Southaven, Mississippi Southaven, Mississippi From top to bottom and left to right: Southaven town/city hall, Southaven water tower, Baptist Memorial Hospital-De - Soto, Snowden Grove Park, Lander's Center, and Southaven Towne Center From top to bottom and left to right: Southaven town/city hall, Southaven water tower, Baptist Memorial Hospital-De - Soto, Snowden Grove Park, Lander's Center, and Southaven Towne Center Official seal of Southaven, Mississippi Location of Southaven in Mississippi Location of Southaven in Mississippi Southaven, Mississippi is positioned in the US Southaven, Mississippi - Southaven, Mississippi Southaven is a town/city in De - Soto County, Mississippi, United States.
It is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee, and a principal town/city in the Memphis urbane area.
The 2010 census reported a populace of 48,982, making Southaven the third biggest city in Mississippi. Southaven is traversed from north to south by the I-55/I-69 freeway.
The city's name derives from the fact that Southaven is positioned south of Whitehaven, a neighborhood in Memphis.
Southaven began as a village when Memphis homebuilder Kemmons Wilson (founder of Holiday Inn) wished to precarious a several residentiary subdivisions featuring small starter homes just athwart the Mississippi border from Whitehaven, Tennessee, an unincorporated suburb of Memphis.
Officially incorporated in 1980, Southaven is one of the quickest burgeoning cities in the southeastern United States. In just 20 years, Southaven doubled its territory area, while its populace tripled.
Like the rest of De - Soto County, Southaven's expansion has been attributed mostly to the white flight from Memphis, though the percentage of blacks has risen sharply since the 2000 census resulting from black flight.
The assembly of Interstate 55 through Southaven in the 1970s helped to promote expansion and make for easier access to the town/city from Memphis, Jackson, St.
Interstate 69, which will eventually run from Canada to Mexico, was cosigned with I-55 in Southaven in 2007. In 1988, Baptist Hospital-De - Soto opened in Southaven as a two-story hospital.
The exponential expansion of Memphis International Airport (2 miles north of the town/city limits) in the 1980s led to increased air traffic over Southaven.
The town/city continues to see large amounts of air traffic from Memphis International Airport, as flight paths to both north/south runways lead directly over the city. October 2005 saw the opening of Southaven's first large-scale shopping mall, Southaven Towne Center, which is positioned just south of Goodman Road between I-55/I-69 and Airways Boulevard.
Numerous buildings in Southaven were damaged on February 5, 2008, when an EF-2 tornado touched down amid the so-called Super Tuesday tornado outbreak.
Memphis tv station WREG broadcast live images of the tornado as it moved through the town/city and into Memphis.
No fatalities were reported in Southaven.
By February 2011, Southaven had turn into the third biggest city in Mississippi. In the late 2000s, an supply mall was proposed for Southaven.
Tanger Outlets Southaven began assembly in January 2015 and opened in November 2015.
Southaven was the boyhood home of noted novelist John Grisham, who also practiced law there for almost a decade, and of singer and songwriter Cory Branan.
The center of the town/city is approximately 14 miles (23 km) south of downtown Memphis and 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Memphis International Airport. Enumeration Bureau, Southaven has a total region of 41.5 square miles (107.6 km2), of which 41.2 square miles (106.8 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.7 km2), or 0.68%, is water. Climate data for Southaven, Mississippi Southaven experiences a humid subtropical climate, with average annual rain of nearly 55 inches (1,400 mm), which is well distributed throughout the year.
The average high temperature is 49 F (9 C) in January and 92 F (33 C) in July.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.8% under the age of 20, 13.5% from 20 to 30, 15.8 from 30 to 40, 13.8% from 40 to 50, 11.1% from 50 to 60, and 14.9% who were 60 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $46,691, and the median income for a family was $52,333.
Southaven Towne Center Tanger Outlets Southaven Southaven Arena Southaven hosts the Southern Professional Hockey League team, the Mississippi River - Kings, who play at the Lander's Center.
The team relocated from Memphis before to the 2000-2001 season and has been the chief tenant of the Landers Center since.
Southaven's Snowden Grove Baseball Park hosts the annual Dizzy Dean Baseball World Series, where 5- to 19-year-old divisions are represented by squads from athwart the country. Beginning in fall 2017, the Memphis Grizzlies will operate their NBA Development League team at the Landers Center in Southaven. Public secondary schools: The City of Southaven is served by the De - Soto County School District.
Southaven High School Southaven Intermediate School Southaven Middle School Southaven Elementary School Church of God at Southaven Christian Academy Wikimedia Commons has media related to Southaven, Mississippi.
Southaven's mayor, autonomous Greg Davis, seeks a fifth term as he runs against Republican Darren Musselwhite and Democrat Coria Williams.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Southaven city, Mississippi".
"De - Soto County booming, census shows; Southaven now 3rd-largest Mississippi city" (Archive).
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
City of Southaven official website Southaven Chamber of Commerce Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Southaven.
Southaven Municipalities and communities of De - Soto County, Mississippi, United States City of Memphis and Memphis urbane region (counties in TN, MS and AR)
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