Simsboro (La.)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Simsboro (La.)
Coordinates
-92.7864 -92.7864 32.5342 32.5342 (gooearth )
W0924719 W0924719 N0323205 N0323205 (geonames )
Associated country
United States
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 144266005
Wikidata: Q2442052
Library of congress: n 82045890
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 32°32ʹ05ʺN 092°47ʹ19ʺW)
  • Impact Map Company of Louisiana. Ruston, Louisiana, c1980 (subj.)map verso (Simsboro, Louisiana)
  • Rand McNally comm. atlas, 1980(Simsboro, Lincoln Parish, La.)

Wikipedia description:

Simsboro is a village in western Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Simsboro had a population of 803. It is part of the Ruston Micropolitan Statistical Area. Two 20th-century lawmakers who were natives of Simsboro are interred at Simsboro Cemetery: State Representatives L.D. "Buddy" Napper, who served from 1952 to 1964, and practiced law for a half-century in Ruston, and Ragan Madden, who left the House in 1949 to become the five-term district attorney of the 3rd Judicial District. A 19th Century lawmaker who lived in Simsboro was Representative George M. Lomax, who in 1894 introduced the enabling legislation, Act 68, to establish the future Louisiana Tech University.

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