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Lincoln Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Region
- North Louisiana
- Named after
- Abraham Lincoln
- Parish seat and largest city
- Ruston
- Total
- 472 sq mi (1,220 km )
- Land
- 472 sq mi (1,220 km )
- Water
- 0.7 sq mi (1.8 km )
- Percentage
- 0.2 sq mi (0.52 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 48,360
- Rank
- LA : 25th
- Density
- 103/sq mi (39.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 5th
- Website
- Parish of Lincoln
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Abraham Lincoln
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Louisiana
- Contains
- Ruston
- Capital
- Ruston
- Population
- 48396
- Area
- 1223
- Shares border with
- Bienville Parish
- Official website
- www.lincolnparish.org
- Image
- Lincoln Parish, LA, Courthouse IMG 3776.JPG
- Households
- 17861
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- Commons category
- Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
- water as percent of area
- 0.2
- native label
- Lincoln Parish
- inception
- 1873-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
- per capita income
- 22379
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Autrey Dogtrot House, built in 1849 by Absalom and Elizabeth Norris Autrey, formerly of Selma, Alabama is located west of Dubach. The oldest restored dogtrot house in Lincoln Parish, it was listed in 1980 on the National Register of Historic Places. Historic Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Pacific Railroad depot in downtown Ruston; Robert Edwin Russ, the founder of Ruston, sold land to the railroad in 1883.
Lincoln Parish (French: Paroisse de Lincoln) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,396. The parish was created on February 24, 1873, from parts of Bienville, Claiborne, Union, and Jackson parishes, and its boundaries have changed only once (in 1877). This makes Lincoln Parish one of the Reconstruction parishes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lincoln Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.