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Crowley
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city in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Parish
- Acadia
- Founded by
- C.C. Duson and W.W. Duson
- Named after
- Patrick Crowley, railroad owner
- Total
- 5.85 sq mi (15.16 km )
- Land
- 5.85 sq mi (15.15 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 16 ft (4.9 m)
- Density
- 2,001/sq mi (772.7/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 22-18650
- Website
- crowley-la.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
City of Crowley – Where Life is Rice & Easy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Crowley
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Acadia Parish
- Population
- 11710
- Area
- 14.890389
- Elevation
- 6
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Acadia Parish
- Official website
- www.crowley-la.com
- Image
- Crowley, Louisiana (3909023083).jpg
- Households
- 4919
- Dialing code
- 337
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- Commons category
- Crowley, Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Crowley, Louisiana
- postal code
- 70527
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Crowley, Louisiana
- inception
- 1887-00-00
- P8168
- Richard Clayderman
- water as percent of area
- 0.0094
- per capita income
- 22444
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Encyclopedic overview
Crowley (Local pronunciation: /ˈkræli/) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Acadia Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 United States census, Crowley had a population of 11,710. Crowley is the principal city of the Crowley micropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Acadia Parish. It is also part of the larger Lafayette–Acadiana combined statistical area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crowley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.