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The racial makeup of the CSA was 45.2% non-Hispanic White, 47.3% African American, 0.5% Native American, 2.2% Asian, <0.1% Pacific Islander, and Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.1% of the population. [11] Memphis is the only metropolitan/combined statistical area in the United States with over a million people to have a plurality/majority ...
In the Treaty of Tuscaloosa, signed in October 1818 and ratified by Congress on January 7, 1819, the Chickasaw ceded their territory in Western Tennessee to the United States. The city of Memphis was founded less than five months after the U.S. takeover of the territory, on May 22, 1819 (incorporated December 19, 1826), by John Overton, James ...
The city sits on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River at the site of the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, just south of the mouth of the Wolf River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 294.8 sq mi (763.4 km 2), of which 279.3 sq mi (723.4 km 2) is land and 15.4 sq mi (40.0 km 2), or 5.24%, is water.
This is a list of all tripoints in which the boundaries of three (and only three) U.S. states converge at a single geographic point. Of the 60 such points, 36 are on dry land and 24 are in water. [ 1 ]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.6 square miles (40 km 2), of which 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2), or 0.13%, is water. The city is located in the Memphis Metropolitan Area, about 9 miles (14 km) north of Memphis. The metropolitan area of Memphis has a population of approximately 1.2 million people.
A record-breaking 398 people fell victim to homicides in Memphis last year – a noticeable jump from the 190 reported five years ago. And with more than 600 major violent crimes so far in 2024 ...
Jeb Hill poses for a portrait in the converted second-floor bedroom dedicated to his collection of Memphis sports memorabilia at his home in Germantown, Tenn., on Tuesday, November 9, 2023.
From 1827 to 1868, the county seat was located in then called Raleigh, Tennessee (now part of Memphis), on the Wolf River. [5] After the American Civil War, in recognition of the growth of Memphis and its importance to the state economy, the seat was moved there. (Raleigh has now been absorbed within the city limits of Memphis.) [1]