Raceland is an

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and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the count ...

(CDP) on

Bayou Lafourche Bayou Lafourche ( ), originally called Chetimachas River or La Fourche des Chetimaches, (the fork of the Chitimacha), is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed June 20, 2011 ba ...

Lafourche Parish Lafourche Parish (french: Paroisse de la Fourche) is a parish located in the south of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Thibodaux. The parish was formed in 1807. It was originally the northern part of Lafourche Interior Parish, whi ...

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, United States. The population was 9,768 in 2020. It is part of the Houma– Bayou Cane–

Thibodaux Thibodaux ( ) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 15,948 at the 2020 census. Thibodaux is a principal city ...

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. According to the Louisiana Office of Tourism, Raceland was named for the Race family that once owned a large plantation named "Raceland" on Bayou Lafourche.

Geography

Raceland is located at (29.722576, -90.605172), on both sides of Bayou Lafourche. It is bordered to the southeast by Mathews.

U.S. Route 90 U.S. Route 90 or U.S. Highway 90 (US 90) is an east–west major United States highway in the Southern United States. Despite the "0" in its route number, US 90 never was a full coast-to-coast route. With the exception of a short-lived ...

passes through the southeast part of Raceland, leading northeast to

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and west to Morgan City. Louisiana Highways 1 and 308 pass through the center of Raceland, on the south and the north sides of Bayou Lafourche, respectively. Both highways lead southeast (downriver) to Lockport and northwest (upriver) to

, the

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Louisiana Highway 182 Louisiana Highway 182 (LA 182) is a state highway located in central and southeastern Louisiana. It runs in a northwest to southeast direction from LA 29 in Whiteville to U.S. Highway 90 (US 90) north of Raceland. Along the ...

passes through the center of Raceland on the old route of US-90; it leads northeast to US-90 and southwest to Houma. According to the

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, the Raceland CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.23%, are water.

Demographics

As of the

2020 United States census The United States census of 2020 was the twenty-fourth decennial United States census. Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2020. Other than a pilot study during the 2000 census, this was the first U.S. census to of ...

, there were 9,768 people, 3,971 households, and 2,812 families residing in the CDP.

Government and infrastructure

The

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operates the Raceland Post Office.

Education

Lafourche Parish Public Schools Lafourche Parish Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Thibodaux, Louisiana. The district serves all of Lafourche Parish, including a portion of Des Allemands.See search page/ref>''Engineering News-Record'', Volume 143, Part 1. McG ...

operates public schools. * Raceland Lower Elementary School * Raceland Upper Elementary School * Raceland Middle School Central Lafourche High School is in Mathews, and has a Raceland postal address. The school serves all of Raceland. Raceland High School opened in 1912 and was expanded in 1924; it was consolidated into Lafourche Central High along with Lockport High School in 1966. An elementary school occupies the former Raceland High. In the era before desegregation (circa 1969) Raceland Colored School educated black residents.''Engineering News-Record'', Volume 143, Part 1.

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, 1949. p
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Lafourche Parish Library operates the Raceland Branch.Branch Locations and Contact
" Lafourche Parish Library. Retrieved on November 28, 2018.

Notable people

* Gypsy Rose Blanchard, notable true crime personality; born in Raceland. * Donald G. Bollinger, founder of Bollinger Shipyards (1946) and state chairman of the

Republican Party of Louisiana The Republican Party of Louisiana (french: Parti républicain de Louisiane) is the affiliate of the Republican Party in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Its chair is Louis Gurvich, who was elected in 2018. It is currently the dominant party in the ...

(1986–1988); born and died in Raceland, resided as an adult in Lockport *

Jimmy Clanton Jimmy Clanton (born September 2, 1938) is an American singer who became known as the " swamp pop R&B teenage idol". His band recorded a hit song "Just a Dream" which Clanton had written in 1958 for the Ace Records label. It reached number fo ...

, singer and actor; born in Raceland *

Ron Estay Ron Estay (born December 22, 1948) is a former defensive lineman for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Career After graduating from LSU Tigers football, Louisiana State University (LSU) in 1972, he was selected by the ...

, football player, All-American defensive lineman for

LSU Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 near ...

; played professionally for the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos
Freddie John Falgout
widely believed to be the first American killed in what would become known as

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* Aaron Loup, pitcher for the

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* Punch Miller, jazz musician; born in Raceland * Larry Wilson, basketball player and NBA draft pick

References

External links

Raceland Middle School

Raceland Upper Elementary School

Raceland Lower Elementary School
{{authority control Census-designated places in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana Census-designated places in Louisiana Census-designated places in Houma – Thibodaux metropolitan area