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Map of the United States with Mississippi highlighted. Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Mississippi is the 32nd-most populous state, with 2,949,965 inhabitants and the 31st largest by land area, spanning 46,923.27 square miles (121,530.7 km 2) of land. [1]
McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, United States. The city is approximately 80 miles (130 km) south of Jackson . As of the 2010 census , the city had a total population of 12,790. [ 4 ]
The McComb Micropolitan Statistical Area is a micropolitan area in southwestern Mississippi that includes Pike, Walthall, and Amite counties which had a combined population of 66,024 as of the 2020 census.
Pike County is a county located on the southwestern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,324. [1] The county seat is Magnolia. [2] Pike County is named for explorer Zebulon Pike. Pike County is part of the McComb, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Almost all of the town of Summit is served by the McComb School District, while a small portion in the south lies within the North Pike School District. [6] McComb High School is the comprehensive high school of the former school district. Southwest Mississippi Community College is in an unincorporated area near Summit. [7]
Liberty is a town in Amite County, Mississippi.It is part of the McComb, Mississippi micropolitan statistical area.It is the county seat of Amite County. [2]The town can be accessed via I-55, then west on Mississippi Highway 24.
Magnolia was founded in 1856 by Ansel H. Prewett, a local civic leader and cotton planter. Knowing that the approaching New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad (now the Illinois Central Railroad) would need a station for water and fuel, Prewett sold a right-of-way to the railroad company – for one dollar, according to legend – and divided a section of his plantation into town ...
I-55 leads north 65 miles (105 km) to Jackson, the state capital, and south the same distance to Hammond, Louisiana. U.S. Route 51 runs through the community, just west of the center of town and parallel to I-55. US 51 leads north 10 miles (16 km) to Brookhaven, the Lincoln county seat, and south 14 miles (23 km) to McComb.