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The term consolidated city-county refers to a consolidated jurisdiction in a state that is otherwise divided into counties. In Louisiana, which is divided into parishes, the equivalent jurisdiction is known as either a city-parish or a consolidated government, depending on the locality. [4]
In the DC Universe series Swamp Thing, the primary setting is Montrivelle Parish. The county seat of the parish is the also fictional city of Marais. In the 1972 movie Buck and the Preacher starring Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee, the members of the rescued wagon train were former slaves from the fictional St. Ann Parish.
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]
Lafayette has a consolidated city–parish government, known as the Lafayette Consolidated Government; [123] parish voters agreed to consolidation of the city and parish governments in 1996. [ 38 ] [ 42 ] Lafayette's chief executive was initially called the city-parish president, but is now known as the mayor-president for the Lafayette ...
In 1949 the governments of the city and the Parish of East Baton Rouge were largely consolidated under then-mayor S. Powers Higginbotham, [22] and in 1982 they were fully merged into a single governing body (similar to a consolidated city-county, although the municipalities of Baker, Central, and Zachary remain self-governing).
When the city and parish combined government, the city and parish councils consolidated to form the East Baton Rouge Parish Metropolitan Council. The Metropolitan Council is the legislative branch of the Baton Rouge government. Its 12 district council members are elected from single-member districts.
According to the 2020 U.S. census, the parish had a population of 241,753, [1] up from 221,578 at the 2010 United States census. [2] The parish seat and largest city is Lafayette. [3] The parish was founded in 1823. [4] Since 1996, the city and parish have operated as a consolidated government.
A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ecclesiastical parish , the term civil parish is used in some jurisdictions, as noted below. The table below lists countries which use this administrative division: