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Elections are limited to once every four years. Any new county must be at least 400 square miles (1,000 km 2), with no existing county reduced below that size. [2] The county governing body, known as the Board of Supervisors, is located under the judicial branch of state government as established in the 1817 Mississippi Constitution. [3]
Mississippi Highway 42 passes through the center of State Line as St. Peter Street, leading west 53 miles (85 km) to Hattiesburg. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town of State Line has a total area of 4.30 square miles (11.1 km 2 ), of which 4.27 square miles (11.1 km 2 ) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.078 km 2 ) (0.70%) is ...
The boundaries of the county are set in Mississippi Code section 19-1-89 as: Madison County is bounded by beginning at a point on Big Black River, where the same crosses the center line in township twelve, range three, east; thence east to the old Choctaw boundary line; thence north on said boundary line to the center line of township twelve ...
The bridge, located about 40 miles south of Jackson on State Route 149 over the Strong River in Simpson County, had been closed for nearly a month so crews could demolish it, the Mississippi ...
In Mississippi, several water systems had already identified lead in their community water lines in 2017 when MSDH asked water systems to identify their lead pipes because of slight changes to the ...
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 [3] Part of the county east of the Tombigbee River originally made-up part of the Alabama Territory, belonging to Marion County, until new lines of demarcation put it in the State of Mississippi in 1821.
DeSoto County is a county located on the northwestern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 185,314, [1] making it the third-most populous county in Mississippi. Its county seat is Hernando. [2] DeSoto County is part of the Memphis metropolitan area. It is the second-most populous county in that ...
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for utilities to finish building a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River refuge. American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland ...