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Alcon offices in Johns Creek, Georgia. Alcon Inc. ( German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people. [2]
Alexandria is located at 31°17′34″N 92°27′33″W [10] and has an elevation of 75 feet (22.9 m). [11] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 27.0 square miles (69.9 km 2 ), of which 26.4 square miles (68.4 km 2) is land and 0.6 square mile (1.5 km 2) (2.15%) is water.
Louisiana Highway 8 passes through the center of town, leading east 2 miles (3 km) to U.S. Route 71 and south 12 miles (19 km) to Boyce. Alexandria is 26 miles (42 km) to the southeast. According to the United States Census 2010, Colfax has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km 2), or 0.54%, is water. [5]
Contents. Consolidated city-county. In United States local government, a consolidated city-county (also known as either a city-parish or a consolidated government in Louisiana, depending on the locality, [ 1 ] or a unified municipality, unified home rule borough, or city and borough[ 2 ][ 3 ] in Alaska) is formed when one or more cities and ...
On December 7, 1810, William C. C. Claiborne, governor of the Orleans Territory, annexed the short-lived Republic of West Florida to the United States and Louisiana as Feliciana County. On December 22, 1810, the county west of the Pearl River was organized in four civil parishes: East Baton Rouge, Feliciana, St. Helena, and St. Tammany.
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, and 304 cities, towns, and villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]
The main branch of the Rapides Parish Library is located in downtown Alexandria. Rapides Parish ( / ˈræpiːdz /) ( French: Paroisse des Rapides) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 130,023. [1] The parish seat is Alexandria, which developed along the Red River of the South. [2]
FIPS code. 21-00802. GNIS feature ID. 2403078 [ 3] Website. alexandriaky .org. Alexandria is a home rule-class city [ 5] in Campbell County, Kentucky, in the United States. Along with Newport, it is one of the dual seats of the county. [ 6] The population was 10,341 at the 2020 census.