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Grand Isle is a town in Jefferson Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on a barrier island of the same name in the Gulf of Mexico. The island is at the mouth of Barataria Bay where it meets the Gulf.
Grand Isle; Isle au Haut; Lagrange (for the Marquis de Lafayette's home) [154] Lamoine (for Andre Le Moyne, a local landowner) [154] Minot; Montville; Mount Desert Island; Paris (for the city in France) [154] Presque Isle (from the French word "presqu'île" meaning "peninsula"--- from presque meaning "almost", and isle meaning "island". The ...
Grand Isle, a barrier island on the Gulf Coast, part of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Grand Isle, Louisiana, a town located on the island; Grand Isle State Park (Louisiana), a park on the island; Grand Isle, Maine, a town in Maine Grand Isle (CDP), Maine, the primary village in the town; Grand Isle, Vermont, a town in Vermont
GRAND ISLE, La. (Reuters) -Jim King, 75, surveyed the damage to his home on Grand Isle, Louisiana, on Thursday, a house he rebuilt himself after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago.
According to the 2020 United States census, there were 1,809 people, 604 households, and 446 families residing in the town. [13] At the 2019 American Community Survey, the racial and ethnic makeup of Jean Lafitte was 95.4% non-Hispanic white, 0.1% Black or African American, 0.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.5% some other race, and 3.4% two or more races. [14]
Grand Isle State Park, lies at the eastern tip of Grand Isle, a barrier island in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, U.S.A. Grand Isle is the only inhabited barrier island in the state. [6] The park has been seriously affected in the past by Hurricanes Katrina, Gustav, and Ike. However, much of Grand Isle State Park has been renovated.
Barataria Bay [lower right] is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico that is located between Empire and Grand Isle, Louisiana [].. Barataria Bay (French: Baie de Barataria), also Barrataria Bay, is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico, about 15 miles (24 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide, in southeastern Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, United States.
The New Orleans Hurricane of 1915 was an intense Category 4 hurricane that made landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the most intense tropical cyclone during the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm formed in late September when it moved westward and peaked in intensity of 145 mph (233 km/h) to weaken slightly by time of landfall on ...