Saint James Parish, Louisiana, United States

Details for Saint James Parish

Name

Saint James Parish

Also Known As

St. James
St. James Parish

Place Type

Parish

Located in

Louisiana, United States

Parish Seat

Convent

Coordinates

Latitude		30.0335348		30° 02' 00.7" N
Longitude		-90.8000936		90° 48' 00.3" W

Population

20,879

Elevation

1 m

Surrounding Parishes

Livingston N
Saint John the Baptist E
Lafourche SE
Assumption SW
Ascension NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1629464

Histopolis Place ID

505661881

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Saint James Parish

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

Saint James Parish, Louisiana LA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Saint James 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=3572 (14 Nov 2008)

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

The Political Graveyard: St. James Parish, La. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 180,022 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/SJ.html#CEM (24 Jun 2008)

St. James Parish - USGenWeb [USGenWeb Archives]
Archives of Genealogy Records for St. James Parish
http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/stjames.htm (8 Feb 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=1155 (11 Sep 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Saint James Parish - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=3572&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (22 Feb 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Saint James Parish [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Saint James Parish
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/LA/Saint_JamesP/ (29 Jan 2010)

St. James Parish, Louisiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Parish,_Louisiana (4 Aug 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Saint James Parish > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Louisiana > Saint James Parish > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/LA/Saint_JamesP/cem/ (29 Aug 2009)

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Surveys in Saint James Parish

2 Surveys, 7 Ranges, 13 Townships

The Louisiana Meridian and Saint Helena Meridian surveys govern land descriptions in all or part of Saint James Parish. You can navigate to any of the 13 survey townships that overlap Saint James Parish using the navigation tool below.

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Cities of Saint James Parish

2 Towns, 53 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Armant	Batree	Belmont	Bend
Bessie K	Bon Secours Plantation	Burton (historical u.p.)	Burton Lane
Caire	Central	Chatman Town	Chopin (historical u.p.)
Colomb Park (historical u.p.)	Convent	Cress (historical u.p.)	Feitel
Forstall (historical u.p.)	Free Town	Gramercy (town)	Grand Point
Grand View (historical u.p.)	Helvetia	Hymel	Lagan
Lauderdale	Laurel Ridge Plantation	Lower Vacherie	Lutcher (town)
Malarcher (historical u.p.)	Miles	Minnie (historical u.p.)	Nicholle (historical u.p.)
North Vacherie	Oak Alley	Oneida	Oubre
Paulina	Pikes Peak	Rapidan	Remy
Romeville	Saint Elmo	Saint James	Saint James Plantation
Salsburg	South Vacherie	Southdown Plantation	Sport
Timberton (historical u.p.)	Uncle Sam (historical u.p.)	Union	Vacherie
Webre Steib Plantation	Welcome	White Hall

Cemeteries of Saint James Parish

10 Cemeteries, 5 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Antioch	Celestin	Highway	Mount Calvary
Mt. Calvary (*)	Philippian	Saint James	Saint Joseph
Saint Michael	Saint Phillips	St. James (*)	St. Joseph (*)
St. Michael (*)	St. Phillips (*)	Western

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