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University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. UMMC, also referred to as the Medical Center, is the state's only academic medical center .
Jackson, MS: City of Jackson, 1977. LCCN 77-081145. External links. Jackson, MS Mayor's Office - official website This page was last edited on 4 December 2022, at 10: ...
The Ross Barnett Reservoir, often called the Rez, is a reservoir of the Pearl River between Madison and Rankin counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The 33,000-acre (130 km 2 ) lake serves as the state's largest drinking water resource, and is managed by the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District .
Walter Ross Wade (1810–1862) was an American physician and planter in the Antebellum South. He owned the Rosswood Plantation, a cotton plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi. His diary was published posthumously.
Brierfield Plantation. Davis Bend. 32°09′12″N 91°07′15″W / . 32.15320°N 91.12094°W. / 32.15320; -91.12094 ( Brierfield) Warren. Built 1847 by Jefferson Davis adjacent to his older brother's Hurricane Plantation; destroyed by fire in 1931. [citation needed] 83000949. Cherry Grove Plantation.
The 1979 Easter flood was one of the most costly and devastating floods to ever occur in Mississippi, United States, with $500–700 million in damages ($2.1 billion in 2020 dollars). [2] [3] It was the result of the Pearl River being overwhelmed by severe rain upstream.
Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport (IATA: JAN, ICAO: KJAN, FAA LID: JAN) is a city-owned civil-military airport located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Downtown Jackson across the Pearl River.
The Jackson Public School District (JPSD) or Jackson Public Schools (JPS) is a public school district serving the majority of Jackson, the state capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Mississippi. Established in 1888, it is the second largest and only urban school district in the state.
Jackson, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the central region of the U.S. state of Mississippi that covers seven counties: Copiah, Hinds, Holmes, Madison, Rankin, Simpson, and Yazoo. As of the 2010 census, the Jackson MSA had a population of 586,320.
Pearl River Valley Water Supply District. The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District (PRVWSD) is a governing entity within the state of Mississippi tasked to manage a portion of the Pearl River basin, including the Ross Barnett Reservoir area, and its watersheds.