Most of the communities on our maps are incorporated towns and cities with their own histories, points of interest, governments, commerce and futures. The map buttons for those communities, which are the names of the communities, link to pages with information on history, economic development, local governments and Chambers of Commerce. The names of local elected officials and their phone numbers available, but until further notice these numbers are valid only through March of 1997, because that was the latest Roster of Louisiana Officials available in Jnuary of 1999. This community information can be accessed by clicking on the community name located on the Parish Maps or by text links in the Parish Economic Information Pages. If the parish is unknown below is an alphabetical index of the community pages. |
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It would be difficult to call itself a Sportsman's Paradise without numerous state and national parks, forests, preserves and refuges and wildlife management areas. Later they will be listed below with links to maps and information about facilities and management.
The maps in this section were drawn using parish maps developed by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development that can be purchased on 18 1/2" by 24 1/2" sheets. They are obviously reduced in size and are all to a different scale, but most details and proportions are correct.
The reduced maps were scanned into Adobe Photoshop® using an old Agfa Scanner. The maps were drawn in Macromedia Freehand®, mapped and converted in Adobe Photoshop® and programmed in various shareware HTML environments.
These maps are oversized for the internet page and are rendered principally to provide room for links. I hope that in the future detailed maps will be available to download as PDF documents. As faster internet speeds and bandwidths become the norm I hope to enhance the value of the online maps, pehaps providing interactive maps of development, industries and historical battles.
The links in the maps generally end up on this page, but in the future I will point those links to descriptions of waterways, communities and opportunities for economic development, as well as history.
As with all information produced by the Encyclopedia Louisiana staff, I invite you to seek our sources for even more precise and informative data.