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City
City of Youngsville
Location in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Location of Louisiana in the United States
Country	United States
State	Louisiana
Parish	Lafayette
Area
• Total	12.45 sq mi (32.25 km2)
• Land	12.45 sq mi (32.25 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation	26 ft (8 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	15,929
• Density	1,279.23/sq mi (493.90/km2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	337
FIPS code	22-83335

Youngsville is a city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, and is part of the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area. The population was 8,105 at the 2010 U.S. census, and 15,929 at the 2020 United States census.

Youngsville was the birthplace of Louisiana businessman and politician Dudley J. LeBlanc, the entrepreneur of the Hadacol fortune of the 1950s. Bernard LeBas of Ville Platte has represented Evangeline and St. Landry parishes in the Louisiana House of Representatives since 2008. He is a former resident of Youngsville.

Geography

Youngsville is located at 30°6′2″N 91°59′27″W / 30.10056°N 91.99083°W / 30.10056; -91.99083 (30.100595, -91.990707).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total land area of 10.95 square miles (28.36 km²).[1]

Background

Youngsville today still reflects its history in its people, culture, traditions, and architecture. It was settled in the early 19th century by French Acadian farmers. Prior to 1839, George Roy and his son, Desire, laid out the area and named the community "Royville." The settlement had grown by 1859 large enough to establish one of the oldest Catholic Churches in Lafayette Parish; St. Anne Catholic Church, and had named its oldest street, Church Street. In 1908, the United States Postal Service asked village leaders to change the name because the town was being confused with the north Louisiana town of Rayville. So in 1908, the Village of Youngsville was incorporated. The village was named "Youngsville," meaning young village, and incorporated. It chose a democratic government, an elected Mayor and three Aldermen, to govern its people.

The Village continued to develop and on January 20, 1983, Louisiana Governor David C. Treen declared the village a town. The town chose as its governing body, a Mayor and five Aldermen to accommodate its population.

Youngsville has been the fastest growing town in Louisiana from 1990 to 2005. Its population has increased by over 300 percent. According to the 2010 Census, Youngsville grew at a rate of 103% between year 2000 and 2010. Because of its growth, Youngsville was declared a city by then Governor Kathleen Blanco in 2006. From 2000 to 2007, the City of Youngsville was one of the fastest growing municipalities in the State of Louisiana. In 2007, Mayor Wilson Viator and the Youngsville City Council named Joey Langlinais as the Chairman of the Centennial Committee.

Although the city has extended its boundaries and expanded its services, Youngsville has remained a rural city surrounded by sugarcane farms which enjoy the unique atmosphere of an urban area of the City of Lafayette, Louisiana.[2]

Development

Subdivisions

The sugarcane and soybean fields that once completely surrounded the town of Youngsville are becoming more difficult to find. Development began in the 1990s with the original Copperfield subdivision along Highway 89 near Fortune Road. The success of this subdivision led to continuous development throughout the most recent decades. The Copperfield subdivisions (Copperfield, Copperfield South, Copper Ridge, and Copper Meadows) have grown until the subdivisions abutted the original, old town of Youngsville along Iberia Street also known as Highway 92.

Many other subdivisions were also built in the former farmlands of Youngsville, including Field Crest, Oakthorn, and Sugar Mill Pond.

The creators of the River Ranch development in Lafayette have started a new mixed use planned community in Youngsville. Called Sugar Mill Pond, it will be home to over 2,000 housing units, a school, and town center with commercial establishments.

A list of all subdivisions in Youngsville, Louisiana: •Acadiana Cove •Anslem Ridge •Autumn Run •Beacon Hills Village •Beau Jardin •Beau Parterre •Beau Pre •Bicentennial Acres •Broussard Ulysse Estate •Caffery Glen •Cajun Country Mobile Home Park •Cane Village •Carmelite Estates •Carriage Lakes •Cedar Hills •Chelsi Meadow Estates •Chemet Park •Copper Meadows •Copperfield •Copperfield Estates •Copperfield South •Country Meadows •Country Village •Countryview •Crystal Cove •Cypress Cove •Cypress Gardens •Darphin Estates •El-Aire Park •Ella Trace •Fairfax Farms •Fairway Village •Field Crest Estates •Five K's Hideaway •Flanders Garden •Fleur De Lis Estates •Fortune Estates •Fortune Hills •Garden Heights •Gideon Grove •Grandview Terrace •Guillot Village •Hartford Farms •Heartland Estates •Highland Meadows •Highland Ridge •Holiday Hills •Hunter's Ridge •Jolie Village •Laurel Grove •Legacy Estates •Legend Creek •Longpointe •Milton Ridge Estates •Parkwood Townhouses •Pinnacle Place •Psalm Gardens •Royal Vista Mobile Home Park •Sabal Palms •Shady Pines •South Fork •Southlake Plantation •Sugar Mill Pond •Sugar Ridge •Sugarland Estates •Sunrise Mobile Home Park •Thornhill Heights •Twin Lakes Estates •Vermilion Village •Village At Copperfield •Village At Copperwood •Villas At Highland Plantation •Wells Landing •Willow Creek •Willowcreek •Wiltz Estate •Windermere •Windy Meadow •Woodcrest Youngsville •Woodland Estates

Infrastructure

The City of Youngsville began construction of the Chemin Metairie Parkway Project in the spring of 2007 to improve the roads in and around Youngsville. The first segment, from the intersection of Highway 92 and Chemin Metairie, to central Youngsville, opened in early 2009. Originally called the Youngsville Parkway, the road was renamed to avoid confusion with the existing Youngsville Highway also known as Highway 89. When the Parkway is complete, it will join Highway 90 near the Baker Hughes Complex in Broussard. A section of the project passes through the Sugar Mill Pond development and a new shopping complex anchored by Lafayette Parish's first Rouse's Grocery Store.[3]

In recent years, Youngsville has become known for its roundabouts. It was the first community within Lafayette Parish to embrace the usage of traffic circles to ease the congestion of the city's rising population. Youngsville now boasts at least 10 roundabouts at the following intersections:

1. Highway 92 and Verot School Road
2. Highway 92 and Chemin Metairie Parkway
3. Highway 92 and Bonin Road
4. Highway 92 and Highway 89
5. Highway 89 and Chemin Metairie Parkway
6. Fortune Road and Bonin Road
7. Copper Meadow Boulevard and Fountain View Drive
8. Prescott Boulevard and Broyles Lane
9. Desbrook Lane and Annaberg Drive
10. Viaulet Road and Chemin Metairie Parkway

The citizens of Youngsville voted in favor of a multi million-dollar, 70-acre sports complex along Chemin Metairie Parkway near Savoy Road. Construction to this complex will begin in 2012.

Demographics

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 15,929 people, 4,396 households, and 3,883 families residing in the city. At the 2019 American Community Survey, the racial and ethnic makeup of the city was 79.6% non-Hispanic white, 12.3% Black and African American, 2.4% Asian, 2.8% multiracial, and 2.9% Hispanic and Latin American of any race. In 2019, for every 100 females there were 94.4 males, and the median age of the city's population was 33.1. Of the population, 11.2% lived at or the below poverty line, and there was a median household income of $89,038.

Historic Events

Louisiana Flood of 2016

On the morning of Friday, August 12, 2016 rain began to fall over Youngsville, Louisiana as well as much of the south central part of the state, in what is now being considered to be the states worst flood disaster by rainfall on record, in some areas.

The Louisiana Flood of 2016 was triggered by a complicated, slow-moving low-pressure weather system that dumped as much as two feet of rain on several parishes in 48 hours. The record two-day rainfall in some areas had a 0.1 percent chance of occurring in any year, the equivalent of a "1,000-year rain", according to the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center, based at the Slidell office of the National Weather Service.

In the two-day period ending Saturday at 8 p.m., several areas also saw rainfall amounts equaling a 1 percent chance of occurring in any year, a so-called 100-year event.

The Red Cross is calling this "The worst natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy."

Education

Public schools

Youngsville is part of the Lafayette Parish School System.

The public elementary schools in Youngsville are Green T. Lindon Elementary School (located in downtown Youngsville) and Ernest Gallet Elementary School (located on Highway 92 between Chemin Metairie Parkway and Bonin Road). The Youngsville Middle School hosts students in sixth through eighth grades and is located at the corner of School Street and Church Street in downtown Youngsville. All public school students from Youngsville attend Southside High in Youngsville or attend Ovey Comeaux High School in southern Lafayette.

Private schools

Private schools in the city include Westminster Christian Academy, located on the outskirts of Youngsville, and Youngsville Christian School, offering Kindergarten thru 12th grade in downtown Youngsville. Ascension Episcopal School, a private high school, is located near the Youngsville Sports Complex on Chemin Metaire Parkway across from Sugar Mill Pond.

Transportation

The city of Youngsville began construction of the Chemin Metairie Parkway Project in the spring of 2007 to improve the roads in and around Youngsville. The first segment, from the intersection of Highway 92 and Chemin Metairie, to central Youngsville, opened in early 2009. Originally called the Youngsville Parkway, the road was renamed to avoid confusion with the existing Youngsville Highway also known as Highway 89. Chemin Metairie Parkway joins Highway 90 near the Baker Hughes Complex in Broussard. A section of the parkway passes through the Sugar Mill Pond development and a new shopping complex anchored by Lafayette Parish's first Rouse's Grocery Store.

In recent years, Youngsville has become known for its roundabouts. It was the first community within Lafayette Parish to embrace the usage of traffic circles to ease the congestion of the city's rising population. Youngsville now boasts at least 10 roundabouts at the following intersections:

1. Highway 92 and Verot School Road
2. Highway 92 and Chemin Metairie Parkway
3. Highway 92 and Bonin Road
4. Highway 92 and Highway 89
5. Highway 89 and Chemin Metairie Parkway
6. Fortune Road and Bonin Road
7. Copper Meadow Boulevard and Fountain View Drive
8. Prescott Boulevard and Broyles Lane
9. Desbrook Lane and Annaberg Drive
10. Viaulet Road and Chemin Metairie Parkway

The citizens of Youngsville voted in favor of a multi million-dollar, 70-acre sports complex along Chemin Metairie Parkway near Savoy Road. Construction to this complex began in 2012 and now has over 500,000 players and visitors coming to this state of the art facility.

See also

In Spanish: Youngsville (Luisiana) para niños