Land Surveyors need to know Louisiana geography in order to research land titles and records that are located through out the state. The titles and titles are located in court houses in each parish and its parish seat.
Louisiana has parishes while other states have counties. Both parishes and counties are political administrative districts providing law enforcement through sheriffs and providing judicial services through judges. The parish seat is called the parish seat because judges historically sat on benches in court rooms located in the court house.
Each parish has a sheriff while judges travel between judicial districts. Under the police jury system used to govern most Louisiana parishes, the sheriff is the only parishwide elected official. Because he is parishwide, he has more political power and influence than other elected officials. Judges have no enforcement power and so do have as much political power and influence as sheriffs.
-1-List of Parish Names and Seats
-1.1- List of Parishes sorted by Parish Name
-1.2- List of Parishes sorted by Parish Seat
-2-Outlines Maps
-2.1- Map of Louisiana Parishes – w/o Parish Names
-2.2- Map of Louisiana Parishes – w/ Parish Names
–3-Matching Maps with Parish Names and Random Numbers
-3.1- Map of Louisiana Parish Names w/ Random Numbers – No Answer Key
-3.2- Map of Louisiana Parish Names w/ Random Numbers – with Answer Key
-4-Matching Maps with Parishes Names and Seat with Random Numbers
-4.1- Map of Louisiana Parish Names and Seats w/ Random Numbers – No Answer Key
-4.2- Map of Louisiana Parish Names and Seats w/ Random Numbers – w/ Answer Key
-5- Louisiana Dept of Transp. and Develop.
-5.1- Tourist Map – Instructions Example – marked and hi-lited
-6- Corona Virus Map – Louisiana Parishes – March 28, 2020 – (pdf – zip)
-6.1- Corona Virus Parish Map – Outline + Instructor’s hand drawn color ramp, legend, and title – Zip
-7- Compass Rose Drawing – (pdf – dwg- dxf -zip)
-7.1-Compass Rose – Blank Outline + Instructor’s hand colored Cardinal and Inter-Cardinal Directions and Degrees – Zip
-8- Campus Lidar Contour Project