Pickens

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Pickens

Total population

969

Weather90°F · Partly Sunny

Coordinates32.89°, -89.97°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Pickens is a town in Holmes County, Mississippi, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 920.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Current forecast

Forecast for Pickens, MS from NOAA NWS API.

Health (adults)

Age-adjusted prevalence estimates from CDC PLACES (latest release).

Schools

Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).

Notable people from here

E

Elmore James

American blues musician (1918–1963)

G

Gus Courts

American activist (1887–1969)

Odas Nicholson

American lawyer and judge

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Pickens

Fort Pickens, 1821-1895

Edwin C. Bearss · 1983

The John F. Johnson journal of 1902

John F. Johnson · 1984

Rural industrialization

John Calvin Crecink · 1970

Passing in the works of Charles W. Chesnutt

Susan Prothro Wright · 2010

Nance's ferry

James R. Atkinson · 1978

Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt

Susan Prothro Wright · 2012

Faulkner and history

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (41st 2014 University of Mississippi) · 2017

We dissent

Hoke Norris · 1962

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