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Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]
This organized the state into seven judicial districts, each consisting of groups of parishes. In 1816, the first official map of the state used the term parish, as did the 1845 constitution. Since then, the official term for Louisiana's primary civil divisions has been parishes. The 19 original parishes were joined by Catahoula Parish in 1808.
The U.S. state of Louisiana has a total of ten metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs); 37 of Louisiana's sixty-four (64) parishes are classified as metropolitan. [1] According to the 2020 United States census, these parishes had a combined population of 3,918,560 (84.1% of the state's population).
Towns in Louisiana (29 C, 123 P) V. Villages in Louisiana (4 C, 114 P) Pages in category "Municipalities in Louisiana" This category contains only the following page.
Lafayette (/ ˌ l æ f i ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l ɑː f-/ LA(H)-F-ee-ET, French:) is the most populous city in and parish seat of Lafayette Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana, [3] located along the Vermilion River. It is Louisiana's fourth-most populous city with a 2020 census population of 121,374; [4] the consolidated city-parish's population was ...
The library opened in Miss Angie Williams' Tea Room on June 19, 1941 and subsequently moved to a school building in 1955, a third building, and then the Baker Masonic Lodge on July 20, 1959. The current library, with 17,900 square feet (1,660 m 2) of space, opened in April 2001; it was designed by Cockfield-Jackson Architects. [16]
Acadia Parish (French: Paroisse de l'Acadie) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.At the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 57,576. [1] The parish seat and the most populous municipality is Crowley. [2]
Together they established today's towns and villages. Their direct ties to Europe set them apart from the Acadians (Cajuns) of southern Louisiana, who came from a culture established for generations in Canada. [5] At the turn of the 19th century, free people of color of African-French descent also settled in Avoyelles. Many came from New ...