Beauregard Parish

administration
The Beauregard Parish Courthouse in DeRidder, listed on NRHP No. 83000490
US state :	Louisiana
Administrative headquarters :	DeRidder
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Parish Courthouse P.O. Box 310 Deridder, LA 70634-0310
Foundation :	June 12, 1912
Made up from:	Calcasieu Parish
Area code :	001 337
Demographics
Residents :	35,654 (2010)
Population density :	11.9 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	3020 km²
Water surface :	15 km²
map

Website : www.beauparish.org

The Beauregard Parish ( French Paroisse de Beauregard ) is a Parish in US -amerikanischen State Louisiana . In 2010 , the parish had 35,654 residents and a population density of 11.9 people per square kilometer. The administrative seat ( Parish Seat ) is DeRidder , named after Ella De Ridder , a sister-in-law of the railway magnate Jan De Goeijen .

geography

The Parish is located in western Louisiana and is bounded to the west by the Sabine River , which forms the border with Texas . It has an area of 3,020 square kilometers, of which 15 square kilometers are the water surface of the Toledo Bend Reservoir . The following neighboring parishes and counties border the Beauregard Parish:

	Vernon Parish
Newton County, Texas		Allen Parish
	Calcasieu Parish	Jefferson Davis Parish

history

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

The Beauregard Parish was formed on June 12, 1912 from parts of the Calcasieu Parish. It was later named after Pierre G. T. Beauregard , a Confederate general in the American Civil War .

The area of today's Beauregard Parish was from 1806 to 1821 part of the " Neutral Ground " between the USA and Spain . The Adams-Onís Treaty , ratified by the USA in 1821, finally established the border between Texas, Spain, and the US state Louisiana.

population

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1920	20,767	-
1930	14,569	-29.8%
1940	14,847	1.9%
1950	17,766	19.7%
1960	19.191	8th %
1970	22,888	19.3%
1980	29,692	29.7%
1990	30,083	1.3%
2000	32,986	9.6%
2010	35,654	8.1%
2012 estimate	36,281	1.8%
1920–1990 2000 2010–2012

Former district prison, listed in the NRHP

According to the 2010 census , Beauregard Parish had 35,654 people in 12,853 households. The population density was 11.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.63 people lived in each of the 12,853 households.

The racial the population was composed of 82.2 percent white, 13.5 percent African American, 1.1 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian, 0.1 percent Polynesian and other ethnic groups; 2.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 3.2 percent of the population.

25.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.6 percent were 65 years or older. 49.0 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 45,113 USD . The per capita income was $ 21,808. 14.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.