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St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

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7historic places

—earliest paper

1807formed

52,549pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Hahnville, Destrehan, Norco.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Louisiana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse St. Charles titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Destrehan Plantation	Destrehan	Building	1973
Dorvin House	Hahnville	Building	1990
Homeplace Plantation House NHL	Hahnville	Building	1970
Kenner and Kugler Cemeteries Archeological District	Norco	District	1987
LaBranche Plantation Dependency	Kenner	Building	1984
Odd Fellows Hall	Hahnville	Building	2019
Ormond Plantation House	Destrehan	Building	1990

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

St. Charles was formed in 1807 (1807-04-14) from unknown / original county.

ST. CHARLES Parish created within German Coast County. The creation of parishes did not abolish the 12 counties established on 10 Apr 1805. The counties existed for taxing and electoral purposes, while parishes took over jurisdiction of judicial matters.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

St. Charles Parish population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1810	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,291	3,862	4,700	5,297	7,161	9,072	8,586	12,321	13,363	21,219	37,259	48,072	52,549

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve	Park unit	18.0 km
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park	Park unit	29.2 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

10 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bayou Gauche Cemetery	29.80904	-90.41799
Green Hill Cemetery	29.98891	-90.45088
Holy Rosary Cemetery	29.98934	-90.4393
Jefferson Memorial Gardens Cemetery	29.95142	-90.31512
Providence Baptist Church 2 Cemetery	30.00922	-90.45674
Saint Charles Borromeo Cemetery	29.95073	-90.37664
Saint Charles Cemetery	29.92057	-90.37446
Saint Marys Cemetery	29.90598	-90.38583
Shell Mound Cemetery	29.8546	-90.45309
Young Cemetery	29.89449	-90.40223

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Davis	29.93048	-90.32258
Loquer	29.95715	-90.32286
Pecan Grove	29.94493	-90.34647
Sarpy	30.00076	-90.40758

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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