Editing Leflore County, Mississippi

{{short description|County in Mississippi, United States}}
{{Redirect-distinguish|Leflore County|LeFlore County, Oklahoma}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox U.S. county
 | county               = Leflore County
 | state                = Mississippi
 | ex image             = COTTON ROW HISTORIC DISTRICT, LEFLORE COUNTY, MS.jpg
 | ex image cap         = Leflore County Courthouse
 | seal                 = 
 | founded              = 1871
 | seat wl              = Greenwood
 | largest city wl      = Greenwood
 | area_total_sq_mi     = 606
 | area_land_sq_mi      = 593
 | area_water_sq_mi     = 14
 | area percentage      = 2.3
 | population_as_of     = 2020
 | population_total     = 28339
 | pop_est_as_of        = 
 | population_est       = 
 | population_density_sq_mi = auto
 | web                  = http://www.leflorecounty.net/
 | district             = 2nd
 | time zone            = Central
 | named for            = [[Greenwood LeFlore]]
}}

'''Leflore County''' is a [[County (United States)|county]] located in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Mississippi]]. As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], the population was 28,339.<ref>{{cite web|title=Census - Geography Profile: Leflore County, Mississippi|url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Leflore_County,_Mississippi?g=0500000US28083|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=January 14, 2023}}</ref> The [[county seat]] is [[Greenwood, Mississippi|Greenwood]].<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx|access-date=June 7, 2011|title=Find a County|publisher=National Association of Counties}}</ref> The county is named for [[Choctaw]] leader [[Greenwood LeFlore]], who signed a treaty to cede his people's land to the United States in exchange for land in [[Indian Territory]]. LeFlore stayed in Mississippi, settling on land reserved for him in [[Tallahatchie County]].

Leflore County is part of the Greenwood, MS [[Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area|Micropolitan Statistical Area]]. It is located in the [[Mississippi Delta]] region, with its southern border formed by the [[Yazoo River]]. Its riverfront lands were developed before the Civil War as cotton plantations. More inland areas were developed in the later 19th century.

Leflore County, which is still largely rural, is noted for having the highest level of [[child poverty]] of any county in the United States. Mechanization of agriculture reduced jobs available for many workers in the 20th century, and there are few opportunities.<ref>{{cite web | title = Table 1: 2011 Poverty and Median Income Estimates - Counties | work = Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates | publisher = U.S. Census Bureau | date = 2011 | url = https://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/downloads/estmod11/est11ALL.xls | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131010134222/http://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/downloads/estmod11/est11ALL.xls | archive-date = October 10, 2013 }}</ref> The population has declined dramatically since its peak in 1930 as people continue to leave for opportunities elsewhere.

==History==
Leflore County was formed in 1871 during the [[Reconstruction era (United States)|Reconstruction era]] from portions of [[Carroll County, Mississippi|Carroll]], [[Sunflower County|Sunflower]] and [[Tallahatchie County|Tallahatchie]] counties. It was named for [[Greenwood LeFlore]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Gannett|first=Henry|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|year=1905|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n183 184]}}</ref> a [[Choctaw people|Choctaw]] chief. During the period of [[Indian Removal]] in the 1830s, he was one of the chiefs who signed the [[Treaty of Dancing Creek]] of 1830, by the terms of which the Choctaw sold to the US their remaining lands east of the [[Mississippi River]]. Most Choctaw migrated to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), but Leflore and some others remained in Mississippi. He became a state and US citizen, a planter who owned African-American slaves, and at times served as a politician.

Following the American Civil War, during Reconstruction the majority-black population of [[freedmen]] in the county gained emancipation and suffrage, participating for the first time in formal politics. They supported the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], as President [[Abraham Lincoln]] had gained their freedom. In the mid-1870s, the [[Red Shirts (Southern United States)|Red Shirts]], a white [[paramilitary]] organization working on behalf of the Democratic Party, developed chapters in Mississippi. They worked to disrupt Republican meetings, suppress the black vote, and turn Republicans out of office so that white Democrats could regain control of the state legislature.

One particular act of mass violence stands out: In September 1889, organizing by the [[Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union|Colored Farmers' Alliance]] sparked false rumors of an impending Black "uprising." Mississippi Governor [[Robert Lowry (governor)|Robert Lowry]] ordered the state militia to Leflore County. Militia troops killed an estimated 25 Black people.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Holmes |first1=William F. |title=The Leflore County Massacre and the Demise of the Colored Farmers' Alliance |journal=Phylon |date=1973 |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=267–274 |doi=10.2307/274185 |jstor=274185 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/274185 |access-date=February 22, 2022 |issn=0031-8906}}</ref>

In the period from 1877 to 1950, Leflore County had 48 documented [[Lynching in the United States|lynchings of African Americans]], by far the highest number in the state and third highest in the United States.<ref name="eji">{{cite web |title=Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror |url=https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ |publisher=Equal Justice Initiative |access-date=February 22, 2022}}</ref> Most occurred around the turn of the 20th century, as part of white imposition of [[Jim Crow]] conditions and suppression of black voting. Mississippi had more lynchings than any other state and used violence as a means to terrorize and retain control the African-American population. In 1890 the state legislature passed a new constitution that had a variety of devices to [[Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era|disenfranchise blacks]]; they developed ways around court cases that tried to dismantle these, and kept blacks excluded from the political system and racially segregated into the 1960s.

===20th century to present===

In the first half of the 20th century, many blacks left rural counties such as Leflore, in the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] to northern and midwestern industrial cities to escape racial violence, and in search of jobs and education: many people went north by train to [[Chicago]], taking their music with them and changing the big city forever. Many more people left Mississippi from 1940 to 1970, often migrating to the West Coast for defense industry jobs.

As with other parts of the majority-black Delta, Leflore County was a major site of activism and white violence during the [[Civil Rights Movement]]. In 1955, the events leading up to the [[lynching]] of 14-year-old [[Emmett Till]] unfolded in the unincorporated community of [[Money, Mississippi]]. Till, a teenage [[African-American]], was visiting from [[Chicago]] and staying with relatives in Money, where Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market was located. Here Till encountered Carolyn Bryant, who later said that he had behaved flirtatiously toward her. Bryant's husband, [[Roy Bryant]], and another white man, [[J.W. Milam]], abducted Till later that evening. They beat and tortured him at several locations in Leflore and neighboring counties before shooting him and dumping his body in the river in [[Tallahatchie County, Mississippi]]. Bryant and Milam were acquitted by an [[all-white jury]] of Till's murder at the Tallahatchie County Courthouse, in [[Sumner, Mississippi]].

During a 2007 interview, not made public until 2017, Carolyn Bryant had disclosed that she had fabricated her testimony about Till's actions.<ref>{{cite news|title=Carolyn Bryant Admits To Lying On Emmett Till... 62 Years Later!!!|url=http://www.vanndigital.com/carolyn-bryant-admits-lying-emmett-till-62-years-later/|work=VannDigital|access-date=January 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Guardian|title=Woman at center of Emmett Till case tells author she fabricated testimony |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/emmett-till-book-carolyn-bryant-confession|date=January 27, 2017|last=Carroll|first=Rory|access-date=January 28, 2017}}</ref>

In 1963, the county had more than 13,000 blacks of legal voting age, but fewer than 270 were registered because of discrimination and suppression by whites. Blacks had been essentially [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disfranchised]] since implementation of Mississippi's new constitution in 1890, establishing [[poll tax (United States)|poll taxes]], [[literacy tests]] and other voter registration barriers. Meanwhile, 95% of eligible white voters were registered.<ref name=hend>{{cite book | last = Hendrickson | first = Paul | author-link = Paul Hendrickson | title = Sons of Mississippi | publisher = [[Alfred A. Knopf]] | year = 2003 | place = New York | isbn = 0-375-40461-9 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/sonsofmississipp00paul }}</ref>

The [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] had moved its headquarters to Greenwood in early 1963, and by late March of that year, eight SNCC members were arrested while trying to register voters. The [[United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division]] filed suit against the city of Greenwood and Leflore County to obtain their release. The petition was denied by a local court, but the city of Greenwood entered into a voluntary agreement to release the students. In June 1963, 45 residents of [[Itta Bena, Mississippi|Itta Bena]] were arrested in Leflore County while protesting an attack on churches where voter registration drives were being held. The Civil Rights Division of DOJ filed suit against the county to obtain their release as well, but to no avail.<ref>{{cite journal | title = The Work of the Civil Rights Division in Enforcing Voting Rights Under the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 | author = John Doar | author-link = John Doar | journal = Florida State University Law Review | volume = 25 | issue = 1 | year = 1997}}  [http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/251/doar.pdf (available online)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316134849/http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/251/doar.pdf |date=March 16, 2012 }}</ref> Passage of national civil rights legislation by Congress in 1964 and 1965 began to change the ground rules, especially as it authorized federal oversight and enforcement in counties with a history of an under-representation of minority voters.

Organizers and marchers returned to the county in 1966 as part of the [[March Against Fear]], initiated by [[James Meredith]]. He was shot and wounded by a white man two days into the march. Major civil rights leaders and marchers from a variety of organizations vowed to continue his march of more than 220 miles from [[Memphis, Tennessee]] to [[Jackson, Mississippi]]. By the time they reached Greenwood, several hundred persons were in the group. They worked to organize and register voters, as most blacks in the county still lived in fear and had not registered. After previous registration drives, the white county board had cut off federal commodity subsidies to the black community, threatening the survival of numerous poor families. SNCC helped organize a national gathering of food for county residents to overcome the boycott.

In 1966, [[Stokley Carmichael]], a new leader of SNCC, spoke in Greenwood for "Black Power", saying that blacks had to build their own bases of political and economic power, as had communities of Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants to the United States.

==Blues musicians==
[[L.C. Green]] was one of several notable blues guitarists who came from Leflore County, Mississippi. Other notable natives and one-time residents of the county were (in alphabetical order) [[David "Honeyboy" Edwards]], [[Guitar Slim]], [[Richard "Hacksaw" Harney]], [[Luther Johnson (Guitar Junior)]], [[Robert Johnson]], [[Rubin Lacey]], [[Furry Lewis]], [[Tommy McClennan]], [[Dion Payton]], [[Robert Petway]], [[Brewer Phillips]], [[Fenton Robinson]], [[Hubert Sumlin]], and [[Hound Dog Taylor]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/furry-lewis |title=Furry Lewis |website=Msbluestrail.org |access-date=March 8, 2017}}</ref>

==Geography==
According to the [[U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|606|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|593|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|14|sqmi}} (2.3%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_28.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=November 6, 2014|date=August 22, 2012|title=2010 Census Gazetteer Files|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928074019/http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_28.txt|archive-date=September 28, 2013}}</ref>

===Major highways===
* [[File:US 49.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 49E]]
* [[File:US 82.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 82]]
* [[File:Circle sign 7.svg|20px]] [[Mississippi Highway 7]]
* [[File:Circle sign 8.svg|20px]] [[Mississippi Highway 8]]

===Adjacent counties===
* [[Tallahatchie County, Mississippi|Tallahatchie County]] (north)
* [[Grenada County, Mississippi|Grenada County]] (northeast)
* [[Carroll County, Mississippi|Carroll County]] (east)
* [[Holmes County, Mississippi|Holmes County]] (southeast)
* [[Humphreys County, Mississippi|Humphreys County]] (southwest)
* [[Sunflower County, Mississippi|Sunflower County]] (west)

===National protected area===
* [[Mathews Brake National Wildlife Refuge]]
* [[Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge]] (part)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1880= 10246
|1890= 16869
|1900= 23834
|1910= 36290
|1920= 37256
|1930= 53506
|1940= 53406
|1950= 51813
|1960= 47142
|1970= 42111
|1980= 41525
|1990= 37341
|2000= 37947
|2010= 32317
|2020= 28339
|estyear=2023
|estimate=26378
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2023">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.html|title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2023|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=April 5, 2024}}</ref>
|align-fn=center
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=U.S. Decennial Census|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=November 6, 2014}}</ref><br />1790-1960<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu|title=Historical Census Browser|publisher=University of Virginia Library|access-date=November 6, 2014}}</ref> 1900-1990<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/cencounts/ms190090.txt|title=Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=November 6, 2014}}</ref><br />1990-2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327165705/http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf |archive-date=March 27, 2010 |url-status=live|title=Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=November 6, 2014}}</ref> 2010-2013<ref name="QF">{{cite web|title=State & County QuickFacts|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/28/28083.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=September 4, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607051421/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/28/28083.html|archive-date=June 7, 2011}}</ref>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Leflore County racial composition<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=0500000US28083&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 16, 2021|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
|20,809
|73.43%
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
|5,963
|21.04%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|15
|0.05%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|205
|0.72%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|507
|1.79%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|840
|2.96%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 28,339 people, 9,962 households, and 6,050 families residing in the county.

===2010 census===
As of the [[2010 United States Census]], there were 32,317 people living in the county. 72.2% were [[African American|Black or African American]], 24.9% [[White American|White]], 0.6% [[Asian American|Asian]], 0.2% [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]], 1.5% of some other race and 0.6% [[Multiracial American|of two or more races]]. 2.3% were [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (of any race).

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> of 2000, there were 37,947 people, 12,956 households, and 8,887 families living in the county. The population density was {{convert|64|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 14,097 housing units at an average density of {{convert|24|/mi2|/km2}}. The racial makeup of the county was 67.73% [[Race (United States Census)|Black]] or [[Race (United States Census)|African American]], 30.00% [[Race (United States Census)|White]], 0.11% [[Race (United States Census)|Native American]], 0.65% [[Race (United States Census)|Asian]], 0.04% [[Race (United States Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.98% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 0.50% from two or more races. 1.90% of the population were [[Race (United States Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Race (United States Census)|Latino]] of any race.

According to the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Leflore County were [[African American|African]] 67.73%, [[English American|English]] 19%, and [[Scots-Irish American|Scots-Irish]] 9.4%

There were 12,956 households, out of which 35.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.00% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 27.60% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.40% were non-families. 28.20% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.33.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 29.70% under the age of 18, 13.10% from 18 to 24, 27.00% from 25 to 44, 18.20% from 45 to 64, and 11.90% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.50 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $21,518, and the median income for a family was $26,059. Males had a median income of $25,959 versus $18,497 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the county was $12,553. About 29.10% of families and 34.80% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 48.00% of those under age 18 and 24.50% of those age 65 or over.

==Government and infrastructure==
The [[Delta Correctional Facility]], operated by the [[Corrections Corporation of America]] on behalf of the [[Mississippi Department of Corrections]], is located in [[Greenwood, Mississippi|Greenwood]] in Leflore County.<ref>"[http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/Five%20Private%20Prisons.htm Private Prisons] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425153424/http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/Five%20Private%20Prisons.htm |date=2015-04-25 }}." [[Mississippi Department of Corrections]]. Retrieved on August 12, 2010.</ref><ref>"[http://www.cityofgreenwood.org/pdfs/greenwood_ward_map1.pdf Ward Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310104533/http://www.cityofgreenwood.org/pdfs/greenwood_ward_map1.pdf |date=2012-03-10 }}." City of Greenwood. Retrieved on August 12, 2010.</ref>

Leflore County is heavily Democratic, like other counties located in the Mississippi Delta. It has not supported a Republican presidential candidate since 1988.

{{PresHead|place=Leflore County, Mississippi|source=<ref>{{cite web|author=David Leip |url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |publisher=Uselectionatlas.org |access-date=October 25, 2017}}</ref>}}
<!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} -->
{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|2,854|6,476|91|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|3,129|7,648|116|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|3,212|7,787|141|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|3,587|9,119|67|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|4,105|8,914|62|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|4,635|7,566|262|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|4,626|6,401|249|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|4,456|6,853|404|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|5,298|6,374|826|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|6,409|5,830|340|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|7,550|7,443|219|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|5,798|7,498|379|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|5,872|6,135|582|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|6,779|2,038|152|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|1,514|4,386|5,732|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|5,589|380|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1960|Dixiecrat|1,317|1,212|2,112|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|887|1,769|932|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|2,434|1,845|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1948|Dixiecrat|80|139|2,754|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|200|2,399|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|111|2,404|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|35|2,137|1|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|34|1,877|4|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|105|2,219|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|135|1,144|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|39|969|4|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|28|853|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|12|616|43|Mississippi}}

==Education==
===Colleges and Universities===
[[Mississippi Valley State University]] is located {{convert|1|mi|km}} northwest<!--Text says northeast, but it's disproven by the map--> of [[Itta Bena, Mississippi|Itta Bena]] in an [[unincorporated area]].<ref name="MVULoc">"[http://www.mvsu.edu/university/location.php Location] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603205126/http://www.mvsu.edu/university/location.php |date=2012-06-03 }}." [[Mississippi Valley State University]]. Retrieved on April 5, 2012.</ref>

Additionally the county is in the district for [[Mississippi Delta Community College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.msdelta.edu/about/index.php|title=About MDCC|publisher=[[Mississippi Delta Community College]]|accessdate=May 12, 2021|quote=Service District Bolivar, [...]}}</ref> The main campus is in [[Moorhead, Mississippi|Moorhead]] in [[Sunflower County, Mississippi|Sunflower County]].

===Primary and secondary schools===
* '''Public School District''': [[Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District]], formed on July 1, 2019, from the consolidation of the [[Greenwood Public School District (Mississippi)|Greenwood Public School District]] and the [[Leflore County School District]]<ref>"[https://mpe.org/mpe/documents/Consolidation.Final.pdf School District Consolidation in Mississippi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702083623/https://mpe.org/mpe/documents/Consolidation.Final.pdf |date=2017-07-02 }}." Mississippi Professional Educators. December 2016. Retrieved on July 2, 2017. Page 2 (PDF p. 3/6).</ref> The district is the only school district in Leflore County.<ref>
* 2020 Map: {{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28083_leflore/DC20SD_C28083.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609205237/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28083_leflore/DC20SD_C28083.pdf |archive-date=June 9, 2021 |url-status=live|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Leflore County, MS|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=July 18, 2022}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28083_leflore/DC20SD_C28083_SD2MS.txt Text list] - In 2020 there was one school district
* 2010 Map: {{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st28_ms/c28083_leflore/DC10SD_C28083_001.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513044539/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st28_ms/c28083_leflore/DC10SD_C28083_001.pdf |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |url-status=live|title=SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Leflore County, MS|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=July 18, 2022}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st28_ms/c28083_leflore/DC10SD_C28083_SD2MS.txt Text list] - In 2010 there were two school districts
</ref>
** [[Greenwood High School (Mississippi)|Greenwood High School]] (formerly of the Greenwood District)
** [[Amanda Elzy High School]] (formerly of the Leflore Co. District)
** [[Leflore County High School]] (formerly of the Leflore Co. District)
* '''Private Schools'''
** [[Delta Streets Academy]]
** [[Pillow Academy]] — formerly a [[segregation academy]].<ref>{{cite magazine | url = http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/cearas_season_111809/ | magazine = [[Jackson Free Press]] | title = Ceara's Season | author = Lynch, Adam | date = November 18, 2009 | access-date = August 19, 2011}}</ref>

==Communities==
===Cities===
* [[Greenwood, Mississippi|Greenwood]] (county seat)
* [[Itta Bena, Mississippi|Itta Bena]]

===Towns===
* [[Morgan City, Mississippi|Morgan City]]
* [[Schlater, Mississippi|Schlater]]
* [[Sidon, Mississippi|Sidon]]

===Census-designated place===
* [[Mississippi Valley State, Mississippi|Mississippi Valley State University CDP]]

===Unincorporated communities===
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
* [[Berclair, Mississippi|Berclair]]
* [[Browning, Mississippi|Browning]]
* [[McNutt, Mississippi|McNutt]]
* [[Minter City, Mississippi|Minter City]] (partly in [[Tallahatchie County, Mississippi|Tallahatchie County]])
* [[Money, Mississippi|Money]]
* [[Quito, Mississippi|Quito]]
* [[Rising Sun, Mississippi|Rising Sun]]
* [[Ruby, Leflore County, Mississippi|Ruby]]
* [[Shellmound, Mississippi|Shellmound]]
* [[Sunnyside, Mississippi|Sunnyside]]
* [[Swiftown, Mississippi|Swiftown]]
* [[Wildwood, Mississippi|Wildwood]]
{{div col end}}

===Ghost town===
* [[Colony Town, Mississippi|Colony Town]]

==See also==
{{Portal|Mississippi}}
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Leflore County, Mississippi]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190702123346/https://www.leflorecounty.net/ Leflore County website]

{{Geographic location
|Centre    = Leflore County, Mississippi
|North     = [[Tallahatchie County, Mississippi|Tallahatchie County]]
|Northeast = [[Grenada County, Mississippi|Grenada County]]
|East      = [[Carroll County, Mississippi|Carroll County]]
|Southeast = [[Holmes County, Mississippi|Holmes County]]
|South     =
|Southwest = [[Humphreys County, Mississippi|Humphreys County]]
|West      = [[Sunflower County, Mississippi|Sunflower County]]
|Northwest =
}}

{{Leflore County, Mississippi}}
{{Mississippi}}

{{Coord|33.55|-90.30|display=title|type:adm2nd_region:US-MS_source:UScensus1990}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Leflore County, Mississippi| ]]
[[Category:Mississippi counties]]
[[Category:Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area]]
[[Category:1871 establishments in Mississippi]]
[[Category:Poverty in the United States]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1871]]
[[Category:Black Belt (U.S. region)]]
[[Category:Majority-minority counties in Mississippi]]