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Office: Iberville Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness – mailing address P.O. Box 324, Plaquemine, LA 70765; operates under the Parish President’s authority per the Louisiana Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act of 1993. ⚠️ As of 2026, the parish is building a new $1.5 million consolidated 911/Sheriff’s dispatch communications center to eliminate call-transfer delays between agencies, expected to open by the end of the year.
Sheriff: Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office – 58050 Meriam Street, Plaquemine, LA 70764 (P.O. Box 231) | (225) 687-5100 | Fax (225) 687-1947 | Toll-free (800) 577-4873; Sheriff Brett M. Stassi, Sr., in office since 2012, a Nicholls University graduate; 152 regular deputies plus 20 part-time deputies; substations in Maringouin (north Iberville) and St. Gabriel (east Iberville). Iberville Parish Jail – (225) 687-3553 | Fax (225) 687-5295.
Notes: For an active emergency, call 911.
Roads & Utilities
ROADS & TRANSPORTATION
Roads: LA-1 and LA-77 serve Plaquemine, the parish seat, on the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge; St. Gabriel is the parish’s largest city.
Notes: Iberville Parish, formed in 1807, is named for Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, the French explorer who founded the Louisiana colony.
Business & Permits
BUILDING & PERMITS
Office: Iberville Parish Courthouse – 58050 Meriam Street, Plaquemine, LA (historic 1848 Greek Revival courthouse building on Main Street now houses the Iberville Museum).
Notes: Plaquemine is home to the genuinely remarkable Plaquemine Lock, opened in 1909 after 14 years of construction and designed by Colonel George W. Goethals – the same engineer who would go on to design and build the Panama Canal. At the time of its completion, the lock had the highest freshwater lift of any lock in the world at 51 feet, using an innovative gravity-flow design to move boats between the Mississippi River and Louisiana’s interior bayou system. It operated for 52 years before closing in 1961 when a larger lock opened at Port Allen; today the restored lockhouse, a National Register of Historic Places site, serves as a museum along the Great River Road driving tour.
Veterans Services
VETERANS SERVICES
Office: Iberville Parish Veterans Affairs – confirm current contact via ibervilleparish.com.
Libraries
LIBRARIES
Iberville Parish Library (main branch, Plaquemine) – confirm current address/phone via ibervilleparish.com.
Parks & Recreation
PARKS & RECREATION
Key Assets: The Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site and Gary James Hebert Memorial Lockhouse museum, and the historic Plaquemine downtown along Bayou Plaquemine, are the parish’s premier attractions.
Notes: The genuine Panama Canal engineering connection at Plaquemine Lock is one of the more nationally significant infrastructure-history facts covered anywhere in this project.
GIS & Maps
GIS & MAPS
Appraisal/Parcel Search: Iberville Parish Assessor’s Office – confirm current contact via ibervilleparish.com.
Animal Services
ANIMAL SERVICES
Iberville Parish Animal Shelter & Control – 59815 Bayou Road, Plaquemine, LA 70764 | (225) 687-5881 | Toll-free (866) 620-6900 | Email: [email protected]; Hours Mon-Fri 7 AM-3:30/4:30 PM (sources vary slightly); services include stray pickup, cruelty/neglect investigation, trap requests, an annual low-cost rabies vaccination clinic, and even beaver/coyote trapping and snake removal from residences. Adoption fees: $100 (dogs), $50 (kittens), $30 (cats), covering spay/neuter, vaccinations, and microchip.
Environmental & Waste
ENVIRONMENTAL / WASTE MANAGEMENT
Office: Iberville Parish Public Works – confirm current contact via ibervilleparish.com.
NOTES: Iberville Parish is the sixth and final parish in the fourth batch of the Louisiana v2 A+ sourced standard. The genuine Panama Canal engineering connection at Plaquemine Lock is one of the more nationally significant infrastructure-history facts covered anywhere in this project. All contact information above was sourced via web search as of early August 2026 and should be reconfirmed directly with the relevant office before a visit, deadline-sensitive filing, or emergency-adjacent decision.
About Iberville Parish County
Iberville Parish has the largest antebellum plantation house in the South – Nottoway Plantation’s 53,000-square-foot, 64-room White Castle mansion and the Plaquemine Lock’s engineering landmark define a Mississippi River parish where plantation history and industrial infrastructure coexist.
Plaquemine (the parish seat, population ~6,500) serves the parish’s Mississippi River corridor communities between Baton Rouge and the Acadian region.
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Iberville Parish Assessor at 58050 Meriam Street, Plaquemine, LA 70764, phone 225-687-5155. LA residential assessed at 10% of fair market value; $75,000 homestead exemption.
Courts & Legal
Iberville Parish Clerk of Court at 58050 Meriam Street, Plaquemine, LA 70764, phone 225-687-5160, handles successions.
Marriage & Vital Records
Marriage licenses, divorce records, and birth & death certificates are handled by the following office(s):
CLERK OF COURT (Records, Vital Records, Mortgages)
58050 Meriam St., Plaquemine, LA 70764
(225) 687-5160
Genealogy
Parish-level record sources
Iberville Parish Clerk of Court (succession/estate case files – see Succession section above).
Local societies
No dedicated Iberville Parish genealogical society was confirmed in available directories.
Probate & Estate
Losing someone and having to deal with courts and paperwork at the same time is hard. This section won’t make that easier, but it should tell you what to expect, what it costs, and where to go – so at least you’re not walking in blind.
A NOTE ON LOUISIANA LAW: Louisiana is the only U.S. state built on a civil-law tradition (rooted in the Napoleonic Code) rather than English common law. Louisiana doesn’t use the word “probate” – the equivalent process is called a “succession,” and its 64 parishes are the equivalent of counties elsewhere. Community property and separate property rules also work differently here than in common-law states, which can affect what’s actually part of the succession.
Where to go
Iberville Parish 18th Judicial District Court, Clerk of Court 58050 Meriam Street (P.O. Box 423), Plaquemine, LA 70764 (225) 687-5160 Iberville Parish is on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, seated in Plaquemine. The 18th Judicial District also covers Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes.
Step 1: figure out which path applies
Small Succession Affidavit – under La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 3421 et seq., available for estates with a gross value of $125,000 or less at the date of death (or of any value if the decedent has been dead more than 20 years). No court proceeding is required. At least two people must sign – typically the surviving spouse (if any) plus one or more heirs, sworn before a notary. If the estate includes immovable property (real estate), the affidavit can’t be recorded until 90 days after the date of death, and it must be recorded with the Clerk of Court/Recorder in every parish where the decedent owned real estate.
Succession Without Administration (“simple possession”) – used when there are no debts to pay and all heirs agree; commonly resolved in 30 to 90 days via a Petition for Possession.
Administered Succession – required when a court-appointed succession representative needs to inventory assets and pay debts before distribution; typically takes 3 to 9 months, longer if contested.
Important: for anything beyond a small succession affidavit, Louisiana courts generally require a licensed Louisiana attorney to represent the succession – self-representation and generic online forms are not accepted the way they are in many other states.
Step 2: filing a regular succession
File a Petition for Possession (simple cases) or a Petition for Administration (if a representative and formal administration are needed) in the district court of the parish where the decedent was domiciled at death.
The court admits any will and, where needed, appoints an executor (testate) or administrator (intestate), issuing Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration.
In an administered succession, the representative prepares a sworn descriptive list of assets, pays valid debts, and accounts to the court.
The court issues a Judgment of Possession, which must then be recorded in the parish conveyance/land records and with the parish tax assessor to clear title.
What it costs
Filing fees vary by parish and case type; publication costs apply when legal notices are required.
A full administered succession typically requires attorney representation – flat fees for straightforward matters often run in the low thousands of dollars, more if contested or complex.
A small succession affidavit is far less expensive and, when no real estate is involved, can often be handled without an attorney – though even small errors can cause a bank, title company, or the Louisiana OMV to reject the affidavit.
Probate filings, estate administration, and guardianship matters are handled by the following office(s):
Public Safety & Arrests
Arrest records, inmate search, and law enforcement services are handled by the following office(s):
SHERIFF
58050 Meriam St., Plaquemine, LA 70764
(225) 687-3545
SHERIFF / TAX COLLECTOR
58050 Meriam St., Plaquemine, LA 70764
(225) 687-3545
Elections & Voting
Voter registration, polling locations, and elections information are handled by the following office(s):
REGISTRAR OF VOTERS (Elections)
58050 Meriam St., Plaquemine, LA 70764
(225) 687-4982
Health & Human Services
Offices & Contacts
Health services, social services, and assistance programs are handled by the following office(s):
Iberville Parish Health Unit
(225) 687-5340
LA DCFS — Capital Region
(225) 342-4086
LA Medicaid
(888) 342-6207
Our Lady of the Lake (Baton Rouge)
ololrmc.com (Level I Trauma; accessible)
Plaquemine area clinics
(225) 687-area codes
Public Health Information
PUBLIC HEALTH
Office: Iberville Parish Health Unit – confirm current contact via Louisiana Department of Health regional office listings.
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County Facts
Population: 32,000
Area: 619 sq mi
Established: 1807
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