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Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana and the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 79.15 square miles (205.0 km 2), of which 76.95 square miles (199.3 km 2) are land and 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2) (2.81%) are covered by water. [53]
Breaux Bridge ( / ˈbroʊˈbrɪdʒ /; [ 2] French: Pont-Breaux; [ 3][ 4] Cajun French: Pont- (de)-Breaux pronounced [pɔ̃ndbʁo] [ 2]) is a small city in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 8,139 as of the 2010 census, up from 7,281 in 2000. By 2020, its population was 7,513. It is part of the Lafayette metropolitan ...
Area code. 318. FIPS code. 22-70000. Website. shreveportla.gov. Shreveport ( / ˈʃriːvpɔːrt / SHREEV-port) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat. [ 4]
Area code. 337. FIPS code. 22-40735. Website. www .lafayettela .gov. Lafayette ( / ˌlæfiˈɛt, ˌlɑːf -/ LA (H)-F-ee-ET, French: [lafajɛt]) is the most populous city in and parish seat of Lafayette Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana, [ 3 ] located along the Vermilion River.
In United States local government, a consolidated city-county (also known as either a city-parish or a consolidated government in Louisiana, depending on the locality, [1] or a unified municipality, unified home rule borough, or city and borough [2] [3] in Alaska) is formed when one or more cities and their surrounding county (parish in Louisiana, borough in Alaska) merge into one unified ...
History of Louisiana. Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to about 8000 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers. [ 1] Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC. [ 2]
Area code. 337. FIPS code. 22-15465. Website. www .churchpoint .org. Church Point ( French: Pointe-à-l'Église[ 4]) is a town in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 4,560 at the 2010 census. [ 5] It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area.
This fund is administered by the United Way of the Southern Tier and donations can be sent to: United Way of the Southern Tier. P.O. Box 284. Elmira, NY 14902. Make checks payable to “UWST ...