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Picayune (/ p ɪ k ə ˈ j uː n / pik-ə-YOON) is the largest city in Pearl River County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 11,885 at the 2020 census . The city is located approximately 45 miles (72 km) from New Orleans , Hattiesburg , and Gulfport – Biloxi .
A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real or one sixteenth of a dollar. Its name derives from the French picaillon , which is itself from the Provençal picaioun , the name of an unrelated small copper coin from Savoy . [ 1 ]
The current publication is the result of the 2019 acquisition of The Times-Picayune (which was the result of the 1914 union of The Picayune with the Times-Democrat) by the New Orleans edition of The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Times-Picayune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
Warmest: Picayune, Mississippi. The warmest city in Mississippi is on the Gulf Coast. Picayune's average annual high is a humid 78 degrees. BOB WESTON/istockphoto. Coldest: Holly Springs, Mississippi.
Pearl River County comprises the Picayune, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the New Orleans-Metairie-Hammond, LA-MS Combined Statistical Area. Pearl River County is a dry county , [ 3 ] and as such, the sale, transportation, and even private possession of beverage alcohol is prohibited by law, [ 4 ] except within Picayune ...
The Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California is a federally recognized tribe of indigenous people of California, affiliated with the Chukchansi subgroup of the Foothills Yokuts. The Picayune Rancheria , founded in 1912 and located in Coarsegold, California , covers 160 acres (1 km 2 ) in Madera County and serves as the tribal land .
Picayune is an obsolete term for a coin of small value. Its meaning has been extended to the figurative sense of "trivial" or "of little value".
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