Iberville Parish (french: Paroisse d'Iberville) is a

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

located south of

Baton Rouge Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of 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-sma ...

in the U.S. state of

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, formed in 1807. The parish seat is

Plaquemine Plaquemine is a city in and the parish seat of Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. At the 2010 United States census, the population was 7,119; the 2020 census determined its ...

. At the 2010 U.S. census, the population was 33,387, and 30,241 at the 2020 census.

History

The parish is named for

Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (16 July 1661 – 9 July 1706) or Sieur d'Iberville was a French soldier, explorer, colonial administrator, and trader. He is noted for founding the colony of Louisiana in New France. He was born in Montreal to French ...

, who founded the French colony of Louisiana. A few archeological efforts have been made in the Parish, mainly to excavate the Native American burial mounds that have been identified there. The first expedition, led by Clarence B. Moore, was an attempt at collecting data from a couple of the sites, and it set the groundwork for later projects. Moore was mainly interested in the skeletal remains of the previous inhabitants, rather than excavating for archeological items. Archeologists are especially interested in these sites because of their uniformity and size. Some of the mounds are seven hundred feet long, a hundred feet wide and six feet tall. Most of them contain human remains. Iberville Parish is represented in the

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by a Republican,

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Rick Ward III, a former member of the

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, who has served in the Senate since 2012. The parish is currently represented in the state House by Democrat

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of Oscar in Pointe Coupee Parish.

Geography

According to the

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, the parish has a total area of , of which is land and (5.2%) is water. Iberville Parish is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.

Major highways

* Interstate Highway 10 * Louisiana Highway 1 * Louisiana Highway 30 *

Louisiana Highway 69 Louisiana Highway 69 (LA 69) is a state highway located in southeastern Louisiana. It runs in a general north–south direction from LA 70 in Grand Bayou to LA 1 northwest of White Castle. The route traverses the small town of ...

Louisiana Highway 75 Louisiana Highway 75 (LA 75) is a state highway located in southeastern Louisiana. It runs in a general east–west direction from a dead end in Bayou Pigeon to the junction of LA 22 and LA 942 in Darrow. The route makes a sem ...

Louisiana Highway 76 Louisiana Highway 76 (LA 76) is a state highway located in southeastern Louisiana. It runs in a general east–west direction from LA 77 in Maringouin to the junction of LA 1 and LA 987-4 in Port Allen. The route initiall ...

Louisiana Highway 77 Louisiana Highway 77 (LA 77) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Iberville and Pointe Coupee parishes. It spans . Route description LA 77 begins at LA 1 near The Island Country Club in Plaquemine and runs parallel with Bayou Jacob as it ...

Adjacent parishes

* Pointe Coupee Parish (northwest) * West Baton Rouge Parish (north) * East Baton Rouge Parish (northeast) * Ascension Parish (east) * Assumption Parish (southeast) *

Iberia Parish Iberia Parish (french: Paroisse de l'Ibérie, es, Parroquia de Iberia) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 69,929; the parish seat is New Iberia. The parish was formed in 1868 during ...

(south) *

St. Martin Parish St. Martin Parish (french: Paroisse de Saint-Martin) is a parish (administrative division), parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana, founded in 1811. Its parish seat is St. Martinville, Louisiana, St. Martinville, and the largest city is B ...

(west)

National protected area

Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge The Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge is located about west of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and one mile (1.6 km) east of Krotz Springs, Louisiana, lies just east of the Atchafalaya River. In 1988 under the administration of Governor Foster th ...

(part)

Communities

Cities

(parish seat) * St. Gabriel (largest municipality)

Towns

Maringouin Maringouin is a town in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,098 at the 2010 census, down from 1,262 at the 2000 census. At the 2020 population estimates program, its population was 966. It is part of the Baton Rouge ...

* White Castle

Villages

* Grosse Tete * Rosedale

Unincorporated areas

Census-designated places

Bayou Goula Bayou Goula is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States. Its population was 612 as of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. ...

* Crescent * Dorseyville or Dorcyville (home of St John Baptist Church - National Register of Historic Places)

Other unincorporated communities

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* Bayou Pigeon * Bayou Sorrel * Iberville (home of Schexnayder House - National Register of Historic Places) * Indian Village (on January 28, 1863, during Civil War, was the site of a Union-Confederate military skirmish) * Seymourville

Demographics

As of the

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, there were 30,241 people, 10,903 households, and 7,372 families residing in the parish. The 2019 census-estimates determined 32,822 people lived in the parish, down from 33,387 at the

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, and up from 33,320 at the

2000 U.S. census The United States census of 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 cen ...

. The racial and ethnic makeup of the parish was 48.2% Black and African American, 49.6%

non-Hispanic white Non-Hispanic whites or Non-Latino whites are Americans who are classified as "white", and are not of Hispanic (also known as "Latino") heritage. The United States Census Bureau defines ''white'' to include European Americans, Middle Eastern Amer ...

, 0.1%

American Indian and Alaska Native Native Americans, also known as American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Americans, and #Terminology differences, other terms, are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the mainland United States (Indigenous peopl ...

, 0.5% some other race, and 1.5%

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. Approximately 2.6% of the population were Hispanic and Latin American of any race. In 2010, its racial and ethnic makeup was 49.3% Black and African American, 48.8% non-Hispanic white, 0.3%

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, 0.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.6% some other race, and 0.8% from two or more races; 2.0% were Hispanic and Latin American of any race. At the 2000 census. 49.26% were non-Hispanic white, 49.7% African American, 0.18% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.26% Asian, 0.01% Native Hawaiian and other

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, 0.14% from other races, and 0.45% from two or more races; 1.03% were Hispanic and Latin American of any race. There were 10,903 households at the 2019 census-estimates, and 13,396 housing units. Of the 2,697 businesses operating in the parish, 1,339 were minority-owned. The parish had an employment rate of 47.9%. There was a home-ownership rate of 73.4%, and the median housing value was $143,700; the median gross rent was $755. The median income for a household was $50,161; males had a median income of $54,655 versus $30,773 for females; 27.6% of the population lived at or below the poverty line.

Government and infrastructure

The

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operates two prisons,

Elayn Hunt Correctional Center Elayn Hunt Correctional Center (EHCC) located in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, is a multi-security- level Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections institution for adult men. It is the second-largest prison in Louisiana and is located about ...

and

Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW) is a prison for women with its permanent pre-2016 facility located in St. Gabriel, Louisiana. It is the only female correctional facility of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Correct ...

(LCIW), in St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish. LCIW houses the female death row."Classification–Where Inmates Serve Their Time."
Inside the System: How Inmates Live and Work
'. Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. 14/40. Retrieved 30 June 2010

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Iberville Parish School Board operates the public schools within all of Iberville Parish.

Public libraries

Iberville Parish Library operates libraries in the parish. The Parish Headquarters Library is located in

. Branches include Bayou Pigeon (''

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''), Bayou Sorrel (''Unincorporated area''), East Iberville ( St. Gabriel), Grosse Tete ( Grosse Tete), Maringouin (

), Rosedale ( Rosedale), White Castle ( White Castle).

Colleges and universities

It is in the service area of South Louisiana Community College.

National Guard

The Gillis W. Long Center, located on the outskirts of

Carville, LA Carville is a neighborhood of St. Gabriel, Louisiana, St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, Iberville Parish in South Louisiana, located sixteen miles south of the capital city of Baton Rouge on the Mississippi River. Carville was the childh ...

, is operated by the

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. This post is home to the 415TH MI (Military Intelligence) Battalion, the 241ST MPAD, and the 61st Troop Command. The 415TH MI is a subunit of the 139TH RSG (regional support group).

References

External links

Ibervillle Parish government's website

Iberville Parish Tourist Commission website

Explore the History and Culture of Southeastern Louisiana, a National Park Service ''Discover Our Shared Heritage'' Travel Itinerary

Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office
Geology * Heinrich, P. V., and W. J. Autin, 2000
''Baton Rouge 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle.''
Louisiana Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana {{Coord, 30.26, -91.35, display=title, type:adm2nd_region:US-LA_source:UScensus1990 Louisiana parishes Parishes in Acadiana Acadiana Baton Rouge metropolitan area Louisiana parishes on the Mississippi River 1807 establishments in the Territory of Orleans Populated places established in 1807 Majority-minority parishes in Louisiana