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Lake Charles, Louisiana. / 30.21472°N 93.20861°W / 30.21472; -93.20861. Lake Charles is the fifth-most populous city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu Parish, it is a major industrial, cultural, and ...
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.
It is also part of the larger Lake Charles–DeRidder combined statistical area which had a population of 276,909 in 2023. The Lake Charles MSA also shares borders with the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area to the west. Metropolitan Lake Charles, the principal city, is commonly referred to as the Lake Area.
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The Capital One Tower is a vacant skyscraper located in Lake Charles, Louisiana and is the tallest building in the city. The building was designed by Lloyd Jones Brewer Associates of Houston and was constructed by Miner-Dederick of Houston and F. Miller and Sons of Lake Charles. Construction began in March 1981 with groundbreaking in January ...
The Port of Lake Charles is an industrial port based in the city of Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.A.It is a major employer in Lake Charles. It is the twelfth-busiest port in the United States according to the American Association of Port Authorities U.S. Port Ranking by Cargo Tonnage, 2013 report [1] and the 83rd-busiest in the world in terms of tonnage according to the American Association of ...
Lake Charles Historic District. / 30.22821°N 93.20984°W / 30.22821; -93.20984. The Lake Charles Historic District in Lake Charles, Louisiana was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [ 1] It is locally designated as the Charpentier Historic District. The NRHP district is roughly bounded by Iris, Hodges, Lawrence ...
The statistical area consists of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area and the DeRidder Micropolitan Statistical Area. The largest principal city is Lake Charles, and the smaller principal city is Jennings. As of the 2020 census, the CSA had a population of 291,201. A July 1, 2023 estimate placed the population at 276,909.