Yazoo City
a city and county-seat of Yazoo co., Miss.; on the Yazoo river and on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad; 45 miles N. W. of Jackson. It is in an extensive corn and cotton-growing section. Here are waterworks, a sewer system, electric lights, National and other ba banks, and a number of weekly newspapers. It has large lumber interests, a large cotton seed oil plant, etc. Pop. (1910) 6,796; (1920) 5,244.
YAZOO RIVER (from an Indian word meaning "river of death"), a tributary of the Mississippi. It lies throughout its whole extent in the State of Mississippi. The Yazoo proper, formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and the Yalobusha, originates near Greenwood, and after a deep, slow, tortuous S. W. course of 290 miles enters the Mississippi 12 miles above Vicksburg. It traverses a fertile country, and is throughout navigable. The waters of the Tallahatchie are partly received from the Mississippi itself, and, but for a slight obstruction, steamers from the Mississippi might thus enter the Yazoo at its extreme source, and after traversing its whole length re-enter the Mississippi at Vicksburg.
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