Louisiana, United States

Details for Louisiana

Name

Louisiana

Official Name

State of Louisiana

Abbreviation

Place Type

State

Located in

United States

Capital

Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge Parish)

Coordinates

Latitude		31.0004670		31° 00' 01.7" N
Longitude		-92.0003987		92° 00' 01.4" W

Population

4,515,939

Elevation

14 m

Surrounding States

Mississippi NE
Alabama NE
Texas W
Arkansas N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1629543

Histopolis Place ID

663897837

Updated Oct 17, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Louisiana

11 Resources; Select a Parish below for additional resources specific to that Parish.

Louisiana Cemeteries [Cemetery Records Guide]
List of Louisiana cemeteries for genealogy research.
http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~xander/louisiana.htm (1 Oct 2010)

Louisiana Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Louisiana
http://www.interment.net/us/la/index.htm (16 May 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Index to Cemeteries in Louisiana [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/kmindex.html (27 Mar 2009)

I Dream of Genealogy Free Databases - Louisiana Cemeteries [I Dream of Genealogy]
I Dream of Genealogy - Free Online Genealogy Databases of Louisiana Cemeteries
http://www.idreamof.com/cemetery/la.html (16 Jun 2010)

(page title not available) [Kindred Trails]
http://www.kindredtrails.com/louisiana.html (27 Aug 2011)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Statewide resources [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Statewide resources
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/LA/ALL/ (27 Dec 2009)

USGenWeb: Louisiana Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/lafiles.htm (8 Mar 2010)

Louisiana: History, Geography, Population, and State Facts — FactMonster.com [Fact Monster]
Information on Louisiana — economy, government, culture, state map and flag, major cities, points of interest, famous residents, state motto, symbols, nicknames, and other trivia.
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0108219.html (7 Oct 2010)

Louisiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana (26 Aug 2010)

Louisiana Cemeteries [DagonBytes]
Graveyards and Cemetery listings in Louisiana and throughout the country, Graveyard Galleries, Vampires, Dracula, horror, Halloween, gothic art and much more..
http://www.dagonbytes.com/graveyards/listings/statepage/louisiana/louisiana.htm (16 Apr 2005)

Louisiana Cemetery Preservation - home
http://louisianacemeteries.wikispaces.com/ (26 Aug 2010)

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Parishes of Louisiana

64 Parishes

Acadia	Allen	Ascension	Assumption
Avoyelles	Beauregard	Bienville	Bossier
Caddo	Calcasieu	Caldwell	Cameron
Catahoula	Claiborne	Concordia	De Soto
East Baton Rouge	East Carroll	East Feliciana	Evangeline
Franklin	Grant	Iberia	Iberville
Jackson	Jefferson	Jefferson Davis	La Salle
Lafayette	Lafourche	Lincoln	Livingston
Madison	Morehouse	Natchitoches	Orleans
Ouachita	Plaquemines	Pointe Coupee	Rapides
Red River	Richland	Sabine	Saint Bernard
Saint Charles	Saint Helena	Saint James	Saint John the Baptist
Saint Landry	Saint Martin	Saint Mary	Saint Tammany
Tangipahoa	Tensas	Terrebonne	Union
Vermilion	Vernon	Washington	Webster
West Baton Rouge	West Carroll	West Feliciana	Winn

Surveys in Louisiana

2 Surveys, 70 Ranges, 1,290 Townships

The Louisiana Meridian and Saint Helena Meridian surveys govern land descriptions in all or part of Louisiana. You can navigate to any of the 1,290 survey townships that overlap Louisiana using the navigation tool below.

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Cities of Louisiana

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Cemeteries of Louisiana

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