Port Gibson
Port Gibson is located in the western region of Mississippi. It is the county seat of Claiborne County and named for its founder, Samuel Gibson. It is located approximately 61.5 miles west of Mississippi's capitol city, Jackson.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,730 residents
- Description: city in Mississippi, USA
- Also known as: “Fort Gibson”, “Gibsons Landing”, “Gibsons Port”, “Port Gibson, Mississippi”, and “Port Gibson, MS”
- Postal code: 39150
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jewish Cemetery and Wintergreen Cemetery.
Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Nataliemaynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Jewish Cemetery, also known as the Gemiluth Chassed Cemetery, is a historic Jewish cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi. The cemetery has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 22, 1979.
Wintergreen Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Nataliemaynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wintergreen Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1979. It is located at East Greenwood Street.
Chamberlain-Hunt Academy
School
Photo: Mthunter58, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chamberlain-Hunt Academy was a boarding school in Port Gibson, Mississippi. The school was founded in 1830 as Oakland College and closed in 2014. The campus, with its buildings in brick Georgian Revival style, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Port Gibson
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Claiborne, Mississippi Capital-River, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
31.961° or 31° 57′ 39″ northLongitude
-90.984° or 90° 59′ 2″ westPopulation
1,730Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PGBOpen location code
863FX268+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 151525590OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Port Gibson” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بورت جيبسون”
- Basque: “Port Gibson”
- Catalan: “Port Gibson”
- Cebuano: “Port Gibson”
- Chechen: “Порт-Гибсон”
- Chinese: “Port Gibson”
- Chinese: “吉布森港”
- Dagbani: “Port Gibson”
- Danish: “Port Gibson”
- Dutch: “Port Gibson”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بورت جيبسون”
- French: “Port Gibson”
- German: “Port Gibson”
- Gilaki: “پؤرت گیبسون (ميسيسيپي)”
- Gilaki: “پؤرت گیبسون”
- Haitian: “Port Gibson, Mississippi”
- Haitian: “Port Gibson”
- Hungarian: “Port Gibson”
- Ido: “Port Gibson, Mississippi”
- Ido: “Port Gibson”
- Irish: “Port Gibson”
- Italian: “Port Gibson”
- Japanese: “ポート・ギブソン”
- Kazakh: “Port Gïbson”
- Kazakh: “Порт Гибсон”
- Kazakh: “پورت گىيبسون”
- Kirghiz: “Порт Гибсон”
- Ladin: “Port Gibson”
- Malagasy: “Port Gibson, Mississippi”
- Malagasy: “Port Gibson”
- Mazanderani: “پورت گیبسن (میسیسیپی)”
- Mazanderani: “پورت گیبسن”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Port Gibson”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Gibson”
- Norwegian: “Port Gibson”
- Persian: “پورت گیبسن، میسیسیپی”
- Persian: “پورت گیبسن”
- Polish: “Port Gibson”
- Portuguese: “Port Gibson”
- Russian: “Порт-Гибсон”
- Serbian: “Порт Гибсон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Port Gibson, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Port Gibson”
- Slovenian: “Port Gibson”
- South Azerbaijani: “پورت قیبسن، میسیسیپی”
- Spanish: “Port Gibson, Misisipi”
- Spanish: “Port Gibson”
- Swedish: “Port Gibson”
- Tatar: “Порт-Гибсон”
- Ukrainian: “Порт-Гібсон”
- Ukrainian: “Порт-Ґібсон”
- Urdu: “پورٹ گبسن، مسیسپی”
- Urdu: “پورٹ گبسن”
- Uzbek: “Port Gibson”
- Uzbek: “Порт Гибсон”
- Vietnamese: “Port Gibson, Mississippi”
- Vietnamese: “Port Gibson”
- Volapük: “Port Gibson”
- Waray (Philippines): “Port Gibson, Mississippi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Port Gibson”
- Welsh: “Port Gibson, Mississippi”
- Welsh: “Port Gibson”
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