Schriever is a
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, suc ...
(CDP) in
Terrebonne Parish
Terrebonne Parish ( ; French: ''Paroisse de Terrebonne'') is a parish located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2010 census, the population was 111,860, and 110,461 in 2019. In 2020, its population declined to 109,5 ...
,
Louisiana
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, United States. The population was 6,7111 in 2020. It is part of the
Houma–
Bayou Cane–
Thibodaux
Thibodaux ( ) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 15,948 at the 2020 census. Thibodaux is a principal cit ...
metropolitan statistical area
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.
The place name was for railroad official John George Schriever (1844–1898), in connection with the 1870s opening of the rail line to Houma.
Geography
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the CDP has a total area of 14.4 square miles (37.4 km), of which 14.4 square miles (37.2 km) is land and 0.1 square mile (0.2 km) (0.42%) is water.
Amtrak's Sunset Limited
The ''Sunset Limited'' is an Amtrak passenger train that for most of its history has operated between New Orleans and Los Angeles, over the nation's second transcontinental route. However, up until Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it operated betw ...
train has a
stop in Schriever.
Demographics
As of the
2020 United States census
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, there were 6,711 people, 2,584 households, and 1,550 families residing in the CDP.
Notable people
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Sherman A. Bernard
Sherman Albert Bernard Sr. (June 10, 1925 – May 11, 2012) was an American businessman from Jefferson Parish in the New Orleans suburbs, who served from 1972 to 1988 as the Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance. He is mainly remembered for having ...
(1925–2012),
Louisiana insurance commissioner, 1972–88, was born in Schriever.
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Henry S. Thibodaux
Henry Schuyler Thibodaux (September 24, 1769 – October 24, 1827) was a planter and politician, who served one month in 1824 as the fourth Governor of Louisiana. At the time that Governor Thomas B. Robertson resigned in 1824 to accept appointm ...
(in office 1824), former
governor of Louisiana
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, owned a plantation nearby and is buried at Halfway Cemetery in nearby
Gray
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.
See also
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Schriever station (Amtrak)
References
External links
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Census-designated places in Louisiana
Census-designated places in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
Census-designated places in Houma – Thibodaux metropolitan area