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from parts of Ouachita Parish and Rapides Parish. Catahoula Lake, formerly within the parish's boundaries and named from a Taensa/Natchez word meaning big, clear lake: 8,414: 739 sq mi (1,914 km 2) Claiborne Parish: 027: Homer: 1828: from part of Natchitoches Parish. Governor of Louisiana William C. C. Claiborne: 13,670: 768 sq mi (1,989 km 2 ...
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]
Parish or Parishes Acres Owner Elmer's Island Wildlife Refuge Jefferson Parish: 1,145 State of Louisiana: Managed by the LDWF [23] Isle Dernieres Barrier Islands Refuge Terrebonne Parish: Wine, Trinity/East, Whiskey, and Raccoon Islands 1,900 State of Louisiana [24] Marsh Island Wildlife Refuge: Iberia Parish: 76,664 (now 71,000) LDWF [25]
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Lake Verret is 14,080 acres (5,700 ha) natural lake located in Assumption, Parish, Louisiana, US.The lake is west of Napoleonville, Louisiana, south of Pierre Part, part of the Atchafalaya River Basin of the Lower Mississippi River Region, with 246,000 acres (100,000 ha) of watershed that includes 22,300 acres (9,000 ha) (34.84 square miles (90.2 km 2)) in Ascension Parish 104,500 acres ...
Southwest Louisiana (SWLA) is a five-parish area intersecting the Acadiana and Central Louisiana regions in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is composed of the following parishes (counties): Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis. [1] [2] As of 2020, the combined population of the five parish area was 313,951. [3]
Terrebonne Parish (/ ˌ t ɛr ə ˈ b oʊ n / TERR-ə-BOHN; French: Paroisse de Terrebonne) is a parish located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 109,580. [1] The parish seat is Houma. [2] The parish was founded in 1822. [3] Terrebonne Parish is part of the Houma-Thibodaux metropolitan ...
Key takeaways. 11 property insurance companies in Louisiana became insolvent between July 2021 and September 2022, reflecting the deepening crisis in the state’s insurance market .