In 1999, representatives of the Lafayette and Vermilion Parish Governments met with State Land Office personnel to discuss the possibility of the State Land Office performing independant research and a field survey to re-establish two segments of the Lafayette- Vermilion Parish boundary as defined by Legislative Act No. 81 of 1844. The two segments in question were vaguely described in Act No. 81. The first area of concern commenced at a point "where the line dividing the Parish of Lafayette and St. Marin crosses the Bayou Parc Perdu, from said point in a direct line to the first woods on the Coulee know by the name of Dalby (Darby's) Coulee". The second area of concern commences at "the mouth of Granges Coulee to the last timber therein, thence in a direct line to the first timber on the Indian Point Coulee (Indian Bayou)". The State Land Office agreed to perform the independent research and provide surveying services and submitted proposals in 1999. The proposals were updated by the State Land Office and accepted by both parishes in 2000. In May of 2002, the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government, the Vermilion Parish Police Jury and the State Land Office entered into a joint cooperatice endeavor agreement in which the State Land Office would provide surveying services to re-establish the above described two segments of the Lafayette-Vermilion Parish boundary. In order to determine the location of the starting point of the first segment in question, the boundary between Lafayette and St. Martin Parishes had to be determined. This task required a significant amount of research and is covered in this report prior to proceeding to the Lafayette-Vermilion parish boundaries. We have determined, from our research, that the parish boundary descriptions in the Legislative Acts that defined the limits of the various parishes were sometimes very vague and contained references to physical landmarks that can no longer be precisely located. We also found that as new parishes were created the new boundary descriptions may or may not have followed along previously described boundary lines. The physical location of the boundaries discussed here in have been the subject of debate and controversy for a number of years. Therefore it should be noted that the conclusions reported herein, are based on the information available to us at the time of his study and represent our opinion of a logical location for the boundaries in question. |
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