Napoleonville, Louisiana

Assumption Parish

22-53370

Napoleonville is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) and administrative headquarters of the Assumption Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. In 2010, Napoleonville had 660 inhabitants.

Geography

Napoleonville is in the middle southeast Louisiana. The town lies on the southwestern shore of Bayou Lafourche, a former tributary of the Mississippi. The geographical coordinates of 29 ° 56'26 Napoleonville are " north latitude and 91 ° 01'29 " west longitude. The city covers an area of ​​0.4 km ².

Neighbouring places of Napoleonville are Platteville (6.2 km north) and Supreme ( 11.1 km SSE ), which are also on Bayou Lafourche.

The nearest large towns are Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge (77 km north ) and Louisiana's largest city of New Orleans (121 km east) and Lafayette (162 km west-northwest ).

Traffic

The Bayou Lafourche on leading along Louisiana Highway 1 is the main street of Napoleonville. In the center is a bridge over the bayou. The Louisiana Highway 401 branches off from LA from 1, runs as Canal Road through the town and leaves them in a south-westerly direction. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and urban roads.

The nearest airports are the Lafayette Regional Airport (160 km west-northwest ), the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport ( 89.8 km to the north) and the larger Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (101 km east).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Napoleonville 660 people in 249 households. The population density was 1650 people per square kilometer. In the 249 households lived statistically 2.65 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 18.0 percent white, 80.9 percent African American and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

25.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.6 percent were 65 years or older. 53.8 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 23,750. The per capita income was $ 14,730. 35.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Memorable people

  • Walter Guion (1849-1927) - Democratic U.S. Senator - practiced for several years as an attorney in Napoleonville
  • Whitmell P. Martin (1867-1929) - 1915-1929 Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives - born and raised in Napoleonville
  • Charlie Melancon (* 1947) - 2005 to 2011 Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives - born and raised in Napoleonville
  • Louis Nelson (1902-1990) - trombonist - grew up in Napoleonville
  • Harrison Verrett (1911 - ), jazz musician

Twinning

Since 1989 a twinning between Napoleonville and the French town of Pontivy, which at times was also called Napoleonville.

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