Editing Crosby, Mississippi

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|official_name            = Crosby
|settlement_type          = [[Town]]
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|map_caption              = Location of Crosby, Mississippi
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Mississippi
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|subdivision_name         = United States
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|subdivision_name1        = [[Mississippi]]
|subdivision_type2        = [[List of counties in Mississippi|Counties]]
|subdivision_name2        = [[Wilkinson County, Mississippi|Wilkinson]], [[Amite County, Mississippi|Amite]]
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|area_total_km2           = 5.51
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|area_land_sq_mi          = 2.12
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|population_as_of         = [[2020 United States Census|2020]]
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|population_total         = 242
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|population_density_sq_mi = 114.20
|timezone                 = [[North American Central Time Zone|Central (CST)]]
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|postal_code              = 39633
|area_code                = [[Area code 601|601]]
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|blank_info               = 28-16620
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|blank1_info              = 0693015<ref>{{GNIS|0693015}}</ref>
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'''Crosby''' is a town in [[Amite County, Mississippi|Amite]] and [[Wilkinson County, Mississippi|Wilkinson]] counties, [[Mississippi]], United States. It is part of the [[McComb, Mississippi]] [[McComb micropolitan area|micropolitan statistical area]]. Its population was 242 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name=":0" />

==History==
Crosby was originally named Dayton in 1884, as a tribute to landowner David Day, who provided a right-of-way for the [[Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad]] (Y&MV).<ref name="Markers">{{Cite web |last=Mississippi Department of Archives and History |title=Historical Markers in Amite County: Crosby |url=https://www.mississippimarkers.com/amite-county.html |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=mississippimarkers.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name="MSRails">{{Cite web |title=Mississippi Rails{{!}}Foster Creek Lumber & Manufacturing Co. and Crosby Lumber & Manufacturing Co. |url=https://www.msrailroads.com/Foster_Creek.htm |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=www.msrailroads.com}}</ref> In 1900, the population of Dayton was 30.<ref>{{Cite web |editor-last=Rowland |editor-first=Dunbar |editor-link=Mississippi Department of Archives and History |title=Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (Volume I) |url=https://ia801200.us.archive.org/1/items/mississippicompr01rowl/mississippicompr01rowl.pdf |website=archive.org |publisher=Southern Historical Publishing Association |publication-place=Atlanta |publication-date=1907}}</ref>{{rp|637}}

By 1916, the Foster Creek Lumber Company had acquired around {{convert|52000|acre|ha|abbr=on}} of timberland in Wilkinson and Amite Counties, which included Dayton. At that time, two Stephenson brothers from Michigan were building several sawmills in south Mississippi and purchased the Foster Creek Lumber Company landholdings.<ref name="MSRails"/> The Stephenson brothers had a new sawmill constructed as well as a new town that included modern homes, a commissary, and post office near the Y&MV railroad. The old town of Dayton was moved to the new town which was renamed Stephenson.<ref name="Markers"/><ref name="MSRails" /> By July 1917, the sawmill was completed and started processing lumber. Because the Stephenson brothers were most interested in building sawmills rather than operating them, they sold their interest in the Foster Creek Lumber and Manufacturing Company in 1918.<ref name="MSRails"/>

The Foster Creek Lumber Company sawmill at Stephenson continued to operate through the 1920s. Because the company was heavily mortgaged, it was negatively impacted by the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]] in 1929, and the sawmill closed in 1931.<ref name="MSRails" />

In January 1934, [[L.O. Crosby Sr.]], a wealthy, self-made lumberman from [[Picayune, Mississippi]] purchased Foster Creek Lumber and Manufacturing Company including the sawmill, the town of Stephenson, and {{convert|55000|acre|ha|abbr=on}} of timberland.<ref name="MSRails"/> The town of Stephenson was renamed Crosby on April 4, 1934.<ref name="Markers"/><ref name="MSRails"/> L.O. Crosby reactivated the Stephenson sawmill in 1934 under the name Crosby Lumber and Manufacturing Company, and the sawmill continued to operate for another 28 years, shutting down in November 1963.<ref name="MSRails"/>

In 1965, Crosby Lumber and Manufacturing sold its landholdings in the area to St. Regis Paper Company, and the Crosby sawmill was sold to Hood Lumber Company.<ref name="MSRails"/>

==Geography==
Crosby straddles the boundary between [[Amite County, Mississippi|Amite County]] on the north and east and [[Wilkinson County, Mississippi|Wilkinson County]] on the west. In the 2000 census, 258 of the town's 360 residents (71.7%) lived in Wilkinson County and 102 (28.3%) in Amite County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/popest/cities/files/SUB-EST2006_28.csv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071126031220/http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/files/SUB-EST2006_28.csv |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 26, 2007 |title=Subcounty population estimates: Mississippi 2000-2006 |format=[[comma-separated values|CSV]] |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]], Population Division |date=June 28, 2007 |accessdate=July 21, 2007 }}</ref> According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of 2.1&nbsp;square miles (5.5&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), of which 2.1&nbsp;square&nbsp;miles (5.5&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 0.47% is water.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1940= 1489
|1950= 1152
|1960= 705
|1970= 491
|1980= 349
|1990= 465
|2000= 360
|2010= 318
|2020= 242
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+Crosby racial composition as of 2020<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=2020 Race and Population Totals |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2816620&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2 |access-date=December 17, 2021 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
|55
|22.73%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
|175
|72.31%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|10
|4.13%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|2
|0.83%
|}
According to the [[2020 United States census]], there were 242 people, 99 households, and 59 families residing in the town; its racial and ethnic makeup in 2020 was 72.31% Black or African American, 22.73% non-Hispanic white, 4.13% other or mixed, and 0.83% Hispanic or Latino of any race.<ref name=":0" />

==Education==
The town of Crosby is served by two public school districts: [[Amite County School District|Amite County]] and [[Wilkinson County School District (Mississippi)|Wilkinson County]] (for the Wilkinson County portion).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28005_amite/DC20SD_C28005.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Amite County, MS|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=April 25, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28157_wilkinson/DC20SD_C28157.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Wilkinson County, MS|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=April 25, 2022}}</ref>

Both counties are in the district of [[Southwest Mississippi Community College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smcc.edu/about/welcome-from-the-president/|title=Welcome from the President|publisher=[[Southwest Mississippi Community College]]|access-date=2024-09-27}}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Boyd Brown (American football)|Boyd Brown]], former [[tight end]] for the [[Denver Broncos]] and [[New York Giants]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Reed |first1=Carlee |title=Boyd Brown Jr. |url=https://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2014/12/26/boyd-brown-jr/ |accessdate=May 18, 2020 |agency=The Natchez Democrat |date=December 26, 2014}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130622111014/http://townofcrosby.com/ Town of Crosby official website]

{{Amite County, Mississippi}}
{{Wilkinson County, Mississippi}}

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[[Category:Towns in Amite County, Mississippi]]
[[Category:Towns in Wilkinson County, Mississippi]]
[[Category:Towns in Mississippi]]
[[Category:Towns in McComb micropolitan area]]