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During the morning hours of April 24, a massive and long tracked tornado struck the southern side of Yazoo City, Ebenezer, Durant, and Hesterville in Mississippi, causing 10 fatalities and injuring a further 146 people during its 149 miles path. It was the strongest and deadliest tornado of the tornado outbreak of April 22–25, 2010 and the ...
1954–1968. J. F. Barbour III. 1968–1972 [5] Elected as an Independent, Barbour was one of the first Mississippi politicians to successfully challenge the Democratic Party in the state in the modern era. Floyd E. Johnson. 1972-1978 [6] Charles E. Fulgham. 1978–1990 [2] Hugh J. McGraw.
Child Labor in Yazoo City, 1911, photo by Lewis Hine. The community now known as Yazoo City was founded in 1824 with the name Hannan's Bluff. It was later renamed Manchester, then changed to Yazoo City in 1841. Yazoo City became the county seat in 1849. A yellow fever epidemic struck Yazoo City in 1853.
Yazoo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,743. [1] The county seat is Yazoo City. [2] It is named for the Yazoo River, which forms its western border. Its name is said to come from a Choctaw language word meaning "River of Death". [3] [4]
The Federal Correctional Complex, Yazoo City (FCC Yazoo City) is a United States federal prison complex for male offenders in unincorporated Yazoo County, Mississippi. [ 1 ] It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice and is located 36 miles (58 km) north of Jackson, Mississippi.
Location of Yazoo County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Yazoo County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Government. County government. Subdivisions. cities, towns, unincorporated communities, census designated place. There are 82 counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Mississippi is tied with Arkansas for the most counties with two county seats, at 10. Mississippi's postal abbreviation is MS and its FIPS state code is 28 .
The Yazoo County School District (YCSD) is a public school district headquartered in unincorporated Yazoo County, Mississippi (), near Yazoo City. [1]The district serves areas of Yazoo County not in the Yazoo City city limits; its area includes the town of Bentonia, the village of Satartia, the census-designated place of Benton, [2] the unincorporated area of Eden, and rural areas.