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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
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.
Timeline
| Date | Event | Source
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| 1833 | County formed | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1840 | First census | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1840 | No significant boundary changes after this year | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1858 | Court records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1858 | Land records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1858 | Probate records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1892 | Marriage records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1840 | 4,303
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| 1850 | 10,991
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| 1860 | 14,169
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| 1870 | 14,776
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| 1880 | 19,988
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| 1890 | 22,213
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| 1900 | 26,248
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| 1910 | 28,851
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| 1920 | 24,831
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| 1930 | 26,035
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| 1940 | 30,227
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| 1950 | 26,652
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| 1960 | 21,335
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| 1970 | 19,570
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| 1980 | 19,865
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| 1990 | 18,481
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Research Tips
External links
www.rootsweb.com/~msattala/
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