DeQuincy, Louisiana

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DeQuincy, Louisiana
City
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DeQuincy Railroad Museum
Calcasieu Parish Louisiana Incorporated and Unincorporated areas DeQuincy Highlighted.svg
Location of DeQuincy in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
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Location of Louisiana in the United States
Coordinates: 30°27′03″N93°26′08″W / 30.45083°N 93.43556°W / 30.45083; -93.43556
CountryUnited States
StateLouisiana
Parish Calcasieu
Government
 • MayorRiley Smith (R) (succeeding Lawrence Henagan) (D)
Area
[1]
 • Total3.19 sq mi (8.27 km2)
 • Land3.19 sq mi (8.27 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation
79 ft (24 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total3,144
 • Density984.96/sq mi (380.27/km2)
Time zone UTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
70633 [2]
Area code 337
FIPS code 22-20575
Website www.dequincy.org

DeQuincy is the northernmost city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,235 at the 2010 census. [3] DeQuincy is part of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area.

Contents

History

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DeQuincy in 1942

DeQuincy was founded in 1897 as a railroad town with the Calcasieu, Vernon & Shreveport Railway Company (CV&S) having been completed and Arthur Stilwell's Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Railway Company (KCS&G), that was owned by the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad (KCP&G), completed in 1897. [4]

On 8 March 1944, two Air Force aircraft from nearby Barksdale Air Force Base collided overhead killing seven people. [5]

Geography

DeQuincy is located in northern Calcasieu Parish at 30°27′3″N93°26′8″W / 30.45083°N 93.43556°W / 30.45083; -93.43556 (30.450915, -93.435613). [6] Louisiana Highways 12 and 27 pass through the center of town: LA 12 leads east 36 miles (58 km) to Kinder and southwest 22 miles (35 km) to Deweyville, Texas, while LA 27 leads north 31 miles (50 km) to DeRidder and south 17 miles (27 km) to Sulphur, 9 miles (14 km) west of Lake Charles.

According to the United States Census Bureau, DeQuincy has a total area of 3.2 square miles (8.2 km2), all land. [3]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1910 715—
1920 1,823155.0%
1930 3,58996.9%
1940 3,252−9.4%
1950 3,83718.0%
1960 3,9282.4%
1970 3,448−12.2%
1980 3,96615.0%
1990 3,474−12.4%
2000 3,398−2.2%
2010 3,235−4.8%
2020 3,144−2.8%
U.S. Decennial Census [7]
DeQuincy racial composition as of 2020 [8]
RaceNumberPercentage
White (non-Hispanic)2,36875.32%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic)54417.3%
Native American 260.83%
Asian 80.25%
Pacific Islander 10.03%
Other/Mixed 1193.78%
Hispanic or Latino 782.48%

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 3,144 people, 972 households, and 720 families residing in the city.

Economy

DeQuincy was founded as a railroad settlement, and the Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific railroads remain principal employers for area citizens.

The timber industry has long been a vital part of the local economy. DeQuincy is home to Temple-Inland's Southwest Louisiana Lumber Operation.

The DeQuincy Industrial Airpark houses facilities for Thermoplastic Services, Recycle Inc., United Oilfield Services, and Paragon Plastic Sheet. In 2002, Calgon Carbon Corporation planned to construct a carbon reactivation plant in the airpark, though those plans have been delayed due to environmental concerns.

Government and infrastructure

The former Grand Avenue High School was the site of the highest scoring boys high school basketball game on January 29, 1964, when Grand Avenue beat Cameron, Louisiana's Audrey Memorial High School by a score of 211 to 29. [9] [10] [11]

The United States Postal Service operates the DeQuincy Post Office. [12]

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections formerly operated the C. Paul Phelps Correctional Center in unincorporated Beauregard Parish, about 3 miles (5 km) north of DeQuincy. [13] The facility closed in November 2012

Education

Calcasieu Parish Public Schools operates public schools:

Subject of multiple hoaxes

The town has been the subject of numerous hoaxes by satirical writer Paul Horner, widely spread on the Internet. The hoaxes claim the town enacted bizarre legislation such as banning those of Korean descent, issuing handguns to school children, permitting bigamy, banning twerking, and the city being completely eradicated by zombies on bath salts. [14]

DeQuincy Mayor Lawrence Henagan, a Democrat, [15] was falsely targeted in 2016 by an Internet hoax [16] that he had jailed a volunteer fire chief for thirty days and then dismissed the man after the chief had prayed at the scene of a fire. The story identified the mayor as "Lawana Jones, an African-American atheist" and the fire chief as "39-year-old Ronnie Edwards." Henagan, the chairman of the deacon board at the First Baptist Church of DeQuincy, said that the chief is free to pray while firefighting. Henagan said he would join the fire chief in prayer. Henagan said that he has no knowledge why he was singled out for a fake news article but noted that he could take no legal action because the reports used fictitious names. [17]

Notable people

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  2. ↑ "DeQuincy LA ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
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  13. ↑ "C. Paul Phelps Correctional Center Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine ." Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. Retrieved on October 28, 2010.
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