Harvey Jefferson Sheriffs Office Jan 2010.jpg Location of Harvey in Louisiana Harvey is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Harvey is on the West Bank of the Mississippi River, inside the New Orleans Metairie Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Harvey, Louisiana is positioned in 100x100 Harvey - Harvey French Quarter - French Quarter Location of Harvey, athwart the Mississippi from uptown New Orleans, south-southwest of French Quarter Harvey is positioned east of the Intracoastal Canal on the Mississippi River, at coordinates 29 53 28 N 90 04 09 W.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 7.0 square miles (18 km2), of which 6.7 sq mi (17 km2) is territory and 0.4 sq mi (1.0 km2) (5.11%) is water.
His plantation slaves initially began digging the ditch that would turn into the Harvey Canal, from the banks of the Mississippi River to the back of Bayou Barataria.
Harvey was originally a business town at its founding, advanced by Joseph Hale Harvey (born c.
In 2003, Harvey resident Patrick O'Neal Kennedy was sentenced to death after being convicted of violently raping his eight-year-old stepdaughter.
Harvey's enhance schools are directed by the Jefferson Parish Public School System, which has its command posts in Harvey. West Jefferson High School Some inhabitants are zoned to Gretna Middle School in Gretna, and some are zoned to Marrero Middle School in Marrero.
Pittman Elementary School is in Marrero, adjoining to Harvey and serving portions of Harvey. Other schools outside of Harvey serving portions: Gretna Park and Mc - Donogh #26 in Gretna, Cox Elementary in Timberlane, Collins Elementary (formerly Ames) in Marrero. Woodmere Elementary in Woodmere is nearby, but its attendance zone does not cover the Harvey CDP. Previously Homedale Elementary in Harvey served portions of the city. In 2012 Homedale Elementary closed. A plan called for Homedale students to be rezoned to Mc - Donogh 26 Elementary in Gretna. Jefferson Parish Library operates the Jane O'Brien Chatelain West Bank Regional Library in Harvey. The 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) facility opened in 1990 and is the biggest enhance library in the West Bank of Jefferson Parish. Girod Jackson, III, former state representative for District 87 in Jefferson Parish; contractor in Harvey (William Dale), "Harvey : the Canal, the family, the community"; Times-Picayune, presented as The Times-Picayune; date: 1949-04-17; page 97; location: New Orleans, Louisiana.
Louise Destrehan Harvey on Find a Grave, accessed 22 Sept 2015.
Times-Picayune, presented as The Times-Picayune; date: 1949-04-17; page: 97; story by Ray Samuel, "Grand Canal of an Oil Empire", pages 5-7, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans States Magazine.
Jefferson Parish Public Schools.
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Jefferson Parish Public Schools.
"Woodmere Elementary in Harvey starts school year with new principal." Jefferson Parish Public Schools.
"Elementary School Districts 2009-2010 West Bank of Jefferson Parish Louisiana." (Archive) Jefferson Parish Public School System.
"Group of schools shuts down as Jefferson Parish adjourns for the summer." Municipalities and communities of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States
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