Named in favor of Vermilion River and Bay, Vermilion Parish was created in the year 1844 with an area of 1,538 sq mi. About 58K people with different races White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others including more than 19K households and 14K families live here. Abbeville forms the parish seat and the leading metropolis of the parish.

Comprehensive congregation of vivid information on military service and rank, marriage and separation decree information, ancestral SSNs, census details, naturalization reports, birth and death news, probate and lawsuit information, war veterans' accounts, property assessment deeds and other required information together constitutes the Vermilion County records archive of Louisiana. People can thus accumulate numerous data on diverse statistics of life that ultimately embrace the records library of the site.