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Website. cityofamoryms .com. Amory / ˈeɪ.mər.i / is a city in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 6,666 at the 2020 census, down from 7,316 in 2010. Located in the northeastern part of the state near the Alabama border, it was founded in 1887 as a railroad town by the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad.
On March 24, 2023, a severe weather and tornado outbreak began across portions of the lower Mississippi River Valley in the United States. A slow-moving trough moved eastward across the United States and interacted with a moist and unstable airmass originating from the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in widespread heavy rainfall, severe thunderstorms, and significant tornadoes over a four-day period.
Cotton Gin Port was the first town settled by Europeans in what became north Mississippi. It was developed on the east bank of the Tombigbee River, at a crossing of vital Indian trails. This had been a base of expeditions of French explorers Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville in 1736 and Vaudreuil in 1752. After the United States acquired the ...
Monroe County, Mississippi. Former Monroe County Courthouse in Aberdeen. / 33.89°N 88.49°W / 33.89; -88.49. Monroe County is a county on the northeast border of the U.S. state of Mississippi next to Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 34,180. [1] Its county seat is Aberdeen. [2]
There were a total of 1,892 students enrolled in the Amory School District during the 2006–2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 50% female and 50% male. The racial makeup of the district was 35.41% African American, 63.74% White, 0.53% Hispanic, and 0.32% Asian. [4] 45.4% of the district's students were eligible to receive ...
The Amory Lock is located in the city of Amory, Mississippi, and the waterway forms the west and north boundary of the city. Mississippi Highway 6 crosses the waterway at an overpass south of the Amory Lock. The Amory Lock is located at mile 371.1 on the waterway, representing the navigational distance from the southern end of the waterway at ...
The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. The region has been called "The Most Southern Place on Earth" [1] ("Southern" in the sense of ...
English: This is a locator map showing Monroe County in Mississippi. For more information, see Commons: ... Amory, Mississippi; Athens, Mississippi; Becker ...