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LA 16
Louisiana Highway 16 (LA 16) is a state highway located in southeastern Louisiana. It runs in a general east–west direction from Louisiana Highway 22, LA 22 south of French Settlement, Louisiana, French Settlement to Louisiana Highway 21, LA 21 in Sun, Louisiana, Sun. The route makes a wide arc through the Florida Parishes region of the state, traveling east of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge and avoiding the urban centers of Hammond, Louisiana, Hammond and Covington, Louisiana, Covington. However, it passes through a number of the area's smaller towns and communities, such as Denham Springs, Louisiana, Denham Springs, Montpelier, Louisiana, Montpelier, Amite City, Louisiana, Amite City, and Franklinton, Louisiana, Franklinton. Some but not all of the signage south of Watson, Louisiana, Watson still bears north-south directionals rather than the standard east-west. Major junctions along the route include U.S. Route 190 in Louisiana, U.S. Highway 190 (US&nbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana Department Of Transportation And Development
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) is a state government organization in the United States, in charge of maintaining public transportation, roadways, bridges, canals, select levees, floodplain management, port facilities, commercial vehicles, and aviation which includes 69 airports, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The agency has approximately five thousand personnel on staff and an operating budget of $2.3 billion. DOTD operations are run through nine district offices across the state. The current DOTD Secretary is Shawn D. Wilson, appointed in January 2016 by Governor John Bel Edwards. Other functions of the DOTD are Dams (Dam Safety Program), flood control (Floodplain Management, water resource management (wells), and maintaining state-run ferries and moveable bridge status. The Louisiana Transportation Authority (LTA) is also under the DOTD, as well as the DOTD port construction and development. History The Louisiana Highway Commission was estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana Highway 21
Louisiana Highway 21 (LA 21) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves St. Tammany Parish, LA, St. Tammany and Washington Parish, LA, Washington Parishes. It spans and is signed north and south. Route description From the south, LA 21 begins at an intersection with Louisiana Highway 22, LA 22 and Louisiana Highway 1077, LA 1077 in Madisonville, LA, Madisonville, where LA 21 assumes the trajectory of LA 1077 and heads northeast. LA 1077 branches to the northwest before LA 21 intersects Interstate 12 (I-12). From south of I-12 and until joining U.S. Route 190 Business (Covington, Louisiana), U.S. Route 190 Business (US 190 Bus.) on 21st Avenue in Covington, Louisiana, Covington, LA 21 is multilaned, in places divided by a median or by a center turn lane, with some controlled access, control of access. Through most of Covington, LA 21 is in a mostly two-lane undivided highway concurrency (road), concurrent with US 190 Bus., which returns to U.S. Route 190 in Louisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 12
Interstate 12 (I-12) is an Interstate Highway located entirely within the U.S. state of Louisiana. It spans a total of in an east–west direction from I-10 in Baton Rouge to an interchange with both I-10 and I-59 in Slidell. Along the way, it passes through the city of Hammond, where it intersects I-55 and US Route 51 (US 51). It also serves the cities of Ponchatoula and Denham Springs, as well as the St. Tammany Parish cities of Covington and Mandeville. Skirting the northern shore of Lake Pontchartrain, I-12 serves as both a northern bypass of the New Orleans metropolitan area and an alternate route for I-10, which serves the city of New Orleans itself. I-12 parallels the older US 190 corridor and traverses the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain in the southeastern portion of the state. The interstate's length is short for a mainline interstate and is comparable with the country's longest auxiliary interstates. It is one of the shortest mainline i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana Highway 42
Louisiana Highway 42 (LA 42) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves East Baton Rouge, Ascension, Livingston, and Tangipahoa parishes. It spans in a general east–west direction. Route description From the west, LA 42 starts at an intersection with LA 30 in Baton Rouge near Louisiana State University. It is a four-lane divided highway for from LA 30 eastward to an intersection with Highland Road and Siegen Lane in southeastern Baton Rouge. This section is named Burbank Drive. From this intersection, LA 42 turns east and follows Highland Road to US 61 (Airline Highway). In this segment, it passes the Highland Road Park and Observatory and the Louisiana Country Club. Curving to the northeast, LA 42 widens to four lanes and passes through an interchange with I-10 (exit 166). LA 42 turns southeast and overlaps US 61 out of East Baton Rouge Parish and into Ascension Parish for . At this point, LA 42 turns eastward and meanders its way across ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amite River
The Amite River (french: Rivière Amite) is a tributary of Lake Maurepas in Mississippi and Louisiana in the United States. It is about long. It starts as two forks in southwestern Mississippi and flows south through Louisiana, passing Greater Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, to Lake Maurepas. The lower of the river is navigable. A portion of the river is diverted via the Petite Amite River and Amite Diversion Canal to the Blind River (Louisiana), Blind River, which also flows to Lake Maurepas. Name ''Amite'' could be an name derived from the Choctaw language meaning "young", although folk etymology holds it to be a corruption of the French ''amitié'' meaning "friendship". Gallery An excursion steamer on the Amite River in Louisiana (circa 1895).jpg, An excursion steamer on the Amite River, c. 1895 See also *2016 Louisiana floods *List of Louisiana rivers *List of rivers of Mississippi References External linksAmite River Basin Commission [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Head Of Island, Louisiana
Head of Island is an unincorporated community in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is located on Louisiana Highway 22, west of Maurepas and southeast of French Settlement south of the Amite River. Amite River Diversion Canal In May 2019 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , colors = , anniversaries = 16 June (Organization Day) , battles = , battles_label = Wars , website = , commander1 = ... began approving permits for clearing debris, trees and growth from the coastal waterways at Head of Island. The coastal restoration projects received partial funding from the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act. References Unincorporated communities in Livingston Parish, Louisiana Unincorporated communities in Louisiana {{Louisiana-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana State Route 35
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties (the other being Alaska and its boroughs). The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans, with a population of roughly 383,000 people. Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by a mixture of 18th century Louisiana French, Dominican Creole, Spanish, French Canadian, Acadian, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana State Route 103
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties (the other being Alaska and its boroughs). The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans, with a population of roughly 383,000 people. Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by a mixture of 18th century Louisiana French, Dominican Creole, Spanish, French Canadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana State Route 131
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties (the other being Alaska and its boroughs). The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans, with a population of roughly 383,000 people. Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by a mixture of 18th century Louisiana French, Dominican Creole, Spanish, French Canadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 55 In Louisiana
Interstate 55 (I-55) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that spans from LaPlace, Louisiana, to Chicago, Illinois. Within the state of Louisiana, the highway travels from the national southern terminus at I-10 in LaPlace to the Mississippi state line north of Kentwood. The route is located in the southeastern portion of Louisiana and parallels the older U.S. Highway 51 (US 51) corridor. While passing through the city of Hammond, I-55 intersects two of the state's major east–west routes, I-12 and US 190. It also serves the smaller city of Ponchatoula, as well as the towns of Amite City and Kentwood. I-55 is a major highway through the New Orleans metropolitan area, the city being located east of the junction between I-10 and I-55. It also serves as an important hurricane evacuation route for the region. I-55 was opened in several stages beginning in 1960 with a bypass of Ponchatoula and Hammond. The southern of I-55, consisting of a twin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watson, Louisiana
Watson is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is in the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Watson Post Office was established on February 20, 1894, by George A. Watson. The first Live Oak School was built in 1895 on land donated by Rev. Joel Ott. Several buildings were used for classes there, until the present site was purchased and a two-story school built. Published histories of Live Oak Methodist Church state that the first church was built not more than a quarter-mile from the present site prior to the Civil War. It was destroyed by Union soldiers. The church history states that W.C. Newsom, Huff Jones, George Nesom, J.B. Easterly and James Chandler erected a new building shortly after the Civil War fire. In 1893, under the pastorate of J.P. Haney of the Mississippi Conference, the frame church that was used until 1950 was constructed. As of April 2011, there are three churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Covington, Louisiana
Covington is a city in, and the parish seat of, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 11,564 at the 2020 United States census. It is located at a fork of the Bogue Falaya and the Tchefuncte River. Covington is part of the New Orleans– Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area. Covington has played a large role in movie making over the past 20 years, with over 30 films History The earliest known settlement by Europeans in the area was in 1800 by Jacques Drieux, during the British West Florida period. In 1813, John Wharton Collins established a town with the name of Wharton. He is buried on the corner of the city cemetery directly across from the Covington Police Department. On March 11, 1816, the town of Wharton was renamed to that of Covington. There are conflicting stories about how the city came to be named Covington. Many historians believe the city was renamed for General Leonard Covington, a hero of the War of 1812. Covington wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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