St. Bernard Parish (french: Paroisse de Saint-Bernard; es, Parroquia de San Bernardo) is a

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in the

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. The

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and largest community is

Chalmette Chalmette ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in, and the parish seat of, St. Bernard Parish in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The 2010 census reported that Chalmette had 16,751 people; 2011 population was listed as 17,119; however, t ...

. The parish was formed in 1807. St. Bernard Parish is part of the

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

Metairie

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; the parish is located southeast of the city of New Orleans and comprises the

Chandeleur Islands The Chandeleur Islands (french: Îles Chandeleur) are a chain of uninhabited barrier islands approximately long, located in the Gulf of Mexico, marking the outer boundary of the Chandeleur Sound. They form the easternmost point of the state of L ...

and

Chandeleur Sound The Chandeleur Sound is a sound that lies between mainland Louisiana and the Chandeleur Islands in Saint Bernard Parish. It is situated east of Breton Sound and south of Mississippi Sound. It was formed by the mixing of the Gulf of Mexico and the ...

in the east. St. Bernard was the fastest growing parish in Louisiana from 2010 to 2020, increasing from a population of 35,897 in the 2010 census to 43,764 in

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in ...

. It remains at less than two-thirds of its

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population of 67,229, prior to Hurricane Katrina.

History

St. Bernard Parish contains a large community of

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descent. Sometimes referred to informally as "Spanish Cajuns", the are descended from

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. This linguistically isolated group eventually developed its own dialect. The settled along , a relict distributary bayou of the

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. According to , who was in Louisiana from 1719 to 1738, ( is 'steer' or 'ox' in

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, thus means 'land of oxen') was named in that period, presumably due to the presence of domestic or feral cattle there, and not because of bison ( in French). This settlement was called and by Spanish officials, but was also called (

for 'land of oxen'). Saint Bernard, the patron saint of colonial governor , was used in documents to identify the area. St. Bernard Parish is also home to the earliest

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community in the United States,

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. The chief historical attraction in St. Bernard Parish is the Battlefield (part of

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (french: Parc historique national et réserve Jean Lafitte) protects the natural and cultural resources of Louisiana's Mississippi River Delta region. It is named after French pirate Jean Lafitt ...

), at which the

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took place on January 8, 1815, during the

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. Many street names near the battlefield bear the names of the chief participants, or take a pirate theme, since the pirate

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was considered to be a hero in the battle. A high school, later elementary and now a middle school, was named in honor of

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, who was the commanding officer in charge of defending

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

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invasion. In 1863,

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mentioned St. Bernard Parish in the

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as an area not in rebellion against the Union during the

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. From 1919 to 1969, the parish was effectively ruled as part of the fiefdom of

Leander Perez Leander Henry Perez Sr. (July 16, 1891 – March 19, 1969) was the Democratic political boss of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes in southeastern Louisiana during the middle third of the 20th century. Officially, he served as a district ...

, a local Democratic official in neighboring

Plaquemines Parish Plaquemines Parish (; French: ''Paroisse de Plaquemine'', Louisiana French: ''Paroisse des Plaquemines'', es, Parroquia de Caquis) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 23,515 at the 2020 census, the pari ...

1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre

In 1868, St. Bernard Parish was home to one of the deadliest massacres in Louisiana history. The St. Bernard Parish massacre occurred during the Reconstruction era, days before the

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. As black men gained the right to vote, white Democrats of the parish feared losing their majority. Armed groups mobilized to violently silence these recently emancipated voters to win the election in favor of Democrat

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over Republican

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. A Seymour victory meant the end of Reconstruction over the South and the return of Louisiana to home rule. Many freedmen were dragged from their homes and murdered. Others fled to the cane fields to hide from the perpetrators. The use of violence to suppress Republican votes was successful. Grant only received one vote from St. Bernard Parish, despite having a Republican majority. The reported number of freedmen killed varies from 35 to 135; the number of whites killed was two (one was killed in an attempt to help the victims).

Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927

During the

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, New Orleans city and state leaders used dynamite to breach a

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at Caernarvon, 13 miles (19 km) below Canal Street, to save the city of

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

On August 29, 2005, St. Bernard was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The storm damaged virtually every structure in the parish. The eye of Katrina passed over the eastern portion of the parish, pushing a

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into the

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("MRGO"). This surge destroyed the parish levees. Almost the entire parish was flooded, with most areas left with between 5 and 15 feet () of standing water. The water rose suddenly and violently, during a period which witnesses reported as no more than fifteen minutes. In many areas, houses were smashed or washed off their foundations by a storm surge higher than the roofs. For more than two months after the storm, much of the parish remained without proper services, including electricity, water, and sewage. Parish President Henry "Junior" Rodriguez declared all of the parish's homes unlivable.

Emergency Communities Emergency Communities was a volunteer organization which formed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It provided meals and other relief to residents and emergency responders, first in Mississippi, then in Louisiana. Emergency Communities ran sites in ...

offered one reason for hope in the first year after Hurricane Katrina. In the parking lot of a destroyed off-track betting parlor, EC built the Made with Love Cafe and Grill, a free kitchen and community center serving 1500 meals per day. Made with Love, housed in a

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, also offered food and clothing distribution, and emotionally supportive volunteers. Upon leaving, EC has offered logistical support for the founding of a new long-term

Community Center of St Bernard {{no footnotes, date=October 2008 The Community Center of St Bernard (CCSTB) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Arabi, Louisiana, in St Bernard Parish near New Orleans. The Community Center was founded in 2006 to serve local resident ...

. As of late November 2005, it was estimated that the Parish had some 7,000 full-time residents, with some 20,000 commuting to spend the day working, cleaning up, or salvaging in the parish and spending their nights elsewhere. By mid-December some businesses had returned to the Parish, most notably the

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plant in

and the

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plant in

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, together with a handful of small local stores and businesses. At the start of January 2006, it was estimated that some 8,000 people were living in the Parish. The H.O.P.E. Project, a collective of volunteer relief workers, founded itself in January 2006 in the empty shell of the Corinne Missionary Baptist Church in Violet, LA, providing the tools for rebuilding and community empowerment. Since June 2006,

Camp Hope Camp Hope is a volunteer base camp located in a former school in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Camp Hope has welcomed people from all over the United States and all over the world who have come to participate in the massive recovery efforts of St ...

, located in Arabi, has been housing volunteers' assisting residents of St. Bernard Parish in their recovery from Hurricane Katrina. A grassroots organization, the

St. Bernard Project SBP (formerly the St. Bernard Project) is a nonprofit, disaster relief organization. After temporarily volunteering in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, Liz McCartney and Zack Rosenburg returned permanently in March 2006 a ...

, opened in March 2006. A fully volunteer-run organization funded by the United Way, they help residents get back into their homes by working on the houses, providing tools, support and where possible, funding. As of October 2006, the population was estimated to be 25,489. After population losses due to Hurricane Katrina, the school was reopened for elementary grades for the 2006–2007 school year.

Hurricane Ida, 2021

As of the

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Hurricane Ida Hurricane Ida was a deadly and extremely destructive Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 2021 that became the second-most damaging and intense hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana on record, behind Hurricane Katrina in 200 ...

on August 29, 2021, St. Bernard Parish has been experiencing heavy flooding. Two days before, local officials and weather experts advised citizens to prepare for the storm, warning that rainfall could reach at most 11 feet. St Bernard Parish President, Guy McInnis, stated he does not plan to issue a formal evacuation order.

Geography

According to the

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, the parish has a total area of , of which is land and (83%) is water. It is the second largest parish in Louisiana by total area and has the largest percentage of area in water of any parish. The parish of St. Bernard embraces numerous small islands. The parish is classed among the alluvial lands of the state. The ridges comprise the arable lands of the parish and have an area of 37,000 acres (150 km²). The principal streams are the Bayous Terre aux Boeufs and La Loutre. There are numerous smaller streams which are efficient drainage canals. The dominant tree species is

bald cypress ''Taxodium distichum'' (bald cypress, swamp cypress; french: cyprès chauve; ''cipre'' in Louisiana) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States. Hardy and tough, this tree adapts to a wide r ...

, of which the most valuable trees have been cut and processed.

Bodies of water

Lake Borgne Lake Borgne (french: Lac Borgne, es, Lago Borgne) is a lagoon of the Gulf of Mexico in southeastern Louisiana. Although early maps show it as a lake surrounded by land, coastal erosion has made it an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. Its name comes fro ...

(north) *

(southwest) *

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(east)

Major highways

Louisiana Highway 39 Louisiana Highway 39 (LA 39) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Orleans Parish, Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines Parishes. In New Orleans, LA 39 is referred to as North Claiborne Avenue, while in St. Bernard Parish ...

Louisiana Highway 46 Louisiana Highway 46 (LA 46) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes. It runs in a west to east direction for a total length of . It is demarcated as Elysian Fields Avenue and St. Claude Avenue in the city o ...

Louisiana Highway 47 Louisiana Highway 47 (LA 47) is a state highway located in southeastern Louisiana. It runs in a general southeast to northwest direction from the Mississippi River levee in Chalmette to the intersection of Hayne Boulevard and Downman Road ...

Adjacent counties and parishes

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(north) * Harrison County,

(northeast) *

Orleans Parish New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

(south) *

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(northwest)

National protected areas

Breton National Wildlife Refuge Breton National Wildlife Refuge is located in southeastern Louisiana in the offshore Breton Islands and Chandeleur Islands. It is located in the Gulf of Mexico and is accessible only by boat. The refuge was established in 1904 through executive or ...

(part) *

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (french: Parc historique national et réserve Jean Lafitte) protects the natural and cultural resources of Louisiana's Mississippi River Delta region. It is named after French pirate Jean Lafitt ...

(part, in

)

State park

St. Bernard State Park St. Bernard State Park is a state park located in the American state of Louisiana, on a tract of land in St. Bernard Parish, between the towns of Poydras and Caernarvon. Though located only approximately eighteen miles southeast of New Orleans, at ...

Communities

There are no incorporated areas in St. Bernard Parish.

Census-designated places

(parish seat) *

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Meraux Meraux is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 6,804 in 2020. It is part of the New Orleans– Metairie– Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area. History In 2005, the town was ...

Poydras Poydras is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,886 at the 2000 census and 2,536 in 2020. It is part of the New Orleans– Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...

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Unincorporated communities

* Caernarvon * Hopedale (La Chinche) * Reggio (Bencheque) * Saint Bernard * Shell Beach *

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* Verret

Ghost towns

* Alluvial City * Fazendeville * Proctorville *

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Demographics

The 2019 American Community Survey determined 46,266 people and 15,005 households lived in the parish. At the 2020 census, there were 43,764 people, down from the prior census estimates yet up from 2010's 35,897 people. The racial and ethnic makeup of the parish was 69.4%

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, 23.3% Black and African American, 0.4%

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, 2.5%

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, 0.1%

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and other

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, 2.0% some other race, and 2.4% from two or more races in 2019; an estimated 10.1% of the population were

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of any race in 2019. In 2020, the racial and ethnic composition was 52.93% non-Hispanic white, 25.98% Black or African American, 0.49% American Indian and Alaska Native, 2.22% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 4.63% two or more races, and 13.73% Hispanic and Latino American of any race, reflecting the trend of diversification in the U.S. Of the population, 90.7% spoke

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at home, 5.5%

, 1.6% other

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, 1.6%

and Pacific Islander languages, and 0.7% other languages in 2019. Among the 15,005 households, the median age was 34.2. Approximately 73.2% of the population were aged 18 and older, 7.4% under 5 years of age, and 11.1% aged 65 and older. The parish population was spread out in 17,035 housing units and there was a home-ownership rate of 67.7% compared to 64.0% nationwide from 2015 to 2019. The median housing value was $151,300, and median gross rent was $951. There was a median household income of $44,661; males had a median income of $48,252 versus $33,302 for females. An estimated 26.2% of the parish lived at or below the poverty line.

Education

Public schools in the parish are operated by the

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. Due to Hurricane Katrina (2005), the parish's 20 plus public schools were consolidated as one school, the

St. Bernard Unified School The St. Bernard Unified School was the K-12 public school in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States, for the 2005-2006 school year after Hurricane Katrina hit the Parish directly on August 29, 2005. The school opened in mid-November 2005, l ...

, or SBUS. St. Bernard Unified School broke up into several different schools in the 2006–2007 school year. The parish is served by

Nunez Community College Nunez Community College (NCC) is a public community college in Chalmette, Louisiana. Its full name is Elaine P. Nunez Community College; it was named for the deceased wife of former Louisiana State Senate President Samuel B. Nunez. Its service ...

. Additionally

Delgado Community College Delgado Community College (DCC) is a public community college in Louisiana with campuses throughout the New Orleans metropolitan area. Its current campuses are in New Orleans (Orleans Parish) and in Jefferson Parish. The original main campus—Ci ...

states that its Sidney Collier Campus in

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is in proximity to St. Bernard Parish. St. Bernard Parish also has only one Catholic school, Our Lady of Prompt Succor of the

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. There is also one private Montessori school, Classique Academy.

Media

While St. Bernard is served mainly by New Orleans media sources, such as a local section of ''

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'', the Parish does have multiple newspapers. '' The St. Bernard Voice'', established in 1890, serves as the official journal of the parish. The ''St. Bernard News'' was established in 1967 and publishes weekly. Formerly published newspapers that served the parish include the ''St. Bernard Eagle'' and the ''St. Bernard Weekly Eagle'' which published in the 1870s through 1884 in Arabi, ''Progress'' which published from Stock Landing (Arabi) in 1888–1889, ''St. Bernard Protector'' 1925–1926, and the ''St. Bernard Guide'' which published from 1982 to 1986.

Politics

Notable people

Renato Beluche Renato Beluche (15 December 1780 – 4 October 1860) was an American-born Venezuelan merchant, pirate and privateer active in the early nineteenth century Gulf Coast. Born in New Orleans, Spanish Louisiana to a French smuggler, Beluche went ...

P. G. T. Beauregard Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (May 28, 1818 - February 20, 1893) was a Confederate general officer of Louisiana Creole descent who started the American Civil War by leading the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly ...

Walter Boasso Walter Joseph Boasso (born May 10, 1960) is an American businessman and Democratic former state senator from Chalmette, the seat of government of St. Bernard Parish in south Louisiana. He was defeated in a bid for governor in the October 20, 2 ...

A. G. Crowe Almond Gaston “A. G.” Crowe Jr. is a former Republican Louisiana State Senator born May 8, 1948 in New Orleans. Political history Crowe resides in Pearl River, Louisiana. He represented Louisiana State Senate District 1 (parts of Orleans, P ...

Chris Dier Chris Dier is an American educator and author. He taught in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana for a decade before transitioning to Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans). Dier was named the 2020 Louisiana Teacher of the Year and a 2020 Nationa ...

Albert Estopinal Albert Estopinal (January 30, 1845 – April 28, 1919) was an American Civil War veteran who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1908 to 1919. Biography Albert Estopinal was born in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, o ...

* Frank Fernández Jr. *

Ray Garofalo Raymond Edward Garofalo Jr. (born September 1958) is a commercial developer and non-practicing attorney from Meraux, St. Bernard Parish in suburban New Orleans, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives ...

* Alcide "Yellow" Núñez *

Samuel B. Nunez, Jr. Samuel Bernard Nunez Jr., (January 27, 1930 – January 15, 2012), was a Louisiana politician and businessman from Chalmette, the seat of St. Bernard Parish in the New Orleans suburbs. From 1964 to 1969, Nunez was a member of the Louisiana Hous ...

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* Irvan "Puco" Pérez *

François Marie, Chevalier de Reggio Francesco Maria de Reggio, known in French as François Marie, Chevalier de Reggio (Alba, Italy, 1698 – New Orleans, 1787) was an Italian nobleman who was a member of the House of Este. He was a distinguished commander in the War of the Austrian ...

Edward Ripoll Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sax ...

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Junior Rodriguez Henry Joseph Rodriguez, Jr. (September 27, 1935 – May 3, 2018), known as Junior Rodriguez, was an American politician from St. Bernard Parish in the Greater New Orleans section of the U.S. state of Louisiana. He was of Isleño descent and ...

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References

External links

Official website
of the St. Bernard's Parish Government
Official website
of the St. Bernard Parish Tourist Commission
St. Bernard Chamber of Commerce

Los Isleños Heritage and Cultural Society

St.Bernard Project Official Website
* St. Bernard Project Wikipedia Page
H.O.P.E. Project of Violet, Louisiana

Post-Katrina cleanup and volunteer efforts

"Hurricane Journal", Samantha Perez of St. Bernard Parish

St Bernard Health Statistics, History, and Vital Information

Chalmation.net
St. Bernard Internet Portal
St. Bernard Parish Net
Online Guide to St. Bernard Parish
Geology and Hurricane-Protection Strategies in the Greater New Orleans Area

Engineering Geology of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Water Resources of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, ...

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Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana St. Bernard Parish (french: Paroisse de Saint-Bernard; es, Parroquia de San Bernardo) is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat and largest community is Chalmette. The parish was formed in 1807. St. Bernard Parish is part of ...

Louisiana parishes on the Mississippi River 1807 establishments in the Territory of Orleans Louisiana Isleño communities Populated places established in 1807

History

1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre

Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927

Hurricane Ida, 2021

Geography

Bodies of water

Major highways

Adjacent counties and parishes

National protected areas

State park

Communities

Census-designated places

Unincorporated communities

Ghost towns

Demographics

Education

Media

Politics

Notable people

See also

References

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