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69495 Highway 1054
Kentwood, LA (in city)
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75595 Highway 1053
Kentwood, LA (in city)
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75912 Highway 1053
Kentwood, LA (in city)
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1650 sq.ft.
 

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Local city information for Kentwood, LA

Kentwood is a rural town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana near the Mississippi border. The population was 2,205 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Hammond Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Water from Kentwood is bottled and popularly marketed in New Orleans under the Kentwood Springs label. Kentwood is also known as "The Dairy Capital of the South." Kentwood used to have a dairy parade each November where people sold crafts and miscellaneous items. The festival hasn't been held for several years due to the shutdown of the dairy plant in the 1970s and the subsequent decline of the town and its economy. Later, the parade and festival was moved to the summer months. Despite all this, Kentwood is best known as the hometown of pop singer Britney Spears and sister Jamie Lynn Spears.

This rural town was founded by Amos Kent in 1888.

s (17.9 km²), of which, 6.9 square miles (17.9 km²) of it is land and 0.14% is water.

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