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Clarksdale
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city in and the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States of America
Clarksdale is a city in Mississippi that serves as the county seat of Coahoma County, meaning it's the main city where the county government is based. It's located in the northern part of the state in the United States.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Clarksdale
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Coahoma County
- Population
- 14903
- Area
- 0.017529
- Elevation
- 53
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Coahoma County
- Shares border with
- Tunica
- Official website
- www.cityofclarksdale.org
- Image
- Delta Blues Museum.jpg
- Households
- 5709
- Dialing code
- 662
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- inception
- 1848-00-00
- Commons category
- Clarksdale, Mississippi
- topic's main category
- Category:Clarksdale, Mississippi
- category for people born here
- Q32649850
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Clarksdale, Mississippi
- P8168
- Louboutins
- water as percent of area
- 0.0462
- different from
- Clarksdale
- postal code
- 38614
- per capita income
- 17919
- P12749
- Czech alphabet
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Encyclopedic overview
Clarksdale is a city in and the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, Clarksdale had a population of 14,903. It is located along the Sunflower River and named after John Clark, a settler who founded the city in the mid-19th century when he established a timber mill and business. Clarksdale is in the Mississippi Delta region and is an agricultural and trading center. Many African American musicians developed the blues here and took this original American music with them to Chicago and other northern cities during the Great Migration.
The Clarksdale Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Coahoma County. It’s located in the Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi. In 2023, the Clarksdale, Mississippi Micropolitan area was added to form the new Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City Combined Statistical Area. The Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City Combined Statistical Area has around 1.4 million people. The western boundary of the county is formed by the Mississippi River.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clarksdale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.