Zachary, Louisiana Zachary, Louisiana Zachary Railroad Zachary Railroad Depot Parish East Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana incorporated and unincorporated areas Zachary highlighted.svg Location in East Baton Rouge Parish and the state of Louisiana Zachary is a town/city in the East Baton Rouge church of Louisiana in the United States.
It lies 16 miles (26 km) north of the town/city of Baton Rouge, and had a populace of 14,960 at the 2010 census, up from 11,275 at the 2000 census.
Much of the territory which the town/city now is situated in was part of a 160-acre (65 ha) farm owned by Darel Zachary (1827-1907). In the 1880s, Zachary sold his territory to the Illinois Central Railroad, who assembled a track and a depot on it. A village quickly interval up around the depot, which came to be called "Zachary" after the initial farmer.
Zachary's first postal service was opened in 1885, and it was incorporated as a town/city on August 2, 1889, with Thomas Edward Mc - Hugh as its first mayor. A fire devastated the town/city in 1903, supposedly caused by a greengrocer trying to flame-ripen his bananas.
Zachary was the first town/city in Louisiana since the Reconstruction Era to elect a Republican as mayor, Jack Louis Breaux. Zachary is positioned in northern East Baton Rouge Parish.
Louisiana Highway 19 passes through the city, dominant north 5 miles (8 km) to the center of Slaughter and south 9 miles (14 km) to U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Zachary has a total region of 24.0 square miles (62.1 km2), of which 23.9 square miles (62.0 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.13%, is water. Hurricane Gustav over Zachary, 2008 Climate data for Zachary The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $49,669, and the median income for a family was $57,389.
Zachary inhabitants are served by the Zachary Community School Board.
The Zachary Community School System separated from the East Baton Rouge Parish School System in 2003. The United States Postal Service operates the Zachary Post Office. East Baton Rouge Parish Library operates the Zachary Branch.
In 1939 the library initially opened in the former town hall, and it later moved to a former postal service; a third building; and in 1966, in a structure attached to the Louisiana National Bank building.
Kedrick Brown (born 1981), Zachary High School basketball player who was the first Junior College player to be chose in the NBA draft John Neely Kennedy (born 1951), Louisiana state treasurer Tom Ed Mc - Hugh (born 1943), East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President (1989 2000) a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Zachary city, Louisiana".
"History of Zachary" Town Square Publications, 2005.
"Archivist Retraces Zachary's History from Original Train Depot, Revolution, Resurrection from Fire".
Margaret Harmon, historian and archivist for the Zachary United Methodist Church (September 2011), "A Look Back at Our History" City of Zachary.
"Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Zachary, Louisiana".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Zachary tax vote test of independence ideal." "6001 MAIN ST ZACHARY, LA 70791-4032" "Zachary Branch Library." East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
"1900 Church St., Zachary, LA 70791" Zachary Chamber of Commerce Municipalities and communities of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States
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