Eastern New Orleans is a large section of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Nickname: The Crescent City, The Big Easy, The City That Care Forgot, NOLA (acronym for New Orleans, LA) Location in the State of Louisiana and the United States Coordinates: Country United States State Louisiana Parish Orleans Founded 1718 Mayor Ray Nagin (D) Area    - City 350. ...

Landsat view of Eastern New Orleans.

This is the portion of the city to the east of the Industrial Canal and north of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet. It is often called "New Orleans East" as well, although that term is sometimes confined to a smaller section of this area. Eastern New Orleans is a portion of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1318x720, 511 KB) Eastern New Orleans as seen from space. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1318x720, 511 KB) Eastern New Orleans as seen from space. ... The Landsat program is the longest running enterprise for acqusition of imagery of Earth from space. ... The Industrial Canal is a 5. ... The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal (also known as MRGO, MR-GO or Mr. ... The Ninth Ward or 9th Ward is a distinctive region of New Orleans, Louisiana that is located in the easternmost downriver portion of the city. ...

The main urban buildup is the section east of the Industrial Canal, which includes such neighborhoods as Lake Kenilworth, Seabrook, Melia, Pines Village, Lake Forest East, Lake Forest West, Edgelake, Littlewoods, Plum Orchard, Bonita Park, Donna Villa, Lake Carmel, Willowbrook, and Camelot. Village de L'Est is known for its Vietnamese community. Eastover is a wealthy gated community.

Landmarks in this part of the city's 9th Ward include Lakefront Airport, Joe W. Brown Park, NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, and Six Flags New Orleans amusement park. New Orleans Lakefront Airport, located in downtown New Orleans, Louisana was constructed in the mid 1930s on a man-made peninsula jutting into Lake Pontchartrain. ... NASA Insignia Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Michoud Assembly Facility in 1968 The Michoud Assembly Facility is an 832 acre (3. ... Six Flags New Orleans (formerly known as Jazzland) is amusement park in New Orleans, Louisiana owned by the Six Flags organization. ... Germany Pavilion, part of the Epcot Center theme park in Orlando, Florida Amusement park (also called theme park) is the generic term for a collection of rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a fairly large group of people. ...

Further east in this section, the far eastern portion has little urban development, although still within the city limits of New Orleans. It includes the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, Chef Menteur Pass, Fort Macomb, and scattered areas of essentially rural character despite being within the city limits, like Venetian Isles, Irish Bayou and Lake Saint Catherine, and historic Fort Pike on the Rigolets. The Chef Menteur Pass is a narrow natural waterway which, along with the Rigolets, connects Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Fort Macomb is a 19th century fortress in Louisiana, on the eastern shore of Chef Menteur Pass. ... Venetian Isles is a neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Lake St. ... Fort Pike is a decommissioned 19th century fort which formerly guarded the Rigolets pass in Louisiana. ... The Rigolets (locally pronounced RIG-uh-leez) is a strait in Louisiana that, along with Chef Menteur Pass, connects Lake Pontchartrain and Lake St. ...

"Fountain of the Winds", 1930s sculpture by Enrique Alferez in front of Lakefront Airport

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 1515 KB) Enrique Alfarez 1930s sculpture Fountain of the Winds, Lakefront Airport, New Orleans Fountain dry and flood silted after Hurricane Katrina. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 1515 KB) Enrique Alfarez 1930s sculpture Fountain of the Winds, Lakefront Airport, New Orleans Fountain dry and flood silted after Hurricane Katrina. ... Enrique Alferez (1901 - 1999) was Mexican born Louisiana artist, best known as a sculptor in the art deco style. ...

History

Until the late 19th century, this area was outside of the city limits of New Orleans, although within Orleans Parish. There was little development other than two areas. The first was along the long narrow strip of higher ground along Gentilly Road, along the natural levee of an old bayou. Various farms, plantations, and small villages such as Michoud were along this strip. The other area was the "camps", clusters of houses raised high on wooden stilts, in the shallows along the edge of Lake Pontchartrain, the largest and longest lasting of these being at Little Woods. New Orleans (French: Nouvelle-Orléans) is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... A levee, levée (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, to raise), floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial embankment or dike, usually earthen, which parallels the course of a river. ... Big Cypress Bayou in Jefferson, Texas off of U.S. Route 59. ... A plantation is an intentional planting of a crop, on a larger scale, usually for uses other than cereal production or pasture. ... Michoud is a area in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, located at latitude 30. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In the early 20th century some residential development of the area began, at first as an extension of Gentilly. The Industrial Canal was built starting in the late 1910s and completed in the early 1920s, creating the barrier that would separate the East from the rest of New Orleans. Gentilly is a broad section of New Orleans, Louisiana. ...

From the 1930s to the 1960s, Lincoln Beach amusement park was the city's amusement park for the African American community in the era of the Jim Crow laws. Lincoln Beach was an amusement park in New Orleans, Louisiana, functioning from 1939 through 1965. ... Germany Pavilion, part of the Epcot Center theme park in Orlando, Florida Amusement park (also called theme park) is the generic term for a collection of rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a fairly large group of people. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and in force between 1876 and 1964 that required racial segregation, especially of black, in all public facilities. ...

The great growth of the East did not occur until after World War II. New post-war subdivisions were created for those who preferred a more suburban lifestyle. Many developments in the 1960s at first were aimed at taking advantage of white flight, but as the majority of caucausians who abandoned New Orleans with the end of racial segregation instead went west to Jefferson Parish, many of the new developments in the East instead found their prime market to be rising Middle Class African Americans leaving older and poorer sections of the city. Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Rex Theatre for Colored People, Leland, Mississippi, June 1937 Racial segregation is characterized by separation of people of different races in daily life when both are doing equal tasks, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the... Jefferson Parish is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ...

When Hurricane Betsy was bearing down on the city in 1965, Eastern New Orleans was the only section for which an evacuation was called, as it was feared that this new section of the city might suffer extreme effects. However other than light flooding near the Morrison Canal, damage from Betsy was much more modest than feared. Tragically, some of those who evacuated from the East went to the Lower 9th Ward, which flooded disastrously. Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana. ... The 9th ward is a distinctive region of New Orleans, Louisiana that is located in the eastern downriver portion of the city. ...

Much more development further east was planned during the oil boom of the late 1970s, including a huge planned development called "New Orleans East". Only a portion was built before the oil bust. Many New Orleanians started calling the whole area by the name of the planned development. Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario Ignacy Łukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ...

Damaged houses in Eastern New Orleans after Katrina

In 2005, the majority of Eastern New Orleans flooded severely from Hurricane Katrina and associated levee failures (see: Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans). Recovery has been slow. As of April 2006, only a handful of businesses have reopened, and utilities and services are spotty in much of the area. Only a fraction of the residents have returned; many of these are living in FEMA trailers as they gut and repair their flood devastated homes. As of November 2006 an estimated 40,000 people have returned to New Orleans East compared to 96,000 before the levee failures but as more residents return to New Orleans and surrounding areas the population is expected to rise. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1708, 1430 KB) New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: Damaged houses in formerly flooded out neighborhood of Eastern New Orleans. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1708, 1430 KB) New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: Damaged houses in formerly flooded out neighborhood of Eastern New Orleans. ... Lowest pressure 902 mbar (hPa; 26. ... {{Katrina) nathan cuff got on my compute ... New FEMA seal The Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA is an agency of the United States government dedicated to swift response in the event of disasters, both natural and man-made. ...

Geography

Because Eastern New Orleans, and particularly Michoud, rests on the edge of a fault line, the land and the levees protecting it are sinking at a faster rate than any other part of the state. Recent geological studies project the rate of sinking to be around two inches per year. In addition, experts warn that the area is also sliding to the south towards the Gulf of Mexico. These recent findings have strong long-term implications for rebuilding and repopulation of this part of the city. However the city of New Orleans and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have promised to "do everything possible" to prevent any future failures that could flood East New Orleans and seeing as most residents and officials of East New Orleans view the effects of Katrina as an "isolated event" due to the fact that during New Orleans 300 year history this was an isolated event this is not expected to stop the impact of repopulating East New Orleans significantly. Old fault exposed by roadcut near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. ... This article is about the type of dam. ... Gulf of Mexico in 3D perspective. ... United States Army Corps of Engineers logo The United States Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, is made up of some 34,600 civilian and 650 military men and women. ...

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• Dokka, R. K., Modern-Day Tectonic Subsidence in Coastal Louisiana: Geology, v. 34, p.281-284.
• New Orleans East sinking faster than anywhere else in the state, says geologist
• Planning District 9 Community Data Center
• NewOrleansEast.com