Template:Wp-Attala County, Mississippi

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Attala County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,564. Its county seat is Kosciusko. Attala County is named for Atala, a fictional Native American heroine from an early-19th-century novel of the same name by François-René de Chateaubriand.

Myrtis Methvin was elected in 1932 as the second woman mayor in Louisiana and took office in Castor in Bienville Parish, serving from 1933 to 1945. She was born in Attala County in 1895. John D. Winters, a historian of the American Civil War, was born in Attala County in 1917. The Choctaw Chief Kiliahote was born here in 1826.