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Pages in category "Bodies of water of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Larose is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 6,763 in 2020. The population was 6,763 in 2020. It is part of the Houma – Bayou Cane – Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area .
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.
Cut Off is located in south-central Lafourche Parish at (29.515201, -90.333839), [4] on both sides of Bayou Lafourche It is bordered to the northwest by Larose and to the south by Galliano . Louisiana Highway 1 runs through the center of Cut Off, along the west bank of Bayou Lafourche, while Highway 308 runs along the east bank.
The parish has two plants: the Houma Water Plant, which draws its water from either the Intracoastal or Bayou Black, and the Schriever Water Plant, which draws from Bayou Lafourche.
The Bollinger Shipyards, founded by Donald G. Bollinger, was launched on Bayou Lafourche in 1946. On August 29, 2021, Hurricane Ida made landfall in Lafourche parish. Dam walls at the end of the bayou were closed to prevent a storm surge of salt water from entering. [10] On July 27, 2024, a 3-mile stretch of the bayou in Raceland faced an oil ...
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Bayou Blue is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, Louisiana, United States. Its population was 12,352 as of the 2010 census. [3] In June 1981, an arson attack on a local nightclub killed five people. [4]