Mermentau is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 661 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical...
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Coastal Plain. The Mermentau River supplies freshwater for the Mermentau Basin. The Chenier Basin is located between the Mermentau Basin and the Gulf...
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Loreauville, Louisiana Mamou, Louisiana Maurice, Louisiana Melville, Louisiana Mermentau, Louisiana Merryville, Louisiana Moss Bluff, Louisiana New Iberia, Louisiana...
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Grand Lake (Louisiana) (section Mermentau River)
(170 km2) in size and is about 8.25 by 8.25 miles (13.28 by 13.28 km). The Mermentau River flows through its western extremities therefore it is difficult...
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Catfish Point control structure (lock) on the Mermentau River in coastal Louisiana...
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Black Bayou Vermilion River Bayou Carencro Bayou Fusilier Bayou Bourbeux Mermentau River Bayou Queue de Tortue Bayou Nezpique Bayou des Cannes Bayou Mallet...
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municipality) Eunice Rayne Basile Church Point Duson Iota Estherwood Mermentau Morse Branch Egan Arceneaux Bates Bluff Castile Deshotel Ebenezer Ellis...
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Plakemine; translating to "burnt persimmon bayou") is a waterway in the Mermentau River basin of south Louisiana. The bayou is 58 miles (93 km) long and...
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intercept slave ships and take them into custody. "Negro Island" in the Mermentau River is rumored to have been the location where the slaves died. However...
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provide flood relief, and prevent possible saltwater intrusion into the Mermentau River Basin. Larose, Louisiana Morgan City, Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana...
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western boundary; and the Pearl, the eastern boundary; the Calcasieu, the Mermentau, the Vermilion, Bayou Teche, the Atchafalaya, the Boeuf, Bayou Lafourche...
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Iota Elementary (Iota) Martin Petitjean Elementaryl (Rayne) Mermentau Elementary (Mermentau) Mire Elementary (Rayne) Morse Elementary (Morse) North Crowley...
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Last Island itself was split in two. Inland, heavy rainfall caused the Mermentau River to flood, destroying crops and every house in Abbeville. The storm...
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structure is accessible only by boat. The structure is a feature of the Mermentau River and Tributaries, Louisiana, project, authorized by the Flood Control...
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Band, or Snake Band lived on the prairies and coastal marshes in the Mermentau River watershed, along the Bayou Nezpique, Bayou des Cannes, and Bayou...
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120 km2 (−430 sq mi) –29% Calcasieu–Sabine −517 km2 (−200 sq mi) –24% Mermentau −488 km2 (−188 sq mi) –20% Pontchartrain −472 km2 (−182 sq mi) –17% Breton...
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[t͡ʃœd.tɔɾ.t͡ʃy], translated to "turtle-tail bayou") is a waterway in the Mermentau River basin of southern Louisiana in the United States. The bayou is 55...
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the Mermentau River, which connects to the Intracoastal Waterway and has a channel depth of nine feet, provides access to the Port of Mermentau. The...
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lake is about one mile wide and nine miles long and connects with the Mermentau River, a waterway to the Gulf of Mexico. 1886 D. E. Sweet bought the "Louisa...
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Terminal New Orleans–Carrollton Ave. Avondale Lafayette Rayne Crowley Mermentau Jennings Welsh Lake Charles Sulphur Vinton Orange Beaumont Liberty Houston...
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"bayou of the reeds" or "bayou of the stalks" ) is a waterway in the Mermentau River basin of southern Louisiana. The bayou is 66 miles (106 km) long...
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Town St. Landry 759 1,041 −27.1% 1.26 3.3 602.4/sq mi (232.6/km2) 1899 Mermentau Village Acadia 516 661 −21.9% 2.13 5.5 242.3/sq mi (93.5/km2) 1899 Mer...
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then in Vermilion Parish. The Union Navy had forces at Sabine Lake. The Mermentau Jayhawkers were made up of a band of "200 mounted draft dodgers, bushwhackers...
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translated to "tattooed nose bayou") is a small river located in the Mermentau River basin of south Louisiana, USA. The river is 70 miles (110 km) long...
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about two miles (3.2 km) south of the village of Mermentau. At this junction, LA 92 turns east from Mermentau Cove Road onto West Whitney Street. LA 1119 is...
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browsing animals. One of these clearings was created on a slough off Bayou Mermentau, near where the slough came to a point. This new clearing became known...
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considered a stream by the GNIS Houston River is part of the Calcasieu-Mermentau Basin and a sub-basin of the West Fork Calcasieu (HUC 08080205). The Louisiana...
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continuing east through Lacassine, Welsh, Roanoke, Jennings, and Mermentau. East of Mermentau US 90 runs north of and parallel to a section of the Old Spanish...
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August 15, more than ten rivers (Amite, Vermilion, Calcasieu, Comite, Mermentau, Pearl, Tangipahoa, Tchefuncte, Tickfaw, and Bogue Chitto) and many more...
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of Huguenot ancestry) Maurepas Meaux (after the town of Meaux) Meraux Mermentau Mer Rouge ("red sea") Metairie (from a French word for sharecropping)...
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