Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States

Details for Lafayette Parish

Name

Lafayette Parish

Place Type

Parish

Located in

Louisiana, United States

Parish Seat

Lafayette

Coordinates

Latitude		30.2335344		30° 14' 00.7" N
Longitude		-92.0667886		92° 04' 00.4" W

Population

164,762

Elevation

10 m

Surrounding Parishes

Saint Landry N
Saint Martin SE
Iberia SE
Vermilion SW
Acadia W

USGS GNIS FeatureID

558059

Histopolis Place ID

204534503

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Lafayette Parish

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Lafayette Parish [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Lafayette Parish
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/LA/LafayetteP/ (8 Dec 2009)

Lafayette Parish, Louisiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_Parish,_Louisiana (16 Aug 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1137 (25 Aug 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Lafayette 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/LA.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Lafayette Parish, Louisiana LA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Lafayette 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=3439 (14 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries - Lafayette Parish Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafayette/cemtoc.htm (12 Dec 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Lafayette Parish - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=3439&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (29 Nov 2008)

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Surveys in Lafayette Parish

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 14 Townships

The Louisiana Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Lafayette Parish. You can navigate to any of the 14 survey townships that overlap Lafayette Parish using the navigation tool below.

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Cities of Lafayette Parish

5 Cities, 1 Town, 25 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Arbolada Addition	Bendel Gardens	Billeaud	Broadmoor
Broussard (city)	Capitan	Carencro (city)	Duson (town)
Elks	Flanders	Gloria	Guilbeaux (historical u.p.)
Judice	Lafayette (city)	Landry (historical u.p.)	Larabee
Long Bridge	Milton	Mouton	New Flanders
Ossun	Pilette	Pont Brulee (historical u.p.)	Pont Des Mouton
Ridge	Sadou	Scott (city)	Stekey
Vatican	Walroy	Youngsville (city)

Cemeteries of Lafayette Parish

15 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Anderson	Bethel	Bodoin	Broussard
Broussard	Green Lawn Memorial Park	Holy Sepulchre	Jewish
Lafayette Memorial Park	Picard	Saint John-Fatima	Saint Johns
Simon	St. John-Fatima (*)	St. Johns (*)	Strauss
Whitington

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