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Mississippi County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,685. [1] There are two county seats, Blytheville and Osceola. [2] The county is named for the Mississippi River which borders the county to the east. Mississippi County is part of the First Congressional District in Arkansas.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. There are 44 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 2 National Historic Landmarks. Another two properties were once listed but have been ...
Blytheville is located in northeastern Arkansas and northeastern Mississippi County. It is the easternmost incorporated place in Arkansas. [10] The Missouri state line is 5 miles (8 km) north, and the Mississippi River, forming the Tennessee border, is 8 miles (13 km) east.
Osceola is a city in, and a dual county seat of, Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. [4] Located along the Mississippi River within the Arkansas Delta, the settlement was founded in 1837 and incorporated in 1853. Occupying an important location on the river, the city's economy grew as steamboat traffic increased.
The project was established by Mississippi County cotton planter and local politician William Reynolds Dyess (1894–1936), director of the Arkansas Emergency Relief Administration, who initially sought the establishment of a self-supporting agricultural community housing 800 families upon unused Mississippi Delta farmland. [6]
Wilson is a city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located in the Arkansas Delta and is surrounded by fertile cropland historically used to produce cotton. Wilson started as a company town in 1886 by Robert E. Lee Wilson, who would build a cotton empire and run it from the city.
The Mississippi County Courthouse is a courthouse at Poplar Street and Hale Avenue in Osceola, Arkansas, United States, one of two county seats of Mississippi County, built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The Nodena site is an archeological site east of Wilson, Arkansas, and northeast of Reverie, Tennessee, in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.Around 1400–1650 CE an aboriginal palisaded village existed in the Nodena area on a meander bend of the Mississippi River.