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List Of Parishes In Louisiana
The U.S. state of Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes (; ), making it the only state besides Alaska to call its primary subdivisions something other than "counties." Louisiana's usage of the term "parish" for a geographic region or local government dates back to the French colonial and Spanish colonial periods and is connected to ecclesiastical parishes. Thirty-eight parishes are governed by a council called a police jury. The remaining 26 have various other forms of government, including: council-president, council-manager, parish commission, and consolidated parish/city. History Louisiana was formed from French and Spanish colonies, which were both officially Roman Catholic. Local colonial government was based upon parishes, as the local ecclesiastical division. Following the Louisiana Purchase, the territorial legislative council in April 1805 divided the Territory of Orleans (the predecessor of Louisiana state) into 12 counties. The borders of these counties wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:Category:Second-level Administrative Divisions By Country
{{Commons category Countries' second-level administrative division Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divi ...s. ''Please note:'' The category's subcategories contain articles on each subdivision of the country while each directly included article considers the subdivisions structure of the country. ''Further note:'' This category's subcategories are indexed according to country, but its directly included articles are not: they are indexed by type of subdivision (provinces, counties, etc). Articles with non-English subdivision terms in their titles either have their redirects indexed instead, or are indexed by the common English translation for said subdivision. This facilitates comparisons between similarly named subdivisions. 2nd level ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Parish, Louisiana
Warren Parish is a former parish of Louisiana, formed in 1811 from parts of Concordia Parish. The parish was located in parts of present-day Madison and East Carroll Parishes. All of present-day Madison Parish lying north of the point opposite Vicksburg, Mississippi Vicksburg is a historic city in Warren County, Mississippi, United States. It is the county seat. The population was 21,573 at the 2020 census. Located on a high bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from Louisiana, Vicksburg ..., and all of present-day East Carroll Parish was part of the new parish named Warren Parish, which was formed in 1811. The State legislature erased Warren Parish in 1814, with the northern part of present-day Madison Parish going to Ouachita Parish and the southern part going to Concordia again. References Former parishes of Louisiana 1811 establishments in the United States {{Louisiana-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Jefferson Parish () is a List of parishes in Louisiana, parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 440,781. Its parish seat is Gretna, Louisiana, Gretna, its largest community is Metairie, Louisiana, Metairie, and its largest Municipal corporation, incorporated city is Kenner, Louisiana, Kenner. Jefferson Parish is included in the New Orleans metropolitan area, Greater New Orleans area. History 1825 to 1940 Jefferson Parish was named in honor of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson of Virginia when the parish was established by the Louisiana State Legislature, Louisiana Legislature on February 11, 1825, a year before Jefferson died. A bronze statue of Jefferson stands at the entrance of the General Government Complex on Derbigny Street in Gretna, Louisiana, Gretna. The parish seat was in the city of uptown New Orleans#City of Lafayette, Lafayette, until that area was annexed by New Orleans in 1852. In that year the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Feliciana Parish, or New Feliciana, French: Paroisse de Félicianne, was a parish (administrative division), parish of the Territory of Orleans and the U.S. state, state of Louisiana, formed in 1810 from West Florida territory. Given an increase in population, it was divided in 1824 into East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, East Feliciana Parish and West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, West Feliciana Parish. ''Feliciana'' is a Spanish word meaning "happy land". Formerly part of the French ''La Louisiane'', the area was settled largely by French colonists by about 1775, when it came under Spanish control during the American Revolutionary War. It was named by Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish Governor Galvez. In 1777 he married a widow named ''Marie Félicité St. Maxent'' and honored her in the name. The town of Jackson, Louisiana, Jackson was founded in 1815 as the County seat, seat of justice for Feliciana Parish, before the parish was divided into two jurisdictions. The town also serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attakapas County, Orleans Territory
Attakapas Parish, a former parish (county) in southern Louisiana, was one of the twelve parishes in the Territory of Orleans, newly defined by the United States federal government following its Louisiana Purchase in 1803. At its core was the ''Poste des Attakapas'' trading post, which developed as the current city of St. Martinville. Foundation Attakapas Parish was formally created from the Attakapas and Opelousas districts in 1805 by Governor William C. C. Claiborne. It occupied the triangle between the Mermentau River on the west, the Atchafalaya River on the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. In 1811, the parish was divided into St. Martin and St. Mary parishes. As population increased, the region was further subdivided in 1823, 1844, and 1868 to create Lafayette, Vermillion, and Iberia parishes, respectively. Early history Prior to European colonization, the area was primarily home to the Atakapa tribe. Colonial settlement The first Europeans arrived in the 1730s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish West Florida
Spanish West Florida ( Spanish: ''Florida Occidental'') was a province of the Spanish Empire from 1783 until 1821, when both it and East Florida were ceded to the United States. The region of West Florida initially had the same borders as the erstwhile British colony. Much of its territory was gradually annexed by the United States in the West Florida Controversy. At its greatest extent, the colony included what are now the Florida Parishes of Louisiana, the southernmost parts of Mississippi and Alabama, as well as the Panhandle of Florida. Whereas Southeastern Louisiana and present-day coastal Mississippi and Alabama were annexed either prior to or during the War of 1812, the land which makes up present-day Florida was not acquired until several years later. It became the Florida Territory of the United States in 1822. History Spain was the first European state to colonize the Florida peninsula, expanding northward from Cuba and establishing long-lasting settlements at St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida Parishes
The Florida Parishes, on the east side of the Mississippi River—an area also known as the Northshore or Northlake region—are eight parishes in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The Florida Parishes were part of what was known as West Florida in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Unlike most of the state, this region was not part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, which applied to territory west of the Mississippi River. First settled by the French, it was ceded to Great Britain in 1763 after France's defeat in the Seven Years' War. The British exchanged it with Spain following the American Revolutionary War for territory outside North America. This area was acquired by the U.S. in 1812 and combined with the new state of Louisiana. History In terms of historical European influence, the area that became the Florida Parishes was first claimed by French colonists as part of ''Louisiane'' or French Louisiana. The French settled New Orleans, Mobile (now within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Territorial Counties
A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, belonging or connected to a particular country, person, or animal. In international politics, a territory is usually a geographic area which has not been granted the powers of self-government, i.e. an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state. As a subdivision, a territory in most countries is an organized division of an area that is controlled by a country but is not formally developed into, or incorporated into, a political unit of that country, which political units are of equal status to one another and are often referred to by words such as "provinces", "regions", or "states". In its narrower sense, it is "a geographic region, such as a colonial possession, that is dependent on an external government." Etymology The origins of the word "territory" begin with the Proto-Indo-European root ''ters'' ('to dry'). From this emerged the Latin word ''terra'' ('earth, land') and later the Latin word ''territorium'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Territory Of Orleans
The Territory of Orleans or Orleans Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States, organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from October 1, 1804, until April 30, 1812, when it was Admission to the Union, admitted to the Union as the State of Louisiana. History In 1804, all of the Louisiana Purchase south of the 33rd parallel north, 33rd parallel became the Orleans Territory, and the remainder became the District of Louisiana. (The District of Louisiana was later renamed the Louisiana Territory; and still later, when the Orleans Territory became the State of Louisiana, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.) The Organic Act of 1804, passed on March 26 for October 1 implementation, also created the United States District Court for the District of Orleans—the only time Congress has ever provided a territory with a United States district court equal in its authority and jurisdiction to those of the states. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase () was the acquisition of the Louisiana (New France), territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River#Watershed, Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of now in the Central United States. However, France only controlled a small fraction of this area, most of which was inhabited by Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans; effectively, for the majority of the area, the United States bought the preemptive right to obtain Indian lands by treaty or by conquest, to the exclusion of other colonial powers. The Early modern France, Kingdom of France had controlled the Louisiana territory from 1682 until Louisiana (New Spain), it was ceded to Spanish Empire, Spain in 1762. In 1800, Napoleon, Napoleon Bona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
