Besides the navigable waterways already named, there are the Sabine ( Sah-BEAN ), forming the western boundary ; and the Pearl, the eastern boundary ; the Calcasieu ( KAL-cah-shew ), the Mermentau, the Vermilion, Bayou Teche, the Atchafalaya ( a-CHAF-a-LI-a ), the Boeuf ( bEHf ), Bayou Lafourche, the Courtableau, Bayou D ' Arbonne, the Macon, the Tensas ( TEN-saw ), Amite River, the Tchefuncte ( CHA-Funk-ta ), the Tickfaw, the Natalbany, and a number of other smaller streams, constituting a natural system of navigable waterways, aggregating over long.

The strip extended, roughly, from Sabine River east to the Calcasieu River, Bayous Kisatchie and Don Manuel, Lac Terre Noir and the Arroyo Hondo.

* Calcasieu River

Westlake is located directly northwest of downtown Lake Charles and the Calcasieu River from the I-10 bridge.

Westlake is bordered by Lake Charles and the Calcasieu River.

This area is roughly coextensive with what was once known as the Neutral Ground or Sabine Free State, when no US state exercised jurisdiction over the area from the Calcasieu River on the east to the Sabine River on the west.

* Calcasieu River

The area they used spanned from the Sabine River all the way East to the Calcasieu River and up North to the Red River.

In the mid-1960s, the old iron bridge over the Calcasieu River, north of Lake Charles, was replaced and the highway was altered for the new bridge and portion of highway going into Moss Bluff, Louisiana.

The Calcasieu River ( KAL-kuh-shoo ) is a river on the Gulf Coast in southwestern Louisiana.

In the early 19th century, the area of present-day Louisiana and Texas west of the Calcasieu and east of the Neches River was disputed between the United States and Mexico.

Because the river passes through areas intensive in petroleum refining and other industries, petrochemical wastes have been found contaminating the river and estuarine environment along the lower Calcasieu River.

In 1753, Texas Governor Jacinto de Barrios y Juaregui determined that the French had encroached on Texas by occupying territory to the west of Arroyo Hondo ( Calcasieu River ), which runs south between the upper Sabine River to the west and the lower Red River to the north and east.

Two boat launches are conveniently located on the West Fork of the Calcasieu River, providing access to the Gulf of Mexico, only a few miles away.

Hikers may visit the old stagecoach road to explore the park and the banks of the various tributaries to the Calcasieu River.

* Arroyo Hondo, historical Spanish name for the Calcasieu River in Louisiana

The Calcasieu River High Bridge

* Victor T. " Vic " Stelly – former state representative from Calcasieu Parish and author of the Stelly Plan who also did postgraduate studies at McNeese and served as a college administrator

Sam Houston Jones State Park is a park in near the city of Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, in southwestern Louisiana ( USA ) located at the confluence of the Houston and Calcasieu Rivers and Indian Bayou.

Starting in 1810, both governments removed all settlers in the Rio Hondo Territory, which included a sizable portion of modern Calcasieu Parish.

The chief means of outside travel in the Parish relied on riverboats plying the Sabine and Calcasieu Rivers.

The term Redbone became disfavored in the late 1960s, as it was a pejorative nickname applied by others to the geographically and socially isolated light-complexioned populations in most western Louisiana parishes, from Sabine Parish in the northwest and Rapides Parish near the center of the state down to Calcasieu Parish in the southwest.

It included portions of the present-day Louisiana parishes of De Soto, Sabine, Natchitoches, Vernon, Rapides, Beauregard, Allen, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, and Cameron.

The western boundary of the Sabine refuge is Sabine Lake, the inlet for Port Arthur, Texas, while the tip of the eastern end reaches Calcasieu Lake.

Originally a part of Imperial Calcasieu Parish, it became a separate entity in the year 1912.

A mile east of the western terminus, I-210 rises over the Calcasieu River High Bridge, one of the highest bridges in the Interstate Highway System, to pass over the Calcasieu Ship Channel.

Organized in 1870 from parts of Calcasieu and Vermillion Parishes, Cameron is named for Simon Cameron, a Pennsylvanian who was President Abraham Lincoln's first secretary of war.

It was separated in 1912 from the larger Calcasieu Parish to the southwest.

Troop 1 of the Calcasieu area Council was the first troop west of the Mississippi and was led by Scoutmaster Seaman A. Mayo.

The Calcasieu Area Council, Boy Scouts of America serves 4800 + youth in five Parishes of Southwest Louisiana.

The Council is divided into three districts: Pioneer District serves Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Jeff Davis Parish ; Cypress Knee District serves Calcasieu and Cameron Parishes ; Thunderbird District serves Beauregard and Vernon Parishes.

Ronnie Johns, an incoming member of the Louisiana State Senate from Sulphur in Calcasieu Parish, was reared in Bunkie and graduated from Bunkie High School in 1967.

Carlyss is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.

DeQuincy is the northernmost city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Iowa is a town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Moss Bluff is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Moss Bluff is a burgeoning community, and is one of the communities in Calcasieu Parish besides Lake Charles experiencing growth.

Moss Bluff's elementary and junior high schools maintain some of the highest student populations in Calcasieu Parish.

Prien is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Sulphur () is a city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Most of Sulphur's schools are under the Calcasieu Parish School Board.

Vinton is a town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.

The part of Louisiana that included Calcasieu Parish was also home to the finest longleaf pine in the world.

Westlake is a city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States and is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area.