Empire, Louisiana

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• Coast Guard continues search for two boaters
  

  The New Orleans Coast Guard is searching for two Mississippi men who went missing Monday in Plaquemines Parish.

• Fishers blast slow pace of aid
  

  Mathew Lepetich's marooned oyster boat is still visible from the Empire Bridge in lower Plaquemines Parish, where it has rested in the marsh since Hurricane Katrina deposited it there more than three years ago.

• Hurricane Gustav prompts Louisiana couple to take flight -- again
  

  JENNINGS, LA. -- They left the shrimp boat in which they work and live on the Louisiana shore, driving north at noon, daring the hurricane in their red Ford Expedition.

• La. oyster industry endangered by federal law
  

  One out of every two oysters eaten in the United States is harvested in Louisiana waters.

City Description

Empire is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,211 at the 2000 census. During the afternoon of August 28, 2005, Hurricane Katrina approached the northern coastline of the Gulf of Mexico, generating tropical force winds along coastal areas of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. At 6:10 a.m., on August 29, 2005, Katrina made landfall just a few miles southeast of Empire, at Buras-Triumph, LA. Many fishing boats and shrimp boats were grounded along the coastal roads near Empire (see photo). During Hurricane Katrina, on August 29, 2005, the eye of the storm passed by Empire, and the area was entirely flooded, but the Empire High Bridge was not damaged by Hurricane Katrina. This bridge is the only way in or out of southern Plaquemines Parish. Empire is located at 29°23′55″N 89°36′31″W / 29.39861, -89.60861 (29.398586, -89.608501) and has an elevation of 3 feet (0.9 m). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.7 square miles (19.9 km²), of which, 5.3 square miles (13.8 km²) of it is land and 2.3 square miles (6.1 km²) of it (30.64%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were

City Contained By:

• Louisiana
• Plaquemines Parish

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