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LaSalle Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Region
- Central Louisiana
- Founded
- January 1, 1910
- Named after
- René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
- Parish seat and largest town
- Jena
- Total
- 662 sq mi (1,710 km )
- Land
- 625 sq mi (1,620 km )
- Water
- 38 sq mi (98 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 15,154
- Density
- 23.7/sq mi (9.14/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 5th
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Louisiana
- Capital
- Jena
- Population
- 14791
- Area
- 1716
- Shares border with
- Catahoula Parish
- Image
- La Salle Parish, Louisiana Courthouse in Jena IMG 8360.JPG
- Households
- 4868
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- Commons category
- LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
- inception
- 1908-00-00
- different from
- La Salle County
- water as percent of area
- 5.7
- native label
- LaSalle Parish
- official map URL
- wwwsp.dotd.la.gov/Inside_LaDOTD/Divisions/Multimodal/Data_Collection/Mapping/Parish%20Maps/LaSalle.pdf
- per capita income
- 25656
- category of associated people
- Category:People from LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
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Encyclopedic overview
Veterans monument at the LaSalle Parish Courthouse
LaSalle Parish (French: Paroisse de La Salle) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 14,791. The parish seat is Jena. The parish was created in 1910 from the western section of Catahoula Parish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LaSalle Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.