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Pemiscot County, Missouri (view source)
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As in many areas, Pemiscot County, which had a significant black population, experienced some racial conflict after [[Reconstruction]], and several lynchings occurred in the early 20th century in the Caruthersville area.<ref>https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-summary.pdf</ref> Nonetheless, the region remained prosperous and stable in population through the 1940s, at which time the mechanization of agriculture, and the resulting decline in demand for farm labor, led to a steady drop in population.
As in many areas, Pemiscot County, which had a significant black population, experienced some racial conflict after [[Reconstruction]], and several lynchings occurred in the early 20th century in the Caruthersville area.<ref>https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-summary.pdf</ref> Nonetheless, the region remained prosperous and stable in population through the 1940s, at which time the mechanization of agriculture, and the resulting decline in demand for farm labor, led to a steady drop in population.
==Geography==
Pemiscot County makes up the southeastern portion of the so-called "Bootheel" of Southeast Missouri. Its eastern boundary is formed by the Mississippi River, along which most of the early settlements grew up. It is bordered on the north by [[New Madrid County, Missouri|New Madrid County]], on the east by [[Tennessee]], on the south by [[Arkansas]], and on the west by [[Dunklin County, Missouri|Dunklin County]].
The county has a total area of 513.43 square miles, 492.54 of which are land and 20.89 water.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131021170230/http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_29.txt</ref> It lies entirely within the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, and apart from a few low sand ridges, has no notable topographical features, being almost completely flat river bottomland. Pemiscot County has the lowest average elevation of any county in Missouri, generally descending from north to south from a height of 290 feet above sea level along Portage Bayou to around 240 feet near the Arkansas border.<ref>https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=22269</ref>
The chief highways in the county are Interstate 55, which runs from north to south between [[Portageville, Missouri|Portageville]] and the [[Cooter, Missouri|Cooter]] area; Interstate 155, which branches off from I-55 south of [[Hayti, Missouri|Hayti]] and goes southeast into Tennessee; U.S. Route 61, which is part of I-55 as far south as [[Steele, Missouri|Steele]] before separating and continuing on into Arkansas; and U.S. Route 412, which enters Pemiscot County from the west and joins with I-155.
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