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Grand Bayou is an unincorporated community in west central Red River Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is located near the intersection of Louisiana Highway 1 and U.S. Highway 84 . The community can also be reached by using exit 172 of Interstate 49 in De Soto Parish and traveling north into Red River Parish.
Grand Bayou is an unincorporated Native American community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The coastal village is home to the Atakapa Ishak Chawasha tribe and is only accessible by water. It is primarily self-sustaining and relies heavily on fishing. [3] The village's population was around 1,000 in the 1940s. [1]
Rainy Lake (originally lac à la pluie, "rainy lake") Red Lake (originally lac rouge, "red lake", a translation from the Ojibwe Miskwaagamiiwi-zaaga'igan "Red-colored Waters Lake") Renville County, Minnesota (named after Joseph Renville, Métis founder of the Columbia Fur Company) Revere (named after Paul Revere, who was of French descent) [179]
Grand Bayou is the name of multiple places in the U.S. state of Louisiana: Grand Bayou, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana , an unincorporated Native American community in southeast Louisiana Grand Bayou, Red River Parish, Louisiana , an unincorporated community in north Louisiana
Lac des Allemands is a shallow lake, with a maximum depth of 10 feet (3.0 m) and an average depth of about 5 feet (1.5 m). [3] It is mostly located at sea level and measures about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) long and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) wide. The lake is fed by bayous in the Barataria Basin including Grand Bayou and Bayou Chevreuil.
Kansas Highway 251, which runs north-south, connects the reservoir to U.S. Route 54 4 miles (6.4 km) to the south and the community of Cheney 5.5 miles (8.9 km) to the south. Below the dam, the highway becomes a paved county road and turns northeast, running parallel to the dam then finally turning east. 21st Street North, another paved county ...
Eventually the name was applied to the entire parish and to a nearby bayou. The oldest European settlement in the parish was La Balize, where the French built and inhabited a crude fort by 1699 near the mouth of the Mississippi River. The name in French meant "seamark", a tall structure of wood built as a guide for ships.
Grand Bayou Reservoir is a lake in Fairview Alpha, Louisiana. [1] References This page was last edited on 24 September 2020, at 17:55 (UTC ...