 78 2.48%
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 3,144 people, 972 households, and 720 families residing in the city.

DeQuincy was founded as a railroad settlement, and the Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific railroads remain principal employers for area citizens. The timber industry has long been a vital part of the local economy. DeQuincy is home to Temple Inland's Southwest Louisiana Lumber Operation. The DeQuincy Industrial Airpark houses facilities for Thermoplastic Services, Recycle Inc., United Oilfield Services, and Paragon Plastic Sheet. In 2002, Calgon Carbon Corporation planned to construct a carbon reactivation plant in the airpark, though those plans have been delayed due to environmental concerns.

The former Grand Avenue High School was the site of the highest scoring boys high school basketball game on January 29, 1964, when Grand Avenue beat Cameron, Louisiana's Audrey Memorial High School by a score of 211 to 29. The United States Postal Service operates the DeQuincy Post Office. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections formerly operated the C. Paul Phelps Correctional Center in unincorporated Beauregard Parish, about 3 mile (5 km) north of DeQuincy. The facility closed in November 2012

The town has been the subject of numerous hoaxes by satirical writer Paul Horner, widely spread on the Internet. The hoaxes claim the town enacted bizarre legislation such as banning those of Korean descent, issuing handguns to school children, permitting bigamy, banning twerking, and the city being completely eradicated by zombies on bath salts. DeQuincy Mayor Lawrence Henagan, a Democrat, was falsely targeted in 2016 by an Internet hoax that he had jailed a volunteer fire chief for thirty days and then dismissed the man after the chief had prayed at the scene of a fire. The story identified the mayor as "Lawana Jones, an African American atheist" and the fire chief as "39 year old Ronnie Edwards." Henagan, the chairman of the deacon board at the First Baptist Church of DeQuincy, said that the chief is free to pray while firefighting. Henagan said he would join the fire chief in prayer. Henagan said that he has no knowledge why he was singled out for a fake news article but noted that he could take no legal action because the reports used fictitious names.