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Kaplan is a city in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 4,600 at the 2010 census , and 4,345 at the 2020 population estimates program . [ 3 ] It is part of the Abbeville micropolitan statistical area in Acadiana .
Inez Catalon was born in Maurice, Louisiana [2] and grew up in nearby Kaplan, Louisiana, the youngest of ten children with German, Spanish, French and African ancestry. [7] Her great-grandmother was an enslaved person. [8] The family lived in a house in Kaplan built by her father in the 1920s. Her father was a farmer who died when Catalon was a ...
Louisiana Highway 35 (LA 35) is a 52.3 miles (84.2 km)-long north-south state highway in Louisiana that serves Vermilion, Lafayette, Acadia, and Saint Landry parishes, extending from Louisiana Highway 82, intersecting with exit 87 of Interstate 10, ending at US Route 190.
Louisiana State Route 3 ran 153.4 miles (246.9 km) in a north–south direction from Baton Rouge to the Arkansas state line north of Lake Providence.The designation existed in two segments as the roadway passed through the state of Mississippi between a point north of St. Francisville and Vidalia (opposite the Mississippi River from Natchez, Mississippi).
September 1, 2008 – Hurricane Gustav reached the Louisiana coast on the morning of September 1, making landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana as a Category 2 with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. The center of the storm continued northwest across the state resulting in significant damage and 7 deaths; 34 parishes were declared as disaster areas.
The history of the area that is now the U.S. state of Louisiana, can be traced back thousands of years to when it was occupied by indigenous peoples. The first indications of permanent settlement, ushering in the Archaic period , appear about 5,500 years ago.
Was SR 675 and Route C-1384 before 1955; originally ran from US 90/US 167 to LA 94, but the section from Simcoe and Surrey Streets to US 90/US 167 became US 167 around 1964; extended to LA 98 (replacing LA 728-1) in 2009 LA 177: 17.13: 27.57 LA 175 north of Pleasant Hill: US 84/LA 1 at Gahagan: 1955: current exit 162 on I-49 concurrent with US 371
Louisiana Highway 13 (LA 13) is a state highway located in southern Louisiana. It runs 64.02 miles (103.03 km) in a north–south direction from LA 14 west of Kaplan to US 167 in Turkey Creek. The route connects several small population centers in the Acadiana region of the state west of the busier US 167 corridor.