Krotz Springs, Louisiana
St. Landry Parish
22-40280
Krotz Springs is a town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, the Atchafalaya River. In 2000, the city population in 1219, Krotz Springs had heard the Opelousas - Eunice Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Around the turn of the century to the 20th century bought CW Krotz, a man from Ohio, 20,000 acres ( approximately 8100 hectares of forest land in the Atchafalaya Basin and built a sawmill, where the felled in the swamp trees were cut. The small settlement at the sawmill developed and was named Latania ( after the French expression for fan palms, according to which the correspondent Bayou is named and after the palm species that grow in the area ).
Krotz believed that there was a crude oil reserves under his country and therefore led by the first oil well of St. Landry Parish, but he met drinking water instead of oil. The source, who eventually gave the place its name, served the drinking water supply for the small town evolving. Krotz let the water fill and also sold it elsewhere.
1900 a post office was established in the city; this was called the Krotz Springs.
During the tenure of Sheriff Cat Doucet ( 1936-1940 and 1952-1968 he was Sheriff of the Parish ) Krotz Springs was a center for gambling and prostitution which flourished in the establishment of the U.S. Highway 190.
Geography
Krotz Springs ' geographical coordinates loud 30 ° 32 'N, 91 ° 45' W30.5375 - 91 755 ( 30.537565, -91.754926 ).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.5 km ², and there are no significant water areas in the territory of the Town.
Demography
At the time of the census of 2000, there were Krotz Springs 1219 people. The population density was 272.1 people per km ². There were 562 housing units at an average 125.4 per km ². The Krotz Springs population ' consisted of 99.10 % White, 0.25 % African American, 0.08 % Native American, 0 % Asian, 0 % Pacific Islander, 0.08 % reported from other races, and 0.49 % from two or more races. 0.74 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The residents of Krotz Springs distributed to 490 households out of which 34.9 % were living in children under 18 years. 52.4 % married couples living together, 11.8 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.8 % were non-families. 26.9 % of households were made up of individuals and someone lived in 12.9 % of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size is 2.99 people.
The population was spread out with 26.9 % under the, 11.4% of 18-24 year olds, 28.0 % 25 -44- year-old, 20.2% 45-64 year olds and 13.5 % under the age of 65 years or more. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 95.4 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women, 87.2 men.
The median household income in Krotz Springs was 26,823 U.S. dollars and the median family income reached the level of 31 842 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was 29,167 U.S. dollars, compared to 21,875 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income amounted to 13,914 U.S. dollars. 22.5 % of the population and 17.5 % of families had affected an income below the poverty line, including 25.6 % of minors and 18.3 % of those age 65 or over.
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Belonging to Church Communities
In the United States Census 2010 declared 77.39 % of the responding population, belong to a faith community. Of these, 86.5 % were Roman Catholic, 9.4% were Southern Baptists and 2.4% members of the Churches of Christ.