Sulphur, Louisiana Sulphur, Louisiana Official name: City of Sulphur Location of Sulphur in Louisiana Location of Louisiana in the United States Sulphur (French: Soufre) is a town/city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.
The populace was 20,410 at the 2010 census. Sulphur is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sulphur is titled for the sulfur mines that were directed in the region in the 1900s.
Hilgard, an experienced geologist who was prospecting for petroleum and other minerals, conducted exploratory borings in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana and identified sulfur in the caprock of a salt dome.
Sulfur soon began to be mined on an industrialized scale, with the molten mineral allowed to solidify and dry in enormous vats 100 by 400 feet, then blasted and hauled by rail to the Sabine River for shipment. Frasch's invention greatly facilitated sulfur mining, and the Union Sulphur Company, a joint venture of Dr.
Frasch and the American Sulphur Company that owned the land, sparked a reconstructionof booming expansion in the decades that followed. The elementary school on South Huntington Street in downtown Sulphur is titled after Dr.
The Sulphur region is still mostly dependent on the petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants for employment.
Sulphur is positioned near the center of Calcasieu Parish at 30 13 49 N 93 21 39 W (30.230355, -93.360837) and has an altitude of 16 feet (4.9 m). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.0 square miles (25.9 km2), all land. Communities inside Sulphur town/city limits include, from west to east, old Sulphur, Hollywood, and Maplewood, as well as North Sulphur, also known as Portie Town by natives.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.1% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 28.2% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $38,247, and the median income for a family was $45,455.
Most of Sulphur's schools are under the Calcasieu Parish School Board.
One high school, Sulphur High School, serves the city, along with the Sulphur High Ninth Grade Campus that was instead of in 2004.
This represented a move from one of the more impoverished areas of old Sulphur (North Sulphur, a.k.a.
There are some private schools in the region as well, including Our Lady's Catholic School on Cypress Street.
Lewis Middle, and Sulphur High School offer Spanish Immersion classes in which students take Spanish language as well as core classes totally in Spanish from kindergarten all the way to eighth grade, and Spanish language classes up to Spanish V or VI in High School.
Clark, justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, born in Sulphur in 1956 He graduated from Sulphur High School. Mike Danahay, Louisiana state representative for Calcasieu Parish since 2008; revenue representative in Lake Charles, reared in Sulphur Dugas, M.D., native of Sulphur and a 1941 graduate of Sulphur High School, practiced medicine for four decades in Union Parish.
Michael Durham, born in Sulphur, was an American experienced wrestler, better known by his ring name, Johnny Grunge.
Herman Frasch, inventor of the "Frasch Method" of quarrying sulphur, was head of Union Sulphur Company.
Its command posts were at the Sulphur Mines, a business town just west of present-day Sulphur.
Claude Kirkpatrick, lived in Sulphur in the late 1930s before moving to Jennings, where he served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1952-1960. Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick, lived in Sulphur in the late 1930s before moving to Jennings.
Alvan Lafargue, Sulphur physician for fifty years, hospital founder, and mayor from 1926 to 1938 Tim Stine, former state representative and town/city council member, born in Sulphur a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Sulphur city, Louisiana".
City of Sulphur.
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