Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States

Details for Jefferson Parish

Name

Jefferson Parish

Place Type

Parish

Located in

Louisiana, United States

Parish Seat

Gretna

Coordinates

Latitude		29.7335438		29° 44' 00.8" N
Longitude		-90.1000734		90° 06' 00.3" W

Population

448,306

Elevation

0 m

Surrounding Parishes

Saint Tammany N
Orleans NE
Saint Bernard E
Plaquemines SE
Lafourche SW
Saint Charles NW
Saint John the Baptist NW
Tangipahoa N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

558027

Histopolis Place ID

805914994

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Jefferson Parish

9 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

The Political Graveyard: Jefferson Parish, La. [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/JF.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1135 (9 Sep 2009)

Jefferson Parish, Louisiana LA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana LA, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=3418 (14 Nov 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Jefferson Parish [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Jefferson Parish
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/LA/JeffersonP/ (4 Jan 2010)

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

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

Cemeteries in or near Jefferson Parish - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=3418&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (12 Dec 2008)

Cemeteries USGenWeb Archives: Jefferson Parish, LA [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/jefferson/jeffcem.htm (12 Dec 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Jefferson Parish > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Jefferson Parish > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/LA/JeffersonP/cem/ (12 Dec 2008)

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Surveys in Jefferson Parish

1 Survey, 3 Ranges, 9 Townships

The Louisiana Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Jefferson Parish. You can navigate to any of the 9 survey townships that overlap Jefferson Parish using the navigation tool below.

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Cities of Jefferson Parish

4 Cities, 2 Towns, 45 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Avondale	Barataria	Bassa Bassa	Bellemeade
Beverly Knoll	Bissonet Plaza	Bonnabel Place	Bridge City
Bucktown	Cheniere Caminada	Crown Point	Elmwood
Estelle	Farmington Place	Grand Isle (town)	Gretna (city)
Harahan (city)	Harahan Junction	Harvey	Indian Beach
Jean Lafitte (town)	Jefferson	Jefferson Heights	Kennedy Heights
Kenner (city)	Lafitte	Little Farms (historical u.p.)	Live Oak Manor
Marrero	McDonoghville	Metairie	Metairie Terrace
Oak Ridge Park	Orlandos Mobile Home Park	Pontchartrain Gardens	Pontchartrain Shores
Pricetown (historical u.p.)	Rex Trailer Court	River Ridge	Shrewsbury
South Kenner	Southport	Terrytown	Timberlane
Waggaman	Walkertown	Westgate	Westwego (city)
Willowdale	Willswood	Woodmere

Cemeteries of Jefferson Parish

19 Cemeteries, 1 Alternate Name (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Adams	Bailey	Cheniere	Coulon
Coulon	Evening Star	Fisher	Fleming
Garden of Memories	Grand Isle	Lafitte	Little Village
McDonoghville	Our Lady of Prompt Succor	Providence Memorial Park	Saint Anthony
St. Anthony (*)	Waggaman	Westlawn Memorial	Westlawn South

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