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.- 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: Jewish Cemetery and Wintergreen Cemetery.
Wintergreen Cemetery
Cemetery
Wintergreen Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
Chamberlain-Hunt Academy
School
Chamberlain-Hunt Academy was a boarding school in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
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″ north
Longitude
-90.984° or 90° 59′ 2″ west
Population
1,730
Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US PGB
Open location code
863FX268+9C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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: “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”
- 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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