Tishomingo County

administration
Tishomingo County Courthouse
US state :	Mississippi
Administrative headquarters :	Iuka
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 1008 Battleground Drive Iuka, MS 38852-1020
Foundation :	February 9, 1836
Made up from:	Chickasaw Land
Area code :	001 662
Demographics
Residents :	19,593 (2010)
Population density :	17.8 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1151 km²
Water surface :	53 km²
map

Website : www.tishomingo.org

The Tishomingo County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Mississippi . In 2010 , the county had 19,593 residents and a population density of 17.8 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Iuka , which was named after a Chickasaw chief .

geography

The county is located in the far northeast of Mississippi and borders Tennessee to the north . To the east, the Tennessee River forms part of the county's border with Alabama . Tishomingo County covers an area of 1,151 square kilometers, of which 53 square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Tishomingo County:

Alcorn County	Hardin County, Tennessee	Lauderdale County, Alabama
		Colbert County, Alabama
Prentiss County	Itawamba County	Franklin County, Alabama

history

Tishomingo County was formed from Chickasaw land on February 9, 1836 . It was named after a chief of the Chickasaw, a North American Indian people.

economy

In the northern part of the county on Yellow Creek of Pickwick Lake , the Tennessee Valley Authority built a nuclear power plant ( Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant ) from 1978 . After 30% had been completed, construction was stopped in 1982. In 1988 NASA began to build a rocket motor plant on the site. Due to cuts in the NASA budget, this project was abandoned in 1992. As a result, the Mississippi government and the county began to develop an industrial site on the site called the Tri-State Commerce Park. The site is developed by the Tishomingo Railroad (now Mississippi Central Railroad ) and a small port on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway .

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	6681	-
1850	15,490	131.9%
1860	24,149	55.9%
1870	7350	-69.6%
1880	8774	19.4%
1890	9302	6%
1900	10.124	8.8%
1910	13,067	29.1%
1920	15.091	15.5%
1930	16,411	8.7%
1940	16,974	3.4%
1950	15,544	-8.4%
1960	13,889	-10.6%
1970	14,940	7.6%
1980	18,434	23.4%
1990	17,683	-4.1%
2000	19.163	8.4%
2010	19,593	2.2%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

The Bear Creek in Tishomingo State Park

View from Woodall Mountain over the county

According to the 2010 census , Tishomingo County had 19,593 people in 7,709 households. The population density was 17.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.51 people lived in each of the 7709 households.

The racial the population was composed of 95.5 percent white, 3.2 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.1 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 3.0 percent of the population.

22.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.3 percent were 65 years or older. 51.6 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 30,211 USD . The per capita income was $ 17,017. 20.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.