Bonfouca (also Bonfonca, Boucffouca, Bouefuka, Boukfouca) is an unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is on Louisiana Highway 433 adjacent to Liberty Bayou two miles west of Slidell.[edit]
It is speculated that the name derives from the Choctaw words bok meaning river and fuka meaning home or residence in the Choctaw language. The name Bokfuka was given to a Choctaw chief that attacked the German Coast of Louisiana in the year 1747.[3] Then in the year 1802 Louis-Narcisse Baudry Des Lozieres documents the name of the tribe and used the French transliteration of Bonifoucas.
Down Bayou Liberty from Camp Salmen, the waterway joins with its twin Bayou Bonfouca from Old Town Slidell to flow together through the marshes to Lake Pontchartrain. On both banks of lower Bayou Liberty is an ancient rural community also called Bonfouca. It was settled long before the upstart rail worker's camp next door blew up to tremendous proportions with the help of a modern transportation corridor, and became the beast that is Slidell today. Things remained much quieter in Bonfouca.

Bonfouca is Choctaw for river residence. Indeed, archaeology, history and oral tradition prove Native Americans have a great claim to their people living on these banks for thousands of years.

European occupancy on the bayou began shortly after New Orleans was founded 1722 and Frenchmen began to migrate to the north shore of the lake. The rascal Bartram Jaffery (who called himself la Liberte' because he liked his freedom and for whom the bayou was named) and Pierre "Lacombe" Brou (who got the bayou next door named after himself) and others, left the constraints of the struggling new city to live on the lake's north shore to enjoy the opportunities here. An agglomeration of dwellings and farms gradually arose along the banks of the bayou. Once the Spanish took over the colony they began to formally grant the lands in the area — never mind the natives.
A 1935 U.S. Geological Survey map places the central street grid of old Bonfouca squarely on the west bank of the bayou, just above St. Genevieve Church. This is also at the southern end of Thompson Rd., once the community's link to the now long-discontinued trans-St. Tammany railroad, the present Tammany Trace bicycle path.