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  Yazoo County, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yazoo County is a county located in the state of Mississippi.
Yazoo County was a battlefield in 1863 and 1864 during the American Civil War.
In the county the population is spread out with 28.50% under the age of 18, 9.80% from 18 to 24, 29.20% from 25 to 44, 20.10% from 45 to 64, and 12.40% who are 65 years of age or older.
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 Yazoo City, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is 40 miles northwest of Jackson, Mississippi at the junctions of Highways 3, 49E and 49W on the banks of the Yazoo River, near the Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
Yazoo city became the Yazoo County seat in 1849.
Yazoo City was the childhood home of blues musician Tommy McClennan, of Wiiliam J (Joe) Fisher, C.
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 Yazoo County, Mississippi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Yazoo County is a county located in the U.S. statestate of Mississippi.
Farming and lumber are the predominant industries of Yazoo county.
It was the 19th county established in the State of Mississippi, and remains the largest in area.
www.infothis.com /find/Yazoo_County,_Mississippi   (562 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Mississippi Delta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
To the natives of the state of Mississippi the Mississippi Delta is the distinct northwest section of the state, generally between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers.
The Natchez District is a region of Mississippi.
Meridian is a city located in, and the county seat of, Lauderdale County in Mississippi, a state of the United States of America.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mississippi-Delta   (2006 words)

  
 Yazoo City, Mississippi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Yazoo City is a city located in (Click link for more info and facts about Yazoo County, Mississippi) Yazoo County, Mississippi.
Yazoo City is located at 32°51'23" North, 90°24'27" West (32.856458, -90.407379).
As of the (A period count of the population) census of 2000, there are 14,550 people, 4,271 households, and 2,968 families residing in the city.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/ya/yazoo_city,_mississippi.htm   (682 words)

  
 Yazoo County Mississippi 1860 slaveholders and 1870 African Americans
It is possible to locate a free person on the Yazoo County, Mississippi census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published indexes almost always do not include the slave census.
The term "County" is used to describe the main subdivisions of the State by which the census was enumerated.
In Mississippi in 1860 there were 481 farms of 1,000 acres or more, the largest size category enumerated in the census, and another 1,868 farms of 500-999 acres.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~ajac/msyazoo.htm   (1396 words)

  
 Yazoo
Yazoo County - where these picturesque hills meet broad, open fields has struck visitors for almost two centuries, providing, surpassing scenic vistas and a diverse economic base.
For most, the dominant impression of Yazoo County is the sudden appearance of the Delta, stretching to the horizon from the top of the last, long hill from which Yazoo City's Broadway Street descends.
The diverse culture of Yazoo County has produced a range of notable residents including the late comedian Jerry Clower; authors the late Willie Morris and Zig Ziglar; actress Stella Stevens and blues singers Gatemouth Moore and Jack Owens.
www.yazoo.org /about1.htm   (448 words)

  
 Yazoo County, Mississippi Genealogical and Historical Research
It was organized as a county by an act of the Legislature of Mississippi, passed on February 23, 1823.
It originally embraced the present counties of Yazoo, Madison, Holmes, and Issaquena, and by subsequent addition a portion of Warren and Washington counties.
Grave of the Witch of Yazoo County - FindAGrave
www.natchezbelle.org /ahgp-ms/yazoo   (88 words)

  
 Yazoo County, Mississippi Agriculture
This is a County in Mississippi where the Delta meets the Hills.
The agriculture in Yazoo County is row crop and catfish.
Mississippi Chemical Farm-raised catfish is a thriving industry in Yazoo County.
www2.msstate.edu /~cdh89/homeag.html   (69 words)

  
 Yazoo County, Mississippi Genealogical and Historical Research
Yazoo county and river derived their name from a tribe of Indians who inhabited that section.
There is a tradition that the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians came from the West over the Mississippi river and combining their forces, waged a war of extermination against the Yazoo and other tribes and that the Yazoos fought desperately until the last of their race was slain.
The Choctaws were in possession of part of this country when it was first discovered by the white man, though the Yazoos were not exterminated, as their name appears on many of the earliest maps of this part of the country.
www.natchezbelle.org /ahgp-ms/yazoo/history1.htm   (653 words)

  
 Yazoo County Yazoo City, Mississippi (Counties)
The county population on July 1, 1999, was 25,208, a decrease of 298 over the 1990 census.
Yazoo County Airport serves Yazoo City and Yazoo County and is owned by the County Of Yazoo.
Yazoo City is located in Yazoo County (of which it is the county seat) 40 miles N of Jackson along...
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 Mississippi Business Journal: Yazoo improves the odds with better schools, housing.(Yazoo County, Mississippi, hopes ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Yazoo improves the odds with better schools, housing.(Yazoo County, Mississippi, hopes new prison will provide economic boost)(Brief Article)
YAZOO CITY -- When the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) at Yazoo City opened in 1996, about half of the 300 employees moved from various places across the U.S. to make Yazoo City and Yazoo County their home.
While the ratio is about what any employer could expect to see in terms of local vs. non-local hires, city and county officials are hoping for something a little better when the second federal correctional institution, a medium security correctional institution, opens in the...
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 Yazoo on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Prevented by natural levees from joining the Mississippi River sooner, the Yazoo parallels the Mississippi for c.175 mi (280 km), meandering southwest along the eastern edge of the Mississippi's floodplain before entering it near Vicksburg.
In the spring of 1973 about 2,800 sq mi (7,250 sq km) of the Yazoo basin were inundated by water backed up because of floods on the Mississippi River; parts of the Delta region were saturated for as long as four months, causing a delay in spring plantings.
The Yazoo River is exemplary of a stream of deferred junction, and the term yazoo is generally applied to any stream that has a belated confluence with the main river.
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 Yazoo County, Mississippi Genealogical Records Information
The original county lines took in the area which is presently the counties of Holmes, Issaquena, Madison, Washington and parts of Humphrey and Sharkey.
It was bounded on the east by the Big Black and Pearl Rivers, on the south by Warren County, on the west by the Mississippi River, and on the north by Choctaw Indian Territory.
Yazoo City, Queen City of the Delta, became the county seat by an election in 1849 but was not the functioning county seat until sometime in 1851 when the courthouse was completed.
www.mymississippigenealogy.com /ms_county/yaz.htm   (461 words)

  
 Yazoo City, Mississippi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is 40 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi at the junctions of Highways 3, 49E and 49W on the banks of the Yazoo River, near the Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
Yazoo City was the childhood home of blues musician Tommy McClennan, of Joe Fisher, C. H."Tally" McGraw, John Joe Humphreys, and of writers Willie Morris and Zig Ziglar.
NEW YORK Garry Roark comes from a town of 13,000 people, and the Yazoo City, Miss., native swears he saw twice that many vehicles as he tried to wedge his tractor-trailer through the Lincoln Tunnel for his first peek at New York.
www.infothis.com /find/Yazoo_City,_Mississippi   (881 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
1835) of Yazoo County, Mississippi, and Madison County, Alabama.
Octavia's letters to William, written while he was visiting Yazoo County, discussed mostly her loneliness with him gone and the activities of their children.
One is to Octavia from an unidentified friend in Titus County, Texas, who wrote on 25 August, to express sympathy over William Madison Otey's death, and another is to Octavia from her cousin, W. Wyche Wilburn, who wrote on 9 December in reference to her plantation and property in Yazoo County.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/w/Wyche_and_Otey_Family   (9096 words)

  
 Brown/Dunn & Harbison/Garrard
She was married to Pleasant "Ples" DUNN on 15 Feb 1848 in Itawamba County, Mississippi.
Nancy ROLLINS was born on 18 Nov 1839 in Pike County, Mississippi.
She was married to Larry Cooper SMITH on 27 Dec 1963 in Brandon, Rankin County, Mississippi.
www.hal-pc.org /~wibr/d147.htm   (716 words)

  
 Yazoo County, MSGenWeb, index
Yazoo County was established January 21, 1823 as the state's 19th county and is the largest county in Mississippi.
Yazoo City's first newspaper was the "Political Progress" established in 1829.
After the war, Yazoo City was rebuilt only to burn again in 1904, by the worst fire in state history.
www.rootsweb.com /~msyazoo   (1024 words)

  
 Yazoo, Madison work centers accredited - The Clarion-Ledger
The Mississippi Department of Corrections on Thursday continued its push toward total accreditation by the American Correctional Association.
Yazoo County Community Work Center and Madison County Community Work Center are the first of 17 work centers to achieve passing scores after a two-day audit from ACA officials.
On the 214 non-mandatory standards, Yazoo scored 95.2 percent and Madison 96.7 percent.
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 Yazoo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
View official Yazoo records and their data in the records section.
Yazoo county was once a part of the domain of the Choctaw Indians.
It originally embraced the present counties of Yazoo, Madison, Holmes, and Issaquena, and by subsequent addition a...
www.musicbyartist.com /Yazoo-.html   (499 words)

  
 Yazoo County, Mississippi 1900 Team Census Transcription
All territory west of Satartia and Mechanicsburg road and Mechanicsburg and Warren county road.
All territory north and east of Benton and Deasonville road and Deasonville and Moore's Ferry road.
All territory between Yazoo city and Tchula road and Pearce and Free Run road.
www.us-census.org /states/mississippi/teams/Yazoo1900.htm   (180 words)

  
 James Fletcher - Attala County Pioneer
It is unclear when the Fletchers first arrived in Mississippi and who were the parents of James Fletchers.
At this time, it is unclear when James came to Mississippi; however, he may have come as early as 1814.
In 1831, James Fletcher acquired a lot in Franklin, which was then in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Bluffs/9857/fletcher_page_3/fletcher.html   (514 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Yazoo County, Miss.
Yazoo County page at Interment.Net (Cemetery Records Online).
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
The intent is to locate places according to current county names and boundaries.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/MS/YA.html   (556 words)

  
 Yazoo County, Mississippi Agriculture
I am from Yazoo City which is in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
Yazoo County is split by the Mississippi Delta and the Hills.
The farming in yazoo county is helped out by the Mississippi State University Extension Service (MSUES), which is the land grant university for Mississippi.
www2.msstate.edu /~wjn2/homeag.html   (118 words)

  
 yazoo county gamble   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
County, locsted in East Central Arkansas, is bounded north by the base line of the public land surveys which separates it from Lee County...
With assistance from AmSouth's Morgan and Ken Booker, a forest specialist, the Freemans bought a large tract in Yazoo County, Miss.
was born in Yazoo County, Mississippi, in 1833 and died in Georgetown, Texas.
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 Lawyers Yazoo County Mississippi: Lawyers and Attorneys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Yazoo is a rare and revealing account of Reconstruction by a Wisconsin carpetbagger and devout abolitionist who moved to Mississippi in pursuit of wealth and social reform.
In 1884, nine years after fleeing Mississippi under threat of death, Morgan published Yazoo at his own expense to explain the difficulties he and his compatriots faced in the South.
Before it's over, Rick Shannon has crisscrossed the sweltering Mississippi Delta in search of the thread that connects a dead man in Yazoo City found with a fork stuck in his back to an old man known as Pigfoot Morgan who was just released from Mississippi State Penitentiary after serving fifty years for murder.
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 Bennie K. Warrington for Justice Court Judge Yazoo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Vote for Bennie "Kay" Warrington for Justice Court Judge Southern District Yazoo County, Mississippi.
Bennie is dedicated to serve the citizens of Yazoo County.
He has 2 years Reserve and 3years served with the Yazoo City Police Department and 1-1/2 years for the Yazoo County Sherrif's Department.
www.webspawner.com /users/debwarr1   (173 words)

  
 USGenWeb Mississippi Archives - Yazoo County
We encourage links to the state and county tables of content.
Links will be provided to the county file directories, as well as a search engine for each county.
Collections that are not maintained in the normal state/county directory structure will have the appropriate links provided.
www.rootsweb.com /usgenweb/ms/yazoo.htm   (129 words)

  
 Yazoo County Mississippi Tax Deed Sale
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