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  2. Lake Charles, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Lake Charles is the principal city of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 202,040 as of 2013. It is the larger principal city of the Lake Charles-Jennings combined statistical area , with a population of 225,235.

  3. History of Lake Charles, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Six years after the city was incorporated, dissatisfaction over the name Charleston arose and, on March 16, 1867, Charleston, Louisiana, was renamed and incorporated as the town of Lake Charles. By the time of the U.S. Civil War, many Americans from the North, along with a large influx of continental Europeans and Jews, had settled the area.

  4. Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Congressional district. 3rd. Website. Calcasieu Parish Police Jury. Calcasieu Parish ( / ˈkælkəˌʃuː /; French: Paroisse de Calcasieu) is a parish located on the southwestern border of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 216,785. [1] The parish seat is Lake Charles. [2] Calcasieu Parish is part of the ...

  5. Lake Charles metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    The Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area is a metropolitan area in the Acadiana region of southwest Louisiana that covers three parishes—Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis. According to a 2019 census estimate, the MSA had a population of 210,409. [1]

  6. Lake Charles (Louisiana) - Wikipedia

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    Lake Charles (French: Lac Charles) is a brackish lake located on the Calcasieu River in Southwest Louisiana, United States, situated almost entirely within the Lake Charles city limits. The Calcasieu Ship Channel flows along the western side for large ships to pass and is the western boundary of the city limits. [1]

  7. Calcasieu River Bridge - Wikipedia

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    Free both ways. The Calcasieu River Bridge, officially named the Louisiana Memorial World War II Bridge in June 1951 [1] is a through truss located on Interstate 10 between Lake Charles, Louisiana and Westlake, Louisiana. It was the only major bridge in Lake Charles, until the construction of the Lake Charles Loop with the I-210 Calcasieu River ...

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