Editing Abbeville, Louisiana

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{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Abbeville, Louisiana
| settlement_type    = [[List of cities in Louisiana|City]]
| image_skyline      = St. Mary Magdalene Church abbeville.jpg
| image_caption      = St. Mary Magdalene Church
| image_size         = 200px
| image_map          = Vermilion Parish Louisiana Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Abbeville Highlighted.svg
| map_caption        = Location within [[Vermilion Parish, Louisiana|Vermilion Parish]] and [[Louisiana]]
| image_map1         = Louisiana in United States (US48).svg
| map_caption1       = Location of Louisiana in the United States
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| subdivision_type   = Country
| subdivision_name   = United States
| subdivision_type1  = State
| subdivision_name1  = Louisiana
| subdivision_type2  = Parish
| subdivision_name2  = [[Vermilion Parish, Louisiana|Vermilion]]
<!-- Government -->
| established_title  = Incorporated
| established_date   = 1850
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| established_date1  = 
| founder            = 
| named_for          = 
| government_footnotes = 
| government_type    = 
| governing_body     = 
| leader_party       = 
| leader_title       = Mayor
| leader_name        = Roslyn White (no party)<ref name="mayor">[https://cityofabbeville.net/your-elected-officials/ ABBEVILLE CITY COUNCIL Your Elected Officials (City of Abbeville official site)] As of June 25, 2024</ref><ref>[https://www.klfy.com/your-local-election-hq/roslyn-white-is-the-new-mayor-elect-of-abbeville/ Your Local Election HQ - Roslyn White is the new Mayor Elect of Abbeville (KLFY)] As of June 25, 2024</ref>
<!-- Area -->
| unit_pref          = Imperial
| area_footnotes     = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020">{{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_22.txt|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=March 20, 2022}}</ref>
| area_total_km2     = 15.74
| area_total_sq_mi   = 6.08
| area_land_km2      = 15.66
| area_land_sq_mi    = 6.05
| area_water_km2     = 0.08
| area_water_sq_mi   = 0.03
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| population_as_of   = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_footnotes = 
| population_total   = 11186
| population_density_km2 = 714.26
| population_density_sq_mi = 1849.84
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| timezone           = [[North American Central Time Zone|CST]]
| utc_offset         = -6
| timezone_DST       = [[North American Central Time Zone|CDT]]
| utc_offset_DST     = -5
| elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/>
| elevation_ft       = 07
| coordinates        = {{coord|29|58|30|N|92|06|55|W|display=inline,title}}
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<!-- Area/postal codes and others -->
| postal_code_type   = ZIP code
| postal_code       = 70510, 70511
| area_code          = [[Area code 337|337]]
| blank_name         = [[Federal Information Processing Standards|FIPS code]]
| blank_info         = 22-00100
| blank1_name        = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info        = 2403057<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|2403057}}</ref>
| website            = {{URL|https://cityofabbeville.net/|cityofabbeville.net}}
}}	

'''Abbeville''' is a city in, and the [[parish seat]] of, [[Vermilion Parish, Louisiana|Vermilion Parish]], [[Louisiana]], United States.<ref name="GR6">{{harvnb|Anon|2014}}</ref><ref name=EB>{{harvnb|Hoiberg|2010|p=11}}</ref>  The population was 12,257 at the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]].<ref>{{harvnb|Anon|2015}}</ref> At the 2020 [[Population Estimates Program|population estimates program]], the population of the city was 11,927.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=City and Town Population Totals: 2010-2020|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/technical-documentation/research/evaluation-estimates/2020-evaluation-estimates/2010s-cities-and-towns-total.html|access-date=2021-08-10|website=[[The United States Census Bureau]]|language=EN-US}}</ref>  It is located {{convert|21|miles|km}} southwest of [[Lafayette, Louisiana|Lafayette]].<ref name=Colliers>{{harvnb|Johnston|1997|p=8}}</ref>

== History ==
Formerly called La Chapelle, the land that became Abbeville was purchased by founding father Père Antoine Désiré Mégret ("Père" is [[French language|French]] for "Father"), a [[Order of Friars Minor Capuchin|Capuchin]] missionary on July 25, 1843, for $900. There are two hypotheses as to how the town was named. The more generally accepted hypothesis is that Mégret named the town after his [[Abbeville|home in France]]. The second hypothesis states that it is a combination of "Abbé" (the French word for "Abbot") for Abbé Mégret, and "ville" (the French word for "Town") – hence Abbé's town. Some support for the second theory can be found in the fact that the town in France is pronounced differently (as "Abbville") by its denizens. However, in 1995, Jean Desobry discovered in the diocesan archives of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Amiens|Amiens]] evidence that Antoine Jacques Désiré Mégret was born on May 23, 1797, in Abbeville, France, thus confirming the first hypothesis.<ref name=theall>{{harvnb|Theall|1996}}</ref> Dr Mary-Theresa MacCarthy wrote in her article ''Un Autre Abbeville'' in the 1996 edition of Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie (translation by Father Hebert),

<blockquote>On February 12, 1844, the pastor gave to his American town the name of the town of his birth. Residents find this name especially fitting because of the French word abbé which means father [or priest] added to the French word ville [which means town]. Their Abbeville is truly la ville de l'abbé [the priest's town].<ref name=theall/></blockquote>

Settlers were primarily descendants of the [[Acadian]]s from [[Nova Scotia]] that moved to the area from 1766 to 1775. The town was incorporated in 1850.<ref name=Colliers/>
There were two people living on the land at the time, Joseph LeBlanc and his wife Isabelle Broussard, whose former home Father Megret converted into a chapel. The chapel burned in 1854 and, in 1910, [[St. Mary Magdalen Church, Rectory, and Cemetery|St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church]] was built, which still stands today.<ref>{{harvnb|Lawson|2015}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=self-published website by private party|date=May 2015}}

Father Megret modeled his original plan for the village after a French Provincial village. In a map he designed in 1846, the town was 38 to {{convert|40|acre|m2}} in size. It was bounded on the north by St. Victor Boulevard, on the south by Lafayette Boulevard, on the east by "the Sisters of Charity", and on the west by [[Bayou Vermilion]]. At this point in time the town was called "Abbville".

The center of downtown is Magdalen Square, which is accented by large oak trees, a fountain, and [[gazebo]]. A statue in memory of Father Megret stands in the square. In 1856, the [[1856 Last Island hurricane|Last Island Hurricane]] destroyed every building in the town.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|5.7|sqmi|km2|4}}, of which {{convert|5.7|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.04|sqmi|km2}} (0.53%) is water. Abbeville is located near the southern terminus of [[U.S. Highway 167]]. Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport is in the eastern part of the city. The [[Vermilion River (Louisiana)|Vermilion River]] runs through downtown, and several canals and coulees run through other parts of Abbeville.

=== Climate ===
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Abbeville has a [[humid subtropical climate]] in common with the rest of [[Louisiana]]. It typically experiences long, hot and very humid summers and brief, cool but quite windy winters, and mild to warm temperatures during spring and autumn. [[Precipitation]] is relatively heavy by world standards and falls throughout the year, but peaks between June and September which see twice the amount of rainy days than winter. June to September is also, while hot, cloudier than the rest of year with clear and sunny skies being most common in the autumn.

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|location = Abbeville, Louisiana
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|Feb high F = 65.7
|Mar high F = 72.6
|Apr high F = 78.7
|May high F = 84.7
|Jun high F = 89.9
|Jul high F = 90.5
|Aug high F = 91.2
|Sep high F = 88.2
|Oct high F = 81.7
|Nov high F = 72.0
|Dec high F = 64.5
|year high F= 78.6
|Jan low F = 43.2
|Feb low F = 45.0
|Mar low F = 51.8
|Apr low F = 58.0
|May low F = 64.4
|Jun low F = 70.8
|Jul low F = 72.3
|Aug low F = 72.6
|Sep low F = 68.1
|Oct low F = 57.8
|Nov low F = 48.8
|Dec low F = 43.8
|year low F= 58.1
|Jan precipitation inch = 5.1
|Feb precipitation inch = 4.1
|Mar precipitation inch = 4.2
|Apr precipitation inch = 4.1
|May precipitation inch = 4.9
|Jun precipitation inch = 6.4
|Jul precipitation inch = 6.5
|Aug precipitation inch = 6.0
|Sep precipitation inch = 5.5
|Oct precipitation inch = 4.3
|Nov precipitation inch = 4.4
|Dec precipitation inch = 5.0
|year precipitation inch=60.5
|source 1 = Weatherbase <ref name=Weatherbase>{{harvnb|Anon|2015b}}
Retrieved on November 24, 2011.
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|date=November 2011
}}
</div>

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1870= 545
|1880= 255
|1890= 637
|1900= 1536
|1910= 2907
|1920= 3461
|1930= 4356
|1940= 6672
|1950= 9338
|1960= 10414
|1970= 10996
|1980= 12391
|1990= 11187
|2000= 11887
|2010= 12257
|2020= 11186
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015|df=mdy }}</ref>
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+Abbeville racial composition as of 2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2200100&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=2021-12-19|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
|4,970
|44.43%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
|4,732
|42.3%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|39
|0.35%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|613
|5.48%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|392
|3.5%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|440
|3.93%
|}
Abbeville is the principal city of the Abbeville [[Micropolitan Statistical Area|micropolitan statistical area]], which includes all of Vermilion Parish, also part of the [[Lafayette metropolitan area, Louisiana|Lafayette metropolitan statistical area]] and the larger [[Lafayette, Louisiana|Lafayette]]–[[Acadiana]] [[Lafayette-Opelousas-Morgan City combined statistical area|combined statistical area]].

According to the [[2000 United States census|2000 U.S. census]], there were 11,887 people, 4,698 households, and 3,014 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|2,027.7|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 5,257 housing units at an average density of {{convert|907.3|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}.<ref name="cen44">{{harvnb|U. S. Census Bureau|2012|pp=44–45}}</ref><ref name="cen173" /><ref>{{harvnb|U. S. Census Bureau|2012|p=284}}</ref> At the 2020 [[Population Estimates Program|population estimates program]], 11,927 people lived in the city.<ref name=":0" /> By the publication of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 11,186 people, 4,761 households, and 2,752 families residing in the city.

In 2000, the racial and ethnic makeup was 54.29% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 38.56% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.19% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 5.50% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.39% [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.06% two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino Americans]] of any race were 1.93% of the population. In 2000, 76.0% of the population over the age of five spoke [[English language|English]] at home, 16.5% of the population spoke [[French language|French]] or [[Cajun French|Cajun]], and 5.5% spoke [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]].<ref>{{harvnb|Anon|2000}}</ref> The 2019 [[American Community Survey]] estimated the racial and ethnic makeup was 49.6% [[Non-Hispanic whites|non-Hispanic white]], 42.8% African American, 0.5% Native American, 4.8% Asian, 0.9% some other race, and 1.3% two or more races.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Geography Profile: Abbeville city, Louisiana|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US2200100|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-10|website=data.census.gov|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210810171734/https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US2200100  |archive-date = August 10, 2021  }}</ref>

The [[2010 United States census|2010 U.S. census]] reported there were 4,698 households, of which 60.34% had children under the age of 18 present, 33.35% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 24.44% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.72% were non-families; 31.55% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.32% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.20.<ref name="cen173">{{harvnb|U. S. Census Bureau|2012|p=173}}</ref>

In 2019, the median household income was $38,900. Males had a median income of $46,182 versus $37,958 for females; approximately 30.4% of the population lived at or below the poverty line.<ref name=":1" />

==Economy==
Abbeville is an agricultural trade and processing center for [[rice]], [[sugarcane]], dairy products, locally sold corn, cotton, and [[seafood]], in particular [[crawfish]], [[alligator]], and [[crab]].<ref name=gaz/><ref>{{harvnb|Lagassé|Goldman|Hobson|Norton|2000|p=2}}</ref> The [[Petroleum|oil]] and [[natural gas]] fields off the coast in the [[Gulf of Mexico]] are serviced by companies throughout the region including Abbeville.<ref name=EB/> Chemical products and consumer goods are manufactured locally.<ref name=gaz/> A related tourist attraction is a large open-kettle sugarcane syrup mill.<ref name=Colliers/><ref name=gaz>{{harvnb|Cohen|1998|p=3}}</ref>

== Education ==
The city of Abbeville is served by the [[Vermilion Parish School Board|Vermilion Parish School District]]. The following are [[Public school (government funded)|public]] and [[parochial schools]] in Abbeville:<ref>{{harvnb|Anon|2010a}}</ref>
* Elementary Schools
** Eaton Park Elementary
** Herod Elementary
** Mount Carmel Elementary School (Parochial) (Grades PK–8)
* Middle Schools
** J.H. Williams Middle School
* High Schools
** [[Abbeville High School (Louisiana)|Abbeville High School]]
** [[Vermilion Catholic High School]] (Parochial)
** Lighthouse Christian Prep. (Parochial)
** James A. Herod High School and Elementary School (Was founded by Reverend James A. Herod for the education of the black population of Vermilion Parish with grades first thru twelfth, he was also a teacher)

==Recreation==
Abbeville is home to several festivals:
* Daylily Festival and Garden Show
* Giant Omelette Celebration
* Les Lumieres du Village d'Abbeville
* Louisiana Cattle Festival
* Vermilion Carousel of Arts

The [[Abbey Players' Theater]] is a prominent local playhouse in Abbeville. The Acadian Museum is east of the city in nearby [[Erath, Louisiana]]. [[Avery Island]], which contains a bird sanctuary, [[salt dome]], and world-famous Tabasco factory is 15 miles southeast of the city.<ref name=EB/>

== Historic buildings ==
Abbeville is the home of numerous historic buildings that have been added periodically to the [[National Historic Register]]. Starting in 1987, the [[Abbeville Commercial Historic District]], in the area surrounded by Concord, State, Lafayette, and Jefferson Streets, was added to the register. That same year, the [[Abbeville Residential Historic District]] was created between W. Oak, State, Cherry, and the [[Vermilion River (Louisiana)|Vermilion River]]. [[St. Mary Magdalen Church, Rectory, and Cemetery|St. Mary Magdalen Church, Rectory, and the Cemetery]] were added the following year. In the 1990s, the [[Ovide Broussard House]], [[Chauviere House]], [[Gordy House]], [[Lyons House (Abbeville, Louisiana)|Lyons House]], and the [[Caldwell House (Abbeville, Louisiana)|Caldwell House]] were all added, in addition to the [[Downtown Abbeville Historic District]], which is bounded by State, 1st, Pere Megret, and Concord St and the [[Vermilion Bayou]]. Finally, just before the turn of the century, the [[Richard Cattle Auction Barn]] and the [[St. Mary Congregational Church]] were both added. North of Abbeville, [[A La Bonne Veillee]] was added in 1984.<ref name="nris">{{harvnb|Anon|2011a}}</ref>

==National Guard==
Abbeville is the home of HHC (headquarters company), 2nd [[Battalion]], 156th [[Infantry]] (mech.), of the Louisiana [[Army National Guard]]. The 2nd Battalion served with the [[256th Infantry Brigade]] ("The Tiger Brigade") during [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] in 2004–2005.

==Transportation==
The Louisiana & Delta Railroad has a route through the city, which helped bring freight produced locally to market.<ref name="Colliers" />

The [[Freshwater Bayou Deepwater Channel]] connects Abbeville to the [[Gulf of Mexico]],<ref name=EB/> and the [[Intracoastal Waterway]] runs south of the city.<ref name=gaz/>

==Films==
{{More citations needed section|date=April 2025}}
The [[The Blob (1988 film)|1988 remake]] of the 1958 film ''[[The Blob]]'' was filmed in Abbeville.

Part of [[Lucio Fulci]]'s [[Door to Silence]] takes place in Abbeville.

[[Robert J. Flaherty]] chose Abbeville in 1948 as his base of operations during the filming of ''[[Louisiana Story]]''. He rented a house in the current downtown area for 15 months over 1946–47.

In 1990, [[Julia Roberts]] filmed part of ''[[Sleeping with the Enemy|Sleeping With the Enemy]]'' in Abbeville.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tran |first=Nina |date=December 27, 2024 |title=7 memorable movies that were shot in the Upstate |url=https://eu.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/greenville/2024/12/27/7-memorable-movies-shot-in-sc-deliverance-leatherheads-abyss/77183281007/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |work=Greenville News}}</ref>

Abbeville is one of the main locations in the [[True Detective season 1|first season]] of the HBO TV series ''[[True Detective]]''.

== Notable people ==
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* [[George Caldwell (Louisiana official)|George A. Caldwell]] (1892–1966), building contractor convicted in the Louisiana Hayride scandals of 1939-1940.
* [[Bobby Duhon]], (born 1946), professional [[American football]] player.<ref>{{harvnb|Anon|2011}}</ref>
* [[Bobby Charles|Bobby Charles Guidry]], songwriter and musician, wrote ''See You Later Alligator'' & ''Walking to New Orleans''
* [[Koryn Hawthorne]] (born 1997), contestant and finalist on the season 8 of [[The Voice (U.S. TV series)|''The Voice'']]
* [[Sammy Kershaw]], (born 1958), a [[country music]] artist, born in nearby [[Kaplan, Louisiana|Kaplan]], resides in Abbeville.
* [[Dudley J. LeBlanc]], (1894–1971), businessman / politician who made a fortune in the 1950s in the [[patent medicine]] [[Hadacol]]
* [[Anthony Levine]], (born 1987), professional [[American football]] player; born in Abbeville.
* [[Gerald Long]], (born 1944), state senator from [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]]; formerly resided in Abbeville
* [[Brandon Mitchell (defensive end)|Brandon Mitchell]], (born 1975), former professional [[American football]] player; born in Abbeville.
* [[George Petty]] (1894–1975), [[pin-up]] artist; born in Abbeville.
* [[Deb Richard]], (born 1963), golfer, winner of five [[LPGA Tour]] tournaments.
* [[Sam H. Theriot]] (born 1954), member of the [[Louisiana House of Representatives]] from 1979 to 1996
* [[Golden J. Zenon Jr.]] (1929–2006), architect; born in Abbeville.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Wilson |first=Dreck Spurlock |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8iTAgAAQBAJ |title=African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 |date=2004-03-01 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-95628-8 |language=en}}</ref>

==Footnotes==
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* {{cite encyclopedia | editor1-last = Lagassé | editor1-first = Paul | editor2-last = Goldman | editor2-first = Lora | editor3-last = Hobson | editor3-first = Archie | editor4-last = Norton | editor4-first = Susan R. | encyclopedia = The Columbia Encyclopedia | edition = 6th | year = 2000 | isbn = 0-7876-5015-3 | publisher = Columbia University Press | location = New York, NY | lccn = 00-027927 | title = Abbeville | url = https://archive.org/details/columbiaencyclop00laga }}
* {{cite web|last=Lawson |first=Bill |year=2015 |title=Abbeville City Historical Markers |website=Stopping Points |url=http://www.stoppingpoints.com/louisiana/Vermilion/Abbeville/ |access-date=May 11, 2015 |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924110716/http://www.stoppingpoints.com/louisiana/Vermilion/Abbeville/ |url-status=live |df=mdy }}{{better source needed|reason=self-publisher private party website|date=May 2015}}
* {{cite web | last = Theall | first = Gary E. | url = http://www.vermilionhistorical.com/features/topics/abbeville_name.htm | website = www.vermilionhistorical.com | title = The Naming of Abbeville | year = 1996 | series = Topics in History | access-date = July 9, 2016 | publisher = Vermilion Historical Society | location = Abbeville, LA | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160623234412/http://www.vermilionhistorical.com/features/topics/abbeville_name.htm | archive-date = June 23, 2016 | url-status = dead }}
* {{cite web|author=U. S. Census Bureau |url=http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2014_Gazetteer/2014_Gaz_place_national.zip |format=Text |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=May 10, 2015 |date=March 24, 2015 |title=National Places Gazetteer Files (2014) |archive-date=May 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518070125/http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2014_Gazetteer/2014_Gaz_place_national.zip |url-status=live |df=mdy }}
* {{cite web | author = U. S. Census Bureau | year = 2015a | url = http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/cf/1.0/en/place/Abbeville%20city,%20Louisiana/POPULATION/PEP_EST | website = American FactFinder | publisher = U. S. Department of Commerce | title = Community Facts: Abbeville City, Louisiana | access-date = July 9, 2016 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20200214004941/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/cf/1.0/en/place/Abbeville%20city,%20Louisiana/POPULATION/PEP_EST | archive-date = February 14, 2020 | url-status = dead }}
* {{cite web | author = U. S. Census Bureau | year = 2014 | url = http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_5YR/DP03/1600000US2200100 | website = American FactFinder | publisher = U. S. Department of Commerce | title = Selected Economic Characteristics: Abbeville City, Louisiana | access-date = May 11, 2015 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20200213045244/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_5YR/DP03/1600000US2200100 | archive-date = February 13, 2020 | url-status = dead }}
* {{cite book | author = U. S. Census Bureau |date=July 2012  | title = Louisiana: 2010: Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, CPH-1-20 | publisher = U. S. Government Printing Office | url = https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-1-20.pdf | location = Washington, DC }}

==External links==
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* [https://cityofabbeville.net/ City of Abbeville, Louisiana]

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