Map of Livingston town, Louisiana

Livingston is the parish seat of Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,769 at the 2010 census.

Livingston hosts one of the two LIGO gravitational wave detector sites, the other one being located in Hanford, Washington.

Livingston town overview:
Name:	Livingston town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	Louisiana
County:	Livingston Parish
Elevation:	43 ft (13 m)
Total Area:	3.22 sq mi (8.35 km²)
Land Area:	3.22 sq mi (8.35 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	1,877
Population Density:	582.38/sq mi (224.86/km²)
ZIP code:	70754
Area code:	225
FIPS code:	2244655
Website:	http://www.townoflivingston.com/

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History

Like the parish, Livingston takes its name from the jurist Edward Livingston.

Livingston was the site of a major train derailment (spilling about 200,000 gallons of chemicals) in 1982.

On February 11 of 2016, it was officially announced that the LIGO collaboration successfully made the first direct observation of gravitational waves in September 2015. Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for leading this work.

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Geography

Livingston is located at 30°29′55″N 90°44′54″W / 30.49861°N 90.74833°W / 30.49861; -90.74833 (30.498721, -90.748371).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.1 square miles (8.0 km), all land. The communities of Doyle and Livingston, combined in 1955 to create the Town of Livingston. Doyle was established northeast of present-day Livingston, located on Hog Branch, off present-day North Doyle Road but moved when the railroad was built from Baton Rouge to Hammond, and the community was re-located in 1901 by the McDonald family.

Livingston was started by the Lyons Lumber Company in 1916 as a logging community on 63 acres just west of Doyle, to support their logging industry and timber mill in Garyville, located south of Livingston on the Mississippi River. Therefore, Livingston and Garyville are sister cities.

When Livingston was first established there was a house on every lot, a board walk in front of every home, and water wells drilled on each corner so every home would have access to running water.