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Madison Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Founded
- January 19, 1838
- Named after
- James Madison
- Parish seat and largest city
- Tallulah
- Parish president
- Jane Sanders
- Total
- 651 sq mi (1,690 km )
- Land
- 624 sq mi (1,620 km )
- Water
- 26 sq mi (67 km ) 4.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 8,844
- Density
- 15/sq mi (5.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 5th
- Website
- madisonparish .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- James Madison
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Louisiana
- Contains
- Tallulah
- Capital
- Tallulah
- Population
- 10017
- Area
- 1685
- Shares border with
- Richland Parish
- Official website
- madisonparish.org
- Image
- Madison Parish Courthouse, Tallulah, LA IMG 0201.JPG
- Households
- 3729
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- Commons category
- Madison Parish, Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Madison Parish, Louisiana
- inception
- 1838-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Madison Parish, Louisiana
- water as percent of area
- 4.1
- native label
- Madison Parish
- different from
- Madison County
- per capita income
- 17831
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Encyclopedic overview
Confederate monument in Tallulah at the Madison Parish Courthouse. Aerial view of Madison Parish, Louisiana. Madison Parish (French: Paroisse de Madison) is a parish located on the northeastern border of the U.S. state of Louisiana, in the delta lowlands along the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,017. Its parish seat is Tallulah. It was created by the Louisiana legislature on January 19, 1838, from part of Concordia Parish and was organized by 1839. With a history of cotton plantations and pecan farms, the parish economy continues to be primarily agricultural. It has a majority African-American population. For years a ferry connected Delta, Louisiana (and traffic from the parish) to Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Vicksburg Bridge now carries U.S. Route 80 and Interstate 20 across the river into Madison Parish.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Madison Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.