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Choctaw County
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county in Mississippi, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Mississippi
- Named after
- Choctaw people
- Seat
- Ackerman
- Largest town
- Ackerman
- Total
- 420 sq mi (1,100 km )
- Land
- 418 sq mi (1,080 km )
- Water
- 1.7 sq mi (4.4 km ) 0.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 8,048
- Density
- 19.7/sq mi (7.62/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- choctawcountyms .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Choctaw
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Mississippi
- Contains
- Ackerman
- Capital
- Ackerman
- Population
- 8246
- Area
- 1087
- Shares border with
- Webster County
- Official website
- choctawcountyms.com
- Image
- Mississippi Cabin 2 (8729953516).jpg
- Households
- 3353
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- Commons category
- Choctaw County, Mississippi
- topic's main category
- Category:Choctaw County, Mississippi
- inception
- 1833-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Choctaw County, Mississippi
- different from
- Choctaw County
- water as percent of area
- 0.4
- native label
- Choctaw County
- per capita income
- 24353
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Encyclopedic overview
Choctaw County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,246. Its northern border is the Big Black River, which flows southwest into the Mississippi River south of Vicksburg. The county seat is Ackerman.
The county is named after the Choctaw tribe of Native Americans. They had long occupied this territory as their homeland before European exploration. Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, they were forced by the United States to cede their lands and to move west of the Mississippi River to what became Indian Territory (today's state of Oklahoma).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Choctaw County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.