Yazoo City, Mississippi

Yazoo City is a city in Mississippi. It is the county seat of Yazoo County, Mississippi. The population in 2020 was 10,316. Yazoo city was named after the Yazoo River, which was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682. He named it after the Yazoo tribe who lived nearby.Susan Puckett, Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler's Journey Through the Soul of the South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013), p. 233

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Category:Cities in Mississippi
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