Leflore County

administration
Leflore County Courthouse
US state :	Mississippi
Administrative headquarters :	Greenwood
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 250 Greenwood, MS 38935-0250
Foundation :	March 15, 1871
Made up from:	Carroll County Sunflower County Tallahatchie County
Area code :	001 662
Demographics
Residents :	32,317 (2010)
Population density :	21.1 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1570 km²
Water surface :	37 km²
map

The Leflore County is a county in the US state of Mississippi . The county seat is Greenwood .

geography

The county is located in the central northwest of Mississippi and has an area of 1570 square kilometers, of which 37 square kilometers are water. Leflore County is traversed by the Yazoo River and its two source rivers Tallahatchie and Yalobusha . The following counties border Leflore County:

	Tallahatchie County	Grenada County
Sunflower County		Carroll County
Humphreys County		Holmes County

history

G. LeFlore

Leflore County was formed on March 15, 1871 from parts of Carroll, Sunflower and Tallahatchie Counties. Like the district capital, it was named after Greenwood LeFlore , a Choctaw chief .

On August 31, 1955, the body of Emmett Till , an African-American who had been murdered for racist reasons, was discovered in the Tallahatchie River near Money . The murder of the boy and the subsequent legal appraisal, which ended with an acquittal of the murderers by an exclusively white jury, triggered large protests and is one of the triggers for the subsequent black civil rights movement in the USA.

37 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 2, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	10,246	-
1890	16,869	64.6%
1900	23,834	41.3%
1910	36,290	52.3%
1920	37,256	2.7%
1930	53.506	43.6%
1940	53,406	-0.2%
1950	51,813	-3%
1960	47,142	-9%
1970	42.111	-10.7%
1980	41,525	-1.4%
1990	37,341	-10.1%
2000	37,947	1.6%
2010	32,317	-14.8%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

Greenwood High School , listed on the NRHP

As of the 2010 census , Leflore County had 32,317 people in 11,271 households. The population density was 21.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.82 people lived in each of the 11,271 households.

The racial the population was composed of 24.9 percent white, 72.2 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.3 percent of the population.

27.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.9 percent were 65 years or older. 52.0 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 22,020 USD . The per capita income was $ 12,957. 39.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in Leflore County

Citys

Towns

Unincorporated communities

structure

Leflore County is divided into 5 numbered districts:

District	Population (2010)	FIPS
1	6.139	28-90378
2	6,617	28-91116
3	4,933	28-91854
4th	7.207	28-92592
5	7,421	28-93330

Individual evidence

↑ GNIS-ID: 695765. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).

^ National Association of Counties.Retrieved February 13, 2011

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed February 2, 2018.

^ US Census Bureau _ Census of Population and Housing.Retrieved February 19, 2011

^ Extract from Census.gov.Retrieved February 19, 2011

↑ Extract from census.gov (2000 + 2010) ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2011 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 4, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ US Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Leflore County, MS ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2011 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 13, 2011 @1@ 2

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Web links

Commons : Leflore County, Mississippi - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

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[1] GNIS-ID: 695765. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).

[2] National Association of Counties.Retrieved February 13, 2011

[3] Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed February 2, 2018.

[4] US Census Bureau _ Census of Population and Housing.Retrieved February 19, 2011

[5] Extract from Census.gov.Retrieved February 19, 2011