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GNIS feature ID. 1629985. Website. nola .gov. New Orleans[ a] (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 according to the 2020 U.S. census, [ 8] it is the most populous ...
Tchoupitoulas Street (/ ˌ tʃ ɒ p ɪ ˈ t uː l ə s / ⓘ CHOP-ih-TOO-ləss) is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Running through uptown, it is the through street closest to the Mississippi River. Formerly, the street was heavily devoted to river shipping commerce, but as shipping concerns gravitated to other locations in ...
Lake Pontchartrain. • coordinates. 30°01′38″N 90°04′58″W. / 30.0272°N 90.0827°W / 30.0272; -90.0827. Bayou St. John ( French: Bayou Saint-Jean) is a bayou within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. [ 1] The grand Bayou St. John in 1728. The Bayou as a natural feature drained the swampy land of a good portion of what was to ...
Map shows the 17 wards of New Orleans.Not shown: southern portion of the 15th Ward, northeastern portion of the 9th Ward.On the map Lake Pontchartrain is to the north and the Mississippi River is to the south; the 15th Ward is the only one south of the Mississippi River where Algiers is located.
Jackson Square, formerly the Place d'Armes (French) or Plaza de Armas (Spanish), is a historic park in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960, for its central role in the city's history, and as the site where in 1803 Louisiana was made United States territory pursuant to the Louisiana Purchase.
Bourbon Street ( French: Rue Bourbon, Spanish: Calle de Borbón) is a historic street in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans. Extending twelve blocks from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue, Bourbon Street is famous for its many bars and strip clubs . With 17.74 million visitors in 2017 alone, New Orleans depends on Bourbon Street as a ...
Magazine Street. Magazine Street is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. Like Tchoupitoulas Street, St. Charles Avenue, and Claiborne Avenue, it follows the curving course of the Mississippi River. The street took its name from an ammunition magazine located in this vicinity during the 18th-century colonial period.
Frenchmen Street is the site of many Creole cottages—a New Orleans design dating to the period between 1790-1850. Creole cottages are single-story, set at ground level, have a steeply pitched roof, symmetrical four-opening façade, and are set close to the front property line. The cottages are usually made of stucco or wood.