Donaldsonville
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.
- Type: Town with 7,730 residents
- Description: city in and the parish seat of Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Ascension”, “Donaldsontown”, “Donaldsonville (Luisiana)”, “Donaldsonville, LA”, “Donaldsonville, Louisiana”, “Donisonville”, “La Fourche”, and “La Ville De Donaldson”
- Postal code: 70346
Places of Interest
Highlights: River Road African American Museum and La La Regira Field.
River Road African American Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Smoke Bend.
Smoke Bend
Hamlet
Smoke Bend is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Donaldsonville
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Ascension, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.1052° or 30° 6′ 19″ north
Longitude
-90.9876° or 90° 59′ 15″ west
Population
7,730
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US DNA
Open location code
862F4246+3X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Donaldsonville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دونالدسونفيل”
- Basque: “Donaldsonville”
- Bulgarian: “Доналдсонвиле”
- Catalan: “Donaldsonville”
- Cebuano: “Donaldsonville”
- Chechen: “Дональдсонвилл”
- Chinese: “唐纳森维尔”
- Danish: “Donaldsonville”
- Dutch: “Donaldsonville”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دونالدسونفيل”
- French: “Donaldsonville”
- German: “Donaldsonville”
- Gilaki: “دانالدسنویل (لۊئيزيانا)”
- Gilaki: “دانالدسنویل”
- Haitian: “Donaldsonville, Lwizyana”
- Haitian: “Donaldsonville”
- Hungarian: “Donaldsonville”
- Irish: “Donaldsonville”
- Italian: “Donaldsonville”
- Japanese: “ドナルドソンビル”
- Korean: “도널드슨빌”
- Ladin: “Donaldsonville”
- Mazanderani: “دونالدسونویل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Donaldsonville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Donaldsonville”
- Norwegian: “Donaldsonville”
- Persian: “دونالدسونویل، لوئیزیانا”
- Persian: “دونالدسونویل”
- Polish: “Donaldsonville”
- Portuguese: “Donaldsonville”
- Romanian: “Donaldsonville, Louisiana”
- Romanian: “Donaldsonville”
- Russian: “Доналдсонвил”
- Russian: “Доналдсонвилл”
- Serbian: “Доналдсонвил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Donaldsonville, Louisiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Donaldsonville”
- South Azerbaijani: “دونالدسونویل، لوئیزیانا”
- Spanish: “Donaldsonville”
- Swedish: “Donaldsonville”
- Tatar: “Дональдсонвилл”
- Turkish: “Donaldsonville, Louisiana”
- Turkish: “Donaldsonville”
- Ukrainian: “Дональдсонвілл”
- Urdu: “ڈونلڈسن ویل، لوزیانا”
- Uzbek: “Donaldsonville”
- Volapük: “Donaldsonville”
- Welsh: “Donaldsonville, Louisiana”
- Welsh: “Donaldsonville”
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