Vicksburg
Vicksburg is a city of 22,000 people in Warren County, Mississippi. Vicksburg is a cultural landmark in the American South, and is home to the Southern Cultural Heritage Center, Vicksburg Military Park, and the Lower Mississippi River Museum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Charles Bell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 25,700 residents
- Description: city and county seat of Warren County, Mississippi, United States
- Also known as: “Fort McHenry”, “Fort Nogales”, “Nogales”, “Vicksburg, Mississippi”, “Vicksburg, MS”, “Vicksburgh”, and “Walnut Hills”
- Postal codes: 39180-39183
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lower Mississippi River Museum and Old Warren County Courthouse.
Lower Mississippi River Museum
Museum
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Lower Mississippi River Museum is a museum in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Water Resources Development Act of 1992 authorized the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Site.
Old Warren County Courthouse
Museum
Photo: David.rorick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Old Courthouse, Warren County, stands prominently on a hill in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and was a symbol of Confederate resistance during the Siege of Vicksburg.
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Church
Photo: Ammodramus, CC0.
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 805 Monroe Street in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1992; and is listed as a Mississippi Landmark since November 10, 1992.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waltersville.
Waltersville
Hamlet
Waltersville is an unincorporated community in Warren County, Mississippi, United States.
Vicksburg
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, satellite city, and locality
- Location: Warren, Mississippi Capital-River, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.3528° or 32° 21′ 10″ northLongitude
-90.8777° or 90° 52′ 40″ westPopulation
25,700Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)IATA airport code
VKSUnited Nations Location Code
US VKSOpen location code
864F943C+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 151952249OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4449620Wikidata ID
Q493787
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Vicksburg” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيكسبيرغ (مسيسيبي)”
- Arabic: “فيكسبيرغ”
- Asturian: “Vicksburg”
- Basque: “Vicksburg”
- Bulgarian: “Виксбърг”
- Catalan: “Vicksburg”
- Cebuano: “Vicksburg”
- Chechen: “Виксбург”
- Chinese: “Vicksburg”
- Chinese: “維克斯堡”
- Chinese: “维克斯堡”
- Czech: “Vicksburg”
- Dagbani: “Vicksburg”
- Danish: “Vicksburg”
- Dutch: “Vicksburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيكسبيرج”
- Esperanto: “Vicksburg”
- Estonian: “Vicksburg”
- Finnish: “Vicksburg”
- French: “Vicksburg”
- German: “Vicksburg”
- Gilaki: “ویکسبرگ (ميسيسيپي)”
- Gilaki: “ویکسبرگ”
- Haitian: “Vicksburg, Mississippi”
- Haitian: “Vicksburg”
- Hebrew: “ויקסבורג”
- Hungarian: “Vicksburg”
- Ido: “Vicksburg, Mississippi”
- Ido: “Vicksburg”
- Interlingua: “Vicksburg”
- Irish: “Vicksburg”
- Italian: “Vicksburg”
- Japanese: “ヴィックスバーグ”
- Japanese: “ビックスバーグ”
- Kazakh: “Виксбург”
- Kirghiz: “Виксбург”
- Korean: “빅스버그”
- Ladin: “Vicksburg”
- Latin: “Vicksburgum”
- Malagasy: “Vicksburg, Mississippi”
- Malagasy: “Vicksburg”
- Mazanderani: “ویکسبرگ (میسیسیپی)”
- Mazanderani: “ویکسبرگ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vicksburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vicksburg”
- Norwegian: “Vicksburg”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fictoresburg”
- Persian: “ویکسبرگ، میسیسیپی”
- Persian: “ویکسبرگ”
- Polish: “Vicksburg”
- Portuguese: “Vicksburg”
- Russian: “Американский Севастополь”
- Russian: “Виксберг”
- Russian: “Виксбург”
- Serbian: “Viksburg”
- Serbian: “Виксбург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vicksburg, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vicksburg”
- Slovak: “Vicksburg”
- Slovenian: “Vicksburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویکسبرق، میسیسیپی”
- Spanish: “Vicksburg (Misisipi)”
- Spanish: “Vicksburg”
- Swahili: “Vicksburg, Mississippi”
- Swahili: “Vicksburg”
- Swedish: “Vicksburg”
- Tagalog: “Vicksburg”
- Tatar: “Виксбург”
- Turkish: “Vickburg”
- Turkish: “Vicksburg, Mississippi”
- Turkish: “Vicksburg”
- Ukrainian: “Віксбург”
- Urdu: “ویکسبرگ، مسیسپی”
- Urdu: “ویکسبرگ”
- Uzbek: “Vicksburg”
- Uzbek: “Виcксбург”
- Vietnamese: “Vicksburg, Mississippi”
- Vietnamese: “Vicksburg”
- Volapük: “Vicksburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vicksburg, Mississippi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vicksburg”
- Welsh: “Vicksburg, Mississippi”
- Welsh: “Vicksburg”
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