Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Egan, LA

Egan is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, located between Crowley and Jennings along Louisiana Highway 100, about 2.5 miles north of Midland near Bayou Jonas.

Egan was first listed as a census-designated place in the 2010 census.

The 2020 census counted 618 people in Egan, down 2.1 percent from 631 in 2010.

Egan had 247 households in the 2020 census, 192 of them family households, among 268 total housing units.

Egan is named for William M. Egan, a Crowley businessman who was president of the company that built the rice mill at Egan.

Before taking Egan's name, the community was called Jonas Cove, then Regan, after its postmaster, and then Canal Switch in 1899, when canal workers for W. W. Duson built a warehouse for rice farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad operated a switch at the site.

In the early 1870s the Louisiana Western railroad's roadbed was graded from Lafayette toward Egan by convict labor before the line was rerouted farther south; Interstate 10 was later built on or near that old roadbed.

In the spring of 1903 John W. Smith and Frank Scanlan bought 600 acres at Egan, nearly all of the town lots, for $30,000; their store burned in February 1904.

Egan's first church was built by the United Brethren in Christ in the summer of 1906, while area Catholics attended Mass at Iota, about six miles north.

Egan's early settler families included the Regan, Trumps, Sensat, Leger, and Clements families.