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Old River (Louisiana), in Pointe Coupee and West Feliciana parishes; Old River (Sabine River tributary) ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Louisiana (1974)
The Ouachita River (/ ˈ w ɑː ʃ ɪ t ɑː / WAH-shi-tah) is a 605-mile-long (974 km) [2] river that runs south and east through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana, joining the Tensas River to form the Black River near Jonesville, Louisiana.
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] According to the 2015 Louisiana Laws ...
Sandusky River; Scioto County – derived from Wyandot skɛnǫ·tǫ’, 'deer' [65] [66] (compare Shenandoah, also derived from the word for deer in a related Iroquoian language). Scioto River; Seneca County; Tuscarawas County – after the Iroquoian Tuscarora people, who at one time had a settlement along the river of that name. Tuscarawas ...
The Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers System was established in 1970, administered by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and includes approximately 3000 miles of waterways. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Native Americans occupied this area beginning around 300 BC. Varying indigenous cultures flourished there in the following centuries. Today on the banks of the old Mississippi River channel in Marksville, three large burial mounds have been preserved from the Mississippian culture, which flourished especially along the upper Mississippi, the Ohio River and other tributaries, from about 900 AD ...
River Parishes. Ascension Parish in the north is not always considered a River Parish. Main building at "Laura" Creole plantation, in Vacherie, St. James, 2002 photograph. The River Parishes are the parishes in Louisiana between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that span both banks of the Mississippi River, and are part of the larger Acadiana region ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Rivers of Louisiana. ... Rivers of Ouachita County, Arkansas (1 C, 2 P) Rivers of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana (1 C, 3 P) R.