Ruston, LA
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Ruston, Louisiana ruston de Louisiane The Peach City |
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| City of Ruston | |
Ruston City Hall
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 Ruston, Louisiana
Ruston, Louisiana
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| Coordinates: 32°31′47″N 92°38′26″W / 32.52972°N 92.64056°WCoordinates: 32°31′47″N 92°38′26″W / 32.52972°N 92.64056°W | |
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 United States
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 Louisiana
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| Parish | Lincoln |
| Incorporated | 1885 |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 21,877 |
| • Estimate (2015) | 22,340 |
| Demonym(s) | Rustonian |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 71270, 71272, 71273 |
| Area code(s) | 318 |
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| Airport | Ruston Regional Airport |
| Website | ruston |
Ruston is a small city and the parish seat of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States. it is the largest city in the Eastern Ark-La-Tex region. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 21,859, reflecting an increase of 6.4 percent from the count of 20,546 counted in the 2000 Census. Ruston is near the eastern border of the Ark-La-Tex region and is the home of Louisiana Tech University, whose athletics is now apart of Conference USA. Its economy is therefore based on its college population. Ruston hosts the annual Peach Festival.
Ruston is the principal city of the Ruston Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Lincoln parish. The previous mayor, first elected in 1998, was Dan Hollingsworth, an Independent. Ronny Walker was elected as the new mayor on November 4, 2014.
Ruston is located at 32°31′47″N 92°38′26″W / 32.52972°N 92.64056°W (32.529674, -92.640466) and has an elevation of 331 feet (100.9 m).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 18.2 square miles (47 km2), of which, 18.1 square miles (47 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (0.44%) is water.
During the Reconstruction era following the Civil War, word soon reached the young parish near what is now Ruston, that the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Pacific Railroad would begin to run across north Louisiana, linking the Deep South with the West (the current operator is Kansas City Southern Railway). Robert Edwin Russ, the Lincoln Parish sheriff from 1877–1880, donated 640 acres (2.6 km2) to the town and this area was eventually known as Ruston (shorthand for Russ town).
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