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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 ...
Catahoula Lake (French: Lac Catahoula) is a large freshwater lake located in LaSalle Parish and Rapides Parish of central Louisiana, United States. Catahoula Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake in the state covering just over 46 square miles (120 km 2). It is owned by the State of Louisiana and managed by the U.S. Army Corps of ...
Parish Size Date Established Date Removed Remarks Image Hodges Gardens State Park: Sabine Parish: 700 acres (283 ha) [56] 1956 [56] October 1, 2017 [57] The park features a 225-acre man-made lake that was built in 1954. [56] After a funding issue, the donated property was reverted to the A.J. and Nona Triggs Hodges Foundation. [57]
Map of the United States with Louisiana highlighted. Louisiana is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States census, Louisiana is the 25th most populous state with 4,657,757 inhabitants and the 33rd largest by land area spanning 43,203.90 square miles (111,897.6 km 2) of land. [1]
Lake Maurepas is a circular-shaped, shallow, brackish tidal estuarine system. It is approximately 240 square kilometres (93 sq mi) in area and has a mean depth of about 3 meters (9.8 ft). The lake receives fresh water from four river systems: Blind River, Amite River, Tickfaw River, and the Natalbany River.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 2,082 square miles (5,390 km 2), of which 1,232 square miles (3,190 km 2) is land and 850 square miles (2,200 km 2) (41%) is water. [6] It is the fifth-largest parish in Louisiana by land area and third-largest by total area. The Gulf of Mexico is located to the south of the ...
The U.S. state of Louisiana has a total of ten metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs); 37 of Louisiana's sixty-four (64) parishes are classified as metropolitan. [1] According to the 2020 United States census, these parishes had a combined population of 3,918,560 (84.1% of the state's population).
List of Louisiana parishes by French-speaking population; List of parishes in Louisiana; National Register of Historic Places listings in Orleans Parish, Louisiana; User:AridCeption/sandbox; File talk:Map of Louisiana highlighting Orleans Parish.svg