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Lake Charles (French: ''Lac Charles'') is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu Parish, it is a major industrial, cultural, and educational center in the southwest region of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 71,993.〔 "Census 2010 Data for the State of Louisiana" (place list), US Census Bureau, February 2011, webpage: (C2010-LA ). 〕 Lake Charles is the principal city of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area, having a population of 202,040.〔http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml Retrieved March 27, 2014〕 It is the larger principal city of the Lake Charles-Jennings Combined Statistical Area, with a population of 225,235. The 2010 population of the five-parish area of Southwest Louisiana was 292,619.〔http://www.allianceswla.org/PageDisplay.asp?p1=4740 Retrieved March 27, 2014〕 It is considered a major center of petrochemical refining, gaming, tourism, and education, being home to McNeese State University and Sowela Technical Community College. Because of the lakes and waterways throughout the city, metropolitan Lake Charles is often referred to as ''the Lake Area''. ==History== (詳細はauthor=Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism )〕 Six years after the city was incorporated, dissatisfaction over the name Charleston arose; on March 16, 1867, Charleston was renamed and incorporated as the town of Lake Charles. In 1910, a fire, known as the "Great Fire of 1910", devastated much of the city. However, Lake Charles soon rebuilt itself and continued to grow and expand in the twentieth century. The Charleston Hotel was completed in 1929, during the administration of Mayor Henry J. Geary.〔(City of Lake Charles )- Retrieved 2014-11-21〕 During and after World War II, Lake Charles experienced industrial growth with the onset of the petrochemical refining industries. The city grew to a high of some 75,000 people in the early 1980s, but with local economic recession, the population declined. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lake Charles, Louisiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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