Aben
Aben is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. Aben is located south and east of a bend in the Mississippi River, 3 miles east of Donaldsonville, but as the Mississippi generally runs north to south, Aben is considered to be on the west bank of the river.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana
- Also known as: “Aben, LA” and “Aben, Louisiana”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sunshine Bridge.
Sunshine Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Bluepoint951, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Sunshine Bridge is a cantilever bridge over the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Completed in 1963, it carries Louisiana Highway 70, which connects Donaldsonville on the west bank of Ascension Parish with Sorrento on the east bank of Ascension Parish as well as with Gonzales on the east bank of Ascension Parish. Sunshine Bridge is situated 2 miles east of Aben.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Donaldsonville and Smoke Bend.
Donaldsonville
Photo: Z28scrambler, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Donaldsonville is a town of about 7000 in the south of Louisiana, along the Mississippi River. Its historic old town is considered to be one of the best kept examples of its kind, and home to a number of pre-Civil War monuments.
Smoke Bend
Hamlet
Smoke Bend is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. A small cottage from the 1870s named Rome House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located here. Smoke Bend is situated 4½ miles west of Aben.
Aben
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Ascension, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
30.10798° or 30° 6′ 29″ northLongitude
-90.94288° or 90° 56′ 34″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
862F4354+5ROpenStreetMap ID
node 151340386OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to South Azerbaijani—“Aben” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “阿本”
- French: “Aben”
- Irish: “Aben”
- Persian: “ابن، لویزیانا”
- Persian: “ابن”
- South Azerbaijani: “آبن، لوئیزیانا”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sunshine Fire Department and Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office Jail.
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