Southaven

Southaven
	Southaven
	Southaven
Coordinates	35 ° 0 ′ N , 90 ° 0 ′ W Coordinates: 35 ° 0 ′ N , 90 ° 0 ′ W
Basic data
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
ISO 3166-2	US MS
height	108 m
surface	107.6 km²
Residents	48,982 ( 2010 )
density	455.2 Ew. / km²
Website	southaven.org/
politics
mayor	Darren Musselwhite
	coat of arms

Southaven is a city in DeSoto County in the US state Mississippi and is located directly on the border with the state of Tennessee , about 300 kilometers north of the capital Jackson . Southaven is a southern suburb of Memphis , Tennessee and is part of the Memphis metropolitan area .

At the 2010 census , the city had 48,982 inhabitants. In 2014 there were already 51,824 inhabitants, of which around two thirds are white and almost a quarter are black, with Hispanics making up the largest minority with a share of around five percent. Overall, Southaven's population grew by 78.8% between 2000 and 2014. In February 2011, Southaven was Mississippi's third largest city.

In 1988 the Baptist Hospital-DeSoto was founded.

Darren Musselwhite has been the city's mayor since 2013 . Former Mayor Greg Davis was embroiled in a scandal over the misappropriation of city funds and was sentenced to pay back more than $ 170,000 in total to the city; that sentence was upheld by the Mississippi Supreme Court after Davis' appeal .

The University of Mississippi and Northwest Mississippi Community College have branch offices in Southaven.

Southaven has its own ice hockey team, the Mississippi RiverKings , who play in the Southern Professional Hockey League .

Southaven is the 35th northern cut latitude and the 90th western longitude .

Memphis Airport is about three miles north of Southaven . On the Interstate 55 to get from Southaven to Jackson.

City administration
Baptist Hospital-DeSoto
Water tower

Personalities

John Grisham (* 1955), American lawyer and author
Cory Branan (* 1974), American singer-songwriter

Web links

Commons : Southaven - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

The city's website ( English )

Individual evidence

^ Southaven, Mississippi , on city-data.com (English). Retrieved June 14, 2017.
^ Henry Bailey, Yolanda Jones: DeSoto County booming, census shows; Southaven now 3rd-largest Mississippi city (archived version). In: Memphis Commercial Appeal , February 4, 2011. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
^ Ron Maxey: Southaven mayor says city has recovered from Greg Davis era . In: Memphis Commercial Appeal , March 23, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
↑ Ron Maxey: Mississippi Supreme Court says Greg Davis must repay more than $ 73,000 . In: Memphis Commercial Appeal , September 11, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2017.

[1] Southaven, Mississippi , on city-data.com (English). Retrieved June 14, 2017.

[2] Henry Bailey, Yolanda Jones: DeSoto County booming, census shows; Southaven now 3rd-largest Mississippi city (archived version). In: Memphis Commercial Appeal , February 4, 2011. Retrieved June 15, 2017.

[3] Ron Maxey: Southaven mayor says city has recovered from Greg Davis era . In: Memphis Commercial Appeal , March 23, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017.

[4] Ron Maxey: Mississippi Supreme Court says Greg Davis must repay more than $ 73,000 . In: Memphis Commercial Appeal , September 11, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2017.