Vinton, Louisiana Vinton, Louisiana Vinton, Louisiana IMG 1067.JPG Location of Vinton in Louisiana Location of Louisiana in the United States Vinton is a town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.
The populace was 3,212 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area.
1 History of Vinton Settlers had long been in the Vinton area.
Jean Baptise Granger settled acreage between what is now Vinton and Big Woods about 1827, one of the first pioneers of the area.
The region had several pioneer because France, New Spain, and Mexico disputed the boundary of Louisiana for many years.
When The United States made the Louisiana Purchase the disputed region was inherited.
The area, sometimes referred to as the Rio Hondo Territory, was off limits to the military of both countries and pioneer were not to be allowed, but this did not stop squatters from both countries.
Robert Neblett advanced a bluff into a grow river port, which became known as Niblett's Bluff (sic, the spelling approximated the founder's name), positioned 6 miles (10 km) west of the present-day town.
The church, and Vinton itself, might have remained an undeveloped non-urban backwater if two signal affairs had not changed that forever.
Pierpont Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad Company to construct a barns from New Orleans to Beaumont, Texas.
The second, and most meaningful for Vinton, was the arrival of a physician and former professor from Indiana and Iowa titled Dr.
The part of Louisiana that encompassed Calcasieu Parish was home to the finest longleaf pine in the world.
The barns gave life to Vinton, starting with a switching track.
However, no family titled Blair was in residence in the region at that time.
Knapp instead of the beginning of Vinton.
Knapp to Louisiana is unclear, but he certainly had a keen interest in agriculture, especially the enhancement of farming methods.
Formerly president of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames (now Iowa State University, Knapp appeared in Lake Charles in 1884 and went to work running an agricultural company for territory developer Jabez B.
In 1887, he quit his job with Watkins and opened his own territory business (some sources claim Knapp started his business in 1885, but the evidence is inconclusive).
It is assumed that Knapp was one of the pioneer Watkins thriving to the area.
It is also assumed that Knapp was the dominant force behind the first settler in what would turn into the township of Vinton.
Postmaster General, Vinton, Knapp's Iowa hometown, was chosen as the name of the settlement, but when the U.
In a 2013 article on the town, the Advocate asserted that Knapp indeed titled Vinton, Louisiana, "after his hometown of Vinton, Iowa." It is possible that Knapp was responsible for the large influx of pioneer from Vinton, Iowa.
Even with the setback caused by the storm, the town interval steadily, aided by the petroleum boom following the discernment of oil reserves at Ged Lake, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Vinton, along Ged Road.
Vinton is positioned in Calcasieu Parish at 30 11 24 N 93 34 50 W (30.190093, -93.580587). U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Vinton has a total region of 5.05 square miles (13.07 km2), of which 5.00 square miles (12.94 km2) is territory and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km2), or 1.01%, is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 3,338 citizens , 1,239 homeholds, and 900 families residing in the town.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 29.8% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 27.5% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 12.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 18.2% of families and 22.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 26.1% of those under age 18 and 17.3% of those age 65 or over.
Mike Danahay, state representative for Calcasieu Parish since 2008; former Vinton resident a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Vinton town, Louisiana".
"Vinton, Louisiana: Founded by famous ag innovator".
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