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Red River Parish

Red River Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,620, making it the fourth-least populous parish in Louisiana. The parish seat and most populous municipality is Coushatta. It is one of the newer parishes, created in 1871 by the state legislature from parts of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Desoto and Natchitoches Parishes under Reconstruction. The plantation economy was based on cotton cultivation, highly dependent on enslaved African labor before the American Civil War.

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Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)

Census ID (PID6): 105663
FIPS state: 22
FIPS county: 081
FIPS place: 99081
Census record name: PARISH OF RED RIVER
Mailing address: PO BOX 709, COUSHATTA 71019