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The Alford American Family Association Serving the Alford community over 25 Years We Are Family Click for CONTACT Information. Get the latest news and announcements from Discovery Education. QuickFacts selected UNITED STATES. QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more. Largest city. New Orleans234Largest metro. Greater New Orleans. Area. Ranked 3. 2nd  Total. Width. 13. 0 miles 2. Length. 37. 9 miles 6. Latitude. 28 5. 6 N to 3. N  Longitude. 88 4. W to 9. 4 0. 3 WPopulation. Ranked 2. 5th  Total. Density. 93. 6sq mi  3. Ranked 2. 4th  Median household income4. Elevation  Highest point. Driskill Mountain785. Mean. 10. 0 ft  3. Lowest point. New Orleans788 ft 2. Before statehood. Territory of Orleans. Admission to Union. April 3. 0, 1. 81. Governor. John Bel Edwards DLieutenant Governor. Billy Nungesser RLegislature. State Legislature  Upper house. State Senate  Lower house. House of Representatives. U. S. Senators. Bill Cassidy RJohn Neely Kennedy RU. S. House delegation. Republicans, 1 Democrat listTime zone. Central UTC65. ISO 3. US LAAbbreviations. LA, La. Websitelouisiana. Louisianaa is a state located in the Southern United States. Louisiana is the 3. United States. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U. S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are the local governments equivalent to counties. The largest parish by population is East Baton Rouge Parish, and the largest by total area is Plaquemines. Louisiana is bordered by Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, Texas to the west, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. Much of the states lands were formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leaving enormous deltas and vast areas of coastal marsh and swamp. These contain a rich southern biota typical examples include birds such as ibis and egrets. There are also many species of tree frogs, and fish such as sturgeon and paddlefish. In more elevated areas, fire is a natural process in the landscape, and has produced extensive areas of longleaf pine forest and wet savannas. These support an exceptionally large number of plant species, including many species of orchids and carnivorous plants. Louisiana has more Native American tribes than any other southern state, including four that are federally recognized, ten that are state recognized, and four that have not yet received recognition. Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by a mixture of 1. French, Spanish, Native American, and African cultures that they are considered to be exceptional in the US. Before the Americanpurchase of the territory in 1. Louisiana State had been both a French colony and for a brief period, a Spanish one. In addition, colonists imported numerous African people as slaves in the 1. Many came from peoples of the same region of West Africa, thus concentrating their culture. In the post Civil War environment, Anglo Americans increased the pressure for Anglicization, and in 1. English was for a time made the sole language of instruction in Louisiana schools before a policy of multilingualism was revived in 1. There has never been an official language in Louisiana, and the state constitution enumerates the right of the people to preserve, foster, and promote their respective historic, linguistic, and cultural origins, whether English, French, Spanish, or otherwise. EtymologyeditLouisiana was named after Louis XIV, King of France from 1. When Ren Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by the Mississippi River for France, he named it La Louisiane. The suffix ana or ane is a Latin suffix that can refer to information relating to a particular individual, subject, or place. Thus, roughly, Louis ana carries the idea of related to Louis. Once part of the French Colonial Empire, the Louisiana Territory stretched from present day Mobile Bay to just north of the present day CanadaUnited States border, including a small part of what is now the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. GeologyeditThe Gulf of Mexico did not exist 2. Pangea. As Pangea split apart, the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico opened. Louisiana slowly developed, over millions of years, from water into land, and from north to south. The oldest rocks are exposed in the north, in areas such as the Kisatchie National Forest. The oldest rocks date back to the early Cenozoic Era, some 6. The history of the formation of these rocks can be found in D. Spearings Roadside Geology of Louisiana. The youngest parts of the state were formed during the last 1. Mississippi River the Maringouin, Teche, St. Bernard, Lafourche, the modern Mississippi, and now the Atchafalaya. The sediments were carried from north to south by the Mississippi River. In between the Tertiary rocks of the north, and the relatively new sediments along the coast, is a vast belt known as the Pleistocene Terraces. Their age and distribution can be largely related to the rise and fall of sea levels during past ice ages. In general, the northern terraces have had sufficient time for rivers to cut deep channels, while the newer terraces tend to be much flatter. Salt domes are also found in Louisiana. Their origin can be traced back to the early Gulf of Mexico, when the shallow ocean had high rates of evaporation. There are several hundred salt domes in the state one of the most familiar is Avery Island. Salt domes are important not only as a source of salt they also serve as underground traps for oil and gas. Geographyedit. Aerial view of Louisiana wetland habitats. Louisiana is bordered to the west by Texas to the north by Arkansas to the east by the state of Mississippi and to the south by the Gulf of Mexico. The surface of the state may properly be divided into two parts, the uplands of the north, and the alluvial along the coast. The alluvial region includes low swamp lands, coastal marshlands and beaches, and barrier islands that cover about 2. This area lies principally along the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River, which traverses the state from north to south for a distance of about 6. Gulf of Mexico the Red River the Ouachita River and its branches and other minor streams some of which are called bayous. The breadth of the alluvial region along the Mississippi is from 1. The Mississippi River flows along a ridge formed by its own natural deposits known as a levee, from which the lands decline toward a river beyond at an average fall of six feet per mile 3 mkm. The alluvial lands along other streams present similar features. The higher and contiguous hill lands of the north and northwestern part of the state have an area of more than 2. They consist of prairie and woodlands. Shoot A Thon Fundraiser Template Examples more. The elevations above sea level range from 1. In the uplands and hills, the elevations rise to Driskill Mountain, the highest point in the state at only 5. From years 1. 93. The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority CPRA spends around 1 billion per year to help shore up and protect Louisiana shoreline and land in both federal and state funding. Besides the waterways already named, there are the Sabine, forming the western boundary and the Pearl, the eastern boundary the Calcasieu, the Mermentau, the Vermilion, Bayou Teche, the Atchafalaya, the Boeuf, Bayou Lafourche, the Courtableau River, Bayou DArbonne, the Macon River, the Tensas, Amite River, the Tchefuncte, the Tickfaw, the Natalbany River, and a number of other smaller streams, constituting a natural system of navigable waterways, aggregating over 4,0. The state also has political jurisdiction over the approximately 3 mile 4.