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Concordia Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Region
- Central
- Named after
- Possibly a land grant , New Concordia
- Parish seat and largest city
- Vidalia
- Total
- 747 sq mi (1,930 km )
- Land
- 697 sq mi (1,810 km )
- Water
- 50 sq mi (130 km )
- Percentage
- 6.7 sq mi (17 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 17,836
- Density
- 26.8/sq mi (10.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 5th
- Website
- www .conppj .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Louisiana
- Contains
- Vidalia
- Capital
- Vidalia
- Population
- 18687
- Area
- 1939
- Shares border with
- Catahoula Parish
- Official website
- www.conppj.org
- Image
- Concordia Parish, LA, Courthouse in Vidalia IMG 6910.JPG
- Households
- 6694
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- Commons category
- Concordia Parish, Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Concordia Parish, Louisiana
- inception
- 1807-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 6.7
- native label
- Concordia Parish
- per capita income
- 19963
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Concordia Parish, Louisiana
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Encyclopedic overview
Concordia Parish (Spanish: Parroquia de la Concordia; French: Paroisse de Concordia) is a parish that borders the Mississippi River in eastern central Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,687. The parish seat is Vidalia. The parish was formed in 1807.
Concordia Parish is part of the Natchez, MS–LA Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is historically considered part of the Natchez District, devoted to cotton cultivation as a commodity crop, in contrast to the sugar cane crop of southern Louisiana. Other Louisiana parishes of similar character are East and West Carroll, Madison and Tensas, all in this lowlying delta land. On the east side of the Mississippi River is the Natchez District around the city of Natchez, Mississippi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Concordia Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.