Walker, Louisiana Walker, Louisiana Location of Walker in Louisiana Location of Louisiana in the United States Walker is a town/city in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States.
The region now known as Walker was established by Michael Milton, a veteran of the War of 1812, and his wife, Martha, in 1853. The Miltons were a pioneering family from North Carolina that settled an region in Alabama, before clearing 400 acres in the piney woods east of the Amite River and Denham Springs The Federal government recognized the expansion of the settlement and opened a postal servicer as Milton Old Field in 1856. Michael Milton was appointed as postmaster in 1858. In 1890 the postal service was retitled after Dr.
Walker became a town/city in 2011 by proclamation of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Walker is positioned at 30 29 22 N 90 51 46 W (30.489423, -90.862872). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 5.8 square miles (14.9 km ), all of it land.
Walker is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The 2010 Enumeration noted the populace of Walker is 6,138 - up 28% over the past decade.
Walker officially became a city. As of the census of 2000, there were 4,801 citizens , 1,758 homeholds, and 1,320 families residing in the town.
In the town the populace was spread out with 29.8% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 31.4% from 25 to 44, 19.5% from 45 to 64, and 9.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 5.9% of families and 9.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 5.8% of those under age 18 and 20.6% of those age 65 or over.
Walker is inside the Livingston Parish Public Schools system.
The Livingston Parish Literacy and Technology Center in Walker is titled for Sally Clausen, former Louisiana commissioner of education, and her brother, Thomas G.
Walker High School Walker Freshman High School Walker Elementary School South Walker Elementary Hughes, III, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court since 2013, Walker resident Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group Number 15.
First Enumeration of the United States, 1790.
Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29.
Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28.
Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28.
Walker, LA: LAGen - Web - Archives and Louisiana American Revolution Bicentennial.
Baton Rouge, LA: Executive Department of the State of Louisiana.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"The Walker Report".
City of Walker.
"Livingston Center dedicated; titled for Clausen family, September 10, 2007".
City of Walker Municipalities and communities of Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States
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