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Population: 2,468
Mayor:
Bobby Gill (D)
(504) 229-3451
Clerk:
Julia B. Forest
(504) 229-3451
308 Ave. G
Kentwood, LA 70444
Chief of Police:
James R. Rimes (D)
Tangipahoa
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Kentwood is named after Amos Kent, an early settler who established a sawmill and a brickyard which eventually became the largest in the south. The lumber industry thrived in the area until about 1920 when virgin timber began to diminish. Kentwood had been the largest town in the parish, but much of the population left with the timber trade.
Those people remaining in the town turned to the dairy industry and began to prosper again, using cooperative breeding and marketing techniques. Today, it remains a principal industry in the northern reaches of the parish.
Altitude: 210 feet msl
Type of Municipal Government: Mayor and Alderman (5) Lawrason Act
Fire Department: 6 full time, 48 vol.
Fire Rating: 6
Hospital: Pike Hospital
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