Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans

Coordinates: 29°49′31″N 090°02′06″W / 29.82528°N 90.03500°W / 29.82528; -90.03500
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Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans
Alvin Callender Field
AMSL
Runways
Direction Length and surface
04/22 3,048 metres (10,000 ft) Porus European Mix
14/32 1,828.8 metres (6,000 ft) Porus European Mix
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans is a base of the United States military located in

maritime law enforcement/port security missions. It contains a military airport known as Alvin Callender Field (IATA: NBG, ICAO: KNBG, FAA LID: NBG) which is located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of New Orleans.[3] The base's predecessor, NAS New Orleans, occupied the current location of the University of New Orleans's
principal campus until 1957.

Occupants

Current occupants

Previous occupants

NAS New Orleans in the 1940s, located on the present-day main campus of the University of New Orleans

Facilities

NAS JRB New Orleans (Alvin Callender Field) has two

PEM surfaces: 4/22 is 9,999 by 200 feet (3,048 × 61 m) and 14/32 is 6,000 by 200 feet (1,829 × 61 m).[3]

Demographics

New Orleans Station CDP
UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID2804360[7]

New Orleans Station is a census-designated place (CDP) covering the residential population of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.[8]

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
20202,508—
U.S. Decennial Census[9]
2020[10]

It first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 2,508.[11]

New Orleans Station CDP, Louisiana – Racial and Ethnic Composition
(NH = Non-Hispanic)
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.
Race / Ethnicity Pop 2020[10] % 2020
White
alone (NH) 		1,161 46.29%
Black or African American
alone (NH) 		587 23.41%
Alaska Native
alone (NH) 		19 0.76%
Asian alone (NH) 90 3.59%
Pacific Islander alone (NH) 17 0.68%
Some Other Race alone (NH) 22 0.88%
Mixed Race/Multi-Racial (NH) 159 6.34%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 453 18.06%
Total 2,508 100.00%

Education

The base has a

K-8 school, Belle Chasse Academy.[12] The school opened on September 5, 2002.[13]

The entire parish is in the Plaquemines Parish School Board school district.[14] The school district schools in Belle Chasse are where the base is assigned to.[12] Belle Chasse High School is the Belle Chasse area high school.

See also

References

  1. PDF
  2. U.S. Census Bureau
    . Retrieved on May 22, 2010.
  3. ^
    PDF
    , effective 2009-07-02.
  4. ^ VR-54 "Revelers"
  5. ^ [1] Pterogram, Spring 2022 Edition, pages 9-10
  6. ^ "New Orleans Military Entrance Processing Station".
  7. ^ a b "New Orleans Station Census Designated Place". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  8. ^ "New Orleans Station Census Designated Place". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  9. US Census Bureau
    .
  10. ^ a b "P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – New Orleans Station CDP, Louisiana". United States Census Bureau.
  11. ^ "New Orleans Station CDP, Louisiana". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  12. ^ a b "Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans Education". Military One Source. Retrieved 3 March 2024. - The website is a .mil
  13. ^ "About Us". Belle Chasse Academy. Retrieved 3 March 2024. Belle Chasse Academy 100 Fifth Street/NAS-JRB Belle Chasse, LA 70037
  14. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 3 March 2024. New Orleans Station[...]Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans - Text list
    - The map shows there are no incorporated places in the parish.

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