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Bossier Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Region
- North Louisiana
- Founded
- February 24, 1843
- Named after
- Pierre Bossier
- Parish seat
- Benton
- Largest city
- Bossier City
- Total
- 867 sq mi (2,250 km )
- Land
- 840 sq mi (2,200 km )
- Water
- 27 sq mi (70 km )
- Percentage
- 3.1 sq mi (8.0 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 131,867
- Density
- 150/sq mi (59/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- bossierparishla .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Capital
- Benton
- Population
- 128746
- Area
- 2245
- Shares border with
- Webster Parish
- Official website
- www.bossierparishla.gov
- Image
- Bossier Parish Courthouse IMG 2378.JPG
- Households
- 49600
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Bossier Parish, Louisiana
- topic has template
- Template:Bossier Parish, Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Bossier Parish, Louisiana
- Commons category
- Bossier Parish, Louisiana
- inception
- 1843-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 3.1
- native label
- Bossier Parish
- per capita income
- 42337
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Encyclopedic overview
Bossier Parish (/ˈboʊʒər/ BOH-zhər; French: Paroisse de Bossier [paʁwas də bɔsje]) is a parish located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 128,746.
The parish seat is Benton. The principal city is Bossier City, which is located east of the Red River and across from the larger city of Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish. The parish was formed in 1843 from the western portion of Claiborne Parish. Bossier Parish is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area, the largest metropolitan area in North Louisiana.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bossier Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.