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    Yazoo City is the county seat of Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French...
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    Yazoo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,743. The county seat is Yazoo City. It...
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    Complex, Yazoo City (FCC Yazoo City) is a United States federal prison complex for male offenders in unincorporated Yazoo County, Mississippi. It is operated...
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    tracked tornado struck the southern side of Yazoo City, Ebenezer, Durant, and Hesterville in Mississippi, causing 10 fatalities and injuring a further...
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    33556°N 90.89722°W / 32.33556; -90.89722 The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. states of Louisiana and Mississippi. It is considered by some to mark the southern...
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    The mayor of Yazoo City, Mississippi is elected every four years by the population at large. Being the chief executive officer of the city, the mayor is...
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  • Look up Yazoo or yazoo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yazoo may refer to: Yazoo people, a Native American people who lived in Mississippi, United...
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  • Willie Morris (category People from Yazoo City, Mississippi)
    was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Morris had a lyrical prose style which he lent to...
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  • Yazoo City High School is a public high school in Yazoo City, Mississippi. It is within the Mississippi Achievement School District. As of 2024[update]...
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    Construction began in Jackson, Mississippi, and continued to Yazoo City, Mississippi. The line was later expanded through the Mississippi Delta and on to Memphis...
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    The Mississippi Delta, also known as the YazooMississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi...
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    Yazoo City station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Yazoo City, Mississippi, United States. The station is unstaffed and requires notification in...
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  • Vaughn) is an unincorporated community in Yazoo County, Mississippi. The settlement is 32 mi (51 km) east of Yazoo City. Vaughan was founded in 1830 and named...
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  • Meridian campaign (category Meridian and Yazoo River Expeditions)
    Ohio Railroad. Coates' expedition moved up the Yazoo River and for a while occupied Yazoo City, Mississippi. After the Chattanooga campaign Union forces...
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    Tallahatchie and Yazoo rivers. The city served as a shipping point for cotton to major markets in New Orleans, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee...
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    Stella Stevens (category People from Yazoo City, Mississippi)
    and writer. Born Estelle Caro Eggleston on October 1, 1938, in Yazoo City, Mississippi, she was the only child of Thomas Ellett Eggleston, an insurance...
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    Fletcher Cox (category People from Yazoo City, Mississippi)
    attended Yazoo City High School in Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he played football and basketball and ran track. Cox played three seasons at Mississippi State...
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    The Battle of Yazoo City (March 5, 1864) was an engagement in Mississippi during a month-long Union expedition up the Yazoo River in the American Civil...
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    Kenneth Gainwell (category People from Yazoo City, Mississippi)
    football for the Memphis Tigers. Gainwell grew up in Yazoo City, Mississippi and attended Yazoo County High School. He was a three-year starter at quarterback...
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    Haley Barbour (category People from Yazoo City, Mississippi)
    Committee from 1993 to 1997. Born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, Barbour graduated from the University of Mississippi with undergraduate and law degrees,...
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  • The Yazoo City Zoos were a minor league baseball team based in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Between 1904 and 1912, the Yazoo City Zoos played as members of...
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  • J. F. Barbour III (category People from Yazoo City, Mississippi)
    of Mississippi. In 1968, he was elected as an independent (although closely affiliated with the Republican party) as mayor of Yazoo City, Mississippi. It...
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    region of the U.S. state of Mississippi that covers seven counties: Copiah, Hinds, Holmes, Madison, Rankin, Simpson, and Yazoo. As of the 2010 census, the...
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  • Yazoo County High School (YCHS) is a public high school in unincorporated Yazoo County, Mississippi, near Yazoo City. It is a part of the Yazoo County...
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    assigned to the Mississippi River region by the Confederate Naval Department. In May 1862 he was ordered to Yazoo City, Mississippi, to take command...
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    Beverly Carradine (category People from Yazoo County, Mississippi)
    Washington, D.C.; died 1881 in Yazoo City, Mississippi) and Henry Francis Carradine (born June 7, 1808, in Yazoo City, Mississippi; died March 8, 1854), a planter...
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    Willie Brown (American football) (category People from Yazoo City, Mississippi)
    Raiders' administrative staff. Brown was born on December 2, 1940 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. He grew up on Mushroom Street, with his parents, six brothers...
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    south 20 miles (32 km) to Yazoo City. Mississippi Highway 149, an old alignment of US 49W, leads southwest from Silver City 10 miles (16 km) to Louise...
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    Zig Ziglar (category People from Yazoo City, Mississippi)
    (John Ziglar) took a management position at a Mississippi farm, and his family moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he spent most of his early childhood...
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    (largest city: McComb) Warren (largest city: Vicksburg) Yazoo (largest city: Yazoo City) United States presidential elections in Mississippi 2024 United...
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