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Place Name
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Clarksdale
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Capital Of
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Coahoma County
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Population
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19,717 (1990)
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Location
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Coahoma County, Mississippi (MS), United States, North America
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Latitude
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34°12'N
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Longitude
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90°34'W
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Clarksdale
, city (1990 pop. 19,717),  Coahoma co., NW
Miss., 68 mi/109 km SSW of Memphis (Tenn.), on
the Sunflower R.; 34°12'N 90°34'W. Processing and distributing
center for agr. (cotton, corn, rice, soybeans; cattle), its main
resource; mfg. (soybean prods., wire, prefabricated homes, paper
prods., machinery, chemicals, wood prods., apparel, foods; printing and
publishing). Major center for rhythm-and-blues music; the stackhouse
repository for blues recordings on Delta and Rooster Blues labels.
Archaeological Mus., Delta Blues Mus. Inc. 1882.
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