Editing Yazoo County, Mississippi (section)

==History==
The area which is now Yazoo County was acquired by the State of Mississippi from the [[Choctaw]] Indians in 1820. Yazoo County was established on January 21, 1823. It was the 19th county established in the State of Mississippi and remains the largest in area. It was developed for cotton plantations, which lined the major river to have transportation access.

The first county seat was at [[Beatties Bluff, Mississippi|Beatties Bluff]]. As population increased, In 1829 the county seat was moved to [[Benton, Mississippi|Benton]]. In 1849 the county seat was moved again, to [[Yazoo City, Mississippi|Yazoo City]], where it remains.

Yazoo County was a battlefield in 1863 and 1864 during the [[American Civil War]]. After the war, whites committed violence against freedmen to assert their dominance. Such violence continued after Reconstruction. In the period from 1877 to 1950, Yazoo County had 18 documented [[Lynching in the United States|lynchings of African Americans]].<ref name="eji">[https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-summary.pdf ''Lynching in America'', 3rd edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023063004/https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-summary.pdf |date=October 23, 2017}}, Supplement by County, p. 6</ref> Most occurred around the turn of the 20th century, as part of white imposition of [[Jim Crow]] conditions and suppression of black voting.

In 1900 a railroad disaster killed engineer [[Casey Jones]]; it took place in Yazoo County just north of [[Vaughan, Mississippi|Vaughan]]. The [[Great Mississippi Flood of 1927]] did much damage in Yazoo County.

It experienced two accidents relating to [[carbon dioxide]] [[pipeline]]s owned by [[Denbury Resources]]. In 2011, a pipeline had a "blowout" in [[Tinsley, Mississippi]], causing the sickening of one worker and killing deer, fish and birds.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Zegart |first=Dan |date=August 26, 2021 |title=Gassing Satartia: How A CO2 Pipeline Explosion Affected This Mississippi Town |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gassing-satartia-mississippi-co2-pipeline_n_60ddea9fe4b0ddef8b0ddc8f |access-date=February 12, 2024 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref> In 2020, a pipeline ruptured less than half a mile from [[Satartia]]. More than 300 people were evacuated and 46 hospitalized with carbon dioxide poisoning.<ref>{{cite news |author=China Lee |date=February 23, 2020 |title=Evacuated families allowed back home after large gas leak in Yazoo Co |url=https://www.wlbt.com/2020/02/23/several-agencies-scene-major-gas-leak-yazoo-co/ |publisher=[[WLBT]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Sanya Mansour |date=February 23, 2020 |title=Hundreds Evacuated, Dozens Hospitalized After Gas Pipe Rupture in Mississippi |url=https://time.com/5789425/pipe-rupture-mississipi/ |work=[[Time magazine|Time]]}}</ref><ref name=":02"/>