Port Gibson

About Port Gibson

Port Gibson is a city and the county seat of Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, Port Gibson had a population of 1,269. It is bordered on the west by the Mississippi River.

The first European settlers in Port Gibson were French colonists in 1729. In 1795, Pinckney's Treaty established the area as United States territory, and the town was chartered in 1803, the same year that France's land across the Mississippi was acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. To develop cotton plantations in the area after Indian Removal of the 1830s, planters who moved to the state brought with them or imported thousands of enslaved Africans from the Upper South, disrupting many families. Well before the Civil War, the majority of the county's population were enslaved.

Several notable people are natives of Port Gibson. The town saw action during the American Civil War. Port Gibson has several historical sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (National Register of Historic Places listings in Claiborne County, Mississippi).

In the twentieth century, Port Gibson was home to The Rabbit's Foot Company. It had a substantial role in the development of blues in Mississippi, operating taverns and juke joints now included on the Mississippi Blues Trail.

In the second half of the twentieth century many jobs in agriculture were lost because of industrialization, which, combined with a lack of other jobs, has led to a substantial loss of population and to poverty in the city and the surrounding county. Port Gibson's population peaked in 1950. The last major employer, the Port Gibson Oil Works, a cottonseed mill, closed in 2002.

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Living in Port Gibson

Median household income

$42,656

Median home value

$113,500

Median rent

$497/mo

Median age

42

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Port Gibson, MS population

Port Gibson had 1,269 residents in the 2020 Census.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Decennial Census.

Port Gibson at a glance

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Towns near Port Gibson

• Pattison7.4 mi SE
• Hermanville8.4 mi E
• Alcorn State University10.6 mi SW
• St. Joseph, LA15.2 mi W
• Newellton, LA17.0 mi NW
• Fayette17.5 mi S
• Utica23.6 mi NE
• Delta, LA25.3 mi N
• Waterproof, LA25.8 mi SW
• Vicksburg26.0 mi N
• Mound, LA26.1 mi N
• Beechwood28.2 mi N

Straight-line distance between town centers.

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