Creole, Louisiana

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Louisiana, U.S.}}

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| name = Creole, Louisiana

| settlement_type = Unincorporated community

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = United States

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = Louisiana

| subdivision_type2 = Parish

| subdivision_name2 = Cameron

| established_title = Post office established

| established_date = March 1890

| named_for = Louisiana Creole people

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| postal_code = 70632

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Creole is an unincorporated community in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, United States.{{GNIS|546362}} The ZIP Code for Creole is 70632.{{cite web|url=https://www.zipdatamaps.com/70632|title=Creole ZIP Code|publisher=zipdatamaps.com|year=2022|access-date=November 11, 2022}}

History

A post office was established at Creole in March 1890. The community was probably named for the Louisiana Creole people.{{cite book|last=Leeper|first=Clare D'Artois|title=Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHeeUa0xNxcC&pg=PA75|date=19 October 2012|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-4740-5|page=75}} The label 'Creole' refers to those born in colonial Louisiana and their descendants.{{Cite book|last=Hall |first=Gwendolyn Midlo|authorlink=Gwendolyn Midlo Hall|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45843432|title=Africans in colonial Louisiana : the development of Afro-Creole culture in the eighteenth century|date=1992|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|isbn=0-585-32916-8|location=Baton Rouge|oclc=45843432}} On October 9, 2020, Hurricane Delta made landfall near the community as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) and a pressure of 970 mb (28.64 inHg).{{Cite web|url=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2020/al26/al262020.update.10092259.shtml?|title=Hurricane Delta Tropical Cyclone Update|website=www.nhc.noaa.gov|author=Daniel Brown|date=October 9, 2020|access-date=October 9, 2020|publisher=National Hurricane Center|location=Miami, Florida}}

Education

Cameron Parish School Board is the school district for all of the parish.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st22_la/schooldistrict_maps/c22023_cameron/DC20SD_C22023.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Cameron Parish, LA|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=2024-02-19}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st22_la/schooldistrict_maps/c22023_cameron/DC20SD_C22023_SD2MS.txt Text list]

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Cameron Parish, Louisiana

Category:Unincorporated communities in Louisiana

Category:Unincorporated communities in the Lake Charles metropolitan area