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Caddo Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Region
- North
- Founded
- January 18, 1838
- Named after
- Caddo Native Americans
- Parish seat and largest city
- Shreveport
- Incorporated municipalities
- 11 (total) 1 city, 5 towns, 5 villages (located entirely or partially, within parish boundaries)
- Total
- 937 sq mi (2,430 km )
- Land
- 879 sq mi (2,280 km )
- Water
- 58 sq mi (150 km )
- Percentage
- 6.2 sq mi (16 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 224,226
- Density
- 271/sq mi (104/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th , 6th
- Website
- official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Caddo
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Louisiana
- Contains
- Shreveport
- Capital
- Shreveport
- Population
- 237848
- Area
- 2427
- Shares border with
- Cass County
- Official website
- www.caddo.org
- Image
- Shreveport September 2015 113 (Caddo Parish Courthouse).jpg
- Households
- 96043
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- Commons category
- Caddo Parish, Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Caddo Parish, Louisiana
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Caddo Parish, Louisiana
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Caddo Parish, Louisiana
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Caddo Parish, Louisiana
- inception
- 1838-00-00
- different from
- Caddo County
- water as percent of area
- 6.2
- native label
- Caddo Parish
- topic has template
- Template:Caddo Parish, Louisiana
- per capita income
- 27967
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Encyclopedic overview
The Shreve Memorial Library in Shreveport located downtown in the former US post office and courthouse
Caddo Parish (/ˈkædoʊ/; French: Paroisse de Caddo) is a parish located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the parish had a population of 237,848. The parish seat and largest city is Shreveport, which developed along the Red River.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caddo Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.