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A house in Raceland Drinking at the bar, crab boil night, Raceland, September 1938. Raceland is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) on Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 9,768 in 2020. It is part of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area.
The parish name is likely derived from the real Lake Pontchartrain. In Season 2 of Designated Survivor a flu outbreak originates in South Carroll Parish. The television series Queen Sugar is set in St. Josephine Parish, which borders Orleans Parish and is where the titular family; the Bordelon's, reside.
People in the Bayou Des Allemands area of Lafourche Parish are zoned to Raceland Lower Elementary School, Raceland Upper Elementary School, Raceland Middle School (all in Raceland), and Central Lafourche High School in Mathews. [15] [16] Fletcher Technical Community College has Lafourche Parish in the college's service area. [17]
Map of the United States with Louisiana highlighted. Louisiana is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States census, Louisiana is the 25th most populous state with 4,657,757 inhabitants and the 33rd largest by land area spanning 43,203.90 square miles (111,897.6 km 2) of land. [1]
Update, 4:29 p.m.: The Lafourche Parish Facebook Page has been designated as the official source of info for the Raceland oil spill. A hotline was established for wildlife affected by the spill.
Louisiana Highway 651 (LA 651) ran 1.3 miles (2.1 km) in a north–south direction along Bowie Road in Raceland, Lafourche Parish.. The route began at LA 308, which runs along Bayou Lafourche, and proceeded to a point on the Texas & New Orleans Railroad line (now the BNSF/Union Pacific Railroad) where the community of Bowie was once located.
In St. Charles Parish and Lafourche Parish, US 90 traveled down present-day LA 631, crossing the swing bridge still used by local traffic in Des Allemands. In Lafourche Parish, the old US 90 (now LA 182) splits off from the current US 90/Future I-49 just northeast of Raceland.
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