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Webster County
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county in Mississippi, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Mississippi
- Named after
- Daniel Webster
- Seat
- Walthall
- Largest city
- Eupora
- Total
- 423 sq mi (1,100 km )
- Land
- 421 sq mi (1,090 km )
- Water
- 2.3 sq mi (6.0 km ) 0.5%
- Estimate 2025
- 10,167
- Density
- 23.6/sq mi (9.10/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
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Encyclopedic overview
Webster County is a county located in center of the U.S. state of Mississippi, bordered on the south by the Big Black River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,926.
The county was organized in 1874 during the Reconstruction era; the biracial legislature named it after Massachusetts statesman Daniel Webster. Its county seat is Walthall, designated in 1876.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Webster County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.