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Old 12-27-2007, 01:30 AM   #15
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Houma

The city of Houma (pronounced /homˈɑ/) is the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana and the hub of a metropolitan area of over 200,000 residents. [1] [2] The city's powers of government have been absorbed by the parish, which is now run by the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government. The population was 32,393 at the 2000 census. There are many unincorporated areas adjacent to the city of Houma; the largest, Bayou Cane, is an urbanized area commonly referred to by locals as Houma but is not included in the 2000 census count, and is in fact a separate census-designated place. For this reason the actual population of the Houma area is estimated to be significantly greater than the census figure.

Houma in popular culture

* Houma and the surrounding area are the setting for the fictional Swamp Thing comic books, the 1994 V. C. Andrews book Ruby, and the 2005 film The Skeleton Key (which was not filmed in Houma or Terrebonne Parish).
* Houma resident Martin Folse, who also owns the local News station HTV, filmed the movie Nutria Man: Terror in the Swamp in the swamps in and around Houma in 1983.
* Blues musician and co-star of the IMAX movie feature Hurricane on the Bayou, Tab Benoit, grew up in Houma and attended Vandebilt Catholic High School.
* Several professional athletes, past and present, were either born or raised in the Houma area, including current New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs. Former professional athletes from the Houma area ******* NFL players Frank Lewis, Clarence Verdin, and Richie Cunningham, and former Major League Baseball pitcher Wally Whitehurst.
* Rock musician Dax Riggs has lived much of his life in Houma.


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