Issaquena County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,406, making it the least populous county in the United States east of the Mississippi River. Its county seat is Mayersville. With a per-capita income of $18,598, Issaquena County is, by that measure, the poorest county in the United States.
Mayersville is a town on the east bank of the Mississippi River, and the county seat for Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States. It is located in the Mississippi Delta region, known for cotton cultivation in the antebellum era. Once the trading center for the county, the town was superseded when railroads were built into the area. The population of the majority-black town was 547 at the 2010 census, down from 795 at the 2000 census.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps, known informally as the NOAA Corps, is one of eight federal uniformed services of the United States, and operates under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a scientific agency overseen by the Department of Commerce. The NOAA Corps is made up of scientifically and technically trained officers. The NOAA Corps and the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps are the only U.S. uniformed services that consist only of commissioned officers, with no enlisted or warrant officer ranks. The NOAA Corps' primary mission is to monitor oceanic conditions, support major waterways, and monitor atmospheric conditions.
Money is an unincorporated Mississippi Delta community near Greenwood in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States. It has fewer than 100 residents, down from 400 in the early 1950s when a cotton mill operated there. Money is located on a railroad line along the Tallahatchie River, a tributary of the Yazoo River in the eastern part of the Mississippi Delta. The community has ZIP code 38945 in the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area.
Jean de Suarez d'Aulan was a French aviator, auto racer, bobsledder, businessman and soldier.
Valley Park is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States. Its elevation is 95 feet. Although unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 39177.
The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, known from 1807 to 1836 as the Survey of the Coast and from 1836 until 1878 as the United States Coast Survey, was the first scientific agency of the United States Government. It existed from 1807 to 1970, and throughout its history was responsible for mapping and charting the coast of the United States, and later the coasts of U.S. territories. In 1871, it gained the additional responsibility of surveying the interior of the United States and geodesy became a more important part of its work, leading to it being renamed the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1878.
Fitler is an unincorporated community in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States. Fitler is located on Mississippi Highway 1, approximately six miles west of Onward. Fitler had a post office from about 1901 to 1976.
Grace is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States. It is located several miles northeast of Mayersville.
The first USC&GSS Pathfinder, also noted in some NOAA histories as "old Pathfinder", was a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ship in service from 1899 to 1941, when she was beached in sinking condition on January 30, 1942, after 40 years service in the Philippines.
USC&GS A. D. Bache (1871–1900), the second steamer of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, was named for the former superintendent Alexander Dallas Bache and launched August 1871 at Wilmington, Delaware.
Bolivar is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.
Baleshed is a ghost town in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States. Baleshed was located on the Mississippi River.
Arcadia is a ghost town in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States.
Ben Lomond is a ghost town in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States.
Chotard is an unincorporated community in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States.
Eutaw is a ghost town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. The settlement had a port on the Mississippi River called "Eutaw Landing."
Duncansby is a ghost town in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States.
Magna Vista is a ghost town in Issaquena County, Mississippi.
Riverton is a ghost town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.
