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Rapides Parish

parish in Louisiana, United States
AdministrativeArea parish_of_louisiana Q503870

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
parish of Louisiana
Inception
1807[13]
Official website
www.rppj.com[15]
Native label
Rapides Parish

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 31.200°, -92.540°[14]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Louisiana[2]
Shares border with
Grant Parish, Allen Parish, LaSalle Parish, Avoyelles Parish, Evangeline Parish, Vernon Parish, Natchitoches Parish[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Population and size

Area
+3527
Population
130k (130k–133k, n=7)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
More facts +8
Capital
Alexandria[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Alexandria[12]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Louisiana/Rapides Parish
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108840
Number of households
+49075
P14687
🗺️ View shape: US presidential elections by county/Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Per capita income
+27291
Water as percent of area
+3.2
🏷️ Also known as
en Rapides Parish en Rapides Parish, Louisiana ar مقاطعة رابيدز es Parroquia de Rapides es Parroquia de Rapides, Luisiana fa رپیدز پریش fi Rapidesin piirikunta fr paroisse des Rapides fr paroisse de Rapides he מחוז רפידס he מחוז רפידס, לואיזיאנה hu Rapides megye it parrocchia di Rapides ja ラピッズ郡 ko 래피즈군 pl Parafia Rapides pt Paróquia de Rapides ro Parohia Rapides ru Рапид ru Рапидс
🔖 Identifiers · 27
VIAF cluster ID
136041820
Library of Congress authority ID
n80098364
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Upper view Rapides Parish courthouse, LA.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
19315
Ballotpedia ID
Rapides_Parish,_Louisiana
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Louisiana/Parishes/Rapides/
FIPS 6-4 ID
22079
Freebase ID
/m/0p4b0
GADM ID
USA.19.40_1
GNIS Feature ID
559460
GeoNames ID
4338356
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000893
Show all 27 identifiers +15
HASC
US.LA.RA
INaturalist place ID
2369
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.22079
MusicBrainz area ID
b2c1beef-430a-4447-9325-386d78e2bb57
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007555066705171
OBO Gazetteer ID
22224881
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2792035, 2793189
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1838157
Our Campaigns container ID
3923
Taxonomicon ID
1806013
Topic's main category
Category:Rapides Parish, Louisiana
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10039623
UMLS CUI
C3828371
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"RapidesParish", "Louisiana", "UnitedStates"}]
Yale LUX ID
place/48dd79a4-78e0-4b49-8f2b-b59d38280d77
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
34 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Chicago 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 14
Alexandria, Pineville, Lecompte, Cheneyville, Glenmora, Woodworth, Ball, Boyce +6 more
Shares border with 7
Allen Parish, Avoyelles Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Evangeline Parish, Grant Parish, LaSalle Parish, Vernon Parish
← Shares border with 7
Allen Parish, Avoyelles Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Evangeline Parish, Grant Parish, LaSalle Parish, Vernon Parish
← Category combines topics 5
Category:People from Rapides Parish, Louisiana, Category:Populated places in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, Category:Cities in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, Category:Towns in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, Category:Geography of Rapides Parish, Louisiana
People born here 2
Newton C. Blanchard, Leroy Augustus Stafford
Capital 1
Alexandria
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Alexandria
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Louisiana
People who died here 1
James Madison Wells
Topic's main category 1
Category:Rapides Parish, Louisiana
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Rapides Parish, Louisiana
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Louisiana
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Summary

Rapides Parish is a parish of Louisiana[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Rapides Parish covers an area of {'amount': '+3527'}[23].

Related Entities

Louisiana United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/Rapides Parish, Lou
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Rapides Parish, Louisiana.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presiden"
  2. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxonomicon ID → 1806013
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 22224881
    UMLS CUI → C3828371
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31546|batch #31546]]"
  3. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Rapides Parish, Louisiana
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → Alexandria
    Coordinate location → {'latitude': 31.2, 'longitude': -92.54}
    Population → —
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ NCI Thesaurus ID: C108840, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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