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Lexington is in central Henderson County. U.S. Route 412 (Church Street) is the main road through the city, leading east 85 miles (137 km) to Columbia and west 27 miles (43 km) to Jackson.
The Memphis metropolitan area ranked worst in the country in violent crime per capita. According to Morgan Quitno's 2010 Metropolitan Crime Rate Rankings [3] the Jackson metropolitan area had the 13th highest crime rate in the United States. In 2007, Jackson ranked 9th most dangerous. [4] In 2006, it had been listed as the 18th most dangerous. [5]
Jackson is Madison County's largest city, and the second-largest city in West Tennessee after Memphis. [7] It is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court 's courthouse for West Tennessee , as Jackson was the major city in the west when the court was established in 1834.
Memphis ^ Term ends Aug. 31 of the year listed. In a unique method known as the Tennessee Plan , Supreme Court justices, like all other appellate court judges, the Governor fills any vacancies that occur, with the advice and consent of the Tennessee General Assembly, from a list of three judges compiled by a commission.
Henderson County was established in 1821; it was named for Lt. Colonel James Henderson, [4] Jr. (1775–1814), of the Tennessee State Militia, who was killed in late December 1814 below New Orleans during a clash with the British Army.
On Sept. 13, the Center City Revenue Finance Corp., an affiliate board of the Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC), approved a 10-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes for a 150-room Holiday Inn Express.
The city of Memphis is split between two congressional districts. The western three-fourths of the city, including downtown, forms the core of the 9th District, which has been represented by Democrat Steve Cohen since 2007. Cohen was the first white Democrat to represent a significant portion of Memphis in more than 40 years.
Shelby County is part of the Memphis, TN–MS–AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is bordered on the west by the Mississippi River . Located within the Mississippi Delta , the county was developed as a center of cotton plantations in the antebellum era, and cotton continued as an important commodity crop well into the 20th century.