Forrest County
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county in Mississippi, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Mississippi
- Named after
- Nathan B. Forrest
- Seat
- Hattiesburg
- Largest city
- Hattiesburg
- Total
- 470 sq mi (1,200 km )
- Land
- 466 sq mi (1,210 km )
- Water
- 3.9 sq mi (10 km ) 0.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 79,034
- Density
- 168/sq mi (64.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- forrestcountyms .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Mississippi
- Contains
- Hattiesburg
- Capital
- Hattiesburg
- Population
- 78158
- Area
- 1218
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Jones County
- Official website
- www.co.forrest.ms.us
- Image
- Hattiesburg Courthouse and Confederate Monument.jpg
- Households
- 28116
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- Commons category
- Forrest County, Mississippi
- topic's main category
- Category:Forrest County, Mississippi
- different from
- Forest County
- inception
- 1908-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Forrest County, Mississippi
- water as percent of area
- 0.8
- native label
- Forrest County
- per capita income
- 23590
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Encyclopedic overview
Forrest County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 78,158. Its county seat and largest city is Hattiesburg. The county was created from Perry County in 1908 and named in honor of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general in the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Forrest County is part of the Hattiesburg, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Forrest County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.