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Brandon is a city in and the county seat of Rankin County, Mississippi, United States. [4] It was incorporated on December 19, 1831. The population was 25,138 as of the 2020 census. A suburb of Jackson, Brandon is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Area, and is located east of the state capital.
Location: E and W Government Sts from Timber St to College St, 100 blocks of N College St and Black St, Brandon, Mississippi, U.S. Coordinates: NRHP reference No. 10000926 [1] Added to NRHP: November 18, 2010
Location of Rankin County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rankin County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rankin County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
As of the 2020 census, the population was 157,031, [1] making it the fourth-most populous county in Mississippi. The county seat is Brandon. [2] The county is named in honor of Christopher Rankin, a Mississippi Congressman who served from 1819 to 1826. Rankin County is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Location mi km Destinations Notes; Brandon: 0.00: 0.00: US 80 to I-20 – Jackson, Meridian: Southern terminus: Flowood: 6.4: 10.3: MS 25 south / MS 471 Bus. north – Jackson, Fannin: South end of MS 25 overlap; southern terminus of MS 471 Bus
The Pearl Street Historic District is an historic district located in Brandon, Rankin County, Mississippi. The district is listed in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rankin County, Mississippi. During the American Civil War, General William Sherman ordered Union troops to burn the city. Most of Brandon was destroyed in the ...
William L. Sharkey (1798–1873), 25th Governor of Mississippi and Mississippi Supreme Court justice 3,336: 435.3 sq mi (1,127 km 2) Simpson County: 127: Mendenhall: SI: 1824: Formed from Copiah County: Josiah Simpson, Mississippi Territory judge and delegate to the 1817 Mississippi Constitutional Convention [25] 25,715: 590.5 sq mi (1,529 km 2 ...
The two-story mansion was built from 1840 to 1845 for Thomas Baytop Cocke, a farmer. [2] It was purchased by Charles Lyman Martin in 1891. [2] When their daughter Ella May married Eugene Edgar Jackson in 1894, they purchased more land and turned it into a 1,500-acre (610 ha) plantation. [2]