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Lafourche Parish; Usage on ce.wikipedia.org Лафурш (кӀошт, Луизиана) Кат-Офф (Луизиана) Usage on cy.wikipedia.org Lafourche Parish, Louisiana; Usage on de.wikipedia.org Liste der Parishes in Louisiana; Lafourche Parish; Thibodaux (Louisiana) Vorlage:Navigationsleiste Orte im Lafourche Parish; Des Allemands
Lafourche Parish (French: Paroisse de la Fourche) is a parish located in the south of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Thibodaux. [1] The parish was formed in 1807. [2] It was originally the northern part of Lafourche Interior Parish, which consisted of the present parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne. Lafourche Parish was named ...
Thibodaux (/ ˈ t ɪ b ə d oʊ / TIB-ə-doh) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, [3] along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 15,948 at the 2020 census. [4] Thibodaux is a principal city of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan ...
Bayou Cane is the commercial district of Terrebonne Parish and Lafourche Parish and is commonly referred to by locals as Houma. In 2014, Forbes magazine ranked Houma-Thibodaux as the eighth-fastest-growing small city in the United States. [2] The metropolitan area is commonly referred to by locals as the Houma–Thibodaux area.
The city was founded in November, 1893 by survivors of the Chenier Caminada Hurricane. The city was first named Orange City but was changed to Leevile in honor of Pierre Charles Lee and his wife Rosalie Albarado. In 1938, Leeville became the oil producing capital of Lafourche Parish with 297 producing wells. [2]
Lafourche Parish: 057: Thibodaux: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. Was named Interior Parish until 1812 and Lafourche Interior Parish until 1853. French phrase la fourche or in English, the fork; Bayou Lafourche, or Fork Bayou, is a fork of the Mississippi River: 95,056: 1,472 sq mi (3,812 km 2) LaSalle Parish: 059: Jena: 1910: from west ...
Crude oil invades Bayou Lafourche Saturday, July 27, from a leak at a Crescent Midland facility between 4065 and 4101 LA 308.
Port Fourchon is Louisiana’s southernmost port, located on the southern tip of Lafourche Parish, on the Gulf of Mexico. It is a seaport, with significant petroleum industry traffic from offshore Gulf oil platforms and drilling rigs as well as the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port pipeline. Fourchon's primary service markets are domestic deepwater ...