Chestnut, Louisiana

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Chestnut, Louisiana
Unincorporated community
Hamlet of Chestnut
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Chestnut, Louisiana
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Chestnut, Louisiana
Coordinates: 32°03′25″N93°00′59″W / 32.05694°N 93.01639°W / 32.05694; -93.01639 Coordinates: 32°03′25″N93°00′59″W / 32.05694°N 93.01639°W / 32.05694; -93.01639
CountryFlag of the United States.svg  United States
StateFlag of Louisiana.svg  Louisiana
Parish Natchitoches
Time zone UTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 318

Chestnut is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. [1]

Unincorporated area Region of land not governed by own local government

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.

Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana Parish in Louisiana

Natchitoches Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 39,566. The parish seat is Natchitoches. The parish was formed in 1805.

Louisiana southern state in the United States of America

Louisiana is a state in the Deep South region of the South Central United States. It is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties. The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans.

Notable person

Roy Sanders was an educator from rural Chestnut in northern Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, who was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for a single term from 1948 to 1952, corresponding with the second administration of Governor Earl Kemp Long.

Louisiana House of Representatives lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature

The Louisiana House of Representatives is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the US state of Louisiana. The House is composed of 105 representatives, each of whom represents approximately 42,500 people. Members serve four-year terms with a term limit of three terms. The House is one of the five state legislative lower houses that has a four-year term, as opposed to the near-universal two-year term.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Chestnut". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ "Roy Sanders". Winnfield, Louisiana: Winn Parish Enterprise News-American. December 29, 1976. Retrieved September 9, 2014.


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