Morgan City
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city in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Parish
- St. Mary , St. Martin
- Mayor
- Lee Dragna
- Total
- 6.25 sq mi (16.19 km )
- Land
- 5.98 sq mi (15.50 km )
- Water
- 0.27 sq mi (0.69 km )
- Elevation
- 7 ft (2.1 m)
- Density
- 1,917.1/sq mi (740.19/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 22-52040
- Website
- www .cityofmc .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Morgan City
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- St. Mary Parish
- Population
- 11472
- Area
- 16.144092
- Elevation
- 21
- Official website
- www.cityofmc.com
- Image
- Morgan City, Louisiana Street View February 2019 01.jpg
- Households
- 5065
- Dialing code
- 985
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- topic's main category
- Category:Morgan City, Louisiana
- postal code
- 70381
- Commons category
- Morgan City, Louisiana
- inception
- 1860-01-01
- P8168
- Gossens
- water as percent of area
- 4.0277
- per capita income
- 24268
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Encyclopedic overview
Morgan City is a small city in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States, located in the Acadiana region. The population was 10,813 in the 2024 census. Known for being "right in the middle of everywhere" , Morgan City is located 68 miles (109 km) southeast of Lafayette, 64 miles (103 km) south of Baton Rouge, and 86 miles (138 km) west of New Orleans.
Morgan City sits on the banks of the Atchafalaya River near its intersection with the Intracoastal Waterway. The town was originally named "Tiger Island" by surveyors appointed by U.S. Secretary of War John Calhoun, because of a particular type of wild cat seen in the area. It was later changed for a time to "Brashear City", named after Walter Brashear, a prominent Kentucky physician who had purchased large tracts of land and acquired numerous sugar mills in the area. It was incorporated in 1860.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Morgan City” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.