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Lafayette Parish Assessor’s Office is closed today and tomorrow, Sept. 12. The office was scheduled to close on Sept. 15, but the Assessor’s office will extend its Open Book Inspection Period ...
Lafayette Parish is a part of the region of Acadiana in southern Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 269 square miles (700 km 2), of which 269 square miles (700 km 2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2) (0.2%) is water. [6]
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 ...
Lafayette Parish: 055: Lafayette: 1823: from part of St. Martin Parish. French-born American Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette: 249,750: 270 sq mi (699 km 2) Lafourche Parish: 057: Thibodaux: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. Was named Interior Parish until 1812 and Lafourche Interior Parish until 1853.
In 2010, [17] the U.S. Census Bureau reported there were 273,738 people, 89,536 households, and 61,826 families residing within metropolitan Lafayette. From 2010 to 2015, the Lafayette metropolitan area outpaced the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area in North Louisiana by population, becoming the third largest metropolitan area in the state.
The Lafayette Parish School Board voted 5-3 to allow the superintendent and the board president to purchase 301 and 307 Rue Beauregard.
The Lafayette–New Iberia–Opelousas combined statistical area is made up of six parishes in the Acadiana region of southern Louisiana.The statistical area consists of the Lafayette Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) [1] and two micropolitical statistical areas (μSAs) [2] – New Iberia, Louisiana Micropolitan Statistical Area, and Opelousas, Louisiana Micropolitical Statistical Area.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.