Town in Mississippi, United States
Monticello is a town in and the
county seat of
Lawrence County ,
Mississippi , United States.
[3] The population was 1,571 at the 2010 census.
[4]
Geography
Monticello is in central Lawrence County, on the west side of the
Pearl River .
U.S. Route 84 runs through the north side of the town on a four-lane bypass. US 84 leads east 15 miles (24 km) to
Prentiss and west 22 miles (35 km) to
Interstate 55 in
Brookhaven .
Mississippi Highway 27 passes through the west side of Monticello, leading north 37 miles (60 km) to
Crystal Springs and south 33 miles (53 km) to
Tylertown .
According to the
United States Census Bureau , the town of Monticello has a total area of 4.2 square miles (11.0 km2 ), of which 4.2 square miles (10.8 km2 ) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2 ), or 2.17%, are water.
[5]
Demographics
As of the
2020 United States census , there were 1,441 people, 640 households, and 350 families residing in the town.
Education
The town of Monticello is served by the
Lawrence County School District . The district is under the supervision of Superintendent Tammy Fairburn, who took office in 2012.
[8]
Notable people
Richard Olney Arrington , justice of the
Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1950-1963
[9]
Erick Dampier ,
NBA
center
Katherine Ettl , sculptor
[10]
Major Everett , former
NFL
running back
Cindy Hyde-Smith ,
United States Senator
[11]
Al Jefferson ,
forward /
center for the NBA
Indiana Pacers
Kendra King ,
Miss Mississippi USA 2006
J. B. Lenoir ,
blues singer
Charles Lynch , 8th and 11th
Governor of Mississippi
[12]
Henry Mayson , former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and attended the 1868 Mississippi Constitutional Convention
[13]
Harvey McGehee , former member of the
Mississippi State Senate and justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
[14] from 1937 to 1964
Jim Pace , professional racing driver
[15]
Rod Paige , former
U.S. Secretary of Education
Neville Patterson , justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1962 to 1986
[16]
Rosalind Peychaud , former member of the
Louisiana House of Representatives
[17]
Hiram Runnels , 9th Governor of Mississippi
[18]
George Washington Russell , member of the
Mississippi House of Representatives 1916 to 1924
[19]
Francis M. Sheppard , former member of the Mississippi State Senate and Mississippi House of Representatives
[20]
Byther Smith ,
blues singer
T. B. Stamps , former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and the
Louisiana State Senate
[21]
William Sutton Sr., former President of
Mississippi Valley State University
[22]
[23]
Matthew Wells ,
American football
linebacker
[24]
See also
References
^
"Town of Monticello, MS" . Town of Monticello. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
^
"2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files" . United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 24, 2022 .
^
"Find a County" . National Association of Counties. Retrieved June 7, 2011 .
^
"Total Population: 2010 Census DEC Summary File 1 (P1), Monticello town, Mississippi" . data.census.gov . U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
^
"U.S. Gazetteer Files: 2019: Places: Mississippi" . U.S. Census Bureau Geography Division . Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
^
"Census of Population and Housing" . Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2015 .
^
"Explore Census Data" . data.census.gov . Retrieved December 17, 2021 .
^
Lawrence County District Superintendent
Archived December 9, 2014, at the
Wayback Machine Retrieved December 4, 2014
^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907).
Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form . Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Department of Archives and History. p. 21.
ISBN
9780871522214 .
^
"Katherine Speed Ettl" . The Northside Sun . Jackson, Mississippi. January 14, 1993. p. 6. Retrieved January 7, 2023 – via
Newspapers.com .
^ Criss, Jack (October 7, 2020).
"Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith" . Delta Business Journal . Retrieved January 7, 2023 .
^
"Lawrence County Mississippi Genealogy & History Network" . Mississippi Genealogy & History Network . Retrieved January 7, 2023 .
^ Riley, Franklin (1910).
Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society . Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi. p. 175.
^
The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi . Jackson, Mississippi: Department of Archives and History. 1917. p. 765.
^
"Jim Pace" . Lawrence County Press . November 24, 2020. Retrieved January 7, 2023 .
^ Payne, Mary Libby (1994).
"The Mississippi Judiciary Commission Revisited: Judicial Administration: An Idea Whose Time Has Come" . Mississippi College Law Review . 14 (2): 426. Retrieved January 7, 2023 .
^
"A Proclamation By Governor Ronnie Musgrove" (PDF) . Mississippi Department of Archives and History . Retrieved January 7, 2023 .
^ Rothman, Joshua D. (2012).
Flush times and fever dreams : a story of capitalism and slavery in the age of Jackson . Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. p. 236.
ISBN
978-0-8203-4466-9 .
OCLC
820011226 .
^ Rowland, Dunbar (1917).
The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 4 . Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Department of Archives and History. p. 851.
^ Rowland, Dunbar (1917).
The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 4 . Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Department of Archives and History. p. 516.
^
"Ex-Senator Stamps - Death of a Colored Man Prominent in Republican Politics" . The Times-Democrat . November 28, 1898. p. 3. Retrieved January 7, 2023 .
^
"Dillard University | the Sutton Legacy" .
^
"Gallery of Presidents" . March 20, 2015.
^
"Matthew Wells" . Hail State . Mississippi State University. Retrieved January 7, 2023 .
External links
Towns Map of Mississippi highlighting Lawrence County
Unincorporated communities Footnotes ‡This community also has portions in adjacent county or counties
International National Geographic Other