Florenville is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in
St. Tammany Parish
St. Tammany Parish (french: Paroisse de Saint-Tammany) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana named after Tamanend, the legendary Lenape Chief of Chiefs and the "Patron Saint of America." At the 2020 census, the population was 2 ...
,
Louisiana
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 borde ...
, United States. The community is located three miles west of
Hickory
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on
Louisiana Highway 36
Louisiana Highway 36 (LA 36) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves St. Tammany Parish. It spans and is bannered east/west.
Route description
From the west, LA 36 begins at an intersection with LA 21 in Covington and heads east. It enter ...
and north of
Slidell. It is on the
Illinois Central Gulf
The Illinois Central Railroad , sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama. A line also co ...
railroad line.
[''Louisiana Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 3rd ed., 2010, p. 48 ]
References
Unincorporated communities in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in the New Orleans metropolitan area
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