Lake Charles
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 View of Lake Charles. A boat casino can be seen on the left. |
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| Location in Louisiana | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1852 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Louisiana | ||
| Parish : | Calcasieu Parish | ||
| Coordinates : | 30 ° 13 ′ N , 93 ° 13 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
76,848 (as of 2016) 207,483 (as of 2016) |
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| Population density : | 738.2 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 110.1 km 2 (approx. 43 mi 2 ) of which 104.1 km 2 (approx. 40 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 4 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 70601, 70605, 70607, 70611, 70615, 70629 | ||
| Area code : | +1 337 | ||
| FIPS : | 22-41155 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 2404859 | ||
| Website : | www.cityoflakecharles.com | ||
| Mayor : | Randy Roach | ||
Lake Charles is a city (with a status of " City ") and the administrative seat of Calcasieu Parish in the US state of Louisiana . In 2016 Lake Charles had 76,848 residents.
The city is an important location for petrochemicals and gambling (5 casinos on river boats and a "Las Vegas Style" casino in the Hotel L'Auberge du Lac) and has a university ( McNeese State University ).
geography
Lake Charles is located in southwest Louisiana on the banks of the Calcasieu River and borders Lake Charles and Prien Lake. The Texas border is 50 km to the west.
The geographical coordinates of Lake Charles are 30 ° 12'53 "north latitude and 93 ° 12'31" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 110.1 km², which is spread over 104.1 km² of land and 6 km² of water.
Neighboring places to Lake Charles are Moss Bluff (on the opposite bank of the Calcasieu River on the northern city limits), Iowa (14.4 miles east), Prien (on the southwestern city limits), Carlyss (14 miles west southwest), Sulfur (16.4 miles east) km west) and Westlake (on the opposite bank of the Calcasieu River on the northwestern city limits).
The closest major cities are Lafayette (120 km east), Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge (210 km in the same direction), Shreveport (302 km north), Beaumont , Texas (97.2 km west) and Texas' largest city, Houston (231 km in the same direction).
traffic
The port of Lake Charles, the sixteenth largest in the country, is connected to the Gulf of Mexico by a deep-water channel and can therefore also be reached by ocean-going vessels .
The Interstate 10 runs along the southern border of Lake Charles. US Highway 90 runs parallel to this as the main road through the city center. The US Highway 171 reaches its southern end point at the confluence with US 90. In addition, Louisiana Highways 14 , 384 and 385 meet in the Lake Charles metropolitan area. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
A railway line of the BNSF Railway runs through Lake Charles in a west-east direction . The route is also used by Sunset Limited , an Amtrak express train that runs from Los Angeles to New Orleans and makes a stop in Lake Charles.
Lake Charles has two airports. The Chennault International Airport in the east of the city serves primarily the economy, while the Lake Charles Regional Airport is on the southern city limits after passenger volume the seventh largest commercial airport in Louisiana. The nearest major international airport is the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston (150 miles west).
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history
The first settlers were French and in 1781 they settled near the present city. The city grew slowly in the period that followed. This changed from 1855 with the settlement of sawmills and the establishment of a port, from which a brisk timber trade with Mexico and Texas , especially with the city of Galveston , took place. Thanks to a recruitment campaign, the population grew by 400 percent in the 1880s.
Hurricane Rita
Lake Charles was badly devastated by Hurricane Rita on September 24, 2005 . Two days earlier, 90% of the city had been evacuated.
Town twinning
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Perpignan , France, since 1993 -
Sioux City , United States, since 1995 -
Cobh , Ireland, since 2008
population
According to the 2010 census , Lake Charles had 71,993 people in 28,940 households. The population density was 691.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.38 people lived in each of the 28,940 households.
The racial the population was composed of 47.0 percent white, 47.7 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 1.7 percent Asian and 1.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.9 percent of the population.
23.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.9 percent were 65 years or older. 51.7 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 35,996 USD . The per capita income was $ 22,908. 22.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
sons and daughters of the town
- James W. Bryan (1874–1956), politician
- Ted Lyons (1900–1986), baseball player and manager
- Harry Cooper (1903–1961), jazz musician
- Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008), cardiac surgeon
- Nellie Lutcher (1912-2007), R&B singer and pianist
- Joe Lutcher (1919-2006), rhythm and blues and gospel musician
- Leonard James Olivier (1923–2014), Auxiliary Bishop of Washington
- Mickey Champion (1925-2014), R&B singer
- Earl Nelson (1928-2008), singer
- Boozoo Chavis (1930-2001), musician
- Andre Dubus (1936–1999), writer
- Henson Moore (born 1939), politician
- Wayne McLaren (1940–1992), photo model
- Lynda Benglis (* 1941), artist
- Bobby King (* 1944), gospel, R&B and soul singer
- Mike Murdock (born 1946), entrepreneur, motivational speaker, author and television preacher
- John Wesley (1947-2019), actor
- Lucinda Williams (* 1953), musician
- Doug Lawrence (* 1956), jazz musician
- Dominic Lee Pudwill Gorie (* 1957), astronaut
- Grant Cardone (born 1958), author, motivational speaker, real estate investor and sales trainer
- Paul Groves (* 1964), opera singer (tenor)
- Sean Patrick Flanery (born 1965), actor
- Bethany Ashton Wolf (* 1975), screenwriter and film director
- Amy Brassette (* 1979), actress and voice actress
- Zachary Levi (born 1980), actor
- Chris Ardoin (* 1981), accordionist
- Matt Forté (born 1985), American football player
- Ha * Ash (founded in 2002), Latin pop duo
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved August 28, 2013
- ↑ AirNav.com - Chennault International Airport Accessed on August 28, 2013
- ↑ AirNav.com - Lake Charles Regional Airport Accessed on August 28, 2013
- ↑ ↑ List of NPIAS Airports with 5-Year Forecast Activity and Development Cost (PDF; 2.1 MB) ( Memento from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved on August 28, 2013
