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Vernon Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Region
- Central Louisiana
- Founded
- March 30, 1871 (155 years ago) ( 1871-03-30 )
- Named after
- Mount Vernon
- Parish seat
- Leesville
- Largest municipality
- Simpson (area), Leesville (population)
- Incorporated municipalities
- 6 (total) 1 city, 3 towns, and 2 villages (located entirely or partially, within parish boundaries)
- Total
- 1,341 sq mi (3,470 km )
- Land
- 1,328 sq mi (3,440 km )
- Water
- 14 sq mi (36 km )
- Percentage
- 1.0 sq mi (2.6 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 45,091
- Density
- 36.71/sq mi (14.17/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- Vernon Parish Police Jury
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Mount Vernon
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Louisiana
- Contains
- Leesville
- Capital
- Leesville
- Population
- 48750
- Area
- 3474
- Shares border with
- Newton County
- Official website
- www.vppjla.com
- Image
- Vernon Parish Courthouse, LA.jpg
- Households
- 17516
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- Commons category
- Vernon Parish, Louisiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Vernon Parish, Louisiana
- inception
- 1871-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Vernon Parish, Louisiana
- different from
- Vernon County
- water as percent of area
- 1
- native label
- Vernon Parish
- per capita income
- 25378
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Encyclopedic overview
Vernon Parish (French: Paroisse de Vernon) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,750. The parish seat and most populous municipality is Leesville. Bordered on the west by the Sabine River, the parish was founded in 1871 during the Reconstruction era.
It was long a center of the timber industry, which harvested pine in the hills and bottomland hardwoods. Construction of a railway to the area in 1897 stimulated the marketing of lumber and businesses in the area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vernon Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.