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Lincoln Parish, Louisiana

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Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Parish
Lincoln Parish Courthouse in Ruston
Lincoln Parish Courthouse in Ruston
Flag of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Flag
Location within the U.S. state of Louisiana
Location within the U.S. state of Louisiana
Louisiana's location within the U.S.
Louisiana's location within the U.S.
CountryFile:Flag of the United States.svg United States
State Louisiana
RegionNorth Louisiana
Founded1873
Named afterAbraham Lincoln
Parish seat (and largest city)Ruston
Area
 • Total
472 sq mi (1,220 km2)
 • Land472 sq mi (1,220 km2)
 • Water0.7 sq mi (1.8 km2)
 • percentage0.2 sq mi (0.52 km2)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
48,396
 • RankLA: 25th
 • Density103/sq mi (39.6/km2)
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code318
Congressional district5th
WebsiteParish of Lincoln
Autrey Dogtrot House, built in 1849 by Absalom and Elizabeth Norris Autrey, formerly of Selma, Alabama is located west of Dubach. The oldest restored dogtrot house in Lincoln Parish, it was listed in 1980 on the National Register of Historic Places.
File:Railroad depot in Ruston, LA IMG 3826.JPG
Historic Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Pacific Railroad depot in downtown Ruston; Robert Edwin Russ, the founder of Ruston, sold land to the railroad in 1883.

Lincoln Parish (French: Paroisse de Lincoln) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,396.[1] The parish was created on February 24, 1873, from parts of Bienville, Claiborne, Union, and Jackson parishes, and its boundaries have changed only once (in 1877). This makes Lincoln Parish one of the Reconstruction parishes.[2]

The parish seat was Vienna from the parish's creation in 1873 until 1884, when a parish-wide vote moved it to the new railroad town of Ruston.[3][4][5][6][7]

Lincoln Parish comprises the Ruston micropolitan statistical area.

History

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Since the late 20th century, archeologists have dated eleven sites in northern Louisiana where thousands of years ago, indigenous cultures built complexes with multiple, monumental earthwork mounds during the Middle Archaic period, long before the development of sedentary, agricultural societies. At sites such as Watson Brake, Frenchman's Bend, and Caney, generations of hunter-gatherers worked for hundreds of years to build and add to mound complexes. Hedgepeth Site, located in Lincoln Parish, is dated about 5200–4500 BP (about 3300–2600 BCE), from the latter part of this period. Such finds are changing the understanding of early human cultures.[8]

The parish was one of several new ones established by the state legislature during Reconstruction; in 1873 it was formed from land that had belonged to Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson and Union parishes to create one in which newly elected representatives might have more ties to the Republican Party. It was an attempt to break up the old order of political power, and to capitalize on the arrival of the railroad line. The parish is named for the late U.S. president Abraham Lincoln.[9]

Lincoln Parish is usually Republican in contested elections. In 2012, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney won the parish with 10,739 votes (56.5 percent) to U.S. President Barack H. Obama, the Democrat who polled 7,956 ballots (41.9 percent).[10]

Geography

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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 472 square miles (1,220 km2), of which 472 square miles (1,220 km2) is land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2) (0.2%) is water.[11]

Major highways

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Adjacent parishes

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Communities

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Cities

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Towns

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Villages

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Unincorporated communities

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Demographics

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Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
188011,075—
189014,75333.2%
190015,8987.8%
191018,48516.3%
192016,962−8.2%
193022,82234.5%
194024,7908.6%
195025,7824.0%
196028,53510.7%
197033,80018.5%
198039,76317.6%
199041,7455.0%
200042,5091.8%
201046,7359.9%
202048,3963.6%
U.S. Decennial Census[12]
1790-1960[13] 1900-1990[14]
1990-2000[15] 2010[16]

2020 census

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Lincoln Parish, Louisiana – Racial and ethnic composition
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.
Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 1980[17] Pop 1990[18] Pop 2000[19] Pop 2010[20] Pop 2020[21] % 1980 % 1990 % 2000 % 2010 % 2020
White alone (NH) 24,453 24,425 24,206 25,313 25,672 61.50% 58.51% 56.94% 54.16% 53.05%
Black or African American alone (NH) 14,460 16,546 16,846 18,860 18,626 36.37% 39.64% 39.63% 40.36% 38.49%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) 36 39 72 109 145 0.09% 0.09% 0.17% 0.23% 0.30%
Asian alone (NH) 173 330 538 786 682 0.44% 0.79% 1.27% 1.68% 1.41%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH) x [22] x [23] 6 17 5 x x 0.01% 0.04% 0.01%
Other race alone (NH) 197 24 52 33 106 0.50% 0.06% 0.12% 0.07% 0.22%
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) x [24] x [25] 297 428 1,406 x x 0.70% 0.92% 2.91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 444 381 492 1,189 1,754 1.12% 0.91% 1.16% 2.54% 3.62%
Total 39,763 41,745 42,509 46,735 48,396 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 48,396 people, 17,712 households, and 10,407 families residing in the parish.

Education

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Lincoln Parish residents are zoned to Lincoln Parish School Board schools.

The parish is home to Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, and Grambling State University in Grambling.

Bethel Christian School is located in Ruston.

Ruston High School is located in Ruston.

Lincoln Preparatory School is located in Grambling.

Choudrant Elementary School and Choudrant High School are located in Choudrant.

Cedar Creek (K - 12) is located in Ruston

National Guard

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527th Engineer Battalion (Triple Alpha) ("Anything, Anytime, Anywhere") is headquartered in Ruston, Louisiana, the parish seat. This battalion is part of the 225th Engineer Brigade of the Louisiana National Guard.

Attractions

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  • Eddie G. Robinson Museum
  • Lincoln Parish Park
  • Louisiana Military Museum
  • Lincoln Parish Museum
  • Dixie Center for the Arts
  • North Central Louisiana Arts Council
  • Ruston Community Theatre
  • Celebrity Theatre (movie theater)
  • Annual Peach Festival held in Ruston
  • Annual Chicken Festival held in Dubach
  • Kingdom Collectives Film Festival held in Ruston

Politics

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United States presidential election results for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana[26]
Year Republican Democratic Third party(ies)
№  % №  % №  %
1912 3 0.39% 644 84.51% 115 15.09%
1916 42 4.29% 932 95.30% 4 0.41%
1920 183 15.61% 989 84.39% 0 0.00%
1924 157 13.46% 1,005 86.19% 4 0.34%
1928 670 39.16% 1,041 60.84% 0 0.00%
1932 163 7.87% 1,908 92.13% 0 0.00%
1936 201 8.53% 2,154 91.43% 1 0.04%
1940 449 13.14% 2,969 86.86% 0 0.00%
1944 1,032 37.71% 1,705 62.29% 0 0.00%
1948 353 11.03% 625 19.53% 2,223 69.45%
1952 3,074 60.48% 2,009 39.52% 0 0.00%
1956 2,676 59.20% 1,014 22.43% 830 18.36%
1960 2,766 54.14% 1,051 20.57% 1,292 25.29%
1964 5,766 77.09% 1,714 22.91% 0 0.00%
1968 2,643 29.77% 2,009 22.63% 4,225 47.59%
1972 6,736 69.15% 2,589 26.58% 416 4.27%
1976 6,828 57.05% 4,971 41.53% 170 1.42%
1980 7,515 55.79% 5,598 41.56% 357 2.65%
1984 9,087 61.81% 5,432 36.95% 182 1.24%
1988 8,853 60.40% 5,427 37.03% 377 2.57%
1992 7,220 43.60% 7,205 43.51% 2,136 12.90%
1996 6,973 43.98% 7,903 49.85% 979 6.17%
2000 9,246 55.86% 6,851 41.39% 454 2.74%
2004 10,791 59.23% 7,242 39.75% 185 1.02%
2008 10,680 55.69% 8,292 43.23% 207 1.08%
2012 10,739 56.54% 7,956 41.89% 298 1.57%
2016 10,761 57.64% 7,107 38.07% 801 4.29%
2020 11,311 58.68% 7,559 39.22% 405 2.10%
2024 11,248 61.95% 6,627 36.50% 282 1.55%

See also

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