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The National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office New Orleans/Baton Rouge has its origins in a U.S. Army Signal Service office opened in Downtown New Orleans on October 4, 1870. [3] A hurricane forecast center operated in the New Orleans office from 1935 until 1966, when its responsibilities were transferred to the National Hurricane Center. [3]
Almost all of LA 48 follows the historic Jefferson Highway auto trail designated in 1916 and was once the main traffic route from New Orleans to Baton Rouge and points north in the state. In 1921, this became State Route 1 in the pre-1955 Louisiana highway system and the original alignment of US 61 in 1926.
The Battle of New Orleans (1815) Plan of the city and suburbs of New Orleans: from a survey made in 1815 [61] During the final campaign of the War of 1812, the British sent a force of 11,000 in an attempt to capture New Orleans.
Map showing the first 11 Wards of New Orleans, c. 1870 or before. Most of the boundaries of Wards 1 through 11 were drawn in 1852 when the city was reorganized from three separate municipalities into one centralized government. [2]
name = New Orleans Name used in the default map caption; image = Map New Orleans.jpg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 30.1766 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 29.8603 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -90.1524 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = -89 ...
A Los Angeles County fire official said an untold number of significant injuries were linked to two of the fires, and a city official in Los Angeles described Tuesday night as "one of the most ...
Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on Hurricane Francine for Wednesday, Sept. 11. For the latest, view our story for Thursday, Sept. 12. Francine made landfall along the Louisiana coast ...
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