Jennings, Louisiana Jennings, Louisiana Location of Jennings in Louisiana Location of Louisiana in the United States Website: City of Jennings, Louisiana Jennings is a town/city in and the church seat of Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, United States, near Lake Charles.
Jennings is the principal town/city of the Jennings Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Jefferson Davis Parish.
The City of Jennings is also the home to musical artist Jamie Bergeron.
He assembled the Jennings depot on a divide peculiar to southwest Louisiana.
The Jennings region thriving various wheat farmers from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and other Midwestern states.
When he returned to Iowa to pack up his family for the move to Jennings, he persuaded a several neighbors preparing to migrate west, to follow him to Jennings and southwest Louisiana. That same year, Jennings was the site of the first petroleum well to produce in the state of Louisiana, revealing its first petroleum field.
Jennings is positioned at 30 13 20 N 92 39 25 W (30.222207, -92.656880) and has an altitude of 26 feet (7.9 m). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.3 square miles (27 km2), of which 10.2 square miles (26 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.19%) is water.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 28.8% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Clemons (1921 1992), first Republican in the 20th century to serve in the Louisiana State Senate Chancy Croft (born 1937) Born in Jennings.
Guinn, current member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Jennings Scott Heywood (1872 1950), member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1932 1936, author of homestead exemption; identified petroleum in Jeff Davis Parish in 1901 Charles Franklin Hildebrand (1893-1966), publisher of the Jeff Davis Parish News (1930-1948) and the Jennings Daily News (1948-1957) Claude Kirkpatrick (1917 1997), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1952-1960] from Jefferson Davis Parish, director of Louisiana Department of Public Works (1960 1964) Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick (born 1918), member of Louisiana Board of Regents, 1978 1990; music educator; Baptist state official Dan Morrish, Jennings businessman, former state representative, current state senator Guy Sockrider, member of the Louisiana State Senate from Jennings from 1948 to 1964; industrialist in Jennings and later Lake Charles Gerald Theunissen, Jennings banker and former member of both homes of the state council District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, based in Shreveport; U.S.
Jefferson Davis Parish Public Schools operates enhance schools serving Jennings.
The schools serving Jennings, all inside the city, include Ward Elementary School (PK-2), Jennings Elementary School (3-6), and Jennings High School (7-12) .
Bethel Christian School is a Pre - K-12 Christian school positioned in unincorporated Jefferson Davis Parish, near Jennings. Jefferson Davis Parish Library operates the Headquarters Branch at 118 West Plaquemine Street in Jennings.
In addition the City of Jennings operates the Jennings Carnegie Public Library at 303 North Cary Avenue. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Jennings has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. "City of Jennings, Louisiana".
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Library.mcneese.edu "THE HISTORY OF JENNINGS, LOUISIANA" She excerpted the relevant passages from Cities and Towns of Louisiana by Clare D'Artois Leeper.
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Climate Summary for Jennings, Louisiana City of Jennings Municipalities and communities of Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, United States
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