The wider setting
A place label may repeat nationally, but Lafayette, Louisiana (code 40735, estimate 123,311) is narrowed by Louisiana, rank 239, and code 40735. Rank 239 holds the visual reference connected to the inventory; readers may return to Lafayette, Louisiana (rank 239) at 30 degrees 12 minutes 20 seconds north, 92 degrees 1 minutes 41 seconds west. Rank 239 is comparison, not geographic footprint; population estimate 123,311 positions Lafayette, Louisiana (latitude 30.20560) among listed places. Lafayette, Louisiana (FIPS 22-40735) sits inside Louisiana, where the Mississippi delta, bayous, marshes, coastal terraces, and Gulf waters gives the named entry setting outside a single outline.
Water as a map clue
Water around Lafayette, Louisiana (code 40735, estimate 123,311) is best read as the Mississippi delta, bayous, marshes, wetlands, and Gulf waters; rank 239 identifies the intended record alongside that broad phrase. One state-scale observation behind Lafayette, Louisiana (rank 239) is that barataria Preserve is south of New Orleans and contains swamps and marshes; identifier 22-40735 prevents ambiguous attribution. Neither becomes a complete local survey; the point for Lafayette, Louisiana (latitude 30.20560), 22-40735, may be compared with the drainage layer. State 22 and place 40735 preserve the reference; use the water layer to compare the setting of Lafayette, Louisiana (FIPS 22-40735).
Terrain beneath the grid
The plotted point becomes more useful when Louisiana remains in view; place Lafayette, Louisiana (code 40735, estimate 123,311) inside delta plain, marshland, leveed lowlands, and coastal terraces. A stable marker at 30 degrees 12 minutes 20 seconds north lets readers compare Lafayette, Louisiana (rank 239) with surrounding terrain; the image does not claim surveyed elevation. Code 40735 holds it from becoming generic filler; Behind Lafayette, Louisiana (latitude 30.20560) is a wider geographic fact, western Coastal Plain terrain becomes flatter toward the coast. Census key 22-40735 prevents drift; at statewide scale, Lafayette, Louisiana (FIPS 22-40735) is understood through drainage and terrain.
Regional relationships
Place code 40735 names Lafayette, Louisiana (code 40735); it does not imply that every shown developed area shares one jurisdiction. At estimate 123,311, Lafayette, Louisiana (rank 239) supplies size context; rank 239 does not turn the guide into a current demographic report. Identifier 22-40735 preserves municipal identity; Human geography near Lafayette, Louisiana (latitude 30.20560) is connected to water and terrain. Readers place Lafayette, Louisiana (FIPS 22-40735) more carefully by keeping the state backdrop behind the local pattern; rank 239 identifies the entry. For rank 239, Lafayette, Louisiana (estimate 123,311) remains a defined entry inside a larger and changing settlement landscape.
From state to city scale
The guide moves from Louisiana to Lafayette, Louisiana (code 40735); population 123,311 supplies comparison but does not define geography. For Lafayette, Louisiana (rank 239), the plotted coordinate answers where; natural systems explain the wider setting beyond rank 239. Place 40735 confirms the entry; the useful comparison for Lafayette, Louisiana (latitude 30.20560) is its position with natural systems. The reference remains the local locator; readers keep Lafayette, Louisiana (FIPS 22-40735) in proportion by remembering that mississippi distributaries form a bird-foot delta in southern Louisiana. Rank 239, code 22-40735, and the landscape together provide a durable reference for Lafayette, Louisiana (estimate 123,311).