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Minden
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small city and parish seat of Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- States
- Louisiana
- Parish
- Webster
- Named after
- Minden , Germany
- Total
- 15.21 sq mi (39.39 km )
- Land
- 15.04 sq mi (38.95 km )
- Water
- 0.17 sq mi (0.44 km )
- Elevation
- 269 ft (82 m)
- Density
- 793.2/sq mi (306.27/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 22-50885
- Website
- City of Minden
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Named after
- Minden
- Official name
- Minden
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Webster Parish
- Population
- 11928
- Area
- 0.439466
- Elevation
- 77
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Webster Parish
- Official website
- www.mindenla.org
- Image
- Revised copy, Minden, LA, City Hall and Civic Center IMG 0008.JPG
- Households
- 4886
- Dialing code
- 318
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- topic's main category
- Category:Minden, Louisiana
- Commons category
- Minden, Louisiana
- postal code
- 71058
- inception
- 1836-00-00
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Minden, Louisiana
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Minden, Louisiana
- P8168
- air-to-air missile
- water as percent of area
- 1.1097
- per capita income
- 20996
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Encyclopedic overview
Minden is a small city in and the parish seat of Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is located twenty-eight miles east of Shreveport. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 11,928. The Main Street district of Minden is recognized as a Louisiana Main Street Community, a Louisiana Cultural Products District, and is sited on the National Register of Historic Places. Minden is the core and principal city of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area, consisting of all of Webster Parish, which is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City–Minden CSA.
Aerial view of Minden, 1935
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Minden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.