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Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary. The state of Mississippi is entirely composed of lowlands, the highest point being Woodall Mountain, in the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains, only 806 feet above sea level. The lowest point is sea level at the Gulf coast.

Mississippi has a hot humid subtropical climate with long summers and short, mild winters. The temperature varies little statewide in the summer, but in winter the region near Mississippi Sound is significantly warmer. In the late summer and the fall, the state is often affected by hurricanes moving north from the Gulf of Mexico, and occasionally impacted by major hurricanes. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused significant damage to coastal Mississippi, around the areas of Gulfport, Biloxi, and Pascagoula.

Tourism is of increasing importance to the state’s economy. Parks, reservoirs, the Gulf Coast, and historic sites draw many visitors. In the early 1990s legalized gambling along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast increased the state’s attraction as a tourist destination. A 2007 real estate survey has estimated the population of Mississippi at 2,918,785.

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Biloxi is located in southeastern Mississippi, in Harrison County, on a peninsula extending into the Gulf of Mexico. It is a year-round resort and a major fishing center, shrimp and oysters being the principal catch. Manufactures include boats and fishing gear. Keesler Air Force Base is nearby.

Brandon

Bill Watkins

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Columbus is located in eastern Mississippi, on the Tombigbee River, near the Alabama border. Among the city's manufactures are motors, furniture, bathroom accessories, clothing, paper, and construction materials.

Desoto County

Diane Tippitt Pettis

E-mail: actionra@mem.quik.com

Gulfport click here

Gulfport is located in southeastern Mississippi, a deepwater port on the Gulf of Mexico. Manufactures include forest products, processed cotton and seafood, metal goods, and chemicals. The city is also a tourist resort, with numerous inlets and bayous and extensive constructed beaches.

Hernando

Michael Hawks

E-mail: HawksInvest@msn.com

Jackson click here

Jackson is located on the Pearl River, parts of the city are also in Rankin and Madison counties. Jackson is a telecommunications, government, commercial, manufacturing, and distribution center; products include electrical equipment and machinery, processed food, and primary and fabricated metal products.

Madison

Bill Watkins

Ocean Springs

David Harvey

E-mail: harveyjoachim@cableone.net

Olive Branch

Sandra Gill

E-mail: sgill@crye-Leike.com

Picayune

Margaret Woodson

E-mail: mwoodson@datastar.net

Southaven

Ricky Lewis

E-mail: rickylewis@crye-leike.com

More about Mississippi

Crops provided 32 percent of farm income in Mississippi in the 1999. Cotton and soybeans are the leading crops. Mississippi is the fourth most important producer of cotton in the country, behind Texas, California, and Georgia. Although cotton is produced in many areas of the state, most of it is grown in the Delta, where flatlands make mechanical harvesting easier.

Acreage in cotton has declined under government acreage controls, but improved farming methods have increased the yield. Large areas once devoted to cotton now go into other crops, principally soybeans. Soybeans are also often rotated with cotton on the same acres. By the late 1990s soybeans brought in three-fourths as much income as cotton. Mississippi ranks fifth in the nation for the income produced by its rice crop. Corn is raised throughout the state as a feed crop, and its yield too has increased as acreage declined, thanks to new hybrids and better cultivation. Other crops are sweet potatoes, pecans, sorghum grain, hay, and wheat.

Livestock and livestock products provided 68 percent of farm income in the state in the 1999. Cattle raising and poultry farming are major sources of income in southern and eastern Mississippi. Large areas of abandoned cotton land, ruined by erosion or boll weevil infestation, are used for cattle. Milk production has increased as the quality of dairy herds has risen. In the late 1990s, broilers were the leading source of livestock income. Mississippi is among the leading states in commercial broiler production. Poultry farming is particularly important in south-central Mississippi. Large numbers of eggs and some hogs are also produced.

Shrimps, oysters, and menhaden are the most important products of Mississippi’s offshore fishing industry, which produced $49 million for the state’s economy in 1999. Biloxi is a major center for both the shrimp and oyster fishing industries. Menhaden account for much of the annual catch, by quantity and value. Menhaden are used in making livestock feed, fertilizer, and other products. Pascagoula is a leading United States menhaden port and processing center. With nearly 40,000 hectares (100,000 acres) of catfish ponds, Mississippi is the leader among the states in the production of freshwater catfish on farms. In 1998 growers earned $307 million, or five times as much income from catfish as the next productive state, Alabama. Catfish farming is centered in Humphreys County in the Delta. In 1998 Mississippi produced more than one-half of farm-raised catfish in the United States. In areas otherwise not suitable for agriculture, Mississippi has made catfish farming the state’s fastest growing industry.

The state’s forests are a source of vast quantities of lumber and pulpwood. The longleaf pine is the principal commercial tree in the densely forested sections of southern Mississippi. Farther north the longleaf pine is gradually replaced by loblolly, slash, and shortleaf pines and by hardwoods, such as oaks, hickories, and tulip trees.

Millions of acres of private and national forest land have been reforested since the 1930s and are being managed as pine plantations. The pine plantations of Mississippi produce large quantities of pulpwood, as well as pine lumber. Naval stores, including turpentine, rosin, tar, and pitch, are also produced.

Crude oil and natural gas account for four-fifths of all mineral output, by value, in Mississippi. There are many small oil fields scattered across southern Mississippi. Natural gas production is also concentrated in the south. Most of the petroleum is refined elsewhere, but there are several refineries in the state. Other minerals produced include sand and gravel, portland cement, clays, and crushed stone.

In the late 1990s Mississippi was home to a well-diversified manufacturing sector. Food processors generated the most income for the state, particularly those engaged in processing poultry and eggs, making baked goods, preparing seafood, and meat packing. The production of chemicals and synthetics, such as drugs, agricultural fertilizers, and plastics, likewise contributed significantly to the economy. Lumber and wood products, including the processes of milling, crafting hardwoods, and making plywood, was another important industry. Other large industries were the makers of machinery, such as engines and turbines, refrigeration and heating equipment, and farm and garden tools; manufacturers of transportation equipment, including shipyards producing United States Navy, merchant marine, and commercial vessels; and the makers of upholstered, wood, and metal furniture, the industry that employed the most workers in the state. Other major industries in Mississippi are apparel manufacturers and textile mills, paper mills, electrical equipment manufacturers, rubber processors, and firms making primary metal products, such as structural supports used in construction.

Many industries have moved to Mississippi from the Northeast because of tax advantages, a large labor supply, weak unions and restrictions on organizing unions, and nearness to raw materials such as cotton.

Thermal plants burning coal, oil, or natural gas for fuel produced 70 percent of the electricity in Mississippi in 1999. The state’s sole nuclear plant in Grand Gulf generated the remaining 24 percent. Electricity is supplied by private utility companies and by rural electric power associations and municipalities. About half of the associations and the municipalities in the north and east parts of the state buy power from the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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