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The St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s main office is located in the Parish Courthouse in Greensburg and handles all of the criminal, civil and tax division operations, as well as police protection throughout the parish. St. Helena Parish has x fire stations with at least xxxx volunteer firemen located throughout the parish. Fire rating is 6 in City and Town and 8 in the remainder of the parish. |
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There is one hospital with 35 beds in Greensburg to serve residents of the parish. The medical field in the parish is comprised of 1 clinic, 3 doctors and 1 dentist. One nursing home with 70 beds also serves the community. Acadian Ambulance Service is available in the parish. The nearest emergency rooms are located in the Medical Center of Baton Rouge (233 beds, emergency facilities), only a twenty miles away. The eastern portion of the parish is served by two hospitals in Hammond (324 beds, emergency facilities), only thirty miles away. Residents also have access to the large number of medical facilities located in the regional area, including the LSU and Tulane Medical Centers in New Orleans and numerous other public and private medical facilities in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. |
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The Sixth Ward Community Facilities in the town of Greensburg serves the recreational needs of the parish. There are also two ball fields. Boating, tubing, and fishing on the Tickfaw and Amite rivers are also major activities for visitors and residents of the parish. The JK Horse Ranch and the Bear Creek Western Store provide outside activities and there are two campgrounds as well. The parish also has access to the vast recreational and cultural facilities of the metropolitan New Orleans area: including the new Aquarium of the Americas, the New Orleans Symphony, opera and ballet, the National Foot- ball League s New Orleans Saints, NCAA college athletics from Tulane University, University of New Orleans, Louisiana State University, and others. Two race tracks are also located there. Boating and fishing on Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain are also major activities for visitors and residents of the parish. |
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Several large regional shopping centers are also located in Hammond, a few miles to the southeast of the parish. There are many large centers located in Baton Rouge, a few miles to the southwest. The New Orleans Central Business District is only 90 miles away, and has seen an explosion of retail activity in the past few years. The Riverwalk, Canal Place, and New Orleans Centre have added several specialty retail outlets, including national chain outlets like Lord and Taylor, Macy s, Brooks Brothers, Sharper Image and Saks Fifth Avenue. |
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Communications in the area include a local weekly news- paper (The St. Helena Echo‹Greensburg). Metropolitan daily newspapers from Baton Rouge and New Orleans are also circulated in St. Helena Parish. There is one AM (WBIU) and one FM (KRVE) station in Denham Springs. Many Baton Rouge and New Orleans stations are also available in St. Helena Parish. Television stations can be received from Baton Rouge or New Orleans including all three networks (ABC, CBS, NBC). Cable service is also available in the Greensburg area and provides up to 18 stations. |
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| St. Helena Parish St. Helena Parish enjoys a complete seasonal cycle with pleasant spring and fall seasons. Winter months are usually mild with cold spells of short duration. Snowfall is less than 2" per year. The summer months are quite warm, with an average daily maximum temperature in July and August of 93 degrees. |
| St. Helena Parish is located in southeast Louisiana. It is bounded by Mississippi on the north, Tangipahoa Parish on the east, Livingston Parish on the south and East Baton Rouge and East Feliciana parishes on the west. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highways |
From St. Helena Parish, a manufacturer can realistically expect third-day truckload service to major markets in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Within this 31-state area are 69 percent of the nation s population and 70 percent of its manufacturing plants. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Highway x U.S. Highway x intersects Interstate x at x xx miles to the west and near New St. Helena about x miles to the east. Highway 90 also intersects with Interstate x in x. It also continues to the eastern and western borders of the state. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This road is on the Federal Aid Secondary program (FAS, 50ft. ROW with 24 ft. paved surface). It cuts across the central part of the parish through Greensburg. From the western border of the parish it meets the Mississippi River at St. Francisville and then starts up again on the west bank and heads toward the western border of the state. In the other direction it crosses the Florida Parishes and heads toward the eastern border of the state. A bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Francisville is a possibility in the future, which would make highway 10 an important artery to the area. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This road is on the Federal Aid Secondary program (FAS, 50ft. ROW with 24 ft. paved surface). It cuts east and west through the southern part of the parish and intersects with I-12 in Livingston Parish and I-10 and U. S. Highway 61 in Ascension Parish. To the east it passes out of the parish near Montpelier, intersects with 1-55 and parallels I-12 all the way to Mandeville. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This road is on the Federal Aid Secondary program (FAS 50ft. ROW with 24 ft. paved surface). It begins at Springfield and heads north under I-12 toward Montpelier and Greensburg in St. Helena Parish. | The two main transportation arteries through St. Helena Parish are State Highways 10 and 43. These highways connect to important Interstate Highways only a few short miles from the parish borders. Interstate 12 and U. S. Highway 190 are only twelve miles to the south of the parish. Interstate Highway 12 is part of the I-10 system which stretches to both the east and west coasts of the United States. I-12 joins I-10 at Baton Rouge to the west and Slidell, La. to the east. I-55 which is just a few miles beyond the parish s eastern border intersects with I-10 near LaPlace, La. and runs northward through Jackson, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee and on to Chicago, Ill. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| While it has no railroads itself, St. Helena Parish is served by the Illinois Central Railroad only 4 miles to the east in Tangipahoa Parish. Rail rates in Louisiana for many commodities tend to be lower than those in the other states because of the competition from barge carriers. Illinois Central Railroad handles a significant volume of containers, TOFC and carload traffic between New Orleans and mid-America. In Tangipahoa parish the Illinois Central tracks head north to Chicago and south to New Orleans and also serve Amtrac Passenger Service. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Facilities |
Barge service is provided to the industry of the Florida Parishes through Port Manchac 17 miles away in Tangipahoa Parish. Interstate Highway 55 parallels the western side of this 32 acre development. Easy access is available to the port from exit ramp #15 on I-55. Port Manchac provides professional stevedoring services through Tangi Trans-Port, Incorporated and is being developed by the South Tangipahoa Parish Port Commission, a political subdivision of the State of Louisiana. Services available at Port Manchac: LASH, barge, truck and rail transloading, container stripping and stuffing, heavy lift‹with three available cranes, oil field loading and service, an existing 20,000 square-foot warehouse with a 160 foot wharf and freshwater service for towboat operators. The South Tangipahoa Parish Port Commission maintains an office and staff to assist industry in Tangipahoa Parish and the region to realize the opportunities of water transportation services. Further, the staff and the commission are moving forward on an ambitious expansion of rail services through the construction of 2,500 feet of lead track and a 30,000 square-foot unloading shed along the Illinois Central Railroad. Cargo can be delivered by barge from Louisiana to all of mid-America via the 19,000 mile Mississippi River System. Louisiana also sits at the center of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway system that rims the northern Gulf of Mexico. Further, the state itself has 4,500 miles of navigable waterways served by 25 harbor and terminal districts, many of which can issue low-interest industrial revenue bonds to finance manufacturing and storage facilities. Also through the state there is a port construction and priority program that may assist in funding port facilities. |
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The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is also only 23 miles away from St. Helena Parish. Louisiana s lower Mississippi corridor is the leading port area in the world with a total annual tonnage of over 345 million tons. The port area stretches 230 miles inland on both banks of the river with more than 110,000 acres of large, affordable deepwater sites with barge and ship access. There are several campus-type industrial parks suitable for warehouse/distribution operations, offices, sales/service facilities and light manufacturing/assembly. The Port of South Louisiana, the Port of New Orleans and the Port of Greater Baton Rouge are three of the port authorities along this corridor which operate Foreign Trade Zones. Imported materials may be processed or repackaged in these zones without paying United States Customs duties or certain taxes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hammond Municipal Airport, the largest general aviation reliever airport in the north shore area of Lake Pontchartrain, is located 2 1/2 miles east of downtown Hammond. It has a 765 acre dual runway facility, with two 5,000 foot hard surfaced runways which can accommodate turbo jet aircraft up to 60,000 lbs. gross weight, and other general aviation aircraft of 12,500 lbs. or less.
This exceptional basic transport airport has electronic ground control systems, ILS (instrument landing system), VOR (variable omni-directional range), and VASI, to assist in landings and takeoffs in all conditions.
Hammond Municipal Airport offers one FBO (General Aviation/Top Gun Aviation), Flight Instructors, New Orleans Aircraft Propellers, Inc., parking aprons (to accommodate approximately 195 single, light twin and corporate jet aircraft), approximately 50 acres for new hanger construction (individual as well as T. hangers), and 120 acres for industrial development. Only 40 minutes away is New Orleans International (Moisant Field) This airport is easily accessible via Interstate Highway 10 or U.S. Highway 90. It serves southeast Louisiana with more than 20 national and international carriers providing direct passenger and cargo transportation to destinations in the U.S., Europe, Central and South America, and Asia. New Orleans International Airport is 90 miles from Greensburg and accessible via Interstate Highways 55 and 10. Baton Rouge Airport is 25 miles from Greensburg and accessible via Interstate Highway 12. Sixty- eight Louisiana cities have hard-surfaced public airports, most with night landing capability. Another 250 private airports can accommodate light aircraft. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Delivery |
Emery/Purolator, United Parcel Service, Airborne Express and Federal Express are available. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Carriers |
42 freight carriers service the area including: SAIA Motor Freight Line, Roadway Express, Red Ball, Consolidated, Jones Truck Lines and Yellow Freight Lines.
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