Ridgeland, Mississippi Ridgeland, Mississippi Madison County Mississippi Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Ridgeland Highlighted.svg Ridgeland, Mississippi is positioned in the US Ridgeland, Mississippi - Ridgeland, Mississippi Location in the United States State Mississippi Ridgeland is a town/city in Madison County, Mississippi.
Ridgeland is positioned at 32 25 8 N 90 7 30 W (32.418847, -90.124933), between Madison to the north and Jackson to the south.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 17.7 square miles (46 km2), of which 15.9 square miles (41 km2) is territory and 1.8 square miles (4.7 km2) (10.16%) is water, mostly due to the locale of the Ross Barnett Reservoir.
As of the census of 2000, there were 20,173 citizens , 9,267 homeholds, and 9,022 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.4% under the age of 18, 10.2% from 18 to 24, 40.3% from 25 to 44, 17.8% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median incomes for a homehold in the town/city was $43,066, and the median income for a family was $59,249.
About 5.5% of families and 7.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 9.2% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over.
In 1805, the Choctaw Indian Agency, headed by Silas Dinsmoor, was positioned in what is now known as Ridgeland.
They created plans for a town to be titled Ridgeland and launched an advertising campaign to entice citizens from the northern United States to move south.
The chief company section of Ridgeland was along Jackson Street, due to the Illinois Central Railroad positioned on the street.
In 1910 a two-room school was created and the schools combined with those of Madison by 1925.
Ridgeland is served by the Madison County School District, and has two private schools: Saint Andrew's Episcopal School and Christ Covenant School.
Ridgeland has a ground of Holmes Community College.
Ridgeland is home of the Baptist Children's Village, which provides short-term and long-term care for abandoned, neglected, or abused kids and counseling to broken families.
Bomgar, a tech company, and C Spire Wireless, the sixth biggest wireless provider in the United States, are headquartered in Ridgeland.
The biggest mall in the Jackson metro area, Northpark Mall, is positioned on County Line Road.
The three family members of the nation band, The Band Perry, were all born and reared in Ridgeland.
Dale Thorn, press secretary to Governor Edwin Edwards of Louisiana, Louisiana State University journalism professor, assistant commissioner of college studies for the Louisiana Board of Regents; born in Mc - Comb, retired to Brandon in 2000, and died in Ridgeland in 2014 United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"About Ridgeland | Ridgeland Tourism".
Billy Hathorn, "Challenging the Status Quo: Rubel Lex Phillips and the Mississippi Republican Party (1963-1967)", The Journal of Mississippi History XLVII, November 1985, No.
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Municipalities and communities of Madison County, Mississippi, United States
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