Schriever is a

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(CDP) in

Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana Terrebonne Parish ( ; French: ''Paroisse de Terrebonne'') is a parish located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 109,580. The parish seat is Houma. The parish was founded in 1822. Ter ...

, United States. The population was 6,711 in 2020. It is part of the Houma– Bayou Cane– Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area. The community was named for railroad official John George Schriever (1844–1898) during the 1870s opening of the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad line to Houma.

Geography

According to the

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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

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train stops at the Schriever station, serving the nearby cities Houma and Thibodaux.

Demographics

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 6,711 people, 2,584 households, and 1,550 families residing in the CDP.

Notable people

* Sherman A. Bernard (1925–2012), Louisiana insurance commissioner, 1972–88, was born in Schriever. * Henry S. Thibodaux (in office 1824), former

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, owned a plantation nearby and is buried at Halfway Cemetery in nearby

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References

{{Authority control Census-designated places in Louisiana Census-designated places in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana Census-designated places in Houma – Thibodaux metropolitan area