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Ville Platte is the largest city in, and the parish seat of, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, United States. [2] The population was 6,303 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 8,145 in 2000.
Ville Platte, Louisiana, the seat of Evangeline Parish, was itself so named by one of Napoleon Bonaparte's former soldiers, Adjutant Major Marcellin Garand (1781–1852), of Savoy, France. (See Napoleon's Soldiers In America , by Simone de la Souchere-Delery, 1999).
Ville Platte House was moved by the owners about 22.3 miles (35.9 km) to the southeast in 1998. It is still standing in Saint Landry Parish at 890 Chretien Point Road, Sunset, Louisiana .
The following 23 pages use this file: Alexis LaTour House; Bank of Ville Platte; Basile, Louisiana; Bayou Chicot, Louisiana; Centerville, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana
Louisiana Highway 29 Spur (LA 29 Spur) runs 0.20 miles (0.32 km) in a north–south direction along North Chataignier Street in Ville Platte, the seat of Evangeline Parish. It is a short connector between the travel lanes of the concurrent US 167 / LA 10 , which follows the one-way pair of Main and LaSalle Streets through town.
Louisiana Highway 13 follows the western border of the town, leading north 3 miles (5 km) to Reddell and south 10 miles (16 km) to Eunice. Ville Platte, the parish seat, is 12 miles (19 km) to the northeast. According to the United States Census Bureau, Mamou has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2), all land. [5]
Chicot State Park is located near Ville Platte, Louisiana. This wildlife reserve of South Central Louisiana features 6,400 acres (26 km 2) [1] of rolling hills surrounding a 2,000-acre (8 km 2) man-made lake [5] stocked with bass, crappie (sac-au-lait), bluegill, and red-ear sunfish. Chicot Park offers fishing boat rentals, pavilions, barbecue ...
LA 13 south (Veterans Memorial Highway) – Mamou, Ville Platte: West end of LA 13 concurrency 9.8: 15.8: LA 13 north (Veterans Memorial Highway) – Turkey Creek, Alexandria LA 3187 (Crooked Creek Parkway) East end of LA 13 concurrency; southern terminus of LA 3187: Bayou Chicot: 14.3: 23.0: US 167 – Ville Platte, Turkey Creek 16.3: 26.2