Iberville Parish, Louisiana

PO Box 423
Plaquemine, LA 70765
Phone: (225) 687-5160
Fax: (225) 687-5260
www.ibervilleparish.com

In south-central LA, west of Baton Rouge; organized 1807 (prior to statehood). Name Origin: For Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville (1661-1706), French-Canadian naval officer who explored the Mississippi River delta and founded French colonies at present-day Biloxi and Mobile; governor of LA (1703)

Area (sq mi):: 652.84 (land 618.64; water 34.20) Population per square mile: 52.40
Population 2005: 32,386 State rank: 33 Population change: 2000-20005 -2.80%; 1990-2000 7.30% Population 2000: 33,320 (White 48.60%; Black or African American 49.70%; Hispanic or Latino 1.00%; Asian 0.30%; Other 0.80%). Foreign born: 0.70%. Median age: 34.40
Income 2000: per capita $13,272; median household $29,039; Population below poverty level: 23.10% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $18,446-$21,498
Unemployment (2004): 8.90% Unemployment change (from 2000): 0.30% Median travel time to work: 26.60 minutes Working outside county of residence: 45.30%

Cities with population over 10,000: None

See other counties in Louisiana.

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EuroChem is one of the world's largest mineral fertilizer producers, with operations in Europe, Asia and North and South America.The company originally considered a site in Carville in Iberville Parish, but in 2015 elected to develop downriver at a site within the Port of South Louisiana.

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(NASDAQ: COYN) said its COPsync911 threat-alert system will be implemented in all of the 14 building locations within the Iberville Parish School District in Plaquemine, Louisiana.

COPsync continues expansion in Louisiana

Rogers' son-in-law, Matthew Hodgkinson, was also his longtime lover, whose marriage to Rogers' daughter was an immigration sham, Iberville Parish Sheriff Brett Stassi said.

Slain TV host had a scandalous past

Charles Parish, Louisiana, the Bayou Perot Field in Jefferson Parish Louisiana, the Crescent Field in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, and the Verba Field in Jasper County, Mississippi.

Gulf Coast Western Completes Louisiana and Mississippi Production Purchase

In 2000, Pierce transferred to the Iberville Parish Sheriff's Department in Plaquemine, La., where she worked as a jailer and was later promoted to supervisor.

Pursuing a desire for excellence

The $1 million grant by Dow to the LCTCS Foundation is the largest donation ever made to the foundation and will support the development of an industrial maintenance curriculum in Iberville Parish. The new CATC Westside Campus construction is the result of a government/industry partnership that includes funding and support from numerous government agencies and Dow.

The Louisiana Community and Technical College System Foundation accepted a $1 million donation from the Dow Chemical Company to support the construction of the new Capital Area Technical College Westside Campus

Maringouin's name, which is Cajun French in origin, means "mosquito." It is located at the tip of Iberville Parish and is the largest community of North Iberville.

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The study area was characterized by varying degrees of hurricane damage (designated as low, moderate, and high), two forest types [bottomland hardwood ridges and slightly lower baldcypress (Taxodium distichum)-tupelogum (Nyssa aquatica) swales], and two tree sizes (pulpwood and sawtimber) (see Helm 1995; Salyer 1995) and located south of Interstate 10 between the Atchafalaya and Mississippi Rivers in Iberville Parish, Louisiana.

Notes on food habits of swamp rabbits (Sylvilagus aquaticus) in the Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana

Up to six years of data (the current year and the five previous years where available) are presented in Louisiana's District Composite Reports on Iberville Parish. Each year, this report is updated by adding the most current year?s data and deleting the data that are more than six years old.

District Composite Report: Iberville Parish, 2002-2003

However, Iberville Parish, named for Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, a French Canadian and the first man known to have sailed "up" the Mississippi River, is of French and--contrary to appearances--not Spanish origin.

Eclectic currents of a historic deed: a number of cities in the United States will be celebrating the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the nation and secured its control of a mighty watershed

One human case of EEE in a 67-year-old man was reported from Iberville Parish, Louisiana.

Arboviral disease, United States, 1994