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Lafayette

train station in Lafayette, Louisiana
Place railway_station Q6471309
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Summary

Lafayette is a railway station[1]. Lafayette ranks in the top 0.98% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (49 views/month, #182 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Lafayette[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Connecting line: Lafayette Subdivision[5]
  • Named after: Rosa Parks[6]
  • Adjacent station: Lake Charles[7], New Iberia[8]
  • Commons category: Rosa Parks Transportation Center, Lafayette, Louisiana[9]
  • Coordinate location: 30.2267, -92.0144[10]
  • Connecting service: Sunset Limited[11]
  • Date of official opening: 1911[12]
  • State of use: in use[13]

Why It Matters

Lafayette is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → Rosa Parks Transportation Center, Lafayette, Louisiana
    Connecting line → Lafayette Subdivision
    Wikidata description → train station in Lafayette, Louisiana
    Imported from → —
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap node id: 6997635033, Adding OSM node id claim from wikidata tag on node/6997635033 in United States"
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