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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]
[citation needed] Contemporary descriptions cite the lack of towns, commerce, and economic development. [citation needed] Besides the necessity of river transportation, the ground near the rivers and old river channels contained the best agricultural land, where the sandy and silty soil settled, increasing the height of the natural levees.
Merryville is located at (30.753916, -93.536991 U.S. Route 190 passes through the community, leading north and east 19 miles (31 km) to DeRidder, the parish seat, and west 18 miles (29 km) to Newton, Texas.
Erath is located at (29.959939, -92.035220 According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2), all land.. Erath is located 20 miles (32 km) south of Lafayette, parish seat of Lafayette Parish via Louisiana Highway 339, 7 miles (11 km) east of Abbeville, parish seat of Vermilion Parish, and 15 miles (24 km) west of New Iberia, parish seat of ...
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The land between the two passes forms Jones Island, and the passes converge on the eastern side of the island into one unified Pass Manchac. Tidal exchange with Lake Pontchartrain through Pass Manchac is a more significant influence on Lake Maurepas’s volume and elevation than tributary freshwater discharge.
Rayville is a town in and the parish seat of Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States. [2] The population, which is 69 percent African American , was 4,234 at the 2000 census , but it had declined by nearly 21 percent in 2020 to 3,347.
Winn Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,755. [1] The parish seat and largest city is Winnfield. [2] The parish was founded in 1852. [3] It is last in alphabetical order of Louisiana's sixty-four parishes.