Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, USA
County or equivalent
Location overview
Vermilion Parish is a coastal parish in south-central Louisiana, with Abbeville as its parish seat. Its landscape combines prairie, agricultural land, winding bayous and coastal marshes. The Vermilion River runs through the parish toward Vermilion Bay. Abbeville, Erath, Kaplan, Maurice and Gueydan are among its incorporated communities. The parish lies south of Lafayette and Acadia parishes and west of Iberia Parish.