Attala County

Attala County ( /ˈætələ/) is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2010, the population was 19,564. Its county seat is Kosciusko. Attala county is named for Attala, a fictional Native American heroine from an early-19th-century novel by François-René de Chateaubriand. The historian of the American Civil War, John D. Winters was born in Attala County in 1917. According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of 737.10 square miles (1,909.1 km), of which 735.13 square miles (1,904.0 km) (or 99.73%) is land and 1.97 square miles (5.1 km) (or 0.27%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 19,661 people, 7,567 households, and 5,380 families residing in the county. The population density was 27 people per...