In the 1800’s, Noah Tyson Sr., a store owner, police juror, and post master, called a town meeting to name the community. With frogs hollering in a nearby pond, a man from Alabama proposed the name Frog Level, and it was adopted. On April 11, 1879, M.C. Spearman was appointed post master. In 1898, when the K.C.S. Railroad was built in the area, Frog Level’s name was changed to Rodessa; local tradition holds that the president of the K.C.S named the town after his daughter. In July of 1935, the I.L. Young gas well was brought in by United Gas Company, opening one of Louisiana’s major oil fields. As of January 1, 1973, 101,773,804 barrels of crude oil had been produced on the Louisiana side.