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Calcasieu Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Region
- Acadiana
- Founded
- March 24, 1840
- Named after
- Atakapa leader Katkōsh Yōk ('Crying Eagle')
- Parish seat and largest city
- Lake Charles
- Total
- 1,094 sq mi (2,830 km )
- Land
- 1,064 sq mi (2,760 km )
- Water
- 31 sq mi (80 km ) 2.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 208,466
- Rank
- LA : 7th
- Density
- 203.7/sq mi (78.67/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- Calcasieu Parish Police Jury
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Calcasieu River
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Louisiana
- Contains
- Lake Charles
- Capital
- Lake Charles
- Population
- 216785
- Area
- 2834
- Shares border with
- Newton County
- Official website
- www.cppj.net
- Image
- Calcasieu District 14 Courthouse.JPG
- Households
- 78427
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- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
- Commons category
- Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
- inception
- 1840-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
- water as percent of area
- 2.8
- native label
- Calcasieu Parish
- IPA transcription
- ˈkælkəˌʃuː ˈpɛɹɪʃ
- per capita income
- 29866
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Encyclopedic overview
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. The parish seat and largest city is Lake Charles.
Calcasieu Parish is part of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area; it is also located near the Beaumont–Port Arthur (Texas), Lafayette, and Alexandria metropolitan areas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calcasieu Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.