Range Avenue, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
File prepared by D.N. Pardue



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From the book entitled "The Free State - A History and Place-Names Study
of Livingston Parish" by the members of the Livingston Parish American
Revolution Bicentennial Committee in cooperation with the Livingston 
Parish Police Jury and the Louisiana American Revolution Bicentennial
Commission, 1976.  Reprinted by permission.  Dedicated to the memory of
Reuben Cooper and Raymond Riggs.

RANGE AVENUE is on the range line which, in the old central business 

district of Denham Springs, divides T6S-R2E and T6S-R3E of the Greens-

burg Land District.  North of US Hwy. 190, Range Avenue is also La. Hwy.

16, and the route follows the range line as far as Watson with only

slight deviations, while south of the US highway, South Range Avenue

(La. Hwy. 3002) follows the range line to its intersection with Vincent

Road.

     In order to properly locate lands in various parts of the United

States, the US Government divided all lands into townships consisting

of 36 square miles of one square mile each, and designated these by

numbers as sections of one square mile each.  The townships and ranges

east and west of a certain meridian line were numbered from this meridian

line as a base line, each six miles being designated as Range 1 East,

2 East, 3 East, etc., and south of a base township line as 1 South,

2 South, 3 South, etc.  --- James Earl Minton

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