Tensas Parish, Louisiana

PO Box 78
Saint Joseph, LA 71366
Phone: (318) 766-3921
Fax: (318) 766-3926

On the northeastern border of LA, north of Natchez, MS; organized Mar 17, 1843 from Concordia Parish. Name Origin: For the Taensa Indian tribe, which lived in the area. The origin and meaning of the name have been lost

Area (sq mi):: 641.20 (land 602.48; water 38.72) Population per square mile: 10.20
Population 2005: 6,125 State rank: 64 Population change: 2000-20005 -7.40%; 1990-2000 -6.80% Population 2000: 6,618 (White 42.90%; Black or African American 55.40%; Hispanic or Latino 1.30%; Asian 0.10%; Other 1.00%). Foreign born: 1.20%. Median age: 37.30
Income 2000: per capita $12,622; median household $19,799; Population below poverty level: 36.30% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $18,045-$22,516
Unemployment (2004): 8.70% Unemployment change (from 2000): -0.30% Median travel time to work: 26.60 minutes Working outside county of residence: 24.60%

Cities with population over 10,000: None

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Tensas Parish Sheriff Rickey Jones said the note was left in a van that Ahmed parked near the bank.

La. hostage-taker wrote about anger at ex-girlfriend's family

The physician supply ranged from as low as zero physicians per 100,000 population 2006-2007 in Tensas Parish, which is the least populous of all the 64 parishes, to five physicians per 100,000 in Grant Parish, to a high of 941 physicians per 100,000 in Orleans Parish.

The distribution of physicians workforce in Louisiana: results from a cross-sectional study

We live in Monroe, Louisiana, and we have some great hunting land in Tensas Parish. When the 2007 bow season began, it felt strange that Billy was about to begin hunting while I had to wait another seven weeks or more for rifle season.

Another Bayou Bruiser: after her husband arrowed a new Louisiana state record with a bow in 2007, Vicki Husted decided to try her hand at bowhunting in 2008. Considerable practice and hard hunting paid huge dividends when she arrowed a bayou bruiser of her own

The incident happened during a Louisiana bachelor-party outing, and Aldridge, 19, has been charged with careless driving after the crash near Lake Bruin in Tensas Parish, La.

Jamie Lynn Spears' beau left with fractured skull after accident

Kline, Freeman's great-great-great-grandmother, had established a family chapel at Hopewell Plantation in Tensas Parish, Louisiana.

Chapel in the Kudzu: a decades-old promise is kept with the construction of a country wedding chapel for a special girl

(32.) Tensas Parish Department of Public Welfare, "For the Welfare of Tensas Parish," 15 March 1937, 7, Tensas Parish Scrapbook, 1937-1975, Manuscript Volume 9, Gladys Means Loyd and Family Papers, Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University; Maude Barrett to Loula Dunn, 11 September 1935, frames 0015-0016, reel 1, Selected Documents from the Louisiana Section of the Work Projects Administration General Correspondence File ("State Series") 1935-1943, National Archives Microfilm Publication M1367, Historic New Orleans Collection (hereafter cited as WPA Papers).

"WITH THE AID OF GOD AND THE F.S.A.": THE LOUISIANA FARMERS' UNION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN THE NEW DEAL ERA