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- Help for hurricane victims
Five schools in the Military Road area of Slidell are banding together to help a Cameron Parish school devastated by Hurricane Ike.
- Fishing industry hurting in La.
A shrimp boat lies along state Highway 27 on Sept. 17 in Hackberry, La., about 15 miles southwest of Lake Charles.
- Click for Re-Entry Info. Involving Cameron Communities
Lower Cameron Parish and Hackberry, Big Lake area remains under look and leave until further notice.
- Click for Re-Entry Info. Involving Cameron Communities
Water available to residents who can receive it. Point of distribution is set up at Hackberry Community center Hours of operation are: 6AM to 8 PM daily.
- Storms create unequal results
On the three-year anniversary of Hurri-cane Rita's devastating landfall in southwest Louisiana, scientists find themselves once again in the area, collecting and analyzing data on Hurricane Ike's surprising ...
- Cameron Parish: 'Still too much water'; see video story
CAMERON - Residents of the Grand Lake area are allowed to assess their homes today for Hurricane Ike damage, but cannot stay.
- Storm Report: Ike's destructive surge leaves nowhere to run in Cameron Parish; see photos
HACKBERRY - The salty water pushed into Cameron Parish by Hurricane Ike started to recede Sunday, but most of the area remained isolated because of flooded roadways.
- Louisiana Guard Continues Hurricane Recovery Efforts
Louisiana National Guardsmen have used high-water vehicles, boats and helicopters to save more than 330 flooding victims in the wake of Hurricane Ike.
- Boats rescuing people in SW Louisiana areas
The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says local, state and federal teams took 29 boats to the Hackberry and Big Lake Island areas on Saturday to rescue people trapped in houses by the floods.
- Guard rescue in Hackberry
Units of the Louisiana National Guard battle flooding and storms to make rescues in Hackberry, LA, Sunday, September 14, 2008.
- Postal service awaits lifting of mandatory evacuation
Postal service in Jefferson and Orange counties will resume after the mandatory evacuation order is lifted, according to a U.S. Postal Service release posted on the Internet.
- Ike Search & Rescue Missions Winding Down
Search and rescue activities coordinated by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are winding down as waters recede within parishes affected by Hurricane Ike's heavy rain and tidal surge.
- 700 rescued from Louisiana homes; 170,000 without power
Ike's floodwaters blanketed most of Louisiana's 250-mile coast Sunday, impeding search and rescue missions while leaving behind vast destruction of a landscape still struggling since the deadly 2005 hurricane ...
- In Ike's wake, holdouts complicate rescues
Pat Murphy talks with Monitor staff writer Patrik Jonsson about rescue and relief efforts along the Louisiana coast following Hurricane Ike.
- Ike kills 2 in Louisiana, floods homes
Hurricane Ike spared Louisiana a direct hit, but its winds and waters killed two people as coastal areas were inundated with a storm surge that crawled some 30 miles inland, flooding tens of thousands of homes ...
- South La. rescue operations poised to begin
BATON ROUGE -- There's a good chance some of the hundreds of people who chose to ride out Hurricane Ike in southwest Louisiana will want to or should get out of flood-prone areas as the storm surge rises today, ...
- Some stay in Cameron parish
CARLYSS - Water from Hurricane Ike was rushing over La. 27 north of Hackberry in Cameron Parish by 5 p.m. Friday, stranding 150 people who refused to heed evacuation orders.
- Storm Update: National Weather Service statement on flooding in Vermilion, Iberia, St. Mary, Cameron
STORM UPDATE: National Weather Service statement on flooding in Vermilion, Iberia, St.
- Democrats target Strategic Petroleum Reserve; voice your opinion now
WASHINGTON - Louisiana may be sitting on the best way to quickly bring down gasoline prices, Democrats said this week - and they weren't referring to the state's deposits of underground and offshore oil.
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City DescriptionHackberry is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,699 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Hackberry is located at 29°59′11″N 93°23′50″W / 29.98639, -93.39722 (29.986485, -93.397190).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 93.7 square miles (242.7 km²), of which, 82.2 square miles (213.0 km²) of it is land and 11.4 square miles (29.6 km²) of it (12.21%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,699 people, 626 households, and 458 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 20.7 people per square mile (8.0/km²). There were 818 housing units at an average density of 9.9/sq mi (3.8/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 97.53% White, 0.47% African American, 0.29% Native American, 0.71% Asian, 0.53% from other races, and 0.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.12% of the population.
There were 626 households out of which 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.3% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.8% were ... Read MoreCity Contained By:
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