Oil City (Louisiana)
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 Oil City Town Hall |
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| Location in Louisiana | |||
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Louisiana | ||
| Parish : | Caddo Parish | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 45 ′ N , 93 ° 58 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
1,008 (as of 2010) 439,000 (as of 2010) |
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| Population density : | 205.7 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 4.9 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 62 m | ||
| Postal code : | 71061 | ||
| Area code : | +1 318 | ||
| FIPS : | 22-57590 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 543554 | ||
 Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum in Oil City |
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Oil City is a small town (with the status of " Town ") in Caddo Parish in US -amerikanischen State Louisiana . In 2010 Oil City had 1,008 inhabitants.
Oil City is part of the metropolitan area of Shreveport - Bossier City on the Red River .
geography
Oil City is located in northwest Louisiana, on the north shore of Caddo Lake , around 15 km west of the Red River and around 5 km east of the Texas border . The Arkansas border is around 25 miles north. The geographical coordinates of Oil City are 32 ° 44'32 "north latitude and 93 ° 58'28" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 4.9 km².
Neighboring towns to Oil City are Vivian (14.5 km north), Hosston (15.2 km northeast), Gilliam (19.2 km east-northeast), Belcher (16.7 km east), Blanchard (21.2 km south-southeast) and Mooringsport (7.3 km south).
Shreveport city center is 33.7 km to the southeast. The closest other major cities are Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge (425 km southeast), Louisiana's largest city New Orleans (546 km in the same direction), Lafayette (383 km southeast), Beaumont , Texas (344 km south), Texas' largest city Houston (396 km southwest), Dallas in Texas (308 km west), Arkansas' capital Little Rock (322 km northeast) and Mississippi's capital Jackson (380 km east).
traffic
Louisiana Highways 1 , 530, and 538 meet in the Oil City metropolitan area . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
A railroad line of Kansas City Southern runs through Oil City in a north-south direction from the north to Shreveport.
The nearest airports are Shreveport Regional Airport (27 miles south-southeast) and the larger Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport (342 km west).
population
According to the 2010 census , Oil City had 1,008 people in 418 households. The population density was 205.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.41 people lived in each of the 418 households.
The racial the population was composed of 56.8 percent white, 40.5 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 0.1 percent (one person) from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.6 percent of the population.
28.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.2 percent were 65 years or older. 52.9 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 22,784 USD . The per capita income was $ 15,293. 31.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved August 26, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on August 27, 2013
