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Lake Charles, Louisiana. / 30.21472°N 93.20861°W / 30.21472; -93.20861. Lake Charles is the fifth-most populous city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu Parish, it is a major industrial, cultural, and ...
Six years after the city was incorporated, dissatisfaction over the name Charleston arose and, on March 16, 1867, Charleston, Louisiana, was renamed and incorporated as the town of Lake Charles. By the time of the U.S. Civil War, many Americans from the North, along with a large influx of continental Europeans and Jews, had settled the area.
The Calcasieu River Bridge, officially named the Louisiana Memorial World War II Bridge in June 1951 [ 1] is an arched cantilever, rivet-connected Warren through truss (main span) [ 2] located on Interstate 10 between Lake Charles, Louisiana and Westlake, Louisiana. It was the only major bridge in Lake Charles, until the construction of the ...
The Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area is a metropolitan area in the Acadiana region of southwest Louisiana that covers three parishes—Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis. According to a 2023 census estimate, the MSA had a population of 240,082. [1]
Interstate 210 ( I-210) in Louisiana, also known as the Lake Charles Bypass and officially known as the 1st Lt. Douglas B. Fournet Memorial Parkway, is a 12.40-mile-long (19.96 km) bypass route in Lake Charles, in the southwestern part of the state. [ 1][ 2] As a bypass of I-10, both ends of I-210 meet with I-10.
The Port of Lake Charles is an industrial port based in the city of Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.A.It is a major employer in Lake Charles. It is the twelfth-busiest port in the United States according to the American Association of Port Authorities U.S. Port Ranking by Cargo Tonnage, 2013 report and the 83rd-busiest in the world in terms of tonnage according to the American Association of Port ...
Congressional district. 3rd. Website. Calcasieu Parish Police Jury. Calcasieu Parish ( / ˈkælkəˌʃuː /; French: Paroisse de Calcasieu) is a parish located on the southwestern border of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 216,785. [ 1] The parish seat is Lake Charles. [ 2] Calcasieu Parish is part of the ...
Lake Charles. The Calcasieu River ( / ˈkælkəˌʃuː / KAL-kə-shoo; French: Rivière Calcasieu) is a river on the Gulf Coast in southwestern Louisiana. [1] Approximately 200 miles (320 km) long, [2] it drains a largely rural area of forests and bayou country, meandering southward to the Gulf of Mexico. The name "Calcasieu" comes (via French ...