Winn Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Region
- North Louisiana
- Founded
- February 24, 1852 ; 174 years ago ( 1852-02-24 )
- Named after
- Walter Winn or Winfield Scott
- Parish seat and largest city
- Winnfield
- Incorporated municipalities
- 6 (total) 1 city, 1 town, and 4 villages (located entirely or partially, within parish boundaries)
- Total
- 957 sq mi (2,480 km )
- Land
- 950 sq mi (2,500 km )
- Water
- 6.7 sq mi (17 km )
- Percentage
- 0.7 sq mi (1.8 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 14,961
- Density
- 14/sq mi (5.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 5th
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Winfield Scott
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Louisiana
- Capital
- Winnfield
- Population
- 13755
- Area
- 957
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Bienville Parish
- Official website
- sites.rootsweb.com/~lawinn
- Image
- Winn Parish, LA, Courthouse MVI 2727.jpg
- Households
- 5361
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- topic's main category
- Category:Winn Parish, Louisiana
- Commons category
- Winn Parish, Louisiana
- inception
- 1852-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Winn Parish, Louisiana
- described at URL
- www.louisiana.gov/local-louisiana/winn-parish
- water as percent of area
- 0.7
- native label
- Winn Parish
- per capita income
- 22259
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Encyclopedic overview
Winn Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,755. The parish seat and largest city is Winnfield. The parish was founded in 1852. It is last in alphabetical order of Louisiana's sixty-four parishes. Winn is separated from Natchitoches Parish along U.S. Highway 71 by Saline Bayou, the first blackwater protected waterway in the American South.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Winn Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.