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Youngsville is a city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, and is share of the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area. The population was 8,105 at the 2010 U.S. census, and 15,929 at the 2020 United States census.

Youngsville was the birthplace of Louisiana businessman and politician Dudley J. LeBlanc, the explorer of the Hadacol fortune of the 1950s. Bernard LeBas of Ville Platte has represented Evangeline and St. Landry parishes in the Louisiana House of Representatives since 2008. He is a former resident of Youngsville.

Youngsville was approved in the yet to be 19th century by French Acadian farmers. Prior to 1839, George Roy and his son, Desire, laid out the Place and named the community “Royville”. The pact had grown large plenty by 1859 to pronounce one of the oldest Catholic churches in Lafayette Parish: St. Anne Church, on the community’s oldest street, Church Street. In 1908, the U.S. Postal Service asked village leaders to alter the read out because the town was being mortified with the north Louisiana town of Rayville. So in 1908, the village of Youngsville was incorporated, with the declare meaning “young village”. It chose a admin of a mayor and three aldermen.