Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Jackson, MS

Jackson is the capital and most populous city of Mississippi, and it is one of two county seats of Hinds County, the other being Raymond.

The city was founded in 1821 as the site for a new, centrally located state capital and was incorporated in 1822, named for General Andrew Jackson, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans who later became the seventh president of the United States.

Jackson counted 153,701 residents in the 2020 census, down from 173,514 in 2010, and it remains the largest city in Mississippi.

Although the dataset record lists Hinds County, Jackson actually spans three counties: it lies primarily in northeastern Hinds County, with about 3,000 acres in Rankin County that include Jackson-Medgar Evers International Airport and a small portion in Madison County that includes Tougaloo College.

Jackson sits on the Pearl River in the greater Jackson Prairie region, and the Ross Barnett Reservoir on the Pearl River lies to its northeast on the Madison-Rankin county border.

During the Civil War, Union forces under General William Tecumseh Sherman besieged Jackson in 1863 after the Battle of Vicksburg and set much of the city on fire.

The Mississippi State Capitol, known as the New Capitol, was completed in 1903 and replaced the Old Capitol, which had housed the state legislature from 1839 to 1903 and is now a museum.

Jackson is home to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, the Mississippi Children's Museum, and the Museum of Mississippi History.

The city's colleges and universities include Jackson State University, Millsaps College, and Belhaven University, with Tougaloo College in the Madison County portion of the city.

The historic Farish Street neighborhood, once a thriving Black business and entertainment district, is listed as a historic district in downtown Jackson.