Yazoo City
| Yazoo City | |
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 Location in Mississippi
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1824 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Mississippi |
| County : | Yazoo County |
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 51 ′ N , 90 ° 24 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 11,403 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 408.7 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 28.3 km 2 (approx. 11 mi 2 ) of which 27.9 km 2 (approx. 11 mi 2 ) are land |
| Height : | 34 m |
| Postal code : | 39194 |
| Area code : | +1 662 |
| FIPS : | 28-81520 |
| GNIS ID : | 0679921 |
| Website : | www.visityazoo.org |
Yazoo City is a town in Mississippi and has a population of 11,403 (2010 census). The place is the administrative seat of Yazoo County . It was named after the Yazoo River .
history
Yazoo City was founded in 1824 under the name Hannan's Bluff . The name was later changed in Manchester , and finally in Yazoo City in 1839, after the Indian word Yazoo , which means something like "river of death". Ten years later, the city became the administrative seat of Yazoo County.
In 1853 a yellow fever epidemic struck the city . There was a Confederate shipyard on the Yazoo River during the American Civil War , which was destroyed by Union forces in 1863. After a short reconquest by the Confederates, Union troops occupied the city in 1864 and burned down most of the buildings. The second yellow fever epidemic occurred in 1878. In 1904 three quarters of the city were destroyed in another fire. The fire spread quickly on the winds but spared the County Courthouse as it was behind a canal. Over the next two years the city was rebuilt. The Mississippi flood in 1927 also damaged the city.
On April 24, 2010, large parts of the village were destroyed by a tornado , killing ten people.
traffic
Yazoo City is at the intersection of US Highway 49 and Mississippi State Highways 3 , 16, and 149 .
A railway line of the former Illinois Central Railroad , which has been part of the Canadian National Railway since 1999 , runs through the city . In addition to freight trains, the Amtrak- operated long-distance train City of New Orleans , Yazoo City has connections to New Orleans and Chicago .
Others
Yazoo City appears in the films Miss Firecracker , Crossroads , Fletch and Borat .
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- William J. Mills (1849–1915), politician (Democratic Party)
- James Paul Clarke (1854-1916), politician (Democratic Party)
- Mary Johnson (1900-1970), blues singer
- Skip James (1902–1969), blues musician
- Robert Petway (1907–1978), blues guitarist
- Tommy McClennan (1908–1962?), Blues musician
- Willie Bee (1910–1942), blues singer and guitarist
- Della Reese (1931-2017), jazz singer
- Lawrence Gordon (* 1936), film producer
- Stella Stevens (born 1938), actress
- Willie Brown (1940-2019), American football player
- Haley Barbour (born 1947), politician (Republican Party), 63rd governor of Mississippi
- Michael Henderson (* 1951), bass player and singer
- Mike Espy (born 1953), politician (Democratic Party)
- Houston Hoover (born 1965), American football player
- Tammy Thomas (* approx. 1970), cyclist
More people
- Ethelbert Barksdale (1824-1893), politician (Democratic Party)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tornado destroys Yazoo City and kills 10 people ( memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), DCRS online, April 26, 2010
- ↑ amtrak.com: City of New Orleans (map and timetable) , accessed June 23, 2020