DeRidder, Louisiana
Beauregard Parish Vernon Parish
22-20610
DeRidder is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Beauregard Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. In the north, the city territory extends to a small part down to the Vernon Parish. In 2010, DeRidder had 10,578 inhabitants.
Geography
DeRidder is located in western Louisiana, about 25 km east of the border with Texas forming Sabine River. The geographical coordinates are 30 ° 50'47 DeRidder " north latitude and 93 ° 17'21 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 22 km ².
Towns nearby DeRidder are Rosepine (8.4 km north), Sugar Town (28,2 km east ) Longville (30,8 km south) and Merryville ( 30.4 km west-southwest ).
The nearest major cities are Shreveport (224 km north), Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge (240 km east-southeast ), Louisiana's largest city of New Orleans ( 362 km in the same direction), Lafayette (171 km southeast), Beaumont, Texas (133 km south-west ) and Texas ' largest city, Houston (267 km in the same direction).
Traffic
In the city of DeRidder take U.S. Highway 171 and U.S. Highway 190 and Louisiana Highway 27, 112 and 26 at its northwestern end point together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
By DeRidder runs a railroad line of the Kansas City Southern. From these branches a distance of belonging to the Watco Companies Timber rock Railroad, a Class III railroad, from the west.
With the Beauregard Regional Airport is located on the western outskirts of a small airfield. The next airports are the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport ( 348 km east-southeast ) and the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston (254 km west-southwest ).
History
The city was named after Ella De Ridder, the sister of the railroad magnate Jan De Goeijen named.
The first building of the later city was built in 1993. 1896 started with the railroad in the area and two years later drove the first trains. The evolving from a settlement for railroad construction workers city was incorporated in 1903 as an independent municipality.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in DeRidder 10,578 people in 4161 households. The population density was 480.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 4161 households lived statistically 2.46 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 59.6 percent white, 33.4 percent African American, 0.9 percent Native American, 1.5 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 1.0 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 3.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 4.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
26.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.8 percent were 65 years or older. 52.3 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 39,963. The per capita income was $ 21,501. 20.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Chris Cagle ( b. 1968 ) - Country singer - born in DeRidder
- Rusty Hamer (1947-1990) - actor - most recently lived in DeRidder and died here
- Jennifer Weiner (born 1970 ) - writer, television producer and journalist - was born in DeRidder