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Claiborne County
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county in Mississippi, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Mississippi
- Named after
- William C. C. Claiborne
- Seat
- Port Gibson
- Largest city
- Port Gibson
- Total
- 501 sq mi (1,300 km )
- Land
- 487 sq mi (1,260 km )
- Water
- 14 sq mi (36 km ) 2.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 8,058
- Density
- 18.8/sq mi (7.24/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- ccmsgov.us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- William C. C. Claiborne
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Mississippi
- Contains
- Port Gibson
- Capital
- Port Gibson
- Population
- 9135
- Area
- 1299
- Shares border with
- Warren County
- Official website
- www.ccmsgov.us
- Image
- Claiborne County Courthouse and Confederate monument, Port Gibson, Mississippi 2008.jpg
- Households
- 2900
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- Commons category
- Claiborne County, Mississippi
- topic's main category
- Category:Claiborne County, Mississippi
- inception
- 1802-00-00
- different from
- Claiborne Parish
- water as percent of area
- 2.8
- native label
- Claiborne County
- per capita income
- 17829
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Claiborne County, Mississippi
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Encyclopedic overview
Claiborne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,135. Its county seat is Port Gibson. The county is named after William Claiborne, the second governor of the Mississippi Territory.
Claiborne County is included in the Vicksburg metropolitan area as well as the Jackson, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is bordered by the Mississippi River on the west and the Big Black River on the north.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Claiborne County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.