Purvis (Miss.)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
פארביס (מיסיסיפי)
Name (Latin)
Purvis (Miss.)
Other forms of name
Town of Purvis (Miss.)
Coordinates
-89.4078 -89.4078 31.1425 31.1425 (gooearth )
W0892435 W0892435 N0310836 N0310836 (geonames )
Associated country
United States
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 142073958
Wikidata: Q2273168
Library of congress: n 98025998
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 31°08ʹ36ʺN 089°24ʹ35ʺW)
  • Wikipedia, July 12, 2019(Purvis, Mississippi; city in Lamar County, Mississippi; county seat of Lamar County; the Town of Purvis was incorporated on February 25, 1888; 31°8ʹ33ʺN 89°24ʹ28ʺW)
  • Purvis, Mississippi veterans, 1997.
  • Rand McNally, 1988:(Purvis, Miss., seat of county Lamar)

Wikipedia description:

Purvis is a U.S. city in and the county seat of Lamar County, Mississippi. It is part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Purvis had a population of 1,909. The Town of Purvis was incorporated on February 25, 1888 and was founded by and named after Thomas Melville Purves, originally of Marion County, Alabama. Purves, born March 8, 1820, was a second generation Scottish-American; his grandfather emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina in 1765.

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