Belle Chasse (/ bɛl ˈtʃeɪs/ bel CHAYSS) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, USA, on the West Banks of the Mississippi River. Belle Chasse comes from the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan area. The population was 12,679 at the 2010 census.

Belle Chasse is the largest town in Plaquemines Church.

Belle Chasse is home to Naval Air base Joint Get Base New Orleans, a Naval Air Base for the UNITED STATE Navy Obtain.

Festivities
Belle Chasse LA is residence to the well-known “Orange Feast,” “Crawfish Feast,” and additionally “Gamers Feast.” It is likewise home to the Plaquemines Church Fish And Shellfish Event.

Destinations
Recording Variety, Dirt-Bike/Four-Wheeler “The Track”, Cypress Parks (Baseball, SoftBall, Football, Football).

History
There is little contract regarding the start of the name Belle Chasse. In French, belle chasse basically means “spectacular hunting.” It is extensively thought that it was so called as a result of the splendor of wild animals which the first French homesteaders observed when they worked out in the area. Others state that Belle Chasse was named after a Colonel Joseph D. Bellechasse, who lived in New Orleans around the late 18th and also extremely early 19th century. Conversely, it was called after the winery of Deville de Goutin Bellechasse.

The Confederate statesman Judah P. Benjamin was one of the most preferred proprietor of the Belle Chasse ranch. After coming under decay as well as also desertion by the 1930s, the areas ranch house was destroyed in 1960. The bell was restored as well as today continues to be before the Belle Chasse Town Library.

The Naval Air base was founded in 1920 on the south coast of Lake Pontchartrain, yet in 1957 it transferred to its existing area (Belle Chasse, Louisiana). It has actually been designated as a Joint Forces Get Air Station. It is house to numerous marine air devices in addition to a Flying force Get fighter armada along with a Marine Corps Get helicopter system. In March 2009, U.S. Navy Obtain Airborne Early Care Armada 77 (VAW-77) moved its 6 E-2C aircraft from NAS Atlanta, GA to Belle Chasse. The armada consistently launches to the Caribbean on counter-narcotic treatments. The squadron aircrew are all UNITED STATE Naval Reservists while the maintenance division for the airplane is run by Northrop Grumman Area Solutions.

National Guard
Belle Chasse functions as a head workplace for the Louisiana Flying Force National Guard and also house of the 159th Fighter Wing. It served as the principal helicopter staging area for rescue procedures throughout Storm Katrina.

Geography
Belle Chasse lies at 29 ° 51 ′ 48 ″ N 89 ° 59 ′ 54 ″ W( 29.852243, -89.9983335).

According to the UNITED STATES Demographics Bureau, the CDP has an overall location of 28.4 square miles (74 km2), of which 24.9 square miles (64 km2) is land in addition to 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2) (12.21%) is water.

Press/media
Belle Chasse has the transmission site of amongst one of one of the most powerful AM radio stations in New Orleans, 50,000-watt WLNO, the previous WNOE-AM. WLNO’s seven-tower directional option rests on the west side of Woodland Highway, merely north of Belle Chasse Freeway.

Institutions
Plaquemines Church School Board runs public colleges.

Belle Chasse Main, Belle Chasse Middle, Belle Chasse High School, Belle Chasse Academy, Plaquemines Parrish Alternative School.

In the starting Belle Chasse High, which opened in 1928, was K-12, yet in 1977 Belle Chasse Middle school offered to take the center high qualities away.

Belle Chasse Main opened in August 1994. Belle Chasse Center got the 5th high quality in 1999.

Belle Chasse in addition has a Catholic College, Our Woman of Constant Support Establishment.