Editing Assumption Parish, Louisiana

{{short description|Parish in Louisiana, United States}}
{{distinguish|Ascension Parish, Louisiana}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox U.S. county
 | county               = Assumption Parish
 | state                = Louisiana
 | ex image             = StAnneNapWM.jpg
 | ex image size        = 300px
 | ex image cap         = [[St. Anne Catholic Church (Napoleonville, Louisiana)|St. Anne Catholic Church]] in Napoleonville
 | seal                 = 
 | founded year         = 1807
 | founded date         = 
 | seat wl              = Napoleonville
 | largest city wl      = Pierre Part
 | city type            = community
 | area_total_sq_mi     = 365
 | area_land_sq_mi      = 339
 | area_water_sq_mi     = 26
 | area percentage      = 7.1
 | population_as_of     = 2020
 | population_total     = 21039
 | pop_est_as_of        = 
 | population_est       = 
 | population_density_sq_mi = auto
 | time zone            = Central
 | footnotes            = 
 | web                  = https://www.assumptionla.com/
 | named for            = [[Assumption of Mary|Assumption]] [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic Church]]
 | district             = 2nd
 | district2            = 6th
}}

'''Assumption Parish''' ({{langx|fr|Paroisse de l'Assomption}}, {{langx|es|Parroquia de la Asunción}}) is a [[List of parishes in Louisiana|parish]] located in the U.S. state of [[Louisiana]]. As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], the population was 21,039.<ref>{{cite web|title=Census - Geography Profile: Assumption Parish, Louisiana|url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Assumption_Parish,_Louisiana?g=0500000US22007|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=January 21, 2023}}</ref> Its [[County seat|parish seat]] is [[Napoleonville, Louisiana|Napoleonville]].<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=June 7, 2011 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011 }}</ref> Assumption Parish was established in 1807, as one of the original parishes of the [[Territory of Orleans]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Assumption Parish|url=http://ccet.louisiana.edu/tourism/parishes/Acadiana_Parishes/assumption.html|publisher=Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism|access-date=September 5, 2014}}</ref>

Assumption Parish is one of the twenty-two [[Acadiana]] parishes. Its major product is [[sugar cane]]. In proportion to its area, Assumption Parish produces the most sugar of any parish of Louisiana.

== History ==

In 1807, Assumption became the eighth parish of the [[Orleans Territory]]. Its history is rooted in its waterways and its large expanse of fertile soils ideal for farming. Settled in the middle 18th century by French and Spanish settlers, the area retains strong cultural ties to its past with conversational French still common among residents. Assumption was also a final destination for many of the French [[Acadian]]s exiled from [[Nova Scotia]] between 1755 and 1764.

==Geography==
According to the [[U.S. Census Bureau]], the parish has a total area of {{convert|365|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|339|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|26|sqmi}} (7.1%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_22.txt |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=August 20, 2014 |date=August 22, 2012 |title=2010 Census Gazetteer Files |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928155956/http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_22.txt |archive-date=September 28, 2013 }}</ref>

=== Major highways ===
* [[Image:I-49 (Future).svg|25px]] [[Interstate 49 (Louisiana)|Future Interstate 49]]
* [[Image:US 90.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Highway 90]]
* [[Image:Louisiana 1 (2008).svg|25px]] [[Louisiana Highway 1]]
* [[Image:Louisiana 70 (2008).svg|25px]] [[Louisiana Highway 70]]
* [[Image:Louisiana 182 (2008).svg|25px]] [[Louisiana Highway 182]]
* [[Image:Louisiana 308 (2008).svg|25px]] [[Louisiana Highway 308]]

=== Adjacent parishes ===

{{div col}}
* [[Iberville Parish, Louisiana|Iberville Parish]] (north)
* [[Ascension Parish, Louisiana|Ascension Parish]]  (north)
* [[St. James Parish, Louisiana|St. James Parish]]  (northeast)
* [[Lafourche Parish, Louisiana|Lafourche Parish]]  (east)
* [[Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana|Terrebonne Parish]]  (southeast)
* [[St. Mary Parish, Louisiana|St. Mary Parish]]  (southwest)
* [[Iberia Parish, Louisiana|Iberia Parish]]  (northwest)
* [[St. Martin Parish, Louisiana|St. Martin Parish]]  (west)
{{div col end}}

==Communities==
[[Image:Map of Assumption Parish Louisiana With Municipal Labels.PNG|thumb|200px|Map of Assumption Parish, with municipal labels]]

=== Village ===

* [[Napoleonville, Louisiana|Napoleonville]]  (parish seat and only municipality)

===Census-designated places===
* [[Bayou Corne, Louisiana|Bayou Corne]]
* [[Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana|Bayou L'Ourse]]
* [[Belle Rose, Louisiana|Belle Rose]]
* [[Labadieville, Louisiana|Labadieville]]
* [[Paincourtville, Louisiana|Paincourtville]]
* [[Pierre Part, Louisiana|Pierre Part]]
* [[Supreme, Louisiana|Supreme]]

===Other unincorporated communities===
* [[Albemarle, Louisiana|Albemarle]]
* [[Belle Alliance, Louisiana|Belle Alliance]]
* [[Belle River, Louisiana|Belle River]]
* [[Bruly St. Martin]]
* [[Cancienne, Louisiana|Cancienne]]
* [[Foley, Louisiana|Foley]]
* [[Klotzville, Louisiana|Klotzville]]
* [[Plattenville, Louisiana|Plattenville]]
* [[Westfield, Louisiana|Westfield]]
* [[Wildwood, Louisiana|Wildwood]]
* [[Woodlawn, Louisiana|Woodlawn]]

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1810= 2472
|1820= 3576
|1830= 5669
|1840= 7141
|1850= 10538
|1860= 15379
|1870= 13234
|1880= 17010
|1890= 19629
|1900= 21620
|1910= 24128
|1920= 17912
|1930= 15990
|1940= 18541
|1950= 17278
|1960= 17991
|1970= 19654
|1980= 22084
|1990= 22753
|2000= 23388
|2010= 23421
|2020= 21039
|estyear=
|estimate=
|estref=
|align-fn=center
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html |title=U.S. Decennial Census |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=August 20, 2014 }}</ref><br />1790-1960<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu|title=Historical Census Browser|publisher=University of Virginia Library|access-date=August 20, 2014}}</ref> 1900-1990<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/cencounts/la190090.txt|title=Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=August 20, 2014}}</ref><br />1990-2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf|title=Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=August 20, 2014}}</ref> 2010<ref name="QF">{{cite web|title=State & County QuickFacts|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/22/22007.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=August 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607015723/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/22/22007.html|archive-date=June 7, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+Assumption Parish racial composition as of 2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=0500000US22007&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 28, 2021|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!scope="col"| Race
!scope="col"| Number
!scope="col"| Percentage
|-
!scope="row"| [[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
| 13,580
| 64.55%
|-
!scope="row"| [[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
| 5,973
| 28.39%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
| 83
| 0.39%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
| 56
| 0.27%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
| 433
| 2.06%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
| 914
| 4.34%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 21,039 people, 8,552 households, and 5,484 families residing in the parish. During the [[2010 United States census]], there were 23,421 people living in the parish. Among its 2010 population, 66.8% were [[White American|White]], 30.5% [[African American|Black or African American]], 0.6% [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]], 0.2% [[Asian American|Asian]], 0.1% [[Pacific Islands American|Pacific Islander]], 1.0% of some other race and 0.9% [[Multiracial American|of two or more races]]. 2.1% were [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (of any race). 38.2% were of [[French American|French]], [[French Canadian American|French Canadian]] or [[Cajun]] and 9.4% [[American ethnicity|American]] ancestry.<ref>[https://archive.today/20200212234628/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml "American FactFinder"]</ref>

==Education==
The [[Assumption Parish School Board]] operates local public schools. [[Assumption High School (Louisiana)|Assumption High School]] serves the whole parish. There is one [[private school]] in the parish, [[Saint Elizabeth School]], which was founded in 1834.
* [[Assumption High School (Louisiana)|Assumption High School]]
* Bayou L'Ourse Primary School
* Belle Rose Middle School
* Belle Rose Primary School
* Labadieville Middle School
* Labadieville Primary School
* Napoleonville Middle School
* Napoleonville Primary School
* Pierre Part Elementary School
* Saint Elizabeth School

==National Guard==
The 928th [[Sapper]] Company, a unit of the 769th Engineer [[Battalion]] and the [[225th Engineer Brigade]].

==Politics==
Assumption Parish is represented in the [[Louisiana State Legislature|Louisiana House of Representatives]] by [[Beryl Amedee]], a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], and [[Chad Brown (politician)|Chad Brown]], a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]].
During the "Solid South" era, conflicts over trade policy often caused Assumption Parish to deviate somewhat from overwhelming Democratic support, as did rebellion in the Acadiana region against [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s perceived hostility towards France.<ref>Phillips, Kevin P.; ''The Emerging Republican Majority'', p. 211 {{ISBN|978-0-691-16324-6}}</ref>

Since the Dixiecrat revolt, by contrast, Assumption has been a typical rural South Louisiana parish in its political behaviour. It backed Dixiecrat [[Strom Thurmond]] in 1948 and [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in 1956 before showing powerful pro-Catholic behaviour in 1960<ref>Phillips; ''The Emerging Republican Majority'', p. 222</ref> and then turning powerfully against liberal [[Midwestern United States|Midwestern]] Democrats in 1968 and 1972. With the nomination of the more centrist Southerner [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1976, Assumption became again Democratic leaning until the 2000s, when, like all of the rural white South, it has turned powerfully Republican.<ref>Cohn, Nate; [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/southern-whites-loyalty-to-gop-nearing-that-of-blacks-to-democrats.html ‘Demographic Shift: Southern Whites’ Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats’], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 24, 2014</ref>

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{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|2,928|5,639|1,886|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|4,017|5,610|368|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|5,433|4,660|270|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|4,001|4,679|393|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|3,117|4,401|193|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,751|2,065|549|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|1,222|2,085|2,898|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|2,112|3,056|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|766|3,019|426|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|1,708|1,282|106|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|1,210|1,647|0|Louisiana}}
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{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|426|1,419|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|722|1,759|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|1,111|712|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|386|1,538|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|307|948|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|601|305|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|725|202|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|221|489|373|Louisiana}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|149|423|172|Louisiana}}

== Notable people ==
* [[Kim Willoughby]], American indoor volleyball player, 2008 U.S. volleyball Olympian, former [[University of Hawaii]] volleyball player, 2003 [[AVCA]] [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] National Player of the Year
* [[Charlie Melançon|Charles Melançon]], former [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]]
* [[Troy E. Brown]], a former member of the [[Louisiana State Senate]]
* [[Brandon Jacobs]], two-time [[Super Bowl|Super bowl]] winner, former running back for the [[New York Giants]]
* [[Johnny Meads]], is a former professional American football linebacker in the National Football League [[Houston Oilers]] [[Washington Redskins]]
* J. E. Jumonville Sr., was a businessman, farmer, and horse breeder born in [[Paincourtville]] [[state senator]]
* [[Samuel A. LeBlanc I]], was a lawyer from Napoleonville born in [[Paincourtville]] in Assumption Parish
* [[Whitmell P. Martin]], was a U.S. Representative from Assumption Parish Louisiana from 1915 to 1929.

==See also==
* [[Bayou Corne sinkhole]]
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Assumption Parish, Louisiana]]
* [[Isleños in Louisiana#Valenzuela]]
* [[Troy E. Brown]]
* [[Samuel A. LeBlanc I]]
* J. E. Jumonville Sr.

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==References==
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{{Geographic Location
|Centre    = Assumption Parish, Louisiana
|North     = [[Iberville Parish, Louisiana|Iberville Parish]] and [[Ascension Parish, Louisiana|Ascension Parish]]
|Northeast = [[St. James Parish, Louisiana|St. James Parish]]
|East      = [[Lafourche Parish, Louisiana|Lafourche Parish]]
|Southeast = [[Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana|Terrebonne Parish]]
|South     =
|Southwest = [[St. Mary Parish, Louisiana|St. Mary Parish]]
|West      = [[St. Martin Parish, Louisiana|St. Martin Parish]]
|Northwest = [[Iberia Parish, Louisiana|Iberia Parish]]
}}

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[[Category:Parishes in Acadiana]]
[[Category:Acadiana]]
[[Category:1807 establishments in the Territory of Orleans]]
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