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- Toyota will change landscape, not overnight
BY EMILY LE COZ Daily Journal TUPELO - Toyota's arrival in a community can change an entire landscape - new construction and growth, population shifts and traffic routes - but the speed and shape it will take ...
- Districts mull upgrades ahead of Automotive Era
BY MICHAELA GIBSON MORRIS Daily Journal New Albany ninth-grader Knox Butler has spent the first semester this year learning to create in three dimensions.
- Lanier High now a JPS shining star
Lanier High School has gone from being the lowest-performing high school in Jackson five years ago to being one of the district's best.
- Veterans Day: A lifetime of memories and action
The bitter cold, early morning hours of Nov. 20, 1944, are still painfully crisp in Fielding Tucker's mind.
- Demolish city's condemned buildings
There are over 50 abandoned buildings and properties in Georgetown, which pose health and safety problems to the public, unlike signs and American flags, which do not.
- Operation Shoestring: 40 years of helping, needs keep growing
In challenging economic times, Mississippians like Jackson resident Altheia Tribble turn to organizations like Operation Shoestring, a program born in 1968 in the back of Wells United Methodist Church to ...
- Area counties, utility companies prepare for Gustav arrival
Yes No Communities and utility services in Southwest Mississippi are increasing their level of alert as Tropical Storm Gustav slowly treks toward the Gulf of Mexico.
- Southern Miss students to provide nutrition education through South Mississippi Agencies
Recipients of food products from Mississippi Food Network agencies across South Mississippi will also receive vital nutrition information from University of Southern Mississippi students.
- National Night Out get-togethers set
Residents of area neighborhoods will band together against crime Tuesday during National Night Out celebrations.
- Japanese minister tapped to lead outreach effort to Toyota workers
BY GALEN HOLLEY Daily Journal TUPELO - With Toyota's new plant rising near Blue Springs and Japanese suppliers locating elsewhere in the region, United Methodists are making plans for a Japanese church in ...
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City DescriptionGeorgetown is a town in Copiah County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 344 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Georgetown is located at 31°52′16″N 90°9′51″W / 31.87111, -90.16417 (31.871058, -90.164186).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8 km²), of which, 0.7 square miles (1.7 km²) of it is land and 1.47% is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 344 people, 135 households, and 88 families residing in the town. The population density was 513.2 people per square mile (198.2/km²). There were 152 housing units at an average density of 226.8/sq mi (87.6/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 68.02% White, 29.94% African American, 0.87% from other races, and 1.16% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.74% of the population.
There were 135 households out of which 34.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.7% were married couples living together, 19.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.1% were non-families. 33.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.4% had someone living alone who was 65 ... Read MoreCity Contained By:Timezones:Size:
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