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Ruston is a small city and the parish seat of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States. [2] The 2020 population was 22,166. [3] Ruston is near the eastern border of the Ark-La-Tex region and is the home of Louisiana Tech University. Ruston is the principal city of the Ruston micropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Lincoln Parish.
Louisiana Highway 800 Location Webster Parish Length 0.5 mi (800 m) Existed 1955– c. 1957 Louisiana Highway 800 (LA 800) ran 0.5 miles (0.80 km) in a north–south direction from the intersection of two local roads to a junction with LA 163 south of Doyline. The route is now part of LA 527. The entire route was in Webster Parish. mi km Destinations Notes 0.0 0.0 Begin state maintenance at ...
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the " Alcatraz of the South ", " The Angola Plantation " and " The Farm " [ 8]) is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is named "Angola" after the former slave plantation that occupied this territory.
U.S. Route 167 US 167 highlighted in red Route information Auxiliary route of US 67 Length 500 mi (800 km) Existed 1926–present Tourist routes Louisiana Scenic Byways: Jean Lafitte Scenic Byway Zydeco Cajun Prairie Scenic Byway Major junctions South end LA 14 Bus. in Abbeville, LA Major intersections US 90 in Lafayette, LA I-10 / I-49 in Lafayette, LA US 71 in Lecompte, LA I-49 in Alexandria ...
LSU COMMIT: News Star Elite 8: Ruston’s Ahmad Breaux has musical fingers and a tough side The Bearcats (13-0) departed Ruston at 9 a.m. Saturday and will conduct a walk-through at Southeastern ...
Pointe à la Hache: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. A word meaning persimmons created from the Louisiana Creole and the Atakapa language 22,386: 2,429 sq mi (6,291 km 2) Pointe Coupee Parish: 077: New Roads: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. French phrase la pointe coupée or in English, the cut-off point, which refers to a bend in ...
U.S. Highway 63. U.S. Highway 63 ( US 63) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that spans 1,286 miles (2,070 km) [2] from Ruston, Louisiana to a point southwest of Ashland, Wisconsin. Within the state of Louisiana, the highway travels 35.40 miles (56.97 km) [1] from the national southern terminus at the junction of Interstate ...
Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker visited a Buc-ees near Huntsville, Ala., in this Aug. 3, 2023 file photo. Buc-ee's plans to open its first Louisiana travel center in Ruston in 2025.