Metairie, Louisiana Metairie (Metairie) Metairie Metairie Central Business District along Causeway Blvd Location of Metairie in Louisiana Metairie (/ m t ri/ met- r-ee; French: Metairie [met i]) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States and is a primary part of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area.
Metairie is the biggest improve in Jefferson Parish and the fifth-largest CDP in the United States. It is an unincorporated region that would be Louisiana's fourth-largest town/city if it were incorporated. The zip codes that serve the improve are 70001-70006.
Metairie (map center) is west of New Orleans, at the 17th Street Canal.
In the 1720s French pioneer became the first Europeans to settle Metairie in the region known then as Tchoupitoulas and now as Metairie Ridge, a natural levee formed by an ancient branch of the Mississippi River which flowed through modern-day River Ridge, Metairie, Gentilly, and New Orleans East.
The Acolapissa Native Americans used this ridge as a road, and it is the earliest road in the New Orleans area.
Paved in the 1920s, it is called Metairie Road.
An electric streetcar was installed running along Metairie Road in the late 1910s, opening the region to greater development.
It is today the most prestigious region of Metairie.
The areas to the north and northwest of Metairie Road were not advanced until after World War II.
The territory between Metairie Ridge and Lake Pontchartrain, which was cypress swamps and marshlands, was drained with the Wood Pump.
With evolution of this new territory for residences, Metairie's populace interval in the 1940s as a result of cheaper land, lower taxes, and larger lots than in Orleans Parish.
In 1990, Metairie made history when one of its districts propel white supremacist David Duke to the Louisiana state council for a single term.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused a new migration from Orleans Parish, because housing was needed to replace what had been finished in the flooding of the city.
The 2010 Enumeration showed that Metairie has increasingly turn into more diverse .
The Central Business District of Metairie is positioned on Causeway Blvd near Lake Pontchartrain.
Metairie also has one of the handful of primary malls positioned in the New Orleans metro area.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, an region of bars and eveningclubs opened in a section of Metairie known as "Fat City." Fat City is now the most racially diverse region in the New Orleans Metropolitan Area and is home to a vibrant restaurant scene.
Several New Orleans radio and tv stations have transmitter facilities in Metairie and Jefferson Parish; two of them, WGNO-TV and WNOL, now have studios and chief offices in Metairie.
Metairie has a large Mardi Gras season that touts itself as more family-friendly than the New Orleans Mardi Gras.
The 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane with winds of 125 mph (201 km/h) directly hit Metairie.
The May 8th 1995 Louisiana Flood, which dumped upwards of twenty inches of precipitation into Metairie in a twelve-hour period, flooded some parts of the region, especially areas south and west of Metairie, including Kenner, Harahan, and River Ridge.
On August 29, 2005, Metairie was hit difficult by the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, including widespread wind damage and flooding.
According to satellite images and flood maps, upwards of 75% of Metairie was flooded.
The death toll and damage were less in Metairie than in bordering Orleans Parish, largely because the Metairie side of the 17th Street Canal did not breach, and most inhabitants had already evacuated.
Metairie was used as a staging region to evacuate citizens from New Orleans.
The flooding in Metairie had three causes: Lake Pontchartrain backflow into canals: Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard evacuated all pumping station operators from their posts to Washington Parish (seventy-five miles away) in anticipation of the hurricane.
Lack of pumping led to harsh flooding of Metairie in most areas north of Interstate 10.
Rain waters: Because almost all of Metairie is between two and seven feet below sea level, all precipitation water was captured in the Metairie "bowl." 17th Street Canal breach: There was no breach on the Metairie side of the canal; however, water crept into Metairie through Airline Highway.
The narrow high ground of Metairie Road and some elevated barns tracks partially contained the region of flooding.
This water chiefly caused the flooding in the southern part of Old Metairie.
There was a breach alongside the Lake Villa canal positioned in Metairie, where water poured over the top of the levee alongside the pumping station.
Many Metairie inhabitants are joining a class action lawsuit against Aaron Broussard because of his removal of pump operators.
Metairie is home to the New Orleans Baby Cakes baseball team.
Jefferson Parish has created many parks in Metairie.
Metairie's enhance schools are directed by the Jefferson Parish Public School System. There are two zoned enhance high schools in Metairie: East Jefferson High School Some inhabitants are zoned to Alfred Bonnabel High School in Kenner, and some are zoned to Riverdale High School in Jefferson. Harris Middle School, titled for the Louisiana state superintendent of education, 1908-1940 In regards to the advanced studies academies, some students are zoned to Metairie Academy and some are zoned to Airline Park Academy. One ground of the charter school network International School of Louisiana (ISL) is in the former Ralph J.
Metairie Park Country Day School New Orleans Jewish Day School Jefferson Parish Library operates enhance libraries. The East Bank Regional Library, which homes the library system's headquarters, is in Metairie. Other enhance libraries in Metairie include the Lakeshore Library, the Old Metairie Library, and the Wagner Library. In Metairie, 56.87% of its people identify themselves with some religion.
Metairie is home to Congregation Gates of Prayer, a Reform Jewish church, and beside it is Congregation Beth Israel, the earliest Orthodox congregation in the New Orleans region.
Beth Israel constructed its new building in Metairie in 2012, a several years after its building in Lakeview, New Orleans was finished by Hurricane Katrina.
Metairie's Catholic churches are part of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
Metairie is home to 13 Catholic churches and schools.
Metairie is positioned in easterly Jefferson Parish and its boundaries include New Orleans to the east, Kenner to the west, Lake Pontchartrain to the north, and Airline Highway to the south.
South of Airline Highway from Metairie are River Ridge, Harahan, Elmwood, and Jefferson.
The 17th Street Canal forms the border between Metairie and New Orleans to the east.
Metairie is positioned at 29 59 52 N 90 10 39 W (29.997797, 90.177473) and has an altitude of 3 feet (0.9 m). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 23.2 sq mi (60.2 km2), all but 0.039 sq mi (0.1 km2) (0.22%) of which is land.
Climate data for Metairie, Louisiana Two of the primary roads in Metairie, Causeway Boulevard and West Esplanade Avenue, where they intersect in the CBD Mass transit is provided by "Je - T" (Jefferson Transit), but it does not run on Sundays, holidays, or late at evening, unlike many lines of New Orleans' RTA.
Interstate 10 runs east west through Metairie.
Major east west roads (starting from north to south) include West Esplanade Avenue, Veterans Memorial Boulevard, West Napoleon Avenue, West Metairie Avenue, Metairie Road, Airline Drive (which is part of U.S.
The Earhart Expressway, running east west immediately south of Airline Drive, is the only other freeway entering New Orleans from the west, but it ends as an expressway soon after crossing into Orleans Parish and well before the New Orleans CBD (in Central City.) These canals are one of the most distinct characteristics of the Metairie landscape.
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway where it hits the South Shore in Metairie The ethnic makeup of Metairie is: As of the 2000 Census, there were 39,073 families residing in Metairie.
In Metairie the populace is spread out with 20.6% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 29.6% from 25 to 44, 24.9% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The per capita income for Metairie is $24,771.
Raymond Arroyo news director for EWTN; lived in Metairie before Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 Tom Capella Jefferson Parish Assessor since 2011; former state representative and Jefferson Parish Council member Eddie Doucet businessman and state representative for Jefferson Parish, 1972 to 1988 Schwegmann supermarket pioneer and member of both homes of the Louisiana State Legislature from Jefferson Parish from 1960 to 1972; former member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission Raymond businessman and former state representative in Orleans Parish; former resident of Metairie Wheat member of the Louisiana State Senate from Red River and Natchitoches churches (1948-52) "Metairie, Louisiana (LA) Detailed Profile" (notes), City Data, 2007, webpage: C-Metr.
"Enumeration 2000 Data for the State of Louisiana" (town list), US Enumeration Bureau, May 2003, webpage: C2000-LA.
"2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Metairie CDP, LA" (Archive).
"High School Districts 2012-2013 East Bank of Jefferson Parish Louisiana." (Archive) Jefferson Parish Public School System.
Jefferson Parish Public School System.
"Jefferson Parish" (Archive) International School of Louisiana.
"Old Metairie Library." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Metairie, Louisiana.
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