St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

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St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana is a coastal parish near New Orleans known for its historic Creole communities, role in early Louisiana history, and vulnerability to hurricanes and flooding.

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St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana canonical 4
St. Bernard Parish 3

How this entity was disambiguated

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative division
parish of Louisiana
adjacentToBodyOfWater Breton Sound
Lake Borgne
Mississippi River
areaCode 504
borderedBy Gulf of Mexico
Hancock County, Mississippi
Orleans Parish
surface form: Orleans Parish, Louisiana

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surface form: Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

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surface form: St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
climate humid subtropical climate
contains Arabi, Louisiana
Chalmette, Louisiana
surface form: Chalmette Battlefield

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surface form: Poydras, Louisiana

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surface form: Shell Beach, Louisiana

Violet, Louisiana
country United States of America
surface form: United States
economy commercial fishing
oil and gas industry
shipbuilding and maritime services
ethnicCommunity Creole community
Isleno community
executiveLeaderTitle Parish President
FIPSCode 22-087
formedFrom Orleans Parish
surface form: Orleans Parish, Louisiana
founded 1807
governingBody St. Bernard Parish Council
governmentType parish government
hasProtectedArea Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge
Breton National Wildlife Refuge
historicalRegion Mississippi River Delta region
surface form: Lower Mississippi River Delta
knownFor Isleno (Canary Islander) heritage
coastal wetlands
fishing and seafood industry
historic Creole communities
vulnerability to hurricanes and flooding
largestSettlement Chalmette, Louisiana
locatedIn New Orleans metropolitan area
surface form: Greater New Orleans

southeastern Louisiana
majorDisaster Hurricane Betsy (1965)
surface form: Hurricane Betsy

Hurricane Katrina
namedAfter Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
parishSeat Chalmette, Louisiana
partOf Louisiana’s coastal zone
New Orleans metropolitan area
significantEvent Battle of New Orleans
state Louisiana
subjectTo coastal erosion
land subsidence
timeZone Central Time Zone

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard birthPlace St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
subject surface form: P. G. T. Beauregard
Chalmette, Louisiana parish St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
this entity surface form: St. Bernard Parish
Chalmette, Louisiana locatedIn St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
Chalmette, Louisiana parishSeatOf St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
eastern Louisiana contains St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
this entity surface form: St. Bernard Parish
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans (nearby in Belle Chasse and regionally associated) regionallyAssociatedWith St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
subject surface form: Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans
New Orleans metropolitan area hasCountyOrParish St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
this entity surface form: St. Bernard Parish