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Morgan City is a city in St. Mary Parish in Louisiana. The parish seat is Franklin. At the 2016 census, the population was 11,646. Morgan City is on the banks of the Atchafalaya River.
During the Civil War, the Star Fort of Fort Brashear was built by the Union Army to defend a Federal military deport and town. During the Bayou Teche Campaign in 1863, Confederates landed their skiffs and flats at the rear of the town. They attack and surprised the city and took 1,300 Union prisoners, 11 heavy siege guns, 2,500 stands of rifles, plus 2000 negroes, about 300 wagons and tens and only suffered 3 killed and 18 wounded.
The name of the community was changed to Morgan City in 1876 to celebrate Charles Morgan a rail and steamship magnate who dredged the Atchafalaya Bay Ship Channel to accommodate ocean-going vessels.
Morgan city is located 70 miles west of New Orleans, 60 miles south of Baton Rouge and 60 miles east of Lafayette. Morgan city is the gateway to the Gulf of Mexico for the shrimping and oilfield industries.
Morgan City, Louisiana
Frank P. Grizzaffi, III, Mayor
512 First Street
Morgan City, Louisiana
Phone: 985-385-1770
The crime index in Morgan City, LA is 477.3 crimes per 100,000 people. Morgan City is 92.9% higher in crime than other US cities. In 2016 there were 0 murders, 10 rapes, 13 robberies, 70 assaults, 167 burglaries, 408 thefts, 26 auto thefts, and 1 arson. There are 76 registered sex offenders living in Morgan City as of October 2016. The ratio of resident sin Morgan City to the number of sex offenders I 158 to 1.
