Goodbee is an
unincorporated community in
Saint Tammany Parish,
Louisiana, United States, at the intersection of
U.S. Route 190 and
Louisiana Highway 1077
Louisiana Highway 1077 (LA 1077) is a state highway located in southeastern Louisiana. It runs in a general north–south direction from a dead end at Lake Pontchartrain in Madisonville to a junction with LA 25 south of Folsom.
The r ...
, west of
Covington Covington may refer to:
People
* Covington (surname)
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* Covington, Cambridgeshire
* Covington, South Lanarkshire
United States
* Covington, Georgia
* Covington, Indiana
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. Goodbee has a signed exit on
Interstate 12 to its south, at its interchange with LA 1077.
Northwest of Goodbee is the start of P-Kaw-Shun Creek, the major contributory to
Sims Creek
Sims Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 20, 2011 tributary of the Tangipahoa River in the 8th Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It flows generally southea ...
. The stream flows in a generally southwestward direction to join the
Tangipahoa River south of
Robert in
Tangipahoa Parish.
Seven miles west of Goodbee, near Robert, is a major distribution center for
Walmart Stores
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...
.
Closer to Goodbee, at the boundary between Saint Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes, is the Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center, a correctional institution for youths.
Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center.
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Unincorporated communities in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in New Orleans metropolitan area