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Avoyelles Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Founded
- March 31, 1807
- Named after
- Avoyel Native Americans
- Seat
- Marksville
- Largest city
- Marksville
- Total
- 866 sq mi (2,240 km )
- Land
- 832 sq mi (2,150 km )
- Water
- 33 sq mi (85 km ) 3.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 37,941
- Density
- 47.7/sq mi (18.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 5th
- Website
- www .avoypj .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Avoyel
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Louisiana
- Contains
- Marksville
- Capital
- Marksville
- Population
- 39693
- Area
- 2242
- Shares border with
- Rapides Parish
- Official website
- www.avoypj.org
- Image
- Bunkie TX & Pac. RR.jpg
- Households
- 15217
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- Commons category
- Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
- inception
- 1807-03-31
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
- water as percent of area
- 3.8
- native label
- Avoyelles Parish
- IPA transcription
- paʁwas də avwajɛl
- per capita income
- 21049
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Encyclopedic overview
Avoyelles (French: Paroisse des Avoyelles) is a parish located in central eastern Louisiana on the Red River where it effectively becomes the Atchafalaya River and meets the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,693. The parish seat is Marksville. The parish was created in 1807, with the name deriving from the French name for the historic Avoyel people, one of the local Indian tribes at the time of European encounter.
Today the parish is the base of the federally recognized Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe, who have a reservation there. The tribe has a land-based gambling casino on their reservation. It is located in Marksville, the parish seat, which is partly within reservation land.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Avoyelles Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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