Houma, Louisiana Houma City of Houma Terrebonne Parish Courthouse at Houma Terrebonne Parish Courthouse at Houma Houma is positioned in Louisiana Houma - Houma Principal town/city Houma Bayou Cane Thibodaux Metropolitan Travel Destination Airport Houma Terrebonne Airport Houma (/ ho m / ho-ma) is the only town/city in and the church seat of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, and the biggest principal town/city of the Houma Bayou Cane Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The city's powers of government have been combined by the church, which is now run by the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government.
Many unincorporated areas are adjoining to the town/city of Houma; the largest, Bayou Cane, is an urbanized region commonly referred to by locals as being part of Houma.
If the populations of the urbanized census-designated places were encompassed with that of the town/city of Houma, the total would exceed 60,000 residents.
The town/city was titled after the historic Native American tribe of Houma citizens , believed to be related to the Choctaw.
The United Houma Nation Tribe is recognized by the state of Louisiana, although it has not accomplished federal recognition. Houma was rated as an "Affordable" town/city by Demographia's International Housing Survey. Houma was established by European Americans in 1834 at a former settlement of the Houma citizens , who historically occupied this area.
The town/city of Houma was incorporated in 1848. The United Houma Nation and two other Houma tribes have been recognized by the state.
Houma is also rated as a medium size city.
In 1862, four Union soldiers en route by wagon from New Orleans to Houma were ambushed by a several armed people.
In retaliation, Union officers brought 400 troops into Houma, where they began a wholesale arrest of residents.
Houma is positioned at 29 35 15 N 90 42 58 W (29.587614, -90.716108) and has an altitude of 10 feet (3.0 m). BY SQ According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 14.2 square miles (37 km2), of which 14.0 square miles (36 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) (0.92%) is water.
The "Twin Spans" bridges in downtown Houma serve as the chief thoroughfare for crossing the Intracoastal Waterway It is home to Louisiana's second-oldest high school, Terrebonne High School. Ellender Memorial High School is also in Houma.
Southdown High School (originally Houma Colored High School) had black students from 1946 to 1969. Houma and the encircling communities are steeped in the French and Cajun history of the region.
The swampland around Houma was isolated from the rest of the United States well into the 1930s, thus outside influences such as radio and WWI patriotism floundered to inspire the Cajuns to turn into more "Americanized".
Such rich culture in Houma includes the French language, Cajun cuisine, and celebrations such as Mardi Gras.
A fairly momentous portion of them settled in New Orleans and many settled in Houma as well.
Downtown Houma has been listed as a momentous historic precinct on the National Register of Historic Places.
It offers a downtown walking tour and attractions such as the Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum, the Folklife Culture Center, the Regional Military Museum, Southdown Plantation, the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, monuments to small-town armed forces, and small-town eateries. Although Houma is quickly changing, many inhabitants in the encircling communities continue to make their living as their ancestors did.
As reported by records held by the United States Government Patent and Trademark Office, Houma, Louisiana was the site of the deepest petroleum well in Terrebonne Parish (name of sections in the State of Louisiana, often characterized in the name as "counties" in other States inside the United States of America.
Houma is also the command posts of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux. Tab Benoit's Voice of the Wetlands Music Festival, established in 2005, takes place in Houma, annually in October. Houma and the encircling area are the setting for the fictional Swamp Thing comic books, and the 1994 V.
The Suicide Squad is based at Belle Reve in Houma, as well.
The 1999 films Crazy in Alabama, Fight Club and A Lesson Before Dying were partially filmed in Houma.
The 2005 film The Skeleton Key is set in Houma and the close-by area of Bayou Gauche. In 1992, Unsolved Mysteries profiled the case of Adam John "AJ" Breaux, a resident of Houma, Louisiana, who went missing in 1991.
The small-town journal is The Courier, established in 1878 as Le Courrier de Houma by the French-born Lafayette Bernard Filhucan Bazet.
The Houma Times is positioned in Houma.
The area's only small-town broadcast TV station KFOL-CD is positioned in Houma.
Houma is served by Houma-Terrebonne Airport, positioned 3 miles southeast of the central company district. Good Earth Transit is Houma's church bus system. It has 5 primary routes and services the encircling suburban areas including the small, encircling bayou communities and the town/city of Thibodaux. Houma relies mainly on its roads as its chief form of transportation.
The primary roads in Houma are: In June 2012, Terrebonne Parish signed a letter of intent to turn into a sister town/city with Weihai, China, for economic evolution purposes. Bernard, Louisiana insurance commissioner from 1972 88, graduated from Terrebonne High School in Houma.
Elward Thomas Brady, Jr., state representative from Terrebonne Parish from 1972 76; businessman Chabert, member of both homes of Louisiana State Legislature from Terrebonne Parish; namesake of Leonard J.
Chabert Medical Center in Houma Chabert, former state senator from Terrebonne and Lafourche churches Norby Chabert, current Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Terrebonne and Lafourche churches Gordon Dove, president of Terrebonne Parish and former state representative Leon Gary (1912-2000), mayor of Houma from 1946 to 1962 Morris Lottinger, Jr., former state representative and retired circuit court judge from Houma Morris Lottinger, Sr., state representative from 1936 50, House Speaker from 1948-50, and state circuit court judge until his retirement in 1965 Jerome Zeringue, incoming state representative for Lafourche and Terrebonne churches, effective 2016 According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Houma has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. "Houma (city), Louisiana".
"United States" (PDF).
Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963; ISBN 0-8071-0834-0, pp.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Houma Today.
"Some scenes from The Butler shot in Houma, Louisiana", Daily Comet, 15 August 2013; accessed August 21, 2014.
"Terrebonne church establishes sister town/city with China".
"Houma, Louisiana Koppen Climate Classification".
Thomas Blum Cobb & Mara Currie, Houma, Arcadia Publishing, 2004; ISBN 978-0-7385-1631-8 Houma Today (website of The Courier newspaper) Houma Police Department Articles Relating to Houma
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