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A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ecclesiastical parish , the term civil parish is used in some jurisdictions, as noted below. The table below lists countries which use this administrative division:
Ascension Parish: 22007 Assumption Parish: 22009 Avoyelles Parish: 22011 Beauregard Parish: 22013 Bienville Parish: 22015 Bossier Parish: 22017 Caddo Parish: 22019 Calcasieu Parish: 22021 Caldwell Parish: 22023 Cameron Parish: 22025 Catahoula Parish: 22027 Claiborne Parish: 22029 Concordia Parish: 22031 De Soto Parish: 22033 East Baton Rouge ...
The term "town" is also used for a local level of government in New York and Wisconsin. The terms "town" and "township" are used interchangeably in Minnesota. Some townships or other incorporated areas like villages, boroughs, plantations, and hamlets have governments and political power; others are simply geographic designations.
Parish FIPS code [5] Parish Seat [6] Est. [6] Origin Etymology [7] Population [8] Area [6] Map Acadia Parish: 001: Crowley: 1886: from part of St. Landry Parish. From Acadian French. Named for the Acadians who settled the area. 56,489: 658 sq mi (1,704 km 2) Allen Parish: 003: Oberlin: 1912: from part of Calcasieu Parish.
A civil parish may be equally known as and confirmed as a town, village, neighbourhood or community by resolution of its parish council, a right not conferred on other units of English local government. The governing body of a civil parish is usually an elected parish council (which can decide to call itself a town, village, community or ...
More than 5,000 words of a Terrebonne Parish ordinance governing carnival conduct are violated regularly, but few people are charged. The 2006 ordinance defines what people can bring to Mardi Gras ...
Parish boundary markers for St Peter's and St Owen's in Hereford. Broadly speaking, the parish is the standard unit in episcopal polity of church administration, although parts of a parish may be subdivided as a chapelry, with a chapel of ease or filial church serving as the local place of worship in cases of difficulty to access the main ...