Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.

Official Website

The parish was created in 1807 after the United States acquired this territory in the Louisiana Purchase and named for the French word for "rapids".

Adjacent Parishes

• Grant Parish
• LaSalle Parish
• Avoyelles Parish
• Evangeline Parish
• Allen Parish
• Vernon Parish
• Natchitoches Parish

Cities, Towns, Villages & Communities

Alexandria (Parish Seat) | Ball | Boyce | Buckeye | Cheneyville | Clifton | Deville | Echo | Elmer | Flatwoods | Forest Hill | Gardner | Glenmora | Hineston | Kolin | Lecompte | Lena | Libuse | McNary | Melder | Otis | Pineville | Sieper | Tioga | Woodworth

Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Louisiana

Links

Wikipedia

National Register of Historic Places

Kisatchie National Forest (part)

Camp Beauregard - Louisiana Army National Guard

Esler Airfield - Louisiana Army National Guard

England Air Force Base - (1942-1992) Originally named Alexandria Army Air Base

Both of the following camps were used to intern Japanese, German and Italian prisoners of war.

Camp Claiborne (1930-1945) Originally named Camp Evangeline

Camp Livingston (1940-1945) Originally named Camp Tioga

Rapides Parish Genealogy

Genealogy Trails

LA Gen Web

USGW Archives

RAOGK