Lafourche Parish is a parish located in the south of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 96,318. The parish seat is Thibodaux. The parish was formed in 1807. It was originally the northern part of Lafourche Interior Parish, which consisted of the present parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne. Lafourche Parish was named after the Bayou Lafourche.
Thibodaux is a city in and the parish seat of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 14,567 at the 2010 census. Thibodaux is a principal city of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Houma-Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan area in the Acadiana region of southern Louisiana, United States that covers two parishes - Lafourche and Terrebonne. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 208,178.
Louisiana Highway 24 (LA 24) is a state highway located in southeastern Louisiana. It runs 35.65 miles (57.37 km) in a general east–west direction from LA 20 in Schriever to LA 3235 in Larose.
Lafourche Parish Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Louisiana Highway 57 is a state highway that serves Terrebonne Parish. It runs 25.1 miles (40.4 km) in a south to north direction along Bayou Sale Road and Grand Caillou Road, connecting Cocodrie and Houma.
Louisiana Highway 182 (LA 182) is a state highway located in central and southeastern Louisiana. It runs 173.41 miles (279.08 km) in a northwest to southeast direction from LA 29 in Whiteville to U.S. Highway 90 (US 90) north of Raceland.
Thibodaux High School (THS) is a public high school serving students in grades 9–12 in Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States about 75 miles southwest of New Orleans. It is one of three high schools in the Lafourche Parish Public Schools.
Terrebonne Parish School District is a school district headquartered in Houma, Louisiana, The district serves residents in Terrebonne Parish, including the city of Houma as well as the surrounding unincorporated areas of Bourg, Chauvin, Gibson, Gray, Montegut, and Schriever.
Cocodrie is an unincorporated fishing, shrimping and crabbing village in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States, ten miles south of Chauvin and due south of the city of Houma. It is part of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area. The settlement is known for being very near the landfall location for Tropical Storm Matthew on October 10, 2004, and Hurricane Gustav on September 1, 2008.
Louisiana Highway 55 (LA 55) is a state highway located in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. It runs 14.09 miles (22.68 km) in a north–south direction from a dead end south of Montegut to a junction with LA 24 in Klondyke.
Norbert Nolty Chabert, known as Norby Chabert, is a former political consultant from Houma, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 20 in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. Since 2009, he has held the same seat occupied from 1980 to 1991 by his late father, Leonard J. Chabert, and from 1992 to 1996 by his older brother, Marty James Chabert, both Democrats.
Louisiana Highway 86 (LA 86) is a state highway located in southern Louisiana. It runs 16.42 miles (26.43 km) in a general north–south direction from LA 182 in New Iberia to LA 31 north of town.
Bayou Boeuf Elementary School (BBES) is an elementary school in unincorporated Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, east of the Kraemer census-designated place. It serves residents of the Ward 6 Area of the parish, including Bayou Boeuf and Choctaw. It is a part of Lafourche Parish Public Schools.
The Bayou Teche Byway is a Louisiana Scenic Byway that follows several different state highways, primarily:
The Cane River National Heritage Trail is a Louisiana Scenic Byway that follows several different state highways, primarily:
