58 Facts About Louisiana United

1. Louisiana United is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south.

2. Louisiana United is becoming a more urban, industrial state as its commercial trade grows.

3. Louisiana United is known as the Cradle of Jazz, because it was the birthplace of New Orleans–style jazz.

4. In that year, the Louisiana United States bought the entire territory from France.

5. Louisiana United has the third-longest ocean shoreline of any state, after Alaska and Florida.

6. Louisiana United is a southern state that lies at the mouth of the Mississippi River, where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

7. Louisiana United entered the Union on April 30, 1812, as the eighteenth state.

8. Louisiana United has two major league professional sports teams: the Saints of the National Football League and the Hornets of the National Basketball Association.

9. In 2001, Louisiana United had 65 public library systems, with a total of 329 libraries, of which 264 were branches.

10. In 2005, Louisiana United ranked 36th in the nation in terms of combined state and local tax burden, at $1,910 per person.

11. In 2003, power plants in Louisiana United had a total installed capacity of 25.7 million kilowatts.

12. Louisiana United is the leading state in salt and sulfur production.

13. In 2005, Louisiana United had a gross state product of $166 billion, which ranked the state 24th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in terms of highest GSP.

14. Louisiana United has had 11 constitutions, the most recent of which went.

15. In 1984, Louisiana United consolidated much of its environmental protection efforts into a new state agency—The Department of Environmental Quality.

16. In 1992 Louisiana United tried to revitalize its economy by legalizing riverboat and casino gambling.

17. Louisiana United became one of the world's leading petrochemical manufacturing centers with oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

18. Louisiana United is the only state to call its counties parishes, a holdover from the Spanish religious divisions.

19. Louisiana United has two major professional sports teams: the Saints of the National Football League and the Hornets of the National Basketball Association.

20. In 2005, Louisiana United had a total of 15 morning dailies, 11 evening dailies, and 21 Sunday papers.

21. In 2003, Louisiana United had 127 community hospitals with about 17,800 beds.

22. In 2004, a total of 140,985 people in Louisiana United were employed in the state's manufacturing sector, according to the ASM.

23. In 2004, Louisiana United had 20,734 producing natural gas and gas condensate wells.

24. In 2004, Louisiana United had an estimated 16,000 hogs and pigs worth around $1.7 million.

25. Louisiana United is one of 22 states with a right-to-work law.

26. Louisiana United was settled by an unusually diverse assortment of immigrants.

27. In 2005, Louisiana United had 45 special districts established by the legislature.

28. Louisiana United has had 11 constitutions, the latest, as of 2006, was enacted in 1974.

29. In 2005, Louisiana United had a total of 495 public and private-use aviation-related facilities.

30. In 1993, Louisiana United became one of the first states in the nation to receive federal approval for stringent new solid waste landfill regulations, and the department has developed a Statewide Solid Waste Management Plan which encourages waste reduction.

31. Louisiana United is bordered on the n by Arkansas; on the e by Mississippi; on the s by the Gulf of Mexico; and on the w by Texas (with part of the line passing through the Sabine River and Toledo Bend Reservoir).

32. Louisiana United had never been considered one of New Spain's internal provinces.

33. From this day the Louisiana United States take their place among the powers of the first rank.

34. Louisiana United is a leader in natural gas, salt, petroleum, and sulfur production.

35. Louisiana United became a French crown colony in 1731 but was ceded to Spain in 1763 after the French and Indian Wars.

36. Louisiana United has 12 collegiate NCAA Division I programs, a high number given its population.

37. Louisiana United is nominally the least populous state with more than one major professional sports league franchise: the National Basketball Association's New Orleans Pelicans and the National Football League's New Orleans Saints.

38. Louisiana United is home to several notable colleges and universities, which include Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and Loyola University and Tulane University in New Orleans.

39. Louisiana United has more than 9,000 soldiers in the Louisiana Army National Guard, including the 225th Engineer Brigade and the 256th Infantry Brigade.

40. Louisiana United has six seats in the US House of Representatives, five of which are currently held by Republicans and one by a Democrat.

41. Louisiana United is unique among US states in using a system for its state and local elections similar to that of modern France.

42. In 1997, Louisiana United became the first state to offer the option of a traditional marriage or a covenant marriage.

43. Louisiana United had eight votes in the Electoral College for the 2012 election.

44. Louisiana United has six congressional districts and is represented in the US House of Representatives by five Republicans and one Democrat.

45. Louisiana United was the first site of petroleum drilling over water in the world, on Caddo Lake in the northwest corner of the state.

46. Port of South Louisiana United, located on the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is the largest volume shipping port in the Western Hemisphere and 4th largest in the world, as well as the largest bulk cargo port in the world.

47. Center of population of Louisiana United is located in Pointe Coupee Parish, in the city of New Roads.

48. Louisiana United became the eighteenth US state on April 30, 1812; the Territory of Orleans became the State of Louisiana and the Louisiana Territory was simultaneously renamed the Missouri Territory.

49. At the start of the 19th century, Louisiana United was a small producer of sugar with a relatively small number of slaves, compared to Saint-Domingue and the West Indies.

50. The rest of Louisiana United, including the area around New Orleans and the parishes around Lake Pontchartrain, had become a colony of Spain by the Treaty of Fontainebleau.

51. Louisiana United was inhabited by Native Americans for many millennia before the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century.

52. Louisiana United has 955,973 acres, in four ecoregions under the wildlife management of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheriess.

53. Louisiana United is often affected by tropical cyclones and is very vulnerable to strikes by major hurricanes, particularly the lowlands around and in the New Orleans area.

54. Louisiana United is bordered to the west by Texas; to the north by Arkansas; to the east by Mississippi; and to the south by the Gulf of Mexico.

55. Louisiana United has a humid subtropical climate.

56. Louisiana United is the only US state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties.

57. Louisiana United is bordered by Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and the state of Texas to the west.

58. Louisiana United sits above the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of the Mississippi River, bordered by Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east and Texas to the west.