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Coahoma County, Mississippi

Coahoma County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,390. Its county seat is Clarksdale.

The Clarksdale, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Coahoma County. It is located in the Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi. In 2023, the Clarksdale, Mississippi Micropolitan area was added to form the new Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City Combined Statistical Area. The Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City Combined Statistical Area has a population of roughly 1.4 million.

History
Coahoma County was established February 9, 1836, and is located in the northwestern part of the state in the fertile Yazoo Delta region. The name "Coahoma" is a Choctaw word meaning "red panther." The act creating the county defined its limits as follows: "Beginning at the point where the line between townships 24 and 25 of the surveys of the late Choctaw cession intersects the Mississippi River, and running thence up the said river to the point where the dividing line between the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians intersects the same; thence with the dividing line to the point where the line between ranges two and three of the survey of the said Choctaw cession intersects the same; thence with said range line, to the line between townships 24 and 25 aforesaid, and thence with the said township line to the beginning."

In the early days of the county, before the construction of railways or extensive roadways inland, the Mississippi River was the primary transportation route, and the first three county seats were each located on the river. In 1836, Port Royal was designated as the first county seat. In 1841, high waters on the Mississippi River flooded Port Royal, and in 1842 the county seat was moved to the town of Delta. High waters on the Mississippi also flooded Delta, and in 1850 the county seat was moved to Friars Point, which had a population of about 1,000 in 1920, and received its name in honor of Robert Friar, an early settler. As nearby Clarksdale grew in population and influence, it challenged Friars Point's hold on the county government, and in 1892, Coahoma County was divided into two jurisdictions, one going to Friars Point and the other to Clarksdale. In 1930, the county seat was given exclusively to Clarksdale, which had a population of 7,500 in 1920. Clarksdale is now the largest and most important city in the county, and was named for John Clark, a brother-in-law of Governor James L. Alcorn, whose home, Eagle's Nest, was in this county.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 583 sqmi, of which 552 sqmi is land and 31 sqmi (5.3%) is water.

Major highways

 * [[Image:I-69 (Future).svg|20px]] Future Interstate 69
 * [[Image:US 49.svg|20px]] U.S. Highway 49
 * [[Image:US 61.svg|20px]] U.S. Highway 61
 * [[Image:US 278.svg|20px]] U.S. Highway 278
 * [[Image:Circle sign 1.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 1
 * [[Image:Circle sign 6.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 6
 * [[Image:Circle sign 315.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 315

Adjacent counties

 * Tunica County (north)
 * Quitman County (east)
 * Sunflower County (south)
 * Tallahatchie County (southeast)
 * Bolivar County (southwest)
 * Phillips County, Arkansas (west)

2020 census
As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 21,390 people, 8,782 households, and 5,637 families residing in the county.

2010 census
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 26,151 people living in the county. 75.5% were Black or African American, 22.9% White, 0.5% Asian, 0.1% Native American, 0.5% of some other race and 0.5% of two or more races. 1.1% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race).

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 30,622 people, 10,553 households, and 7,482 families living in the county. The population density was 55 /mi2. There were 11,490 housing units at an average density of 21 /mi2. The racial makeup of the county was 65.21% Black or African American, 27.28% White, 6.90% of the population were Hispanic or Latino, 0.47% Asian, 0.09% Native American, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.34% from other races, and 0.60% from two or more races. of any race.

There were 10,553 households, out of which 36.80% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.20% were married couples living together, 28.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.10% were non-families. 26.20% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.42.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 33.00% under the age of 18, 10.30% from 18 to 24, 25.30% from 25 to 44, 19.10% from 45 to 64, and 12.30% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 84.90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 77.50 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $22,338, and the median income for a family was $26,640. Males had a median income of $26,841 versus $19,611 for females. The per capita income for the county was $12,558. About 29.80% of families and 35.90% of the population were below the poverty line, including 45.90% of those under age 18 and 31.50% of those age 65 or over.

Education

 * Colleges
 * Coahoma Community College (Clarksdale)

Coahoma County was previously in the service area of the Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC). As a result of the 1995 Mississippi Legislature session, Coahoma County is no longer in the MDCC service area.
 * Public School Districts
 * Clarksdale Municipal School District - Its high school is Clarksdale High School
 * Coahoma County School District - Its high school is Coahoma County Junior-Senior High School
 * Private Schools
 * Lee Academy (Clarksdale)

Cities

 * Clarksdale (county seat)

Towns

 * Coahoma
 * Friars Point
 * Jonestown
 * Lula
 * Lyon

Census-designated places

 * Bobo
 * Dublin
 * Farrell
 * Rena Lara

Unincorporated communities

 * Burke Landing
 * Claremont
 * Clover Hill
 * Hillhouse
 * Hopson
 * Humber
 * Lu-Rand
 * Mattson
 * Moon Lake (community)
 * Rich
 * Roseacres
 * Roundaway
 * Rudyard
 * Sherard
 * Stovall
 * Sunflower Landing

Ghost towns

 * Delta
 * Ingram (also in Quitman County)
 * Port Royal
 * Wildwood

Notable people

 * James L. Alcorn, United States Senator from Mississippi, owned and died at "Eagle Nest" in Coahoma County
 * Thomas Harris, author of Hannibal Lecter novels; he was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but raised in Rich, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Coahoma County.
 * John Lee Hooker (1917–2001), blues musician born in 1917 in Coahoma County into a sharecropper and Baptist preacher family.
 * Maud Jeffries (1869 – 1946), actress, born in Lula, Mississippi, married a wealthy Australian grazier, and settled in Australia.
 * Ransom A. Myers (b. Lula, Mississippi, 1952 – d. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2007) was a renowned Canada-based marine biologist, conservationist and scholar at Dalhousie University who published a seminal study on overfishing.
 * Nate Dogg spent his childhood in Clarksdale.
 * Rick Ross the rapper was born in Coahoma County in 1976. Soon moved to Miami-Dade County, Florida.
 * Frederick Bruce Thomas (1872-1928), prominent entrepreneur and multi-millionaire in Moscow and Constantinople.
 * Ike Turner, musician, was born in Clarksdale
 * Tennessee Williams, playwright, spent much of his childhood in Clarksdale and Coahoma County. A Tennessee Williams Festival is held annually in Clarksdale.
 * Blac Elvis was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Award-winning music producer/songwriter.
 * Son House, blues singer and guitarist, (b. 1902 – d. 1988), was born at Lyon in Coahoma County, Mississippi.
 * Conway Twitty, country singer, (b. 1933 - d. 1993), was born in Friars Point, Mississippi.

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Is Nahuatl really spoken in Poland?
In 2.3, there is a map of the geographical distribution of Nahuatl speakers, and there is a small bubble of speakers in Poland. After a cursory search driven by curiosity I could not find a document supporting this. I'd like to know if anyone that sees this could help me in either finding a source for this or correcting the map in case it is wrong. I don't know much about Wikipedia editing but I hope this will at least either correct this article and make it a little bit better or at least satiate the curiosity of the next person curious about the map by manner of a citation. @Languaeditor you should be aware of this topic since you posted and apparently created the image. 187.181.254.199 (talk) 06:41, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

 * Check out this reddit thread. Basically a bunch of Poles, especially at the University of Warsaw, are interested in studying Nahuatl and assisting with revitalization/maintenance efforts, and that university offers some courses in Nahuatl. Erinius (talk) 10:44, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

 * I would think that we only want to show native or possibly heritage speakers on the map?—Ermenrich (talk) 13:19, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
 * You're probably right. Additionally, neither the caption on this page (official status??) nor the legend on the map's Wikimedia page seem to really describe the map's contents. Better labelling would really help. Also, I'm not really sure this page really needs an international map in the first place. From what I can tell, every Nahuatl dialect, with the exception of Pipil, is native to Mexico. Maybe a map with more specific info behind it could highlight areas of the US (and Canada?) with high Nahuatl-speaking immigrant populations?
 * It is interesting and significant that a disproportionate amount of research on Nahuatl comes out of Poland, but a confusing map isn't the best way to explain that. Erinius (talk) 13:41, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I was bold, and I just updated the map's caption on this page Erinius (talk) 14:07, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Cacao and Chocolate being Nahuatl words
The source given to attribute these is very controversial in linguistic studies. The Kaufman & Justeson 2009 source currently in the article is dedicated to debunking it. I have written out an outline of what the literature says on the chocolate talk page re; cacao, but the Nahuatl origin of chocolate is also contested, and it is not true that "there is no real doubt that the word chocolate comes from Nahuatl." I am not saying it isn't, just that it needs some attribution or recognition of it being contentious. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 12:45, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

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Clarke County, Mississippi

Clarke County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,615. Its county seat is Quitman. Clarke County is named for Joshua G. Clarke, the first Mississippi state chancellor and judge.

The county is part of the Meridian, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History
Before white men first arrived, the Choctaw Indians inhabited the land that would later be known as the Clarke County, Mississippi. Clarke County is only a portion of what was known as Okla Hannali or Six Town District of the Choctaws. Okla Hannali or Six Towns District existed at the time of the Dancing Rabbit Treaty in 1830.

David Gage, who came to the area in about 1820, was a Presbyterian minister. Traveling with him was Moses Jewel and Miss Skinner, who were both teachers. He settled at a place called Eewennans in the Choctaw Nation. David Gage, Moses Jewel, and Miss Skinner came to the territory for the purpose of educating the Indians some domestic habits.

At the beginning of 1832, settlers began to appear in what was known as the “New Purchase”. One of the first families to arrive was Jehu and Sarah Pagaus Evans, who arrived in February 1832, and settled east of Buckatunna Swamp. By the fall of 1832, the “New Purchase” began to fill up quickly with arrivals. Among the early settlers were George Evans, Richard Wagster, Henry Hailes, Alex Hailes, Michael McCarty, James Bankston, Calvin M. Ludlow, John Williford, William Williford, James Risher, J. A. Fontain, John Gunn, Robert Fleming, John Fleming, Hiram Fleming, Norman Martin, Stephen Grice, Thomas F. Hicks, Alex McLendon, Roland B. Crosby, Cameron Grayson, Jesse C. Mott, David Neely, David B. Thompson, Dabney Edwards, Jacob Slack, John Johnston, Alex Trotter, Richard N. Hough, Robert McLaughlin, L. D. Phillips, Samuel Lee, Jesse Sumrall, Jeremiah Crane, Howell Sumrall, William Goleman, Thomas Goleman, Samuel K. Lewis and Thomas Watts.

The county was founded in 1833. Quitman, named for General John A. Quitman.

After the organization of Clarke County, the first school was built close to the old Tennessee Trace. Mr. Hennessy was the teacher and he came from Kinsale, Ireland. Religious services were held in the pioneer families’ home and on days of good weather, outside. The first actual church built was Cedar Creek Church, a Methodist church, and Elim Baptist Church followed in the 1840s.

In the Spring of 1834, Joel Nail, a quadroon Indian, began moving the Choctaw Indians to Muskalresha, an old town in Neshoba County, Mississippi. These journeys continued through 1838 for all that would go. Some of the Choctaw Indians returned to their homes in Clarke County after arriving at Muskalresha.

In the 1830s there were no postal routes in Clarke County. However, there was a stagecoach line from Columbus, Mississippi to Winchester, Wayne County, Mississippi. The settlers of Clarke County would have to travel to Winchester, 25 miles away to receive their mail.

Ten black people were lynched in Clarke County, as documented in The Hanging Bridge by Jason Morgan Ward.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 694 sqmi, of which 692 sqmi is land and 2.0 sqmi (0.3%) is water. The Chickasawhay River flows north to south through the eastern portion of the county; it eventually meets the Pascagoula River.

Major highways

 * I-59.svg Interstate 59
 * US 11.svg U.S. Highway 11
 * US 45.svg U.S. Highway 45
 * Circle sign 18.svg Mississippi Highway 18

Adjacent counties

 * Lauderdale County (north)
 * Choctaw County, Alabama (east)
 * Wayne County (south)
 * Jasper County (west)

Demographics
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 15,615 people, 6,237 households, and 4,397 families residing in the county.

Ancestry/Ethnicity
As of 2017 the largest self-identified ancestry groups/ethnic groups in Clarke County, Mississippi were:

Cities

 * Quitman (county seat)

Towns

 * Enterprise
 * Pachuta
 * Shubuta
 * Stonewall

Census-designated place

 * De Soto

Unincorporated communities

 * Barnett
 * Basic
 * Carmichael
 * Energy
 * Sykes
 * Wautubbee

Ghost town

 * Gin

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Claiborne County, Mississippi

Claiborne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,135. Its county seat is Port Gibson. The county is named after William Claiborne, the second governor of the Mississippi Territory.

Claiborne County is included in the Vicksburg, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Jackson-Vicksburg-Brookhaven, MS Combined Statistical Area. It is bordered by the Mississippi River on the west and the Big Black River on the north.

As of the 2020 Census, this small county has the highest percentage of black or African American residents of any U.S. county, at 88.6% of the population. Located just south of the area known as the Mississippi Delta, this area also was a center of cotton plantations and related agriculture along the river, supported by enslaved African Americans. After emancipation, many generations of African Americans have stayed here because of family ties and having made the land their own.

Claiborne County was the center of a little-known but profound demonstration and struggle during the civil rights movement.

History
The county had been settled by French, Spanish, and English colonists, and American pioneers as part of the Natchez District; organized in 1802, it was the fourth county in the Mississippi Territory. European-American settlers did not develop the area for cotton plantations until after Indian Removal in the 1830s, at which time they brought in numerous slaves through the domestic slave trade. In total, this transported one million enslaved African Americans from the Upper South to the Deep South, disrupting numerous families. Using the enslaved workers, planters developed long plantations that had narrow fronts on the rivers: the Mississippi to the west and the Big Black River to the north, which were the transportation byways. As in other parts of the Delta, the bottomlands areas further from the river remained largely frontier and undeveloped until after the American Civil War. Well before the Civil War, the county had a majority-black population.

Grand Gulf, a port on the Mississippi River, shipped thousands of bales of cotton annually before the Civil War. It received cotton shipped by railroad from Port Gibson and three surrounding counties. The trading town became cut off from the river by its changing course and shifting to the west. Grand Gulf had 1,000 to 1500 residents about 1858; by the end of the century, it had 150 and became a ghost town. Businesses in the county seat of Port Gibson, which served the area, included a cotton gin and a cottonseed oil mill (which continued into the 20th century.) It has also been a retail center of trade.

After the Reconstruction era, white Democrats regained power in the state legislature by the mid-1870s; paramilitary groups such as the Red Shirts suppressed black voting through violence and fraud in many parts of the state. These groups acted as "the military arm of the Democratic Party."

In the late nineteenth century, these Redeemers redefined districts to "reduce Republican voting strength," creating a "'shoestring' Congressional district running the length of the Mississippi River," where most of the black population was concentrated. Five other districts all had white majorities. While party alignments changed in the 20th century, such gerrymandering has persisted to support white political strength. Claiborne County is within the black-majority 2nd congressional district, as may be seen on the map to the right. The state has three other congressional districts, all white majority.

Democrats passed a new constitution in 1890 that included requirements for poll taxes; these and later literacy tests (administered subjectively by whites) were used in practice to disfranchise most blacks and many poor whites, preventing them from registering to vote. This second-class status was enforced by whites until after the civil rights movement gained passage of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The county's economy continued to be based on agriculture. After the Civil War and emancipation, the system of sharecropping developed. More than 80 percent of African-American workers were involved in sharecropping from the late 19th century into the 1930s, shaping all aspects of daily life for them.

20th century to present
Excluded from the political process and suffering lynchings and other violence, many blacks left the county and state in the Great Migration. In 1900 whites numbered 4565 in the county, and blacks 16,222. A local history noted many blacks were leaving the county at that time. As can be seen in the Historical Population table in the "Demographics" section below, from 1900 to 1920, the population of the county declined by 41%, more than 8500 persons from the peak of 20,787. Most of these rural blacks migrated to the industrial North and Midwest cities, such as Chicago, to seek jobs and other opportunities elsewhere. Rural whites also migrated out of the South.

Despite the passage of national civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s, African Americans in Claiborne County continued to struggle against white supremacy in most aspects of their lives. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission continued to try to spy on and disrupt black meetings. "African Americans insisted on dignified treatment and full inclusion in the community's public life, while whites clung to paternalistic notions of black inferiority and defended inherited privilege."

In reaction to harassment and violence, in 1966 blacks formed a group, Deacons for Defense, which armed to protect the people and was strictly for self-defense. They learned the law and stayed within it. After shadowing police to prevent abuses, its leaders eventually began to work closely with the county sheriff to keep relations peaceful. In later years, five of the Deacons worked in law enforcement and two were the first blacks to run for county sheriff.

In the late 1960s, African Americans struggled to integrate schools, and to register and vote. In 1965 NAACP leader Charles Evers (brother of Medgar, who had been assassinated) became very active in Claiborne County and other areas of southwest Mississippi, including Adams and Jefferson counties. He gained an increase in voter registration as well as increasing membership in the NAACP throughout the region. Evers was influential in a developing a moderate coalition of blacks and white liberals in Mississippi. They wanted to develop alternatives to both the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the all-white Democratic Regulars.

In the June 1966 Democratic primary, blacks in Claiborne and Jefferson counties cast decisive majorities, voting for the MFDP candidate, Marcus Whitley, for Congress and giving him victory in those counties. In the November election, Evers led an African-American vote for the Independent senatorial candidate, Prentiss Walker, who won in those counties but lost to incumbent James O. Eastland, a white Democrat. (Claiborne County and southwest Mississippi were then in the Mississippi's 4th congressional district.) Walker was a conservative who in 1964 was elected as the first Republican Congressman from Mississippi in the 20th century, as part of a major realignment of political parties in the South.

To gain integration of public facilities and more opportunities in local businesses, where no black clerks were hired, African Americans undertook an economic boycott of merchants in the county seat of Port Gibson. (Similar economic boycotts were conducted in this period in Jackson and Greenville.) Evers led the boycott, enforced its maintenance, and later negotiated with merchants and their representatives on how to end it. While criticized for some of his methods, Evers gained support from the national NAACP for his apparent effectiveness, from the segregationist Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission for negotiating on certain elements, and from local African Americans and white liberals. The boycott was upheld as a legal form of political protest by the United States Supreme Court.

The economic boycott was concluded in late January 1967, when merchants agreed to hire blacks as clerks. Nearly two dozen people were hired, and merchants promised more courteous treatment and ease of shopping. In addition, by this time 50 students were attending formerly whites-only public schools. In November 1966 Floyd Collins ran for the school board; he was the county's first black candidate for electoral office since Reconstruction. He was defeated, but a majority of blacks carried the county against Democratic Regular candidates for the Senate and Congress, incumbent senator James Eastland and John Bell Williams.

In 1979, Frank Davis was elected as the county's first black sheriff since Reconstruction.

Since 2003, when Mississippi had to redistrict because it lost a seat in Congress, Claiborne County has been included in the black-majority 2nd congressional district. Its voters strongly support Democratic candidates. The three other districts are white majority and vote for Republicans.

Law enforcement
The Claiborne County Sheriff's Department was formed in 1818, when A. Barnes became Claiborne County's first sheriff. Despite having a majority black population, Claiborne has only had three black sheriffs. In 1874, during the period known as Reconstruction, Thomas Bland became the county's first black sheriff. He served for less than a year. It would be over a hundred years before Claiborne would have another black sheriff when Frank Davis took office in 1979. Davis served until 2012, when Marvin Lucas, the current sheriff, took office. Frank Davis, the current sheriff, took office in January 2016.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 501 sqmi, of which 487 sqmi is land and 14 sqmi (2.8%) is water.

Major highways

 * US 61.svg U.S. Route 61
 * Ellipse sign 18.svg Mississippi Highway 18
 * Ellipse sign 547.svg Mississippi Highway 547
 * Ellipse sign 548.svg Mississippi Highway 548
 * Natchez Trace Parkway

Adjacent counties

 * Warren County (north)
 * Hinds County (northeast)
 * Copiah County (southeast)
 * Jefferson County (south)
 * Tensas Parish, Louisiana (west)

National protected area

 * Natchez Trace Parkway (part)

Demographics
Population declined from 1940 to 1979 as more African Americans left in the Great Migration. After gains from 1970 to 1980, population has declined since 1980 by nearly 25%. Because of limited economic opportunities in the rural county, residents have left.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 9,135 people, 2,908 households, and 1,897 families residing in the county.

City

 * Port Gibson (county seat and only municipality)

Census-designated place

 * Alcorn State University
 * Hermanville
 * Pattison

Unincorporated communities

 * Alcorn
 * Carlisle
 * Peyton
 * Russum

Ghost towns

 * Bruinsburg
 * Grand Gulf
 * Rocky Springs

Sites of interest

 * Alcorn State University
 * Claiborne County Courthouse
 * Grand Gulf Nuclear Generating Station
 * Grand Gulf Military State Park (Mississippi)
 * Windsor Ruins

Education
All of the county is zoned to the Claiborne County School District.

Notable people

 * E. S. Dortch, planter and politician from Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana, last surviving (1943) Bossier Parish veteran of the Confederate States Army, born in Claiborne County in 1841
 * Abijah Hunt, New Jersey native and merchant who became a major planter in the area
 * David Hunt, nephew of Abijah Hunt who inherited his plantations and businesses, and acquired even more properties, becoming one of 12 planter millionaires in the Natchez District before the American Civil War
 * James Monroe Trotter, the first African-American promoted to lieutenant in the US Army during the American Civil War, and first to be hired by the U.S. Postal Service; he was appointed in 1886 as federal Recorder of Deeds in Washington, D.C.
 * Joseph Edison Walker, physician and entrepreneur, was born and grew up in Tillman, and founded the Universal Life Insurance Company, one of the largest black-owned insurance companies in the nation.

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Choctaw County, Mississippi

Choctaw County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,246. Its northern border is the Big Black River, which flows southwest into the Mississippi River south of Vicksburg. The county seat is Ackerman.

The county is named after the Choctaw tribe of Native Americans. They had long occupied this territory as their homeland before European exploration. Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, they were forced by the United States to cede their lands and to move west of the Mississippi River to what became Indian Territory (today's state of Oklahoma).

History
This was one of the first counties organized in central Mississippi after Indian Removal, and it was originally much larger in geography. As the population increased in the Territory, additional counties were organized. For instance, in 1874 Webster County was formed from some of this county, as were Montgomery and Grenada counties.

The first county seat was Greensboro, which was later assigned to the territory of Webster County and designated as its county seat. Eventually Walthall, Mississippi was designated as the county seat of that county, resulting in the decline and abandonment of Greensboro.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 420 sqmi, of which 418 sqmi is land and 1.7 sqmi (0.4%) is water. The Big Black River forms the county's northern border.

Adjacent counties

 * Webster County, Mississippi - north
 * Oktibbeha County, Mississippi - east
 * Winston County, Mississippi - southeast
 * Attala County, Mississippi - southwest
 * Montgomery County, Mississippi - west

National protected areas

 * Natchez Trace Parkway (part)
 * Tombigbee National Forest (part)

Demographics
The adjacent table reflects major decreases in population from 1910 to 1920, and from 1940 to 1960. These were periods of the Great Migration from the South by African Americans, who first moved to jobs in industrial cities in the North and Midwest. In the 1940s and after, they moved to the West Coast for jobs in the rapidly growing defense industry. Farm work declined with mechanization of agriculture. But Black people also migrated to escape the violence and social repression of Mississippi, where they had been essentially disenfranchised since 1890 and lived under Jim Crow laws and the threat of violence; the state had a high rate of lynchings.

2020 census
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 8,246 people, 3,228 households, and 2,010 families residing in the county.

2010 census
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 8,543 people living in the county. 68.1% were White, 30.2% African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.1% from some other race and 1.1% of two or more races. 1.4% were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,758 people, 3,686 households, and 2,668 families living in the county. The population density was 23 /mi2. There were 4,249 housing units at an average density of 10 /mi2. The racial makeup of the county was 68.03% White, 30.68% Black or African American, 0.31% Native American, 0.13% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.42% from other races, and 0.42% from two or more races. 0.81% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 3,686 households, out of which 32.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.30% were married couples living together, 14.60% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.60% were non-families. 25.00% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.20% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 3.06.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 27.80% under the age of 18, 8.80% from 18 to 24, 24.90% from 25 to 44, 23.50% from 45 to 64, and 15.00% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 91.90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.40 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $27,020, and the median income for a family was $31,095. Males had a median income of $26,966 versus $17,798 for females. The per capita income for the county was $13,474. About 17.70% of families and 24.70% of the population were below the poverty line, including 33.80% of those under age 18 and 21.30% of those age 65 or over.

Primary and secondary schools
Choctaw County School District operates public schools, including Choctaw County High School, Ackerman Elementary, French Camp Elementary, and Weir Elementary.

French Camp Academy, which provides in-house private education in grades 7 through 12, is located in French Camp.

Colleges and universities
Colleges and universities within a 60 mi radius of the center of the county include:
 * East Mississippi Community College (campuses in Columbus, Mayhew, and Scooba)
 * Holmes Community College (campuses in Goodman and Grenada)
 * Mississippi State University (Starkville)
 * Mississippi University for Women (Columbus)

Towns

 * Ackerman (county seat)
 * French Camp
 * Mathiston (mostly in Webster County)
 * Weir

Unincorporated communities

 * Bywy
 * Chester
 * Reform

Ghost towns

 * Bankston
 * Pigeon Roost

Notable people

 * James Blackwood, American Gospel singer and one of the founding members of legendary Southern Gospel quartet The Blackwood Brothers.
 * Turner Catledge, Managing editor of The New York Times from 1952 to 1964 and the paper's first executive editor.
 * David A. Chandler, Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
 * James Plemon "J.P." Coleman 52nd Governor of Mississippi and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
 * Thomas Fulton, Former conductor of the New York Metropolitan Opera
 * Dennis Johnson Fullback for Mississippi State University who played for the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills in the NFL.
 * Kenneth Johnson, NFL defensive back for the Green Bay Packers
 * Tony Kimbrough, Former professional football quarterback
 * Raymond Edwin "Ray" Mabus Jr., 60th Governor of Mississippi and 75th United States Secretary of the Navy.
 * Hoyt Ming, old-time fiddler.
 * Alvin McKinley, NFL defensive tackle who played for the Carolina Panthers, Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos and New Orleans Saints.
 * Roy Oswalt, a major league pitcher for the Colorado Rockies, and his wife Nicole live in Weir.
 * Cheryl Prewitt, Miss America 1980 and Miss Mississippi 1979
 * Kristi M. Fondren, Author "Walking on the Wild Side: Long-Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail"

In popular culture
The song "Choctaw County Affair" from Carrie Underwood's 2015 album Storyteller is set in Choctaw County, Mississippi.

Politics
John F. Kennedy is the last Democrat to win Choctaw County despite the fact that there is not one Catholic parish located in the county.

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Chickasaw County, Mississippi

Chickasaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,106. Its county seats are Houston and Okolona. The county is named for the Chickasaw people, who lived in this area for hundreds of years. Most were forcibly removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s, but some remained and became citizens of the state and the United States.

History
The Mississippi state legislature created Chickasaw County in 1836, following the cession of the land by the Chickasaw Indians. It was quickly settled by Americans from the east, mainly from the Southern states. By the time of the Civil War, riverfront landings had been developed by the many large cotton plantations worked by slaves, who outnumbered the white residents of the county.

The American Civil War devastated the local economy, completely destroying the plantation-based infrastructure of Chickasaw County. The newly freed slaves had to adapt to the new labor system, in which the white landowners still retained partial control over their lives through the practice of sharecropping. The economy declined again in the late 19th century, when falling cotton prices reduced both black and white residents to poverty. Farmers eventually began diversifying their crops, and the economy slowly began to improve.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 504 sqmi, of which 502 sqmi is land and 2.5 sqmi (0.5%) is water.

Major highways

 * [[Image:US 45.svg|20px]] U.S. Route 45 Alternate (Mississippi)
 * [[Image:Circle sign 8.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 8
 * [[Image:Circle sign 15.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 15
 * [[Image:Circle sign 32.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 32
 * [[Image:Circle sign 41.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 41
 * [[Image:Circle sign 47.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 47
 * Natchez Trace Parkway

Adjacent counties

 * Pontotoc County (north)
 * Lee County (northeast)
 * Monroe County (east)
 * Clay County (southeast)
 * Webster County (southwest)
 * Calhoun County (west)

National protected areas

 * Natchez Trace Parkway (part)
 * Tombigbee National Forest (part)

2020 census
As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 17,106 people, 6,476 households, and 4,278 families residing in the county.

2010 census
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 17,392 people living in the county. 54.0% were White, 42.1% Black or African American, 0.3% Asian, 0.1% Native American, 2.5% of some other race and 1.0% of two or more races. 3.7% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race).

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 19,440 people, 7,253 households, and 5,287 families living in the county. The population density was 39 /mi2. There were 7,981 housing units at an average density of 16 /mi2. The racial makeup of the county was 56.89% White, 41.26% Black or African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.17% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.99% from other races, and 0.46% from two or more races. 2.29% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Chickasaw County were English 44.1%, African 41% and Scots-Irish 13.5%.

There were 7,253 households, out of which 36.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.80% were married couples living together, 18.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.10% were non-families. 24.90% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.17.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 28.60% under the age of 18, 9.30% from 18 to 24, 27.60% from 25 to 44, 21.00% from 45 to 64, and 13.50% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 92.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.40 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $26,364, and the median income for a family was $33,819. Males had a median income of $25,459 versus $20,099 for females. The per capita income for the county was $13,279. About 16.80% of families and 20.00% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23.90% of those under age 18 and 22.40% of those age 65 or over.

Cities

 * Houston (county seat)
 * Okolona (county seat)

Towns

 * New Houlka

Villages

 * Woodland

Census-designated place

 * Van Vleet

Unincorporated communities

 * Atlanta
 * Buena Vista
 * Egypt
 * McCondy
 * Pyland
 * Shake Rag
 * Sparta
 * Thorn
 * Trebloc

Politics
Chickasaw County is a swing county. No presidential candidate has won more than 55% of the county's vote since George H. W. Bush in 1988, and it has voted Republican and Democratic an equal number of times since 1976.

Notable locals

 * Singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry, a Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame inductee
 * Bukka White, early blues performer
 * William Raspberry, journalist
 * Milan Williams, founding member of The Commodores
 * Jim Hood, politician and former Mississippi Attorney General
 * Jeff Busby, United States Representative who spearheaded the Natchez Trace Parkway
 * Shaquille Vance, 2012 U.S. Paralympic National Championship, gold medal (100m), silver medal (200m)
 * Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, central character in the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Fictional locals

 * Titus Andromedon, aka Ronald Ephen Wilkerson, one of the main characters from the comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, was originally from Chickasaw County

In popular culture
Candieland, the plantation of the fictional Calvin Candie, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino's film Django Unchained, is located in Chickasaw County.

Titus Andromedon, from Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, is from Chickasaw County, Mississippi.

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Carroll County, Mississippi

Carroll County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,998. Its county seats are Carrollton and Vaiden. The county is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signatory of the Declaration of Independence.

Carroll County is part of the Greenwood, Micropolitan Statistical Area. Bordered by the Yazoo River on the west and the Big Black River to the east, it is considered to lie within the Mississippi Delta region. Most of its land, however, is in the hill country.

The Porter Wagoner song "The Carroll County Accident" was set here. The county is referred to in the third verse of Bobbie Gentry's 1967 hit song, "Ode to Billie Joe".

History
This area was developed by European Americans for cotton plantations near the rivers. These were dependent on the labor of large gangs of enslaved African Americans. After the American Civil War, many freedmen worked as sharecroppers or tenant farmers on the plantations. Other areas were harvested for timber.

In the period from 1877 to 1950, Carroll County had 29 documented lynchings of African Americans, the second-highest number in the state.

Geography
Carroll County consists of rolling hills, largely covered with trees. The county's highest point is adjacent to State Highway 35, 8 mi WSW of Winona, at 540 ft ASL. According to the Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 635 sqmi, of which 628 sqmi is land and 6.3 sqmi (1.0%) is water.

Major highways

 * [[Image:I-55.svg|20px]] Interstate 55
 * [[Image:US 51.svg|20px]] U.S. Route 51
 * [[Image:US 82.svg|20px]] U.S. Route 82
 * [[Image:Circle sign 17.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 17
 * [[Image:Circle sign 35.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 35

Adjacent counties

 * Grenada County - north
 * Montgomery County - east
 * Attala County - southeast
 * Holmes County - southwest
 * Leflore County - west

Demographics

From 1940 to 1970, the county population declined markedly, as many African Americans left in the Great Migration to West Coast cities that had a growing defense industry. Others went North to Chicago and other industrial cities. Rural whites also moved to cities to find work.

2020 census
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 9,998 people, 3,827 households, and 2,685 families residing in the county.

2000 census
As of the 2000 United States Census, there were 10,769 people, 4,071 households, and 3,069 families in the county. The population density was 17 /mi2. There were 4,888 housing units at an average density of 8 /mi2. The racial makeup of the county was 62.67% White, 36.61% Black or African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.13% from other races, and 0.36% from two or more races. 0.73% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 4,071 households, out of which 32.10% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.20% were married couples living together, 15.20% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.60% were non-families. 22.40% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.80% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.01.

The largest ancestry groups in Carroll County were English 51%, African 38.6%, and Scots-Irish 12.1%

The county population contained 24.50% under the age of 18, 9.60% from 18 to 24, 26.70% from 25 to 44, 25.70% from 45 to 64, and 13.60% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.00 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $28,878, and the median income for a family was $35,711. Males had a median income of $28,459 versus $19,695 for females. The per capita income for the county was $15,744. About 13.70% of families and 16.00% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.30% of those under age 18 and 23.50% of those age 65 or over.

Education
Carroll County School District is the area public school district. It operates one high school, J. Z. George High School, and formerly operated Vaiden High School.

Carroll Academy is an area private school that is financially supported by the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group.

Pillow Academy in unincorporated Leflore County, near Greenwood, enrolls some students from Carroll County. It originally was a segregation academy.

Towns

 * Carrollton (county seat)
 * North Carrollton
 * Vaiden (county seat)

Unincorporated places

 * Avalon
 * Black Hawk
 * Coila
 * McCarley
 * Oklahoma
 * Teoc
 * Valley Hill

Notable people

 * Henry Pinckney McCain - US Army General, born in Carroll County 1861
 * Lafayette Joseph Lott – Democratic politician, born in Carroll County 1863
 * John S. McCain, Sr. - (US Navy Admiral), born in Carroll County 1884
 * Mississippi John Hurt - Musician, born in Carroll County 1893

Politics
Carroll County is a statewide bellwether. Since 1840, every statewide winner has carried Carroll County in presidential elections.

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Calhoun County, Mississippi

Calhoun County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,266. Its county seat is Pittsboro. The county is named after John C. Calhoun, the U.S. Vice President and U.S. Senator from South Carolina.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 588 sqmi, of which 587 sqmi is land and 1.4 sqmi (0.2%) is water.

Adjacent counties

 * Lafayette County (north)
 * Pontotoc County (northeast)
 * Chickasaw County (east)
 * Webster County (south)
 * Grenada County (southwest)
 * Yalobusha County (west)

Major highways

 * [[Image:Circle sign 8.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 8
 * [[Image:Circle sign 9.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 9
 * [[Image:Circle sign 32.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 32
 * [[Image:Circle sign 9W.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 9W

Airport
The Calhoun County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located 1 nmi southwest of the central business district of Pittsboro, Mississippi.

2020 census
As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 13,266 people, 5,846 households, and 3,752 families residing in the county.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 15,069 people, 6,019 households, and 4,255 families residing in the county. The population density was 26 /mi2. There were 6,902 housing units at an average density of 12 /mi2. The racial makeup of the county was 69.41% White or Caucasian, 28.65% Black or African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.06% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.11% from other races, and 0.59% from two or more races. 2.11% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Calhoun County were English 64.4%, African 29% and Scots-Irish 4.5%

There were 6,019 households, out of which 31.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.00% were married couples living together, 15.40% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.30% were non-families. 27.10% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 2.97.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 25.20% under the age of 18, 8.40% from 18 to 24, 27.00% from 25 to 44, 22.70% from 45 to 64, and 16.70% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 90.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.00 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $27,113, and the median income for a family was $34,407. Males had a median income of $26,458 versus $19,491 for females. The per capita income for the county was $15,106. About 14.90% of families and 18.10% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.20% of those under age 18 and 21.80% of those age 65 or over.

Education
In addition to the public high schools of Bruce, Calhoun City, and Vardaman, Calhoun Academy is a small K-12 private school which was founded as a segregation academy, located between Pittsboro and Calhoun City. This private school serves Calhoun and the surrounding counties. Calhoun academy's sports mascot is the cougar; Bruce's mascot is a Trojan; Calhoun City's mascot is a wildcat; and Vardaman's mascot is a ram.

Towns

 * Bruce
 * Calhoun City
 * Derma
 * Vardaman

Villages

 * Big Creek
 * Pittsboro (county seat)
 * Slate Springs

Unincorporated communities

 * Banner
 * Bently
 * Dentontown
 * Ellard
 * Hollis
 * Loyd
 * Reid
 * Sabougla
 * Sarepta
 * Skuna

Ghost towns

 * Hopewell
 * Old Town

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Bolivar County, Mississippi

Bolivar County is a county located on the western border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,985. Its county seats are Rosedale and Cleveland. The county is named in honor of Simón Bolívar, early 19th-century leader of the liberation of several South American territories from Spain.

The Cleveland, Mississippi, Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Bolivar County. It is located in the Mississippi Delta, or Yazoo Basin, of Mississippi. This area was first developed for cotton plantations. Large industrial-scale agricultural operations have reduced the number of farm workers needed, and the population is half of its peak in 1930. Today, soybeans, corn, and rice are also commodity crops.

History
In 1836, when it was founded, the land was originally Choctaw, and was taken for use in agriculture, with some of the most valued land in the state. In 1840, there was only one free black person, 384 free whites, and 971 enslaved people, making its population 60% slaves. This number only increased, because around 1860, the population was about 87% slaves, due to its mostly agricultural economy, and continued to gain a high black population, relating to it being in the delta, and pressure for African-Americans to move to the delta. In the 1920s, Bolivar county was a hotspot for UNIA chapters, with 17 chapters, and by 1960, it had a significant local civil rights movement, and remains a mostly black area today.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 906 sqmi, of which 877 sqmi is land and 29 sqmi (3.2%) is water. It is the second-largest county in Mississippi by land area and fourth-largest by total area.

Major highways

 * [[Image:I-69 (Future).svg|20px]] Future Interstate 69
 * [[Image:US 61.svg|20px]] U.S. Route 61
 * [[Image:Circle sign 1.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 1
 * [[Image:Circle sign 8.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 8
 * [[Image:Circle sign 32.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 32

Adjacent counties

 * Coahoma County (north)
 * Sunflower County (east)
 * Washington County (south)
 * Desha County, Arkansas (west)

National protected area

 * Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge

2020 census
As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 30,985 people, 12,114 households, and 7,719 families residing in the county.

2010 census
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 34,145 people living in the county. 64.5% were Black or African American, 33.5% White, 0.6% Asian, 0.1% Native American, 0.9% of some other race and 0.6% of two or more races. 1.9% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race).

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 40,633 people, 13,776 households, and 9,725 families living in the county. The population density was 46 people per square mile (18/km2). There were 14,939 housing units at an average density of [7] per square mile (7/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 65.11% Black or African American, 33.24% White, 0.10% Native American, 0.49% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.48% from other races, and 0.56% from two or more races. 1.17% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 13,776 households, out of which 35.20% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.20% were married couples living together, 27.30% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.40% were non-families. 25.30% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.79 and the average family size was 3.36.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 29.60% under the age of 18, 14.00% from 18 to 24, 25.70% from 25 to 44, 19.60% from 45 to 64, and 11.00% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 87.80 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.70 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $23,428, and the median income for a family was $27,301. Males had a median income of $27,643 versus $20,774 for females. The per capita income for the county was $12,088. About 27.90% of families and 33.30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 43.90% of those under age 18 and 27.90% of those age 65 or over.

Life expectancy
According to the most recent data on U.S. life expectancy, published in 2010 by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a male in Bolivar County could expect to live 65.0 years, the second shortest for any county in the United States, following McDowell County, West Virginia. The national average is 76.1 years for a male.

Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph S. Clark, Jr. had visited "pockets of poverty" in the Mississippi Delta 40 years earlier. In Cleveland, they observed barefoot, underfed African-American children in tattered clothing, with vacant expressions and distended bellies. Kennedy stated that he thought he had seen the worst poverty in the nation in West Virginia, but it paled in comparison to the poverty he observed in Cleveland.

Government
The county has a county administrator, who acts upon the requests of the board of supervisors primarily.

Colleges and universities

 * Delta State University (Cleveland)

The county is within the boundaries of two community college districts: Coahoma Community College and Mississippi Delta Community College. CCC's main campus is in rural Coahoma County outside of Clarksdale, and MDCC's campus is in Moorhead in Sunflower County.

Public School Districts
School districts:
 * Cleveland School District (Cleveland)
 * North Bolivar Consolidated School District (Mound Bayou; previously in Shelby)
 * West Bolivar Consolidated School District (Rosedale, Shaw, and Benoit)

Former school districts:
 * Benoit School District (Benoit)
 * Mound Bayou School District (Mound Bayou)
 * Shaw School District (Shaw)

The five school districts other than the Cleveland School District, were, in 2012, among the 20 smallest of the 152 school districts in the State of Mississippi. In the State of Mississippi, Bolivar County was the only county that had six school districts. Consolidation was urged to save money and facilitate cooperation. In 2012 the Mississippi Senate Education Committee passed a bill asking the State of Mississippi to consolidate the six school districts in Bolivar County to three or two. The Mississippi Senate passed the bill 37–11.

As recently as the 1960s the school board of Bolivar County censored what black children were allowed to learn, and mandated that "Neither foreign languages nor civics shall be taught in Negro schools. Nor shall American history from 1860 to 1875 be taught.”

Private School

 * Bayou Academy (Cleveland)

Media
The Bolivar Commercial was distributed in Bolivar County.

Cities

 * Cleveland (county seat)
 * Rosedale (county seat)
 * Mound Bayou
 * Shaw (small portion in Sunflower County)
 * Shelby

Towns

 * Alligator
 * Benoit
 * Beulah
 * Boyle
 * Duncan
 * Gunnison
 * Merigold
 * Pace
 * Renova
 * Winstonville

Census-designated places

 * Bolivar
 * Scott
 * Skene
 * Symonds

Unincorporated places

 * Choctaw
 * Christmas
 * Dahomy
 * Deeson
 * Hushpuckena
 * Lamont
 * Litton
 * Malvina
 * O'Reilly
 * Perthshire
 * Round Lake
 * Stringtown
 * Waxhaw

Ghost towns

 * Australia
 * Concordia
 * Eutaw
 * Huntington
 * Mound Landing
 * Prentiss
 * Riverton
 * Victoria

Notable people

 * Mary Booze
 * Charles Capps
 * Charles Clark (governor)
 * Charles Clark (judge)
 * Medgar Evers
 * T.R.M. Howard
 * Amzie Moore
 * Peter B. Starke, state representative and state senator, Confederate general in the Civil War

 * Henry Townsend (musician)

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Benton County, Mississippi

Benton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,646. Its county seat is Ashland.

It is locally believed that residents convinced the post-Civil War Reconstruction government that Benton County was named after U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton, but the name actually honored Confederate Brigadier General Samuel Benton of nearby Holly Springs in Marshall County, nephew of the senator.

Benton County is included in the Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 409 sqmi, of which 407 sqmi is land and 2.0 sqmi (0.5%) is water. It is the fifth-smallest county by area in Mississippi.

The headwaters of the Wolf River meander and braid their way north and west across northern Benton County from Baker's Pond, the river's source spring (highest origin of continuous flow) in the Holly Springs National Forest approximately one mile southwest of where U.S. Highway 72 passes into Tippah County, Mississippi. The Wolf River passes into Fayette County, Tennessee between Michigan City (on the Mississippi side) and La Grange, Tennessee.

Major highways

 * [[Image:I-22.svg|20px]] Interstate 22
 * [[Image:US 72.svg|20px]] U.S. Route 72
 * [[Image:US 78.svg|20px]] U.S. Route 78
 * [[Image:Circle sign 2.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 2
 * [[Image:Circle sign 4.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 4
 * [[Image:Circle sign 5.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 5
 * [[Image:Circle sign 7.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 7
 * [[Image:Circle sign 178.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 178
 * [[Image:Circle sign 370.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 370

Adjacent counties

 * Hardeman County, Tennessee (northeast)
 * Tippah County (east)
 * Union County (south)
 * Marshall County (west)
 * Fayette County, Tennessee (northwest)

National protected area

 * Holly Springs National Forest (part)

2020 census
As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 7,646 people, 3,149 households, and 2,082 families residing in the county.

2000 census
At the 2000 census, there were 8,026 people, 2,999 households and 2,216 families residing in the county. The population density was 20 /mi2. There were 3,456 housing units at an average density of 8 /mi2. The racial makeup of the county was 57.12% White (non-Hispanic), 39.76% Black or African American, 0.59% Native American, 0.05% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.29% from other races, and 0.59% from two or more races. 3.5% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 2,999 households, of which 33.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.20% were married couples living together, 14.80% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.10% were non-families. 23.80% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.12.

Age distribution was 26.90% under the age of 18, 10.00% from 18 to 24, 25.80% from 25 to 44, 22.00% from 45 to 64, and 15.30% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 94.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.80 males.

The median household income was $24,149, and the median family income was $29,907. Males had a median income of $26,291 versus $19,519 for females. The per capita income for the county was $12,212. About 19.20% of families and 23.20% of the population were below the poverty line, including 28.00% of those under age 18 and 24.80% of those age 65 or over.

Towns

 * Ashland (county seat)
 * Hickory Flat
 * Snow Lake Shores

Census-designated place

 * Lamar

Unincorporated places

 * Canaan
 * Hopewell
 * Michigan City
 * Winborn

Extinct town

 * Salem

Education
Benton County School District operates public schools.

From 1965 to the late 1980s, Benton County was also home to Gray's Academy, a private segregation school located in Ashland.

Notable people

 * Norris C. Williamson, member of the Louisiana State Senate, 1916 to 1932; worked to eradicate the cattle tick pest, born in Benton County in 1874
 * Floyd Lee (1933–2020), was a blues musician who was a founding member of Music Under New York, and later a judge on their board. He was born in Lamar.

Politics
In presidential elections, Benton County was historically a 'Solid South' county for most of the 20th century, voting Republican only in the Nixon and Reagan landslides of 1972 and 1984, as well as for Goldwater in 1964. It also voted for third-party candidates Strom Thurmond in 1948 and George Wallace in 1968, instead of for the regular Democratic tickets. In the 21st century, it has trended Republican. In 2008, it was one of forty-four counties to switch from John Kerry to John McCain. It was the only one of these forty-four to flip to Obama in 2012, in kind with a scattering of counties in or near the Black Belt, but Trump carried it in 2016 with 56%, the highest vote share the county had given any nominee since 1996. In 2020, Trump improved his vote share in the county by 3.9%, approaching 60% even as he lost nationally.

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Attala County, Mississippi

Attala County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,889. Its county seat is Kosciusko. Attala County is named for Atala, a fictional Native American heroine from an early-19th-century novel of the same name by François-René de Chateaubriand.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 737 sqmi, of which 735 sqmi is land and 1.7 sqmi (0.2%) is water. It is bound by the Big Black River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, in the west.

Major roads

 * [[Image:Circle sign 12.svg|21px]] Mississippi Highway 12
 * [[Image:Circle sign 14.svg|21px]] Mississippi Highway 14
 * [[Image:Circle sign 19.svg|21px]] Mississippi Highway 19
 * [[Image:Circle sign 35.svg|21px]] Mississippi Highway 35
 * [[Image:Circle sign 43.svg|21px]] Mississippi Highway 43
 * Natchez Trace Parkway

Adjacent counties

 * Montgomery County (north)
 * Choctaw County (northeast)
 * Winston County (east)
 * Leake County (south)
 * Madison County (southwest)
 * Holmes County (west)
 * Carroll County (northwest)

National protected area

 * Natchez Trace Parkway (part)

2020 census
As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 17,889 people, 6,941 households, and 4,735 families residing in the county.

2010 census
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 19,564 people living in the county, down from its peak in 1940. 56.2% were White, 42.0% Black or African American, 0.3% Asian, 0.2% Native American, 0.7% of some other race and 0.6% of two or more races. 1.7% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race).

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 19,661 people, 7,567 households, and 5,380 families living in the county. The population density was 27 /mi2. There were 8,639 housing units at an average density of 12 /mi2. The racial makeup of the county was 58.34% White, 40.00% Black or African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.27% Asian, 0.65% from other races, and 0.57% from two or more races. 1.42% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 7,567 households, out of which 32.10% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.30% were married couples living together, 16.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.90% were non-families. 26.40% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.07.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 25.90% under the age of 18, 9.20% from 18 to 24, 25.20% from 25 to 44, 22.40% from 45 to 64, and 17.30% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 91.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.70 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $24,794, and the median income for a family was $30,796. Males had a median income of $26,180 versus $17,394 for females. The per capita income for the county was $13,782. About 18.30% of families and 21.80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 28.60% of those under age 18 and 21.40% of those age 65 or over.

Cities

 * Kosciusko (county seat)

Towns

 * Ethel
 * McCool
 * Sallis

Unincorporated communities

 * Hesterville
 * McAdams
 * Possumneck
 * Williamsville
 * Zama

Ghost towns

 * Sand Hill
 * Valena

Notable people

 * Myrtis Methvin was elected in 1932 as the second woman mayor in Louisiana and took office in Castor in Bienville Parish, serving from 1933 to 1945. She was born in Attala County in 1895.
 * John D. Winters, a historian of the American Civil War, was born in Attala County in 1917.
 * The Choctaw Chief Kiliahote was born here in 1826.

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Amite County, Mississippi

Amite County is a county located in the state of Mississippi on its southern border with Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,720. Its county seat is Liberty. The county is named after the Amite River, which runs through the county.

Amite County is part of the McComb, MS micropolitan statistical area.

History
Amite County was established in February 1809 from the eastern portion of Wilkinson County. It was named after the Amite River. French explorers had named the latter for the friendly (amitié in French) indigenous Houma people they encountered in the region.

The legislation that established the county authorized the appointment of five commissioners to find a site for the county seat, near the county's center and near a good spring; its name was to be Liberty. At this time, the total population of the county numbered about 4000 people, about 80% of whom were middle-class families of seventeenth-century Virginia stock who had gradually migrated through other frontier states. Primary religious groups were all Protestant, including Baptists, Presbyterians, and Methodists.

Completed in 1840, the courthouse in Liberty is the oldest courthouse in Mississippi in continuous use. Liberty eventually became the county's justice and business center. The county economy was based on timber from longleaf pine and the cultivation of commodity crops of cotton, indigo, and tobacco, usually on plantations worked by enslaved African Americans. Given the reliance of planters on labor-intensive crops such as tobacco and cotton, the county soon had a majority population of enslaved African Americans. Even in the antebellum period, the county seat attracted entertainers and lecturers on tour. In the 1850s, Liberty hosted opera singer Jenny Lind, known as the "Swedish Nightingale," at the Walsh building.

In 1861, the state legislature called a convention to vote on secession from the United States. David Hurst, the delegate from Amite County, voted against secession, but the majority of the state's delegates voted for it. Led by South Carolina, the largest slave-owning states were the first in the South to secede. Mississippi voted to join the Confederate States of America. During the Civil War, Captain George H. Tichenor married Margaret Anne Drane at the Liberty Baptist Church; Tichenor developed an antiseptic to treat wounds suffered by soldiers in the war. By the end of the war, 279 men from Amite County had died for the Confederate cause. Amite County was not in a theater of war.

A raiding party of Union cavalry, under the command of Colonel Benjamin Grierson, is known to have camped in the county nine miles east of Liberty on the evening of April 28, 1863, while conducting a deep penetration raid as part of the Vicksburg Campaign. As part of that raid, Union forces pillages many homes and plantations. Most of the buildings of the Amite Female Seminary, with 13 pianos, were burnt; one building was spared, the small Mary Van Norman Ratcliff Building, commonly known as the "Little Red Schoolhouse."

At the end of the Civil War, Amite County's population was 60% African American. During Reconstruction, freedmen elected several African Americans to local office as county sheriff. After Reconstruction, white Democrats regained power in the state legislature through a combination of violent voter repression and fraud. They disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites in the state by the new 1890 state constitution, which imposed a poll tax, literacy tests, and other requirements as barriers to voter registration. These were administered by whites in a discriminatory way. Most black voters and many poor whites were dropped from the voter rolls.

20th century to present
Racial violence, including lynchings, escalated during the Jim Crow years. The county had 14 documented lynchings in the period from 1877 to 1950; most took place around the turn of the century when disenfranchisement and imposition of Jim Crow was underway.

Blacks were excluded from the political process in the county and state until the late 1960s. African Americans were a majority in the state until the 1930s but excluded from voting, they were also excluded from juries and the entire political system.

The county continued to be based on agriculture, with cotton the basis of the economy into the 1930s. A boll weevil invasion damaged many cotton crops. Planters shifted to logging and dairy farming in the 1930s, during the Great Depression.

As agriculture was mechanized, reducing the need for farm labor, many blacks left Amite County during the first half of the 20th century in two waves of the Great Migration. In the first wave, before World War II, many moved north to Chicago and other industrial cities of the Midwest. In the second wave, they moved to the West Coast, where the burgeoning defense industry created jobs before, during, and after the war. From 1940 to 1960, the county population declined by 29%, as can be seen on the census tables below. Some rural whites also left the county for industrialized cities.

In the 1950s, local farmer E.W. Steptoe founded a chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the county. Herbert Lee, a married farmer with nine children, was among its charter members. They were working to regain constitutional civil rights, including the ability to vote. In the summer of 1961, Bob Moses from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee worked in the county to organize African Americans for voter registration. He was beaten by Bill Caston, a cousin to the sheriff, near the county courthouse, and arrested. He was told to leave the county for his own safety. In the 1960s, only one African American of the total of 5,500 in Amite County was a registered voter. Even after the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, extensive grassroots efforts were required to register eligible voters.

Racial violence against blacks in the county escalated during the years of the Civil Rights Movement. On September 25, 1961, at the Westbrook Cotton Gin, about a dozen witnesses, both white and black, saw E.H. Hurst, a white state legislator, murder Herbert Lee in broad daylight. At the inquest that day, Hurst claimed self-defense and witnesses, intimidated by the armed white men in the courtroom, supported him. Learning that the federal government might hold a grand jury in the case, Louis Allen, an African-American veteran of World War II and witness to Lee's murder, talked to the FBI to try to gain protection if he were to testify truthfully to what he saw. They said they could not help him. Whites suspected he had talked with the FBI and began to harass him.

Allen's business was boycotted by whites, and the veteran was beaten and arrested more than once by the county sheriff. He stayed in the area to help his aging parents, but planned to leave. On January 31, 1964, he was shot and killed on his land. No one was ever prosecuted for Allen's death. Investigations since 1994 suggest that Allen was killed by Daniel (Danny) Jones, the county sheriff and son of the Ku Klux Klan's leader in the county. Danny Jones was featured as a likely perpetrator in the Allen case in a 2011 episode of 60 Minutes focusing on civil rights cold cases, but he denied an interview. He died in 2013.

Following the repression of the civil rights era and a continuing poor economy, younger African Americans continued to leave the county, seeking jobs in bigger cities. The population declined more than 11 percent from 1960 to 1970, and further declines occurred to 1980 (see census tables below.) Because of the murders of Lee and Allen, voter registration efforts had stopped in the early 1960s. African Americans did not register until after passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which provided federal protection and oversight. Today the county is majority white in population.

On October 20, 1977, a rental plane carrying members of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd from Greenville, South Carolina, to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was low on fuel and crashed in a swamp in Amite County.

Noted historic sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places include the Amite County Courthouse and the Westbrook Cotton Gin, the only one surviving of seven in the county. In addition, 19th-century plantation houses and the Liberty and Bethany Presbyterian churches are listed on the Register.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 732 sqmi, of which 730 sqmi is land and 1.5 sqmi (0.2%) is water.

Major highways

 * US 98.svg U.S. Highway 98
 * Circle sign 24.svg Mississippi Highway 24
 * Circle sign 33.svg Mississippi Highway 33
 * Circle sign 48.svg Mississippi Highway 48
 * Mississippi Highway 569
 * Mississippi Highway 570
 * Mississippi Highway 567
 * Mississippi Highway 568
 * Mississippi Highway 571
 * Mississippi Highway 584

Adjacent counties

 * Franklin County (north)
 * Lincoln County (northeast)
 * Pike County (east)
 * Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana (southeast)
 * St. Helena Parish, Louisiana (south)
 * East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana (southwest)
 * Wilkinson County (west)

National protected area

 * Homochitto National Forest (part)

State protected area

 * Ethel Stratton Vance Natural Area

Flora and fauna
The flora of Amite County includes about 1000 species of vascular plants.

Towns

 * Centreville (mostly in Wilkinson County)
 * Crosby (partly in Wilkinson County)
 * Gloster
 * Liberty (county seat)

Unincorporated communities

 * Bewelcome
 * Coles
 * Gillsburg
 * Homochitto
 * Hustler
 * Smithdale

Ghost town

 * Elysian Fields

Population
As mechanization of agriculture decreased the need for farm labor, the population has dropped since its peak in 1910 at 22,954, as people left in search of work in other areas. Continuing urbanization and suburbanization in other areas has also drawn people to cities of more opportunity. From a peak of population in 1910, the county had declined through 1990. In the early part of the 20th century, particularly from 1910 to 1930, and from 1940 to 1970, it was affected by the Great Migration of blacks out of the segregated society for jobs and opportunities in Midwest and later, West Coast cities. From 1910 to 1920, the population declined more than 17%, as may be seen from the census table at right. Particularly in the early 20th century, Blacks left to escape the oppression and violence associated with Jim Crow, lynchings, and their disenfranchisement after 1890.

From 1940 to 1960, the population declined by more than 29%. Rural whites also left in those years, but a much greater number of African Americans migrated to other areas. After 1930 they became a minority in the county. In 2000, they constituted nearly 43% of the population. According to the 2020 United States census, there were 12,720 people, 5,218 households, and 3,401 families residing in the county.

Race and ethnicity
According to the 2010 U.S. census, 57.7% were White, 41.3% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 0.2% of some other race and 0.6% of two or more races. 0.8% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race). In 2020, its racial/ethnic makeup was 58.44% non-Hispanic white, 38.01% Black or African, 0.2% Native American, 0.24% Asian, 2.09% other or multicultural, 1.01% Hispanic or Latino (of any race).

Politics
Political affiliation and voting patterns in federal elections generally follow those of other traditional southern states, where strong affiliation of conservative whites to the Democratic Party dominated during the period up to and just beyond the Civil Rights era of the 1960s and 1970s. With the rise of the Republican Party of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, the white population gradually began to support Republican national candidates, and ultimately shifted into the party. Given the support of the national Democratic Party leaders through the civil rights years, African-American voters affiliated with that party.

In several elections between World War II and the Civil Rights period, in a period of increasing social change, the white people of Amite County (who were the only ones able to vote in that period) voted for third-party candidates, including Dixiecrat candidate Strom Thurmond in 1948 (after Democratic President Harry S. Truman had taken action that year to integrate the military), Harry F. Byrd in 1960, and segregationist George Wallace in 1968.

Notable people

 * Louis Allen, African-American property owner and logger, murdered for civil rights activities
 * Carl Elkanah Bates, President of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1970-1972
 * L. C. Bates, African-American civil rights activist and the husband of Daisy Bates
 * Robert P. Briscoe, World War II Navy Cross recipient and US Navy four-star Admiral
 * Will D. Campbell, white Baptist minister, author, and civil rights activist
 * Jerry Clower, country comedian
 * J. C. Gilbert, member of Louisiana State Senate and Louisiana House of Representatives
 * David Green, Mississippi state legislator and businessman
 * Carl Augustus Hansberry, businessman and plaintiff in Hansberry v. Lee U.S. Supreme Court case; father of playwright Lorraine Hansberry
 * William Leo Hansberry, scholar. Uncle of playwright Lorraine Hansberry
 * E.H. Hurst, white Mississippi state legislator who murdered activist Herbert Lee in cold blood and was not prosecuted
 * Gabe Jackson, American football player for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL)
 * Herbert Lee, married African-American farmer and father of nine, murdered in cold blood in front of witnesses in 1961 by E.L. Hurst in a civil rights case
 * William F. Love, U.S. Representative from Mississippi
 * T. T. Martin, evangelist and prominent figure in the anti-evolution movement in the 1920s; buried in Gloster
 * Frank A. McLain, U.S. Representative from Mississippi
 * Anne Moody, civil rights activist and author of Coming of Age in Mississippi
 * Glenn Moore, softball coach
 * Leon Perry, American football player
 * Barney Poole, American football player
 * Clyde V. Ratcliff, member of the Louisiana Senate from 1944 to 1948
 * Andy Rodgers, Delta blues harmonicist, guitarist, singer and songwriter
 * George H. Tichenor, inventor of an antiseptic, briefly lived and married in Liberty
 * E. M. Toler, physician and coroner who served in the Louisiana State Senate from East and West Feliciana parishes
 * Linda T. Walker, federal magistrate; judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
 * James W. Washington Jr., African-American painter and sculptor
 * Franklin Delano Williams, Gospel music singer
 * Damien Wilson, NFL player for the Dallas Cowboys

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Alcorn County, Mississippi

Alcorn County is a county located in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 34,740. Its county seat is Corinth. The county is named in honor of Governor James L. Alcorn.

The Corinth Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Alcorn County.

History
Alcorn County was formed on April 15, 1870, from portions of Tippah and Tishomingo counties. It was the site of the Siege of Corinth, an early campaign in the American Civil War.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 401 sqmi, of which 400 sqmi is land and 1.3 sqmi (0.3%) is water. It is the smallest county by area in Mississippi. The Tuscumbia and Hatchie rivers intersect the county.

Major highways

 * [[Image:US 45.svg|20px]] U.S. Route 45
 * [[Image:US 72.svg|20px]] U.S. Route 72
 * [[Image:Circle sign 2.svg|20px]] Mississippi Highway 2

Adjacent counties

 * McNairy County, Tennessee (north)
 * Hardin County, Tennessee (northeast)
 * Tishomingo County (east)
 * Prentiss County (south)
 * Tippah County (west)
 * Hardeman County, Tennessee (northwest)

National protected area

 * Shiloh National Military Park (part)

2020 census
As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 34,740 people, 14,649 households, and 9,590 families residing in the county.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 34,558 people, 14,224 households, and 9,914 families residing in the county. The population density was 86 /mi2. There were 15,818 housing units at an average density of 40 /mi2. The racial makeup of the county was 87.37% White, 11.07% Black or African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.21% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.59% from other races, and 0.60% from two or more races. 1.28% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 14,224 households, out of which 30.90% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.50% were married couples living together, 11.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.30% were non-families. 27.60% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.91.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 23.90% under the age of 18, 9.10% from 18 to 24, 27.90% from 25 to 44, 24.40% from 45 to 64, and 14.80% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 93.90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.60 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $29,041, and the median income for a family was $36,899. Males had a median income of $29,752 versus $20,583 for females. The per capita income for the county was $15,418. About 13.10% of families and 16.60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.60% of those under age 18 and 22.60% of those age 65 or over.

Politics
Lester Carpenter, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives representing the First District of Mississippi, which includes part of Alcorn and Tishomingo counties. Nick Bain represents the 2nd House District which is exclusively in Alcorn County.

City

 * Corinth (county seat and largest municipality)

Towns

 * Farmington
 * Glen
 * Rienzi

Village

 * Kossuth

Census-designated places

 * Biggersville
 * Jacinto

Unincorporated places

 * Hinkle
 * Kendrick
 * Theo
 * Wenasoga

Ghost towns

 * Boneyard
 * Danville

title: Alcorn County, Mississippi