Bedico, Louisiana | |
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  Bedico, Louisiana  Bedico, Louisiana | |
| Coordinates:30°26′11″N90°15′06″W / 30.43639°N 90.25167°W /30.43639; -90.25167 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Tangipahoa |
| Elevation | 20 ft (6 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 985 |
| GNIS feature ID | 549618[1] |
Bedico is anunincorporated community inTangipahoa Parish,Louisiana, United States. Bedico is located onHighway 22, 13 mi (20.92 km) miles east ofHammond.
There are several competing theories surrounding the origin of the name Bedico. Some linguists have claimed that the name is derived from theChoctaw wordsBihi Chito which meansBig Mulberry Land in theChoctaw language. In the late 1790s a nobleman named Michael Betancourt seized 270 acres for theBaron of Carondelet which included Bedico Creek and the surrounding area.[2]Some historians have claimed that the community is named after theBettencourt family, of French Norman origin.[3] A third theory claims that early Spanish Catholic missionaries named the community after theOrder of Saint Benedict.
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