Southaven
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Coordinates | 35 ° 0 ′ N , 90 ° 0 ′ W | |
Basic data | ||
Country | United States | |
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 | |
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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.
Personalities
- John Grisham (* 1955), American lawyer and author
- Cory Branan (* 1974), American singer-songwriter
Web links
- 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.