Jones County, Mississippi

administration
The Jones County Courthouse in Ellisville, listed on NRHP No. 94001307
US state :	Mississippi
Administrative headquarters :	Laurel , Ellisville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 1468 Laurel, MS 39441-1468
Foundation :	January 24, 1826
Made up from:	Covington County Wayne County
Area code :	001 601
Demographics
Residents :	67,761 (2010)
Population density :	37.7 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1812 km²
Water surface :	15 km²
map

Website : www.co.jones.ms.us

The Jones County is a county in the US state of Mississippi . Administrative seats ( County Seats ) are Laurel and Ellisville , making Jones County one of the ten counties in Mississippi that have two administrative seats .

geography

The county is located in southeastern Mississippi, about 50 km to the east from Alabama , and has an area of 1,812 square kilometers, of which 15 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Smith County	Jasper County
Covington County		Wayne County
Forrest County		Perry County

history

J. P. Jones

Jones County was formed on January 24, 1826 from parts of Covington County and Wayne County. It was named after John Paul Jones , a naval officer.

During the Civil War , the poor white farmer Newton Knight led a guerrilla war with like-minded people against the Confederate States of America and declared his loyalty to the Union . In the spring of 1864 Knight's troops were able to take the County Courthouse in Ellisville . The county was then known as the Free State of Jones . This event was featured in the 2016 film Free State of Jones .

Seven structures and sites in the county are on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 1, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1830	1471	-
1840	1258	-14.5%
1850	2164	72%
1860	3323	53.6%
1870	3313	-0.3%
1880	3828	15.5%
1890	8333	117.7%
1900	17,846	114.2%
1910	29,885	67.5%
1920	32,919	10.2%
1930	41,492	26%
1940	49,227	18.6%
1950	57,235	16.3%
1960	59,542	4%
1970	56,357	-5.3%
1980	61,912	9.9%
1990	62,031	0.2%
2000	64,958	4.7%
2010	67,761	4.3%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010 Jones County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

The Newell Rogers House , listed on the NRHP

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art

As of the 2000 census , Jones County had 64,958 people in 24,275 households and 17,550 families. The population density was 36 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 71.11 percent white, 26.34 percent African American, 0.39 percent Native American, 0.27 percent Asian, 0.01 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 1.41 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 0.48 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any of the above mentioned groups were 1.96 percent of the population.

Of the 24,275 households, 32.6 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them. 53.0 percent were married couples living together, 15.1 percent were single mothers, and 27.7 percent were non-families. 24.4 percent of all households were single households and 11.0 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.08.

25.8 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 10.5 percent between 18 and 24, 27.3 percent between 25 and 44, 22.2 percent between 45 and 64 years old, and 14.2 percent were 65 years or older . The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were statistically 93.7 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 90.1 males.

The average income of a household amounted to 28,786 USD , for a family is 34,465 USD. Males had a median income of $ 28,273 versus $ 19,405 for females. The per capita income was $ 14,820. About 14.3 percent of families and 19.8 percent of the population were below the poverty line .

cities and communes

literature

Sally Jenkins, John Stauffer: The State of Jones. Doubleday, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-385-52593-0 .
Victoria E. Bynum: The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War . University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2001, ISBN 0-8078-2636-7 .
Rudy H. Leverett: Legend of the Free State of Jones. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 1984, ISBN 0-87805-227-5 .