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    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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  • (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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