Welcome
Welcome is an unincorporated community in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is located near the east bank of the Mississippi River between Garyville and Reserve.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Welcome, LA”, “Welcome, Louisiana”, and “Welcome, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garyville Refinery.
Garyville Refinery
Factory
The Garyville Refinery is the 4th largest American oil refinery with a nameplate capacity of 597,000 barrels per day. Garyville Refinery operations consist of crude distillation, hydrocracking, catalytic cracking, hydrotreating, catalytic reforming, alkylation, sulfur recovery, and coking.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Edgard and Gramercy.
Edgard
Village
Photo: Clem, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Edgard is a census-designated place in, and the parish seat of, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,637 at the 2000 census and 1,948 in 2020. Edgard is situated 2 miles southeast of Welcome.
Gramercy
Town
Photo: Louisiana GOHSEP, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gramercy is a town in the U.S. state of Louisiana, in St. James Parish. It is part of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area. The population was 3,613 at the time of the 2010 U.S. census and 3,188 according to the 2020 population estimates program. Gramercy is situated 6 miles west of Welcome.
Welcome
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
30.05965° or 30° 3′ 35″ northLongitude
-90.5912° or 90° 35′ 28″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
862F3C55+VGOpenStreetMap ID
node 151407514OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Welcome” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “韋爾科姆 (路易斯安那州施洗者聖約翰堂區)”
- Chinese: “韋爾科姆”
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