Panola County
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county in Mississippi, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Mississippi
- Founded
- February 9, 1836
- Named after
- name of Cotton in the Choctaw language
- Seat
- Batesville and Sardis
- Largest city
- Batesville
- Total
- 705 sq mi (1,830 km )
- Land
- 685 sq mi (1,770 km )
- Water
- 20 sq mi (52 km ) 2.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 32,691
- Density
- 48.5/sq mi (18.7/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- www .panolacoms .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- cotton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Mississippi
- Contains
- Batesville
- Capital
- Batesville
- Population
- 33208
- Area
- 1826
- Shares border with
- Quitman County
- Official website
- www.panolacoms.com
- Image
- Batesville MS 013.jpg
- Households
- 12354
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- Commons category
- Panola County, Mississippi
- topic's main category
- Category:Panola County, Mississippi
- inception
- 1836-02-09
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Panola County, Mississippi
- different from
- Panola County
- water as percent of area
- 2.8
- native label
- Panola County
- per capita income
- 22357
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Encyclopedic overview
Panola County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,208. Its county seats are Sardis and Batesville. The county is located just east of the Mississippi Delta in the northern part of the state. It is bisected by the Tallahatchie River flowing to the southwest; travel difficulties because of the river resulted in two county seats being established.
Panola is the anglicization of ponolo, a word meaning "thread" in both old Choctaw and Chickasaw and "cotton" in modern Choctaw. This was one of twelve large counties organized from the Chickasaw Cession of 1832.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Panola County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.