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Morehouse Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Named after
- Abraham Morehouse
- Seat
- Bastrop
- Largest city
- Bastrop
- Total
- 805 sq mi (2,080 km )
- Land
- 794 sq mi (2,060 km )
- Water
- 11 sq mi (28 km ) 1.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 23,705
- Density
- 32.3/sq mi (12.5/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 5th
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Louisiana
- Contains
- Bastrop
- Capital
- Bastrop
- Population
- 25629
- Area
- 2085
- Shares border with
- Union Parish
- Image
- Morehouse Parish Courthouse, Bastrop, LA IMG 2803.JPG
- Households
- 9738
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- water as percent of area
- 1.4
- native label
- Morehouse Parish
- Commons category
- Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
- inception
- 1844-00-00
- per capita income
- 19566
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
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Encyclopedic overview
The Morehouse Parish Assessor's Office is located behind the parish courthouse in Bastrop.
Morehouse Parish (French: Paroisse de Morehouse) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,629. The parish seat is Bastrop. The parish was formed in 1844.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Morehouse Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.