West Monroe

West Monroe,

city (1990 pop. 14,096), Ouachita parish, N La., on the Ouachita River, opposite MonroeMonroe.
1 Industrial city (1990 pop. 54,909), seat of Ouachita parish, SE La., on the Ouachita River; founded c.1785, inc. as a city 1900. The center of the great Monroe Natural Gas Field (discovered 1915), it has important chemical plants, as well as pulp, paper, and
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, in a forest and lake area; inc. 1851. Its chief products are lumber, paper, metal and plastic products, machinery, and cottonseed oil.