Chalmette is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the parish seat of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 32,069 at the 2000 United States Census. It is part of the New Orleans, Louisiana-Metairie, Louisiana-Kenner, Louisiana New Orleans metropolitan area.

The community was named after plantation owner I. Martin de Lino de Chalmette, whose surname in turn is derived from the French word chalmette "'pasture land, fallow land'(used especially in a mountainous area) " and has been traced to the Proto-Celtic *kalm.

History

Chalmette was the location of what is often called Battle of New Orleans,...

Chalmette is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the parish seat of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 32,069 at the 2000 United States Census. It is part of the New Orleans, Louisiana-Metairie, Louisiana-Kenner, Louisiana New Orleans metropolitan area.

The community was named after plantation owner I. Martin de Lino de Chalmette, whose surname in turn is derived from the French word chalmette "'pasture land, fallow land'(used especially in a mountainous area) " and has been traced to the Proto-Celtic *kalm.

History

Chalmette was the location of what is often called Battle of New Orleans, where United States forces under Colonel Andrew Jackson defeated the United Kingdom in 1815. The battlefield is preserved as a national monument, and the military Chalmette National Cemetery is adjacent.



=Hurricane Katrina=
On 29 August 2005, the enormous storm surge from Hurricane Katrina came up through the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet(also commonly known as MR-GO) - a little-used commercial channel dug by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s - and flooded most of the town, with waters as high as 14 to 15 feet (4.9 m)
'Six months Later-A Vision of Chaos, Determination,