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Inverness is a town in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 868 at the 2020 census. [3] As the town had the largest cotton gin in the Mississippi Delta, it served as a gathering place for farmers from the region when they brought their cotton for processing. The town was heavily damaged by a tornado in 1971.
The tornado was the strongest tornado of the 1971 Mississippi Delta tornado outbreak, and second deadliest behind a later F4 tornado the same day. The tornado is most notable for tracking directly through Inverness, Mississippi, destroying over 90% of the town.
Poindexter was elected Mayor of Inverness, Mississippi, in 1971, and became the youngest person elected to that office in town history. [1] After his tenure ended, Poindexter was elected to represent the 13th district (Sunflower County) in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1975 for the 1976–1980 term.
From Sunday to Monday, February 21–22, 1971, a devastating tornado outbreak, colloquially known as the Mississippi Delta outbreak, struck portions of the Lower Mississippi and Ohio River valleys in the Southern and Midwestern United States.
Map of the United States with Mississippi highlighted. Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Mississippi is the 32nd-most populous state, with 2,949,965 inhabitants and the 31st largest by land area, spanning 46,923.27 square miles (121,530.7 km 2) of land. [1]
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A deadly tornado outbreak struck portions of the Lower Mississippi River Valley and the Southeastern United States on February 21–22, 1971. The two-day outbreak produced at least 19 tornadoes, and probably several more, mostly brief events in rural areas; [ 11 ] [ 12 ] killed 123 people across three states; and "virtually leveled" entire ...
Central Delta Academy (CDA) was a private elementary and middle school, [citation needed], and later just elementary school, in Inverness, Mississippi, [1] that operated from 1969 to 2010. It was founded as a segregation academy by white parents fleeing newly integrated public schools.