Hayes, Louisiana
| Hayes, Louisiana | |
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| Census-designated place | |
 Hayes
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| Coordinates: 30°06′32″N 92°55′13″W / 30.10889°N 92.92028°WCoordinates: 30°06′32″N 92°55′13″W / 30.10889°N 92.92028°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 Louisiana
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| Parish | Calcasieu |
| Founded | 1832 as Dugas Pasture |
| Named | 1904 |
| Named for | Thomas Hayes |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7.3 km2 (2.8 sq mi) |
| • Land | 7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi) |
| • Water | 0.1 km2 (0.04 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3 m (10 ft) |
| Population (2010) | 780 |
| • Density | 108.3/km2 (280/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CST (UTC-5) |
| ZIP Codes | 70646 |
| Area Code | 337 |
Hayes (pronounced heɪz) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 780. It is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Hayes also is home to the musical artist known as Rosco from the Pop duo Jaime & Rosco.
Hayes is located in the southeastern corner of Calcasieu Parish, on the west bank of Bayou Lacassine, which forms the boundary with Jefferson Davis Parish. Louisiana Highway 14 runs through the center of the community, leading west 3 miles (5 km) to Bell City and south then east 18 miles (29 km) to Lake Arthur. Lake Charles, the Calcasieu Parish seat, is 26 miles (42 km) to the northwest.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has a total area of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2), of which 0.039 square miles (0.1 km2), or 1.52%, is water.
In the beginning, Hayes was known as Dugas Pasture or "La Savanne des Dugas", named for a cattle grazer from Andrus Cove who discovered this bountiful pasture land. Cattle could be kept here without supervision because the area was bounded on the east by the Lacassine Bayou, on the north and west by swampland, and on the south by marsh. In 1832 Thomas Hayes moved into Dugas Pasture and became the first while settler there. He married Mary Ann Foreman of Andrus Cove, and they settled near the Lacassine Bayou.
The next settler was William Holland, born in Tennessee in 1809. Holland, pioneer and father of nine children, established a school in what was now becoming known as Hayes (for Thomas Hayes, the first settler). Using a team of oxen, he moved an old slave cabin onto his properly, and he hired his friend Tom Cannon as the teacher. The next settler in Dugas Pasture was a widow with seven sons and one daughter. In 1854, Mrs. Bazeline Derouen of New Iberia bought a piece of property from the U.S. government, near the Lorrain settlement. On her property, the first Methodist church was established in 1898. It was a simple, one-room structure with a small, foot-operated organ. The first pastor was the Rev. Robert P. Howell. Prior to that, as far back as 1835, Methodist circuit riders had come into the area on horseback and held meetings in the Hayes and Holland homes. In 1905, after the railroad came to Hayes and the population shifted, the Methodist congregation decided the location was out of the way, so Bill Cox loaded the church building on a logging wagon and moved it to its present site in Hayes.
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