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Amory suffered extensive damage while the town of Rolling Fork, more than three hours north in Mississippi, was nearly flattened. More than a dozen people were killed in Sharkey County, home to ...
The Mississippi Insurance Department was created as a separate department by an Act of the Mississippi Legislature, effective March 1, 1902.The Act provided for the election of an Insurance Commissioner at the general election of 1903 and provided that until the election and qualification of such Insurance Commissioner, the duties of the office should be discharged by the State Auditor of ...
Amory / ˈ eɪ. m ər. i / is a city in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 6,666 at the 2020 census , down from 7,316 in 2010 . Located in the northeastern part of the state near the Alabama border, it was founded in 1887 as a railroad town by the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad .
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The county is named in honor of James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States. [3] Part of the county east of the Tombigbee River originally made-up part of the Alabama Territory, belonging to Marion County, until new lines of demarcation put it in the State of Mississippi in 1821.
Mississippi Highway 6 crosses the waterway at an overpass south of the Amory Lock. The Amory Lock is located at mile 371.1 on the waterway, representing the navigational distance from the southern end of the waterway at the Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge on U.S. Route 90 in Mobile, Alabama .
The following people were either born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Amory, Mississippi. Pages in category "People from Amory, Mississippi" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Oak Grove CDP, Mississippi – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2020 [8] % 2020 White alone (NH) 953 54.21%